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Pineapples are a healthy snack. They have several vitamins and minerals. Vitamins and minerals help people grow and stay healthy. For example, pineapple contains vitamin C. This vitamin helps to keep people from getting sick. Pineapple also has manganese. This mineral keeps bones strong.

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Many pineapples grow on plantations. Plantations are large areas of land. They grow one kind of plant. Farmers plant pineapples by hand. They plant them in rows. Pineapple plants need lots of sunlight. Each plant grows one pineapple at a time.

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Making Connections

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Would you want to see where pineapples grow? Why or why not?

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Have you read other books about how food grows? How were those foods like pineapples? How were they different?

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Farmers grow pineapples in large fields. What other foods are grown this way?

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