Breadfruit

Artocarpus altilis

fruit · vegetable

A large round fruit with green skin and floury flesh, from an Oceanian tree related to jackfruit; roasted, fried or boiled like a starchy staple. 100 g provide 29 mg of vitamin C and 5 g of fibre; cooled after cooking, its starch becomes partly resistant.

Origin

New Guinea and Pacific

Season (United States)

all year round

Preparation

The skin and fibrous core are removed; its seeds, when it has them, are eaten cooked.

Did you know?

In 1789, Captain Bligh was to carry a thousand breadfruit trees from Tahiti to the West Indies: the mutiny on the Bounty broke out on that voyage; he succeeded on the second, in 1791.