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Green Jackfruit: is ‘Pulled Pork for Vegetarians’ the Next Big Food Craze?
The Guardian ^

Posted on 04/13/2015 9:43:31 PM PDT by nickcarraway

Late last year, after 18 years of litigation, a senior government official in Kerala, south-west India was given a prison sentence after being convicted of theft. The object he stole was government property, and it was so large he had to have it cut up to get it home. A piece of art, perhaps? A precious metal? Actually, it was a 40-year-old jackfruit tree, and, once you’ve tasted its fruit, you begin to understand why he did it.

To say the jackfruit is big is an understatement. It is the largest tree-borne fruit on the planet – it isn’t unusual to come across beasts weighing up to 35kg in South America and South-east Asia. And it has been hailed as a “miracle crop” because of its size, and resistance to pests and drought. And its nutritional credentials are also impressive: researchers have suggested it could replace wheat, corn and other staple crops that may come under threat because of climate change.

Once you get through its tough, green, knobbly exterior, you’re hit with a faint whiff of onion, sticky sap and odd looking seed pods that taste like a cross between a pineapple and a pear. So far, so fruity. But what really sets the jackfruit apart is what it can do to savoury dishes, especially its ability to imitate pulled pork after several hours on the hob.

Entertainment magazine E! cited it as a “hot new vegan ingredient” after spotting it taking pork belly’s place in baos (steamed buns) at Susan Feniger’s Street Food in LA. In London, vegan street-food and supper-club contingent Club Mexicana uses it in burritos and tacos to delicious effect.

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Food; Health/Medicine
KEYWORDS: agriculture; crops; jackfruit
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To: Hetty_Fauxvert

No. It needs water


21 posted on 04/14/2015 2:36:05 AM PDT by muir_redwoods ("He is a very shallow critic who cannot see an eternal rebel in the heart of a conservative." G.K .C)
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To: Paisan
"It smells like rotten citrus that has been fermenting in an un-flushed urinal."

Oh, yummy!

22 posted on 04/14/2015 3:36:06 AM PDT by Pecos (What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly.)
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To: Paisan
She can get Jackfruit in Duluth, Georgia in the mini Asian shopping paradise there at Nam Da Moon, H-Mart, Assi supermarkets.

If you have taken your wife there to shop, she will love you for it. You can overnight as the Jeju Do Sauna for about the same as a hotel room.

23 posted on 04/14/2015 5:04:38 AM PDT by Jumper
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To: nickcarraway

LOL... He stole the tree or he stole the fruit? The reporter, or editor, screwed up. It doesn’t smell “faintly of onion,” either. It really smells like rotting garbage, joke.


24 posted on 04/14/2015 5:53:24 AM PDT by ViLaLuz (2 Chronicles 7:14)
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To: GraceG

The seeds are good to eat, too. Boil them like chestnuts. I actually like the seeds better than the fruit.


25 posted on 04/14/2015 5:57:36 AM PDT by ViLaLuz (2 Chronicles 7:14)
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To: nickcarraway

In 1995, while riding the twisty, turning road to Hana, Maui on an antique Sportster, I almost crashed when one of those fell off a tree right in front of me and splattered all over the road. If I had dumped the bike, it would have been a hundred foot drop into the rocky surf below.

But here I am.

To this day I have not tasted jackfruit.


26 posted on 04/14/2015 7:14:39 AM PDT by left that other site (You shall know the Truth, and The Truth Shall Set You Free.)
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To: buwaya

I saw Andrew Zimmer almost throw up when he tried Durian. If he can’t eat it I sure can’t. LOL!


27 posted on 04/14/2015 7:50:29 AM PDT by Georgia Girl 2 (The only purpose o f a pistol is to fight your way back to the rifle you should never have dropped.)
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To: left that other site

It tried to kill you.

it would not be unreasonable to say “Screw Jackfruit” or similar. No one would blame you.

My question is can I grow it in Houston?

Our weather is very hot and muggy like southeast Asia for most of the year.

Then it freezes and kills all my fun plants.


28 posted on 04/16/2015 9:38:56 AM PDT by T-Bone Texan (The time is now to form up into leaderless cells of 5 men or less.)
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To: T-Bone Texan

Yes. Yes it did!


29 posted on 04/16/2015 6:36:45 PM PDT by left that other site (You shall know the Truth, and The Truth Shall Set You Free.)
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To: muir_redwoods; Hetty_Fauxvert

Ok, that was just wrong.

Correct, but “wrong”...


30 posted on 04/16/2015 6:50:56 PM PDT by SZonian (Throwing our allegiances to political parties in the long run gave away our liberty.)
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