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! :-)
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 another plug by ‘hipster foodies’.
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]
Picture reminds me of Breadfruit.
If it would thrive because of commercial cultivation, involving oil in the slightest way, all the libs would say it is bad. Just because.
I eat jackfruit ( I call it nangka) quite frequently. It is very good.
Have you ever eaten jackfruit?
I had one growing in my yard ... yuck.
Since it was near the street I put up a sign “free jackfruit, take as much as you want”. It was gone as soon as it was ripe. I guess some people like it.
If you let it fall to the ground and rot the smell is horrible and it’s an awful sticky gooey mess.
Yuck.
Those are small ones. Ripe jackfruit, as the article notes, often weigh 80lb or more. They’re generally about the size and shape of a large picnic watermelon, but far heavier. They have a tough outer rind, similar to but not as hard and spiky as a durian. They do have an odd odor when opened, but the actual flesh of the fruit is quite sweet, sort of like ice cream. There are two main varieties, one with very soft flesh that’s almost liquid, and another with more firm flesh. The softer variety is sweeter. I happen to love them, and they’re insanely cheap here in India: about $3-4 for a whole fruit.
I’ll stick with meat!
People Eating Tasty Animals!!!!