I actually recently bought a whole jackfruit for £30, I think. It looked a funny colour inside. It was a bitch trying to cut through it, and it tasted variably pleasant to pretty vile.
It tastes like mango, but without that sweet kick of mango. The fruit is very messy too, and while it looks like it's related to durian, it's not. Durian is from the mallow family, whereas jackfruit is related to mulberries and figs.
That was interesting
@Flask, thanks for sharing your experience.
It got me interested and very first thing I ran across was this whole jackfruit in a box for $99 so I looked into growing jackfruit and a tree takes about 3 to 4 years of growth before it starts producing fruit and young trees produce around 150 to 200 fruit a year, older trees can produce up to 500.
And if you figure $99 for each fruit?
Just think, 4 years from now, you could have $19,000 + of crop.
Obviously there's other costs, market variable, spoilage, but overall, as a money crop, it beats all the other orchard tree crops, from pecans to apples.
By a LOT!
Got any seeds left
@Flask?
It's being used as a meat substitute in tacos and whatnot here in the southwest and I suppose other areas.
Here's the fruit and vegie section from a local Hispanic foods market. Or that would be Latino foods?
Most are very familiar to everyone, but some, maybe not as much so.
Tomatillos, chayote squash, dragonfruit, hibiscus, etc. There's usually a variety of bananas and plantains as well,
Here's some others I see a lot when they're in season:
rambutans
Chirimoyas
Here's the dragonfruit again. It looks neat, white with black flecks
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