Shawn, Most of the fruit commercially on the market nowadays has been hybridized, cross-bred, and/or genetically engineered to have a higher sugar content than the original varieties it came from. This can be measured scientifically, no guesswork required. Fruit trees are often (usually?, always?) planted from graftings of hybrid plants, not from seeds. Pineapples are totally artificial fruits. There is no such thing as a pineapple seed; they are all grown from graftings of existing plants that were created as hybrids from original ancestors that were not so sweet. Companies involved in agricultural research do this. Consider: Total refined sugar consumption of the average American has about tripled during the 20th century. Today's fruits have to compete in the marketplace with candy bars, ice cream, cake, and all the other sweet garbage foods that people eat. Industry has responded by growing sweeter-tasting varieties of fruit for fear consumers with their jaded sweet teeth wouldn't buy them otherwise. Get it? I wish it weren't so, Shawn, but the commercial interests, whether by conspiracy or just by their own desire to make a buck, are making it harding and harder for us poor souls who are just trying to lead a natural lifestyle to succeed at what we are trying to do. With the Brave New World of genetic engineering just opening up in a big way (where they can splice fish genes into tomatoes, or create genes to produce pesticides and splice those into other foods), it may not be too long before a truly natural diet becomes impossible for anyone. Again: it could be conspiracy, or it could just be that the apathy and ignorance of the consumer will allow it to happen by default.