There is a huge myth that pineapple consumption during pregnancy is injurious to the mother and the baby, recently probably there was a popular Bengali serial in which it was mentioned, you are pregnant why are you taking pineapple I was told by the interviewer and I would ask to speak on this topic not only pineapple there was a lot of talk about ripened papaya, papaya and pineapple that you are not suppose to take in during pregnancy saying that there can be defect and there can be miscarriage, now if you ask me , my take on it usually there is no problems usually taking these fruits and any fruit during pregnancy they are by and large harmless, yes there is little bit of logic in certain countries when these foods are taken in large amount then there has been some kind of correlation with miscarriage and that is because of digestive enzyme present in these in higher amount which has been correlated with higher weights of miscarriage in those countries but whether it was a coincident or whether it was actually because of consumption of those fruits, no one know, if you ask me logically taking these fruits moderate amount does not cause any harm they are safe in pregnancy, but I have lot of patients come to me you know that my mom my grand mom my aunt are accompanying them and told them not to take these kind of fruits but then what I say is that people who have real reservation against them I say that look there are other fruits if you think you can land up with miscarriage because of pineapple and papaya then its better you don’t take them there are other fruits available I will tell you why because 10-20 percent of all pregnancy unfortunately can land up miscarriage any way and coincidentally if you also take pineapple and papaya and you might think that you know probably I took fruits and that’s why I landed up in miscarriage if you are not confidence in yourself, if you are not confidence well that your doctor is given you and you are more bend upon believing this myth then in that case do not take them because there are other fruits also that are available but by and large if you ask me whether it is safe to take pineapple and papaya during pregnancy as such there are no problems if you take in small amounts. For video interview click on link https://www.etvbharat.com/bengali/west-bengal/videos/top-videos/is-pineapple-not-to-be-eaten-during-pregnancy/wb20220420150700437437716