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Moraceae
The world's largest tree fruit — broken into golden pods of bubblegum sweetness.
The family
Moraceae is the mulberry family, but its showstopper is jackfruit (Artocarpus heterophyllus) — the largest fruit grown on any tree, sometimes 40kg per fruit, broken down into individual pods of chewy-firm golden flesh that tastes of banana, mango and bubblegum at once. Red jackfruit is the same species in a rarer cultivar — reddish flesh, smokier perfume.
Try thisOil your hands and knife (the latex is sticky), break open, lift out the bulbs, eat around the seed.
In this family
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Taste the family
Build a box around mulberry & jackfruit family — or pair them with siblings from across the Atlas.
