Posted on 05/01/2014 6:54:35 PM PDT by nickcarraway
You need a jackwagon to haul your jackfruit.
Unfortunately they cause horrible diarrhea called the Jack Squats.
One of those splattered on the Hana road in Maui and almost squashed me on my Sportster.
You don’t know jack till you have experienced THAT! :-)
Looks like Durian fruit which apparently smell a bit like rotting meat.
Jack fruit taste like artichoke hearts. i’ve head jack fruit curry. It was wonderful.
Sounds interesting. Most fruit has little protein. I wonder what high in protein means in the case of jackfruit.
Darn things look like they need their own zip code.
Looks like something we called ‘paw paws’ in East Tennessee as a kid. My grandfather said they were poisonous.
Looks like another plug by ‘hipster foodies’.
Pawpaws are edible but not very common anymore. There is a town here in Michigan called Pawpaw.
I think it was some of the McCoy boys who were executed in a paw paw grove.
paw paws are awesome though they are so perishable they almost never show up on grocers shelves.
My local grocer had a few jackfruits a month or so ago. At $30 each I was not willing to try it. If they cut up $3 chunks I would try it.
Lots of good news on cancer research concerning paw paws.
Sir Joseph Banks and others saw the value of breadfruit as a highly productive food in 1769, when stationed in Tahiti as part of the Endeavour expedition commanded by Captain James Cook. The late-18th-century quest for cheap, high-energy food sources for British slaves prompted colonial administrators and plantation owners to call for the introduction of this plant to the Caribbean. As President of The Royal Society, Banks provided a cash bounty and gold medal for success in this endeavor, and successfully lobbied his friends in government and the Admiralty for a British Naval expedition.
In 1787, William Bligh was appointed Captain of the HMS Bounty, and was instructed to proceed to the South Pacific for this task. Banks appointed a gardener for the expedition and gave detailed instructions on how the plants were to be maintained. The Bounty remained in Tahiti for five idyllic months, during which over 1000 plants were collected, potted and transferred to the ship. However, within a month of leaving, many of the crew mutinied, expelling Captain Bligh and supporters in a long-boat, and returned to Tahiti. Bligh survived the ordeal, sailing with 18 loyal crew the 6710 km to Timor, reaching there in late 1789. In 1791, Bligh commanded a second expedition with the Providence and the Assistant, which collected live breadfruit plants in Tahiti and transported these to St Helena, in the Atlantic, and St. Vincent and Jamaica in the West Indies. Although Bligh won the Royal Society medal for his efforts, the introduction was not entirely successful, as the slaves refused to eat breadfruit.[11]
http://nutritiondata.self.com/facts/fruits-and-fruit-juices/1930/2
2 grams protein per 165 gram serving. Typical orange has .9 grams protein, banana 1.3.
Do you have links?
I get them at my farmer’s market when in season. If I had the land I would grow a few trees.
I believe there is also a Pawpaw, West Virginia.
You’re not talking about hedge balls are you? They look alot like those.
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