Jackfruit - "bread For The Poor"

2024 Author: Gavin MacAdam | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-16 13:38

A male name quite popular in English-speaking countries, Jack, people assigned the largest fruit on Earth, which grows on the tree of the same name, Jackfruit, popularly called the "Indian breadfruit"

Jackfruit from the Mulberry family

Numerous plants of the family

Mulberry held in high esteem by a person. Among its representatives there are those that give a person clothes (Mulberry tree or

Mulberry); "Shoe" transport (Ficus rubber); feed a person with very useful fruits (Fig tree or

Fig).

And there are those who provide a person with "bread". This is"

Breadfruit"And his close relative,"

Indian breadfruit" or"

Jackfruit . Of course, you won't see our usual stocky loaves of bread on these trees. But their fruits are so high in calories, nutritious and plentiful that they have become real bread for the poor in many Asian countries. For example, in Bangladesh, Jackfruit has been awarded the National Fruit Badge of Honor.

If the Breadfruit is the leader among its fruit counterparts in terms of productivity, serving its "bread" to the table for 9 months a year, then Jackfruit is famous for the size of its fruit. Imagine a fruit on a tree branch weighing more than 30 kilograms. If the inquisitive Newton sat not under the apple tree, but under the Jackfruit, then the progress of Mankind would be much more modest today.

The first acquaintance with the fruit

My acquaintance with

Jackfruit happened in the city of Dubai. On the shelf of a small supermarket, there was a white backing with a pleasant yellow-colored, flat-onion-like contents. On the label was the inscription "Jackfruit", which seemed comic. Arriving at the hotel and typing the word "jackfruit" on the Internet, to my surprise, I discovered a lot of information about the exotic fruit.

The taste of the yellow "onions" slightly resembled a banana, only the banana pulp melts in the mouth by itself, and the elastic bulbs must be chewed. Moreover, the Jackfruit bought in the store turned out to be just a semi-finished product of a natural fruit, extracted from a thick peel and freed from the light brown seed, which exudes the smell of rotten onions in a ripe fruit.

The semi-finished product is free from the sticky milky juice with which the fruit is impregnated. Therefore, to peel a huge fruit, for the sake of edible entrails, people have to wear rubber gloves, and the purchased yellow onions save them from mediation.

True, declared as a fruit accessible to ordinary people, turned into a peeled semi-finished product did not seem cheap to me. Such a substrate cost 10 Emirati dirhams, which is approximately equal to our 200 rubles (at the exchange rate for 2016-20-01). Although this is not surprising, because the city of Dubai with its unique skyscrapers is an expensive city, requiring a return on the declared man-made wonders.

Bread for the Poor

Of course, except in the Emirates

Jackfruit there are many other products available to the well-paid population, but in the south of India, the fruit is included in the three most common products, along with bananas and mangoes.

The high carbohydrate content of fruits, in which our bread is inferior to Jackfruit, makes them very nutritious, and the low cost of fruits makes Jackfruit a popular food product among the low-paid population of India. He is even called “

bread for the poor ».

The ripe fruits of the tree are used to prepare salads and desserts. Unripe fruits are peeled from a thick peel, for which they use a special knife, and then they are stewed, fried and boiled, adding spices, as we do with many vegetables.

Fruit seeds, which are not inferior in nutritional value to "bulbs", are also suitable for food. They are usually eaten fried.