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Jackfruit
This is know as the world's largest fruit! It can be eaten ripe or under-ripe. Immature, it is a starchy vegetable that has to be cooked. Mature, it is a sweet and strongly flavoured and eaten raw or canned in desserts and sweet drinks. The skin is light green and covered in knobbly spines. Inside, the fruit is divided into numerous stringy segments (pericarps) which are encased in stringy 'rags'. Eash pericarp surrounds a large seed. Ripe fruit is sweet and yellow to pink in colour, depending on variety. Also known as: jakfruit, kanoon, kha-nun, med-kha-nun (Thai), mit (Vietnamese).
