Because jackfruit is the heaviest fruit in the world, it generally weighs 5-20kg, and the heaviest is over 50kg. In addition, the fruit is thick, soft, sweet and delicious, with rich fragrance, and is known as the "tropical fruit queen". Green immature fruits can be eaten as vegetables. The edible part at maturity contains 24.9 grams of carbohydrate, calcium, phosphorus and iron per100g. Fried cooked food, which tastes like chestnuts, has the effects of quenching thirst, promoting lactation, tonifying the middle energizer and benefiting qi.
There are many fruit trees in Zhanjiang and Maoming because of jackfruit. In addition to the trees themselves as a good tool for viewing and shading, their leaves are also good materials for making farm snacks in the two places, which can make the taste of farm snacks more fragrant and enhance the taste. It also provides more adequate nutrition for farmers.
Modern medical research has confirmed that jackfruit is rich in sugar, protein, B vitamins (b 1, b2, b6), vitamin C, minerals, fatty oil and so on. The main therapeutic substance is a substance called jackfruit protein which can be extracted from the juice and peel of jackfruit.
Sugar, protein, fatty oil, minerals and vitamins in jackfruit have certain effects on maintaining normal physiological functions of the body. After taking jackfruit, it can strengthen the hydrolysis of fibrin in the body, dissolve fibrin and blood clots blocked in tissues and blood vessels, thus improving local blood and body fluid circulation, absorbing and eliminating inflammation and edema, and has certain auxiliary therapeutic effect on diseases caused by thrombosis such as cerebral thrombosis. Pineapple protein extracted from jackfruit can be used in combination with antibiotics and other drugs to promote the penetration and diffusion of drugs into diseased tissues, and is suitable for treating inflammation and edema caused by various reasons, such as bronchitis, bronchial asthma, acute pneumonia, pharyngolaryngitis, retinitis, mastitis, postpartum breast congestion, postpartum thrombophlebitis, arthritis, scapulohumeral periarthritis, cellulitis, leg ulcer and other diseases. In addition, pineapple honey juice can be directly used externally to treat lymphangitis, hemorrhoids and other diseases. In xuwen county, Leizhou Peninsula, people often soak honey and jackfruit into jackfruit wine, which is called "Xuwenye". In addition, local people also use rice soup to soak jackfruit leaves to make remedies to treat abdominal pain and other diseases. Regarding the efficacy of jackfruit, it is also recorded in Li Shizhen's Compendium of Materia Medica in the Ming Dynasty: "Jackfruit is sweet and fragrant ... it can quench thirst, strengthen the spleen and replenish qi".
There is also a famous dish that only Zhanjiang can eat. Is prepared from lily, cashew nuts, crispy fried peanuts and jackfruit. Lily, jackfruit, peanut and cashew. Nuts are crisp, jackfruit is sweet and soft, lily is soft, and it tastes delicious. It is really a feast and a must-have dish in summer.
Fujian people came to Zhanjiang just to see the delicious jackfruit. On a whim, they made a snack jackfruit cake with the scent of jackfruit. Packaging is now available in all major markets. Without the original texture of jackfruit, it is replaced by the texture of hard-bottomed cake, which completely takes the fragrance and taste of jackfruit, sweet and delicious.
Jackfruit is full of treasure, even its fruit can be cooked and eaten. Farmers usually boil peanuts directly with exothermic water and can eat them immediately. The fruit is fresh and refreshing, the texture is smooth, and it is really delicious. However, it should be noted that if the fruit germinates, the taste will change, and when it is ripe, it will become soft and tender, which is not suitable for eating.
Everything should be eaten in moderation, and attention should be paid to avoiding allergic reactions when eating too much jackfruit. The method is to soak the pulp of jackfruit in light salt water for a few minutes before eating. This method can avoid allergic reaction and make the pulp taste more mellow. Because some people will cause allergic reactions after eating jackfruit that is not soaked in salt water, showing a series of symptoms such as skin flushing, itching, wheal, abdominal pain, vomiting, diarrhea, dehydration and so on. In severe cases, anaphylactic shock may occur, manifested as peripheral circulation failure, such as cyanosis of lips, pallor, cold sweat, blood pressure drop, and in severe cases, death may occur. The cause of allergy may be related to the hydrolyzed protein contained in it. Beneficial to life ..........
Jackfruit requires abundant rainfall, not high temperature and not very particular about soil. Jackfruit is widely distributed in Maoming Gaozhou and Zhanjiang, but it is most concentrated in Xuwen, Leizhou and Zhanjiang. June-July is the season when jackfruit ripens in large quantities every year. At this time, in many markets in Zhanjiang, especially in Leizhou Peninsula, villagers selling jackfruit carry the burden and set up stalls on the roadside. Merchants often buy and supply the local market or sell to Guangzhou, Shenzhen, Shantou, Xiamen, Shanghai, Beijing and other cities, which are very popular with consumers. Quality requirements: the shell is complete and fresh, the skin is not broken, the single fruit is large, and the meat is thick and fragrant. Quality appraisal method: I am used to listening to sounds. When the skin is rubbed, the outer shell is tumor-shaped, hard, brittle and easily broken, and there is no milk, and the sound is cloudy, which is a ripe fruit.
Preservation method: put it in a laundry basket, lined with banana leaves or bamboo leaves, and shredded paper. Stored in a cool and ventilated place, under the conditions of temperature 1 1 ~ 13℃ and humidity of 85 ~ 95%, the remaining months can be preserved.