Jackfruit

The jackfruit (Artocarpus heterophyllus), additionally called jack tree, is a species of tree withinside the fig, mulberry, and breadfruit family (Moraceae). Its starting place is withinside the area among the Western Ghats of southern India, all of Sri Lanka and the rainforests of Malaysia, Indonesia and the Philippines. The jack tree is well-perfect to tropical lowlands, and is extensively cultivated during tropical areas of the world. It bears the most important fruit of all timber, attaining as a good deal as fifty five kg (a hundred and twenty pounds) in weight, ninety cm (35 inches) in length, and 50 cm (20 inches) in diameter. A mature jack tree produces a few two hundred culmination according to year, with older timber bearing as much as 500 culmination in a year. The jackfruit is a a couple of fruit composed of masses to heaps of person flowers, and the fleshy petals of the unripe fruit are eaten. The ripe fruit is sweet (relying on variety) and is extra frequently used for desserts. Canned inexperienced jackfruit has a moderate flavor and meat-like texture that lends itself to being referred to as a "vegetable meat".

Jackfruit is usually utilized in South and Southeast Asian cuisines. Both ripe and unripe culmination are consumed. The jackfruit is the country wide fruit of Bangladesh and Sri Lanka, and the kingdom fruit of the Indian states of Karnataka, Kerala and Tamil Nadu. It is to be had across the world canned or frozen and in chilled food as are numerous merchandise derived from the fruit which includes noodles and chips.

Etymology and common name

The phrase jackfruit comes from Portuguese jaca, which in flip is derived from the Malayalam language time period chakka (Malayalam: chakka pazham), while the Portuguese arrived in India at Kozhikode (Calicut) at the Malabar Coast (Kerala) in 1499. Later the Malayalam call ചക്ക (cakka) become recorded through Hendrik van Rheede (1678–1703) withinside the Hortus Malabaricus, vol. iii in Latin. Henry Yule translated the ee-e book in Jordanus Catalani's (fl. 1321–1330) Mirabilia descripta: the wonders of the East. This time period is in flip derived from the Proto-Dravidian root kā(y) ("fruit, vegetable").

The not unusualplace English call "jackfruit" become utilized by medical doctor and naturalist Garcia de Orta in his 1563 ee-e book Colóquios dos simples e drogas da India. Centuries later, botanist Ralph Randles Stewart cautioned it become named after William Jack (1795–1822), a Scottish botanist who labored for the East India Company in Bengal, Sumatra, and Malaya.

Food

Ripe jackfruit is clearly candy, with diffused pineapple- or banana-like taste. It may be used to make numerous dishes, inclusive of custards, cakes, or blended with shaved ice as es teler in Indonesia or halo-halo withinside the Philippines. For the conventional breakfast dish in southern India, idlis, the fruit is used with rice as an element and jackfruit leaves are used as a wrapping for steaming. Jackfruit dosas may be organized with the aid of using grinding jackfruit flesh at the side of the batter. Ripe jackfruit arils are from time to time seeded, fried, or freeze-dried and bought as jackfruit chips. The seeds from ripe end result are fit for human consumption as soon as cooked, and are stated to have a milky, candy flavor regularly as compared to Brazil nuts.

They can be boiled, baked, or roasted. When roasted, the taste of the seeds is akin to chestnuts. Seeds are used as snacks (both with the aid of using boiling or fire-roasting) or to make desserts. In Java, the seeds are typically cooked and pro with salt as a snack. They are typically utilized in curry in India withinside the shape of a conventional lentil and vegetable blend curry. Young leaves are gentle sufficient for use as a vegetable.

Nutritional value

The safe to eat pulp is 74% water, 23�rbohydrates, 2% protein, and 1�t. The carbohydrate issue is by and large sugars, and is a supply of nutritional fiber. In a 100-gram (3+1⁄2-ounce) portion, uncooked jackfruit offers four hundred kJ (ninety five kcal), and is a wealthy supply (20% or extra of the Daily Value, DV) of diet B6 (25% DV). It carries slight levels (10-19% DV) of diet C and potassium, with out a good sized content material of different micronutrients. The jackfruit is a partial answer for meals safety in growing countries.