Plants and Flowers

Jackfruit is widely used in local cookery, both ripe, and unripe. Fruit reminds a fig on its consistence. Unripe fruit is cooked as a vegetable, and ripe is used in the raw state. Its taste is similar to a melon, mango and pawpaw. Its juice is very sweet, has a yellow, brownish or pink shade depending on a maturity of a fruit. Unripe fruits are cooked, fried and stewed. It is cut in pieces, cooked in the salted water up to readiness and served. Seeds are also cooked, fried and eaten as chestnuts.

Ripe fruits are eaten raw, they are used for jams, compotes and liquors.
Jackfruit fruits are very nutritious and contain about 40 % of carbohydrates (starch) - more, than in bread. Therefore (and because of cheapness) jackfruit in India is called as “bread for poor people�. Seeds are also nutritious - they contain 38 % of carbohydrates, 6.6 % of proteins and 0.4 % of fats; they are roasted and eaten as chestnuts.

Jackfruit wood is not affected by termites and fungi and is used for building and manufacture of furniture and musical instruments.

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