India's 'superfood' jackfruit goes global | AFP

Green, spiky and with a strong, sweet smell, the bulky jackfruit has morphed from a backyard nuisance in India's south coast into the meat-substitute darling of vegans and vegetarians in the West.

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[experimentkakhel]

Thanks india for one more natural gift...

[walnut]

This Tree was in our Backyard in Jammu but we cut down when we were expanding our House.

[dineshmeethal]

Back home my mom told me all Jack fruit fallen off from tree no one to collect it ...

[manumathew]

It's a common backyard tree for most of the people in the Indian state of Kerala

[armalabarvision]

please, sees, support, share, Ar malabar news, jackfruit

[pam]

The farmers in india will still get 2 rupees per kg. nonsense i normally put it back into the earth as green manure.