{"id":26940,"date":"2016-08-26T10:52:13","date_gmt":"2016-08-26T05:22:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/?p=26940"},"modified":"2016-08-26T10:52:13","modified_gmt":"2016-08-26T05:22:13","slug":"12-day-pineapple-apple-mela","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/12-day-pineapple-apple-mela\/","title":{"rendered":"12 Day Pineapple-Apple Mela at Kanakakunnu! Taste Some Exotic Varieties of Pineapple"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The 12-day Pineapple-Apple mela which is currently taking place at Kanakakunnu Palace grounds is fast becoming popular among the city residents.<\/p>\n<p>Organised by pineapple farmers association and Kudapanakkunnu Karshika Karma Sena, Pineapple-Apple mela showcases a large collection of apples and pineapples procured from various places within the country and abroad.\u00a0 Different varieties of apples and pineapple that provides distinct taste will be the highlight of the mela.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The mela showcases 15 different varieties of exotic apples that are brought from various countries.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The mela also showcases 15 different varieties of exotic apples that are brought from various countries. For the first time in Trivandrum, you can buy saplings of Apple which can grow in our hot climate. Saplings of Thailand apple, Red jackfruit and various varieties of Guava are also available at the mela.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Another main attraction of Pineapple-apple mela is the food court that serves different dishes made using pineapple.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Another main attraction of Pineapple-apple mela is the food court that serves different dishes made using pineapple. Some of the dishes at the mela include pineapple pickle, pineapple pradhaman, pineapple sadya, pineapple-apple pudding, pineapple madhura seva, pineapple pazham pori, apple pineapple halva, pineapple payasam etc. Apart from these, you can also buy pineapple jam, pineapple squash, sarbath etc. All the fruits are sold at a\u00a0price much lower than the market price.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>All the fruits are sold at a price much lower than the market price.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Organisers also host various seminars and workshop for farming enthusiasts. The time is from 11am to 9:30PM. Pineapple-Apple fest will come to an end on September 4.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The 12-day Pineapple-Apple mela which is currently taking place at Kanakakunnu Palace grounds is fast becoming popular among the city residents. Organised by pineapple farmers association and Kudapanakkunnu Karshika Karma Sena, Pineapple-Apple mela showcases a large collection of apples and pineapples procured from various places within the country and abroad.\u00a0 Different varieties of apples and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":26945,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32,4],"tags":[452],"class_list":["post-26940","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-city-news","category-general","tag-trivandrum"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26940"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26940"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26940\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26947,"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26940\/revisions\/26947"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26945"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26940"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26940"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26940"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}