This fruit is native to the Pacific The fruit is up to ten inches in diameter and it has a bumpy green skin and a bland cream-colored center Breadfruit can be baked, grilled, fried, or boiled, and served as a sweet or savory dish
The fruit of a tree (Artocarpus incisa) found in the islands of the Pacific, esp
The exterior of these melon-sized round fruits is covered with hundreds of scaly bumps Unripe, they are green and their flesh resembles a potato--hard, white, and starchy Like plantains, breadfruit is used in savory and sweet dishes according to its ripeness At the hard stage it is used in savory dishes and cooked like a potato or sweet potato When slightly ripe, the outside is partly green Baked at this stage, its flesh is slightly sticky, somewhat fruity, but spongy like bread When ripe, the exterior is tender and brownish, and the flesh is creamy and sticky but still starchy and rather bland in flavor
Breadfruit are large round fruit that grow on trees in the Pacific Islands and in tropical parts of America and that, when baked, look and feel like bread. a large tropical fruit that looks like bread when it is cooked. Fruit of either of two closely related trees belonging to the mulberry family. Artocarpus communis (also called A. incisa or A. altilis) provides a staple food of the South Pacific. Its greenish to brownish-green, round fruits have a white, fibrous pulp. Treculia africana, native to tropical Africa, is less important as a food crop. Cultivated in the Malay Archipelago (where it is thought to be indigenous) since remote antiquity, the breadfruit was spread throughout the tropical South Pacific in prehistoric times. It is high in starch and is seldom eaten raw. Unable to tolerate frost, the tree has not been successfully grown in the U.S., even in southernmost Florida. In the South Seas, cloth is made from the inner bark, the wood is used for canoes and furniture, and glue and caulking material are obtained from the milky juice
round seedless or seeded fruit with a bread-like texture; eaten boiled or baked or roasted or ground into flour; the roasted seeds resemble chestnuts
It is of a roundish form, from four to six or seven inches in diameter, and, when baked, somewhat resembles bread, and is eaten as food, whence the name