สับปะรดคงเดินทางจากเมืองเทศเข้ามาเมืองไทยก่อนสมัยสมเด็จพระนารายณ์มหาราช เพราะในหนังสือของลาลูแบร์ก็กล่าวถึง Saparot มีคำบรรยายอย่างละเอียดพร้อมภาพประกอบเหมือนของจริงผิดกับ
รูปประกอบต้นไม้ผลชนิดอื่น ๆThe Ananas, in Siamese Saparot, has the meat white, and the taste of our Peaches. Its meat is mixed with little wood, not a wood which separates, as there is in our nuts, but with a wood that adheres thereto, and which is only the meat over-hardned; and it is at the Center that it begins to grown hard. The Ananas is believed unwholsom, because that its juice, they say, corrodes Iron. It is yellow when it is ripe, and then to smell it without opening it, it has the scent of a roasted Apple. Its Figure is like a great Pine Apple, it has little rindes curiously ranged, under which, to behold them, one would think that the kernels are. The Plant which produces it bears it at the top of its stalk, which is not three foot high. The Ananas keeps directly upon the little end; and at the great end there is a tuft of Leaves, like little Corn-flags, short, bent outwards, and toothed. Sometimes from the body of this Fruit, and at the sides, there grows like Wens; one or two other little Ananas, which have also their Tufts. Now every Tuft cut and put in the ground, may produce another Ananas, but every Plant bears only one, and bears no more than one.
