A wholesale fruit distributor, in an effort to increase its profit margins, has proposed cutting the tops off of the pineapples it ships in order to increase the number of pineapples it can ship in a standard-size truck.
Which of the following, if true, gives the pest evidence that the fruit distributor’s plan will increase its profit margins ？（）
A. Pineapples with the tops cut off have been shown to rot three times faster than uncut fruit.
B. Customers buy whole pineapples in part because of their exotic, spiky appearance.
C. Cutting the tops off of pineapples may inadvertently remove some of the fruit within.
D. The fruit distributor ships primarily to a fruit canning company that has no use for pineapple tops.
E. Pineapple juice has been shown to be an even more potent source of vitamin C than orange or cranberry juice.
