The sugar loaf pineapple, as the name suggests, is very sweet. And this is something that benin says has made it very distinctive. It's not like other pineapples in the sense that it's described as having a cone shape,. The inside isn't yellow, it's white. So these are different properties which make it very different from other pinables. As a result of these distinctive qualities, benin was able to register it, and it got the country's first ever geographical indication, a g i.
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