We tried jackfruit - the huge tree fruit that supposedly tastes like pulled pork
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- Опубликовано: 18 сен 2015
- Jackfruit is the largest tree-borne fruit in the world. It has been called a "miracle" fruit because it provides so many nutrients and calories and is relatively easy and cheap to cultivate.
The fruit tastes like a cross between a pear and pineapple when ripe, but more like a potato when immature. Perhaps the most popular way to eat jackfruit in the US is to cook it for a few hours, at which point it takes on the texture, flavor, and look of pulled pork. We tried the raw fruit alongside some barbecued jackfruit, ordered from Candle Cafe, to see if it lives up to its reputation
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There are two types of jackfruit. one is soft and another is hard. I'm not talking about ripeness. The one you ate was hard jackfruit. The soft kind is very sweet banana-gum flavaoured and soft. If you really wanna eat and know about jackfruit then you should talk to a Bangladesh immigrant because our national fruit is the jackfruit. BTW with the soft kind you can make it into a milkshake. Lastly, one jackfruit does not describe them all. There's mild sweet hard jackfruit, sweet hard jackfruit, mild sweet soft jackfruit and my favourite- sweet soft jackfruit. Mild sweet hard jackfruit was probably used to make the BBQ.
BTW, you guys cut like a maniac and ruininng those delicious seeds that can roast or boil for awesome curries
Neka kabir you can still boil the broken seeds
I know but they seem like amateurs and whole seeds just shows skill.
Omgsh thank you so much for the milkshake idea!
your welcome!
Like buzzfeed. But more professional.
Buzzness Insider
Hai Tu I thought it was buzzfeed
implying BuzzFeed is professional
Hai Tu
Like Buzzfeed, but less cancerous.
Hai Tu o
uhhhhh it wasn't ripe rofl
got a problem with that?
GREEN PANDA honestly the fruit would have been given much more better opinions on if it was ripe because jackfruits are the best but you know whatever the hell floats their boat
I meant G Issa
yeah. and I asked if you have got a problem with white ppl trying other cultures food.
yes
Raw jackfruit tastes like meat..ripe one is so so delicious.We have 3 jackfruit trees and I can't wait for summer.
You're so lucky =) Jackfruit is one of my favorite fruit =)
JG I've got a huge one in our house...so much go waste every year..
India
omg!! i love jackfruit.. but my mom is OBSsessed with them.. like super! . you shoud try making pancakes with them.. they taste like heaven😍
I love jackfruit too. I'm from Cameroon, so we have quite a few trees there. In most schools there, they have this thing called holiday classes, where the parents pay the school to teach their kids during the holidays (it's like summer school, but grades are irrelevant)
Anyway, since there were jackfruit trees along the shortcut my friends and I used from school, one of us would bring a knife from home to cut open a jackfruit so we could share it on the way home. Good times. 😊😊
I live in Brazil and this fruit is very very common around here. So much that we even have cases of people getting hurt from jacas (portuguese name) falling of trees on the streets. However, I have never tasted it, something about the smell gets me off.
The way they cut it triggers me...
For those who can't relate imagine someone cutting an avocado right through the middle, cutting through the pit.
*shivers*
I was thinking the same 🤣🤣
its like a banana and mango mix
I ate jackfruit for the first time this morning, and I kid you not, I became energized and clear-minded in a similar way to how I get off of coffee, except I didn't crash or have blood-sugar problems (I'm hypoglycemic). I'm going to eat this fruit every morning from now on so long as my wallet allows for it!
Is it expensive in your place? since in my country a lot of people plant this fruit tree and my family did so before I it kind of cheap or rather you can get this fruit for free most of the time.
Oviie Mbem if you're asian then its a normal thing for us. its easy to get this fruit bcs it's literally everywhere
Sugar from any Fruit don't digest the same as processed sugar, they don't affect those with diabetes and raise your blood sugar, natural sugars are always the best
Gregory House d
It is one of the super foods available naturally.
When you're Muslim and have eaten jackfruit many times "oooh so this is how pork tastes like"
lol
Lol, but it really doesn’t taste like pork, these white people just have bad taste buds. -Southeast Asian
It doesnt take like jackfruit. Western people cant taste.
I'm an ex-Muslim and I grew up eating jackfruit and have tried pulled pork and they taste nothing like each other, not sure what other people are tasting.
"It almost tastes like finely ground beef or turkey"
Two meats that could not taste any less like each other.
Jackfruit (kathal) originated in southern India and we use the slightly raw version for savoury amazing tasty dishes and the ripe version as fruit. But as someone who has grown up eating jackfruit since childhood...I would never mistake it for pork.
Your cutting method is completely wrong. you just have to cut little bit os the top and peel it of. I know it because in our country it is our national fruit
What she did was absolutely right. It is the most fastest and easiest way to cut open a jackfruit.
Fardin Zaman I cut a cylindrical hole in the fruit. Microwave in high for 30 seconds and put my dick in it. But I guess everyone has there own method.
Fardin Zaman bruh jackfruit is available through all of SEA ,stop claiming everything ffs
Yep it's pretty impractical. Firstly cutting through the seeds and the meat makes it less desirable. Secondly by splitting the stem you're actually exposing the non edible gluey staff. Thirdly nobody eats a whole jack-fruit at once. So as you've mentioned, cutting little and then peeling lets you eat and then store again(you can roll back the skin as you've peeled). But then again, every single guy here has a brain better then everyone else, so who am I to say how to cut!
Lee Yang jack fruit is not India's jack fruit 😑, Marshall is not a famous name amongst India 😒bloody whatever people you are
It tastes nothing like pork or any meat for that matter.
O Jamrock
They use the younger jack fruit to make the meat
Not the yellow one you see here
Young ones are white
you have to use green young jackfruit, tinned at Asian supermarkets usually is best. it's the cooking and seasoning that makes it taste very much like soft pulled meat. it's bloody delicious either way, and healthy!
O Jamrock ya it does, it just depends on how you season it.
Young, green ones with the white meat. The one they showed was mature one; when the flesh is yellowish, it becomes sweet.
There is another Fruit which looks like Jackfruit & that smell like rotten onion ,maybe they mixed these two
Jackfruit is a national fruit of Bangladesh. As a Bangladeshi u all are invited here in next summer. U can have as much fresh jackfruits as u want. :)
1:25 If you're into Hi-Chews . . . it tastes like a Hi-Chew. The consistency is just different.
This inspired me to write a Hi-Chew haiku
You're into Hi-Chews?
Jackfruit tastes like a Hi-Chew.
So I wrote this haiku.
And here's the same haiku with rhyming commentary.
You're into Hi-Chews? (Good for you.)
Jackfruit tastes like a Hi-Chew. (Who knew?)
So I wrote this haiku. (Woohoo!)
Lol
😥
im triggered cause the last one has 6 syllables
@@jamai-canyounot1573 Apparently, jackfruit is used to flavor juicy fruit gum
I'm from Dominican Republic we have the same fruit, but the way we eated is that we boild the seeds with water and salt for about 45 minutes then you let it seat down till they are warm enough that you can grab them with your hands and peel off the Brown shell or sead's and eat what's inside, taste awesome.
The sweet and best tastings ones should be somewhat slimy and stringy as you pull it apart, once you've eaten some your hands should be sticky with sweetness. If it's not ripe it won't give you the best flavour, which is a shame because it's such an amazing fruit. My favourite for sure.
These fruits were like godsent for people in india 50 years ago when the season comes jackfruit was the major source of food.
In our home there are 5 jackfruit trees no maintanance required.
Science has proven that jackfruit can reduce the risk of developing cancer and it can also prevent hiv.
Eating unripe jackfruit is good for diabetic patients.
Its the food of the future.
There are a few varieties, regardless, they all start from "babyhood" when they are vegetable NOT fruit, people. I love them
either way . That can't be said of any other
offering from trees. Jackfruit is considered
a solution to hunger and famine. Enough said of my favorite jackfruit.
I grow up eating this . My mom love to put it on dehydrator and fry it to make a sweet chips . Its very fragrant and sweet .
Some History.
Jackfruit origin is in the region from the Western Ghats of southern Indian state called Kerala. The name Jackfruit is from "Jaca" a Portuguese word which derived from "Chakka" from the Malayalam language of Kerala which is a southern state in India popularised in other parts of the world during the 15th century when Portuguese sailors reached Kerala for trade (The year 1499). This fruit then moved to Bangladesh, SriLanka, Malaysia, Vietnam and even Brazil. Jackfruit is now the National fruit of both Bangladesh and SriLanka. In Brazil, Jackfruit becomes an invasive species where the massive growth in numbers badly affected other native plants of Brazil.
Lol this fruit didn't started from Bangladesh and this is there national fruit
Dry it. It will be a very sweet fruit chip
Dude, my first introduction to jackfruit was through freeze-dried chips. Freaking delicious!
I am a Keralite from India , almost every house compound have 3/4 Jackfruit trees ,here we used to waste lots of fruits .The hell thing is a riped Jackfruit attract lots of bees. There are different varieties of jackfruits but the main two are we call as "koozha" & "Varikka" .Varrikka is bigger and much tastiest ; Very tastey.
This fruit originally from my state it is known as 'chakka' here, we make wide variety dishes from this fruit. Slice them and fry it , it tastes far better than potato chips.
Neka kabir
showed he really understands about jackfruit when he wrote: ´´There are two types of jackfruit. one is soft and another is hard. I'm not talking about ripeness. The one you ate was hard jackfruit. The soft kind is very sweet banana-gum flavaoured and soft...´´. We have both kinds in the region I live in Brazil. The soft kind is tasty, tastyy, tasty!
where i'm from it only cost $0.20 dollars/kilo and the trick to making it sweeter is to make a huge cut on side and let it sit in a cool dry place for at least 3 days, not only it will become sweeter, it will also leave a sweet smell around the room.
Never tried it, but looks interesting! nice video!
In North India we choose more raw, and in south and east India they choose yellow one....
Every part of India have their own style of cooking.
I loved in Vietnam and ate Jack Fruit all the time. Love it!
For the people who are wondering, yes, they do sell jackfruit in the U.S.
It's called 'Langka' in my country the Philippines. A Langka tree grows at our backyard.
I had this growing in my house. My favorite is making a sweeten preserve jackfruit.
Don't know about it's benefits, but all i know is that all jackfruits tastes awesome. You can boil the seed with some salt for an awesome nutty treat. Also deep frying the stringy parts and sprinkle some flavors on for a good time. Vegan pulled pork, that i gotta try. Btw, you're supposed to do a shallow cut that runs down one side so you can peel the skin off like you're skinning an animal.
If I ever become allergic to pork, I will import this fruit.
Try Panruti Jackfruit from South India. It is orange colored fruit taste heaven. Jackfruit is one of the three important fruits in the state of Tamil Nadu other being Banana and Mango. Jackfruit seeds can be boiled or just directly put into the fire and eaten. It is cheap alternative to expensive almonds and nuts . Good snack.
these can be found all over south india. we even cook the seeds
I live in Uganda. Jack fruit is so common here. It's so sweet and tastes nothing like pork. It's a sweet fruit
Pineapple meets sweet potatoes, give that man his own show.
I can't believe people are just finding out about this amazing fruit. This is like my treat when I was little back in the Philippines.
actually we should probably credit the farmers and their familys that spent generation cultivating the fruits taste and size to get what we have now
Confusing video, looks like they eat the fruit not the flesh that you use to make the pulled pork!
mags judge unripe ones are used in making savory dishes they dont have fruit developed so its just a lump of flesh inside the skin(in a sense) they used a almost riped one...and had its seeds and the fruits developed ....
Jackfruit tastes like a mix of pineapple and banana Not sweet potato
I got a jackfruit ad for this video lmao
Business Insider team! Loved this video. Just a suggestion from an jackfruit eater, apply some oil on hands before cutting the jackfruit helps to prevent the sticky substance prestent in the jackfruit. Thanks
Dip a ripe jackfruit in dark chocolate. Yum!
If you want to substitute it as meat, use unripe jackfruit and not ripe ones.
Wow this brings back my childhood memories. whenever my aunt used to bring this everyone in the house even grandma. all would apply oil on their hands and start eating this until it is fully finished. It was like a big brunch.
This is found in summer here south-west India.There are two varieties found here kapo (harder and the one shown in the video) and rasaal (juicy and softer).The sticky substance she found is "deekh" (type of tree juice). Even chips, jams and fly traps are made out of this.
Saw this in my local supermarket I thought it was a dragon egg.
Got this fruit almost every time since it grows everywhere here in the Philippines. Love this fruit! Naturally sweet and you should put cooking oil in your hands/knife before touching it to avoid the sticky part lol
I get this fruit for free, it grows wild where I´m from, and it's organic too, even better!
Better than buzzfeed and entertains it users without going into politics.
jackfruit: the thing i'm most allergic to
My favourite fruit. I eat jackfruit so much. You all make it look like a new discovered fruit 😂😂😂
1:03 that guy's voice is awesome
Sounds Texan. Like me
the unripe fruit is actually used like a vegetable, and cooked with coconut milk, chili and dried fish in our country.
We had this at the back of my grandma's house, so it's kinda amusing to see people not know how it tastes like. XD When cooked, it honestly feels like super tender/boiled pork.
The way she cut the fruit....diabolical
Jackfruit is our National fruit in Bangladesh
This fruit is very common in South East Asia...(India,Srilanka, Bangladesh, Malaysia, Myanmar )
It's called "langka" in the Philippines and "nangka" in Indonesia. I have a jackfruit tree in my backyard. Personally, I don't think it tastes like pulled pork.
It's chewy and sweet...one of my fave treat when I was a kid.
Word. I almost thought I was the only person thinking about texture. It almost seems like a super soaked boiled branch or something :/. It just seems stringy to me. Like you could just tear it apart, just bc, & then eat it. Like string cheese
$2.50 a pound? Better work on that price.
Baelzar I thought it said 2.50 for 10 lbs
$25 is pretty decent
Jonathan Chen In my country, you can get it for 3-4 dollars
Jonathan Chen its free here
Baelzar today my aunt gave me some when my parents were out .
I didn't wait for them and ate it all 😋.
when they came back and my mom asked for it , I told her that she should stop eating sweet things since she has diabetes😈😈😈😼
I think there was a jack fruit tree in my home town. Me and my friends used to fill our car full of them and throw them at mail boxes and stuff. But making tacos is cool too.
Jackfruit also heps to reduce the blood sugar level if you eat it before it ripens.
Iris B • true considering just how big the fruit get and the amount of fruit they bear it won't be wrong to say that one plant could possibly feed half the village
You should try the ripe one, and try to look for the traditional way of cutting it, the pulp should pull out like pulled pork using that way. Be careful because ripe one tend to be super juicy. If you guys are reading.
I really want to try this
In Malaysia it call 'Buah Nangka' and I love it so much.Each fruit can produce a lot of flesh and the smell is strong like durian
Also nangka in indonesia. Jackfruit pie is the best
They grow well in tropical climate such as South Asia. I got a tree growing in my garden.
love that guy in the red polo lmao
It doesn't taste anything like pulled pork especially when it's ripe. It taste sweet and well... fruity. We cook it with brown sugar and Saba (a kind of banana here in the Philippines). And when it's syrupy enough like a thick soup, we let it cool down, put some shaved ice and evaporated milk. And voila! Saba con yelo 🤤
One of my favorite fruit. Love to make dessert with it.
Here in the Philippines, there is a variety of fruit we call Marang which is like the cross between Durian and Jackfruit. It is also smelly and taste a bit like durian but the peal is similar to jackfruit.
Most flavourful and fragrant fruit in nature.
in my village we don't sell jackfruit for money...Eat when it is ripen and tastes damn good..
I have tried jackfruit very often! When I was on vacation to Thailand when I was 4 my mom would buy 7 lbs and I would eat a little everyday
Jackfruit is a common fruit in Indonesia. Its really tasty.
Back at my ancestoral home in India, there's a tall jackfruit tree grown over the fence across the street. It's a miracle no jackfruit ever fallen on an innocent pedestrian because people have died their heads bashed in by the enormous fruit. I hope my father would cut off the branch overlooking the street one day. It's dangerous.
My grand dad used to have a jackfruit tree
But now the house is sold
i live in Savar region of dhaka, bangladesh and here we have i think over 10 plus species of different jackfruits .....wow
Did he....just eat a taco with a FREAKING FORK?!?!?
U can also boil the seeds and eat them after peeling. Taste like chestnuts by the way. My wife taught me that.. pretty good, imma try and roast them next time..
Ripe jackfruit is like chewy mango. You can't make faux meat from ripened ones. The unripened one has a texture similar to pulled pork but the tastes must come from seasonings.
It actually tastes like candy. One of the sweetest thing ever!
I love jackfruit. It grew in my grandmother's village during rainy season when we visited. Used to crave for it all year. Still do. Btw U r supposed to wipe off the white thing before u eat it.
Believe it or not its called Qatar pronounced like "cutter" here in Nepal. Raw ones are the best subs for meat. We have been eating these for ages.
That woman knew what Hi Chew tastes like and she said "Jack fruit tastes just like Hi Chew"...
You can also eat the seeds just by boiling it.
I'm used to eating jackfruit since my childhood. it feels like home. uh..nostalgia
I love jackfruit!!❤❤❤
i've had enough eating this fruit, because i'm native sea, lol. there's one likely jackfruit but it's not, i dont know english name for that fruit, but here's you might to know, this jackfruit called "Nangka Hutan" and it's sibling is just "Nangka", they looks so familiar, but once you open, it's a different fruit, jackfruit can be eaten raw or cooked, but the other one can't,
can't be eaten raw,
Come to South India, specifically Kerala. Raw fruit can be used as a substitute of meat and the ripe fruit as a fruit. We make sweet rice cake, chips and lots more with this fruit. Btw idk why westerners feel it has a very stinky smell, i guess they haven't smelt a dried fish. Ripe jackfruit has a very fruity,sweet and a savoury smell. Remember to oil your palms and knife while handling this fruit orelse you will have the sticky gum all over yourself.
We actually stew pork, kidney beans and jackfruit together. But I never eat the cooked the jackfruit. I eat it fresh.
The seeds are also edible. You can boil them and eat them like any other nuts.
I as a meat-eater can say that Jackfruit if prepared correctly is the closest thing to a "veggie meat" recipe there is.
Jackfruit is my absolute favorite! She should've oiled up her hands with some coconut oil or something when she was cutting it up though. That's what I do to keep the sticky stuff from getting all over my hands.
Dried / fried jackfruit is good too!
The guy in the red shirt has a perpetually semi-horrified look on his face.
Try Cempedak too.
Try to use plastic bag to avoid the sticky sap,
Or use kerosene to remove them from your hands.
Pretty sure buzzfeed did some stuff to the jackfruit to make it taste like pulled pork
Dude with the red shirt really needs to eat a Jack Boot.
I’m sorry but I found Jackfruit to be disgusting when I ate it. It had absolutely no flavor to it and I added barbecue sauce🤢. However, I am willing to try it if someone who is more familiar with Jackfruit can make it taste better😂