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Pineapples.

Just thinking about this delicious tropical fruit, rich in vitamin C might make your mouth water.

But have you ever stopped to think where the peel and other waste from this crop end up? We do. Here in the

small country of Costa Rica, the world's largest producer of pineapples. Pineapple production

generates about four and a half million tons of crop residues every year in our Central

American nation. And that waste is tough stuff.

The plant is made of strong cellulose that takes a long time to biodegrade,

and most of it is either burnt or ends up dumped in open forests,

where disease-causing mosquitoes and fungi thrive of its high-sugar content.

But hidden in pineapple peels is a treasure of nanomaterials.

Scientists at Costa Rica's National Laboratory of Nanotechnology, Lanotech,

have been extracting valuable nanocellulose from the peel and stubble of the pineapple.

This nanocellulose can be used in the pharmaceutical, food, and medical industries.

And it turns out that while harvesting that nanocellulose, you can also get rosette-like

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