Jackfruit is a tropical fruit, generally weighing 5 to 20kg, and the maximum weight can exceed 59kg. Eat freshly or process it into canned food, dried fruit, and juice. The cultivation history of jackfruit in India lasts 3,000 to 6,000 years. It is not only used as a fruit, but also as a grain crop. Because the mature jackfruit flesh has a high sugar content and is resistant to storage after drying, the seeds are rich in starch and can be used for filling the belly. Although jackfruit is delicious, you should also pay more attention when eating to prevent allergies. Therefore, before eating jackfruit, it is best to soak the yellow pulp in light salt water for a few minutes. This will not only reduce the occurrence of allergies, but also make the jackfruit pulp fresher.
Jackfruit is rich in sugars, protein , B vitamins (B1, B2, B6), vitamin C, minerals, fat oils, etc. The sugars, proteins, fatty oils, minerals and vitamins in jackfruit have a certain effect on maintaining the body's normal physiological functions. Green unripe fruits can be eaten as vegetables. The edible part at maturity contains carbohydrate 24.9g per 100g.
look at the color. If the color of the skin of the jackfruit is light yellow or bright yellow, and the two ends of the fruit are a little green, then its ripening degree is just right at this time, and it is the freshest and delicious to eat when cut into it; if you find that the skin of the jackfruit is sole-blue and brown, it means that the fruit is still raw.
Look at the appearance. If the skin of jackfruit is intact, then such a fruit is of high quality. It is normal if the skin of jackfruit has a little black spot, which is a natural phenomenon caused by jackfruit when it matures. But if the small black dots on the skin of the jackfruit appear in a continuous range and there are a lot of them, it indicates that this may be over-ripe or even rotten jackfruit.
sniff the smell. Jackfruit will still emit a fragrance even if it is not cut open. At this time, we can judge whether it is ripe by the degree of the fragrance of the fruit. If it is jackfruit with just the right ripening, then just put your nose close to the outer skin and smell it, and you can smell a fragrance. If you cut the fruit open, the fragrance emitted by the flesh will be even stronger. At this time, you should pay attention to it. If the fruit smells a very heavy fragrance before it is cut, it means it is an overripe fruit. It is not recommended to leave it for too long to eat. If you only smell a little or you can only smell the fragrance, it is mostly raw jackfruit, which contains insufficient sugar and does not taste fragrant.
Touch with your hands. jackfruit is relatively large, so it is difficult for us to weigh it in our hands to see how it weighs it, but we can determine the quality of jackfruit based on the elasticity of its skin. When we gently press the jackfruit with our hands, if we find that the fruit is hard and not elastic, it means that it is still raw; if we find that the jackfruit is solid and has Microsoft elasticity, it means that the ripening level is just right and we can eat it; if we find that the jackfruit has a large depression, it means that it is over-ripening and is not recommended to buy it. If you find juice overflowing during the pressing process, the fruit will definitely be spoiled and you can't eat it anymore.
looks at the size. The size mentioned here does not refer to the size of the jackfruit, but to the size of the "small bumps" on the outer skin of the jackfruit. If the small bumps on the skin of the jackfruit are sharp and are in a vigorous growth state, it means that the jackfruit is still raw; if the small bumps on the skin of the jackfruit are round and soft, and the ends are slightly soft and shrinking, it means that the jackfruit has matured.
Look at the flesh. Generally, when you buy jackfruit in supermarkets, you will often see the kind of jackfruit meat that has been peeled and wrapped in plastic wrap. At this time, you can directly view whether the jackfruit is ripe, fresh, etc. through the naked eye. If you want to buy fresh jackfruit, you might as well see if the pulp will flow out. If there is juice, it means that it has been left for too long and is not fresh; if it is full flesh without juice, it means that it is fresh and you can buy jackfruit.
