{"id":32790,"date":"2016-12-18T18:48:51","date_gmt":"2016-12-19T02:48:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/12\/fda-approves-pink-genetically-engineered-pineapple-from-del-monte"},"modified":"2017-06-04T13:57:15","modified_gmt":"2017-06-04T20:57:15","slug":"fda-approves-pink-genetically-engineered-pineapple-from-del-monte","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/12\/fda-approves-pink-genetically-engineered-pineapple-from-del-monte","title":{"rendered":"FDA approves pink, genetically engineered pineapple from Del Monte"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/fda-approves-pink-genetically-engineered-pineapple-from-del-monte.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/(FoxNews.com\">(FoxNews.com<\/a>) \u2014 Food producer Del Monte has received approval from the Food and Drug Administration to start selling a genetically engineered pineapple with pink flesh.<\/p>\n<p>The new species <em>Ananas comosus<\/em> has been given the more consumer-friendly name of the \u201cRos\u00e9\u201d and, according to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thepacker.com\/fruit-vegetable-news\/Del-Monte-testing-genetically-modified-pineapple-204909111.html\" target=\"_blank\">The Packer<\/a>, Del Monte has quietly been working on the fruit\u2019s development since 2005.<\/p>\n<p>So what makes the usually golden-colored fruit pink? The patened pineapple DNA is injected with a healthy dose of lycopene, the bright red pigment found in tomatoes and watermelons.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fox32chicago.com\/news\/dont-miss\/224341429-story\">http:\/\/www.fox32chicago.com\/news\/dont-miss\/224341429-story<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(FoxNews.com) \u2014 Food producer Del Monte has received approval from the Food and Drug Administration to start selling a genetically engineered pineapple with pink flesh. The new species Ananas comosus has been given the more consumer-friendly name of the \u201cRos\u00e9\u201d and, according to The Packer, Del Monte has quietly been working on the fruit\u2019s development [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":359,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,1506,412],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32790","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-food","category-genetics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32790","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/359"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32790"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32790\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":65554,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32790\/revisions\/65554"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32790"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32790"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32790"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}