As a major aquatic product company in China, Guolian will also start shipping precooked dishes to Canada in November — frozen roasted tilapia with pineapple this time.

作为中国主要的水产品公司，国联也将于11月开始向加拿大运送预煮菜肴——冷冻菠萝烤罗非鱼。

Meanwhile, before summer started, Corona introduced three new flavors — sea salt guava, sea salt pineapple and sea salt kalamansi — to attract women consumers.

与此同时，在夏季开始前，科罗纳推出了三种新口味——海盐番石榴、海盐菠萝和海盐卡拉曼西——以吸引女性消费者。

Topo Chico is currently available in Tangy Lemon Lime, Strawberry Guava, and Pineapple Twist flavors at various e-commerce and retail channels.

With Dole's golden pineapple and Disney's Chip 'n' Dale cartoon figure as the prototype, the drink cup will be sold soon in the resort.

"Under the new deal, visitors to the Shanghai Disneyland can also taste the golden pineapple seafood fried rice, sweet banana mixed nut cake and other special fruit snacks co-developed by Dole and Shanghai Disneyland.

"We are thrilled to be able to announce the resort alliance with Shanghai Disney Resort on this year's International Pineapple Day.

In just three years' time, sales of dragon fruit, pineapple and avocado from rural regions surged 8, 3.3 and 3.4 times by the middle of last year, JD's data showed.

Nestle's local research team launched a series of new instant coffee products with three flavors - peach, pineapple and green apple - to attract younger Chinese consumers.

The bright, summery package design highlighting its three flavors -- peach, pineapple and green apple -- is different from the company's traditional instant coffee products.

The list of fast foods that can be bought online in China, which includes restaurant deliveries, takeaways, burgers, pizzas and the like, just got longer with the entry of hand-made stuffed pastries like pineapple cakes.

The store is known for its hand-made pineapple cakes.

"Our 'black diamond' pineapple from the Philippines received a huge amount of exposure at last year's CIIE, the sales of the pineapple can reach 500,000-700,000 units a month via fresh food retailer Hema", said Xu Ke, marketing director at Goodfarmer Foods Holding (Group) Co Ltd.

With sufficient tropical sunshine and high temperatures throughout the year, about 200,000 sweet pineapples are harvested every day at the plantation of PT Great Giant Pineapple (GGP), a large private-label manufacturer of canned pineapples.

About 50 percent of GGP's pineapple production is exported to more than 60 countries and regions.

Besides canned pineapple, it also produces fresh pineapple, jam, cubes in cups, juice concentrate, and canned fruit cocktails.

"Right after Indonesian fresh pineapples gained official access to the Chinese market, we started to plant more pineapple trees to boost our production capability," said Welly Soegiono, GGP's director of corporate affairs.

"Under the scheme of the RCEP as well as the China-ASEAN Free Trade Area, the company is able to export pineapple products to China duty-free.

"Customers can tell the quality of a pineapple right after cutting it open, so we must make sure that pineapples sent to them are fresh with high quality.

"Besides durian, other fruits such as passion fruit, banana, pineapple and mango still have many opportunities for export growth to China, as long as they meet the requirements of Chinese partners, like complying with full and strict procedures from planting to harvesting, preserving and packing," he said.

The Philippines is China's largest source of banana and pineapple imports, with coconut, avocado and frozen fruits entering the Chinese market one after another, said Shu, adding that fresh durian will be exported to China soon.

Also included are Malaysian exports to China such as canned pineapple, pineapple juice, coconut juice, pepper and other agricultural products.

Costa Rica's agricultural products such as coffee, pineapple and juice have also been popular among Chinese consumers.

Alvaro Piedra, exports director of the Costa Rican Foreign Trade Promoter, said Costa Rican companies view the CIIE as an important platform to bring products such as dehydrated pineapple, coffee, mixed cocktails and pork to this year’s expo.

Amid the boom, Chinese bakery products such as mung bean cake, pineapple pastries, sesame seed cookies and buns made with glutinous rice are becoming increasingly popular, partly because of promotion by social media influencers who throng to give reviews of Chinese-style bakeries and make recommendations, said the report.

A major aquatic product company in China, Guolian will also start shipping precooked dishes to Canada in November — frozen roasted tilapia with pineapple this time.

Liu Guodong, head of the inspection and quarantine division of Guangdong Customs, said lychee, longan, pineapple and other tropical fruits usually have a short shelf life and require timeliness in Customs clearance.

Farmers from Hainan province, the nation's tropical island known for growing pineapple, longan, mango, passion fruit and cantaloupe, stand to benefit from Alibaba's initiative.

Fudges in orange, apple, pineapple and other flavors gained popularity, too, while canned fruits, mostly brewed in sweet drinkable water, became the preferred gift for those visiting patients in hospitals.

These include saffron, vanilla, pineapple and cinnamon, each bringing a new twist to the Chinese spirit.