Jackfruit

AgriFutures emerging industries senior manager, Dr Olivia Reynolds, said fresh and value-added jackfruit products can be differentiated from imports through superior genetics, quality and safety standards.

Each layer has a unique flavor, including ube, jackfruit, and coconut.

Other Canadian companies that have entered the field include TMRW Foods, which makes crab cakes from jackfruit, and Konscious Foods, which offers plant-based sushi.

The government has also set a target to cultivate 2,000 hectares of land for palm oil, with an additional 1,300 hectares allocated for the cultivation of mangoes, jackfruit, oranges, pineapples, and bananas.

Goa utilised laterite stones, wood like jackfruit, rosewood and teak for furniture.

If I were to compete on MasterChef, I’d highlight my passion for Indian cuisine by preparing a dish like Biryani with (raw) jackfruit.

Twenty-pound globes of jackfruit, rock hard and encased in bright green, elephant-skin-like hide, dangle from branches.

Each year, regional newspapers relate various jackfruit-related deaths, mostly involving someone lingering under a tree with fruit looming above.

In a dense pocket near the Biome’s Malaysian Garden stands a Jackfruit tree - proper name Artocarpus heterophyllus – bearing on its side the single giant pendulous fruit.

In May, a man in southern India was injured by a falling jackfruit and required spinal surgery, only to discover at the hospital that he also had the coronavirus.

Put some Morrisons shredded jackfruit in sweet and smoky BBQ sauce, £1.75, in a vegan roll.

Would you like to try Shruti Haasan’s yummy, healthy jackfruit wrap?

Before leaving, Vavathil gifted home-made jackfruit chips and sweets to the Congress chief, who, in turn, promised to meet her again.

From the kitchen of homechef-cum-entrepreneur Rajasree R comes the Chakkappothi — steamed rice and jackfruit dishes wrapped in sautéed banana leaves.

Happily, most Zaika recipes seemed manageable, and I plumped for a jackfruit sabzi — like many, I’d eaten the so-called meat substitute but never cooked it.

Hope none of them had a belly full of jackfruit and suddenly needed to do the needful.

Later on, I incubated my jackfruit pasta project and was allowed to use the pasta-making machine there.

Nonetheless, there is a vegan variety you can try instead – jackfruit tacos.

Thomson says he’s seen everything from rosemary steak skewers to vegan pulled jackfruit being griddled.

A handful of companies sell ready-to-eat pouches of jackfruit in a variety of sauces.