When is breadfruit in season

Mamoncillo Season. Caimito Season. Chinese Guava Season. Kasaronja or Water Caltrop. Apple Bananas. Polynesian Breadfruit Uru or Ulu. Granadas or Pomegranates. Bula Festival. Humpback Whales. Soursop Season.

Sabeto Hot Springs and Mud Pool. Swimming with Manta Rays. Fire Walking Festivals. Mount Tomanivi Climbing. Upper Navua River Rafting. Breadfruit is most commonly used as a vegetable, and is a staple food in many tropical countries. Steaming is a great way to cook breadfruit to eat alone or in dishes.

Do not overcook or breadfruit will become mushy and waterlogged! Breadfruit can be pan- or deep-fried, much like potato. If peeled fruit is desired, blanching raw fruit before peeling helps loosen the skin from flesh. Carefully add the breadfruit wedges to the boiling salted water. Reduce heat to medium high and cover with lid. Cook for 30 minutes or until breadfruit wedges are fork tender.

Breadfruit is high in complex carbohydrates , low in fat, and cholesterol and gluten free. It has a moderate glycemic index blood sugar shock compared to white potato, white rice, white bread, and taro. For a happier gut, it's best to load up on carbs from both sources that are higher as well as lower in fiber and be sure to spread your fiber intake throughout the day.

A 1-cup serving of breadfruit has about 24 grams of sugar , but this level will vary depending on ripeness. Breadfruit seeds contain adequate levels of protein; g seeds provide 7. Breadfruit and diabetes: Breadfruit porridge is one of the diabetic healthy foods that is prepared and eaten to help control blood sugar level. It is also one half of the country's national dish — ackee and saltfish.

Ackee is originally from West Africa, but has been in Jamaica since the 18th century and is now found throughout the island. Botanically speaking, a coconut is a fibrous one-seeded drupe, also known as a dry drupe. However, when using loose definitions, the coconut can be all three: a fruit , a nut, and a seed. Coconuts are classified as a fibrous one-seeded drupe. Pregnancy and breast-feeding: Not enough is known about the use of breadfruit as a medicine during pregnancy and breast-feeding.

Stay on the safe side and avoid use. Bleeding disorders: There is concern that breadfruit might increase the risk of bleeding. When is breadfruit in season? The type with seeds is sometimes called "breadnut", a name better limited to Brosimum alicastrum Swartz, an edible-seeded tree of Yucatan, Central America and nearby areas. Its Spanish name is ramon and the seeds, leaves and twigs are prized as stock feed.

In: K. Morton, Fifty Tropical Fruits of Nassau , Description The breadfruit tree is handsome and fast growing, reaching 85 ft 26 m in height, often with a clear trunk to 20 ft 6 m becoming 2 to 6 ft 0. There are many spreading branches, some thick with lateral foliage-bearing branchlets, others long and slender with foliage clustered only at their tips.

They are bright-green and glossy on the upper surface, with conspicuous yellow veins; dull, yellowish and coated with minute, stiff hairs on the underside. The tree bears a multitude of tiny flowers, the male densely set on a drooping, cylindrical or club-shaped spike 5 to 12 in Some fruits may have a harsh, sandpaper-like rind.

Generally the rind is green at first, turning yellowish-green, yellow or yellow-brown when ripe, though one variety is lavender. In the green stage, the fruit is hard and the interior is white, starchy and somewhat fibrous. When fully ripe, the fruit is somewhat soft, the interior is cream colored or yellow and pasty, also sweetly fragrant.

The fruit is borne singly or in clusters of 2 or 3 at the branch tips. The fruit stalk pedicel varies from 1 to 5 in 2. All parts of the tree, including the unripe fruit, are rich in milky, gummy latex. There are two main types: the normal, "wild" type cultivated in some areas with seeds and little pulp, and the "cultivated" more widely grown seedless type, but occasionally a few fully developed seeds are found in usually seedless cultivars.

Some forms with entire leaves and with both seeds and edible pulp have been classified by Dr. Fosberg as belonging to a separate species, A. It is said to have been widely spread in the Pacific area by migrating Polynesians, and Hawaiians believed that it was brought from the Samoan island of Upalu to Oahu in the 12th Century A.

It is said to have been first seen by Europeans in the Marquesas in , then in Tahiti in At the beginning of the 18th Century, the early English explorers were loud in its praises, and its fame, together with several periods of famine in Jamaica between and , inspired plantation owners in the British West Indies to petition King George III to import seedless breadfruit trees to provide food for their slaves. There is good evidence that the French navigator Sonnerat in obtained the seeded breadfruit in the Philippines and brought it to the French West Indies.

It seems also that some seedless and seeded breadfruit plants reached Jamaica from a French ship bound for Martinique but captured by the British in There were at least two plants of the seeded breadfruit in Jamaica in and distributions were quickly made to the other islands. There is a record of a plant having been sent from Martinique to the St. Vincent Botanical Garden before The story of Captain Bligh's first voyage to Tahiti, in , and the loss of his cargo of 1, potted breadfruit plants on his disastrous return voyage is well known.

He set out again in and delivered 5 different kinds totalling 2, plants to Jamaica in February On that island, the seedless breadfruit flourished and it came to be commonly planted in other islands of the West Indies, in the lowlands of Central America and northern South America.

In some areas, only the seedless type is grown, in others, particularly Haiti, the seeded is more common. Jamaica is by far the leading producer of the seedless type, followed by St. In New Guinea, only the seeded type is grown for food. It has been suggested that the seeded breadfruit was carried by Spaniards from the Philippines to Mexico and Central America long before any reached the West Indies.

On the Pacific coast of Central America, the seeded type is common and standard fare for domestic swine. On the Atlantic Coast, seedless varieties are much consumed by people of African origin. The breadfruit tree is much grown for shade in Yucatan. It is very common in the lowlands of Colombia, a popular food in the Cauca Valley, the Choco, and the San Andres Islands; mostly fed to live stock in other areas. In Guyana, in , about 1, new breadfruit trees were being produced each year but not nearly enough to fill requests for plants.

There and in Trinidad, because of many Asians in the population, both seeded and seedless breadfruits are much appreciated as a regular article of the diet; in some other areas of the Caribbean, breadfruit is regarded merely as a food for the poor for use only in emergencies.

Nowadays, it is attracting the attention of gourmets and some islands are making small shipments to the United States, Canada and Europe for specialized ethnic markets. In the Palau Islands of the South Pacific, breadfruit is being outclassed by cassava and imported flour and rice.

For some time breadfruit was losing ground to taro Colocasia esculenta Schott. For many years there have been a number of seedless breadfruit trees in Key West, Florida, and there is now at least one on Vaca Key about 50 miles to the northeast.