{"id":53921,"date":"2011-11-28T01:33:39","date_gmt":"2011-11-28T09:33:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/gnxp\/?p=14643"},"modified":"2011-11-28T01:33:39","modified_gmt":"2011-11-28T09:33:39","slug":"tolerable-jackfruit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/2011\/11\/28\/tolerable-jackfruit\/","title":{"rendered":"Tolerable jackfruit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/gnxp\/files\/2011\/11\/220px-Artocarpus_heterophyllus_fruits_at_tree.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/gnxp\/files\/2011\/11\/220px-Artocarpus_heterophyllus_fruits_at_tree.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"220px-Artocarpus_heterophyllus_fruits_at_tree\" width=\"220\" height=\"341\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-14644\" \/><\/a>When perusing Asian groceries I occasionally run into cans of <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Jackfruit\">jackfruit<\/a>. Or should I say &#8220;jackfruit,&#8221; because often what&#8217;s inside of the cans resembles jackfruit flavored wax. Real fresh jackfruit is soft and mushy. Unfortunately the preservation process turns canned jackfruit into a turgid and far less flavorful product. That being said, I recently purchased three different brands, and I found that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/B000JSQ59I\/geneexpressio-20\">Chaokoh<\/a> brand wasn&#8217;t totally awful. I don&#8217;t know if I&#8217;d purchase it again, but I am considering it. It&#8217;s not real jackfruit by any means, but the flavor is stronger and the waxiness of the fruit flesh less pronounced.<\/p>\n<p>Do readers have any experiences with canned jackfruit?<\/p>\n<p><i>Image credit: <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/File%3AArtocarpus_heterophyllus_fruits_at_tree.jpg\">Wikimedia<\/a><\/i><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/GeneExpressionBlog\/~4\/vFEypETLgwQ\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When perusing Asian groceries I occasionally run into cans of jackfruit. Or should I say &#8220;jackfruit,&#8221; because often what&#8217;s inside of the cans resembles jackfruit flavored wax. Real fresh jackfruit is soft and mushy. Unfortunately the preservation process turns canned jackfruit into a turgid and far less flavorful product. That being said, I recently purchased [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,1875],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-53921","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog","category-jackfruit"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53921","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=53921"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53921\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":54164,"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53921\/revisions\/54164"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=53921"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=53921"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=53921"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}