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How the vegan food trend made a star of the pungent jackfruit
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<blockquote data-quote="cheryl" data-source="post: 874" data-attributes="member: 1"><p><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/feb/16/jackfruit-stinking-vegan-food-trend-star" target="_blank"><strong>How the vegan food trend made a star of the pungent jackfruit - The Guardian</strong></a></p><p></p><p><em>The easy-to-grow crop has the potential to be much more than just a fashionable alternative to meat in the west </em></p><p></p><p>Lush, densely forested Kerala, the exuberantly green south Indian state sometimes called “God’s own country”, is exactly the kind of place you would expect to produce a superfood. It just wouldn’t be the jackfruit.</p><p></p><p>Covered in spikes and emitting a stench of rotting onions, <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2014/apr/23/jackfruit-miracle-crop-climate-change-food-security" target="_blank">jackfruit</a> can balloon to an ungainly 45kg, and its inside is coated in a thick gum that stains axes, machetes or whatever heavy-duty tool is employed to attack its leathery shell.</p><p></p><p>Yet thousands of miles from this tropical forest habitat, in food trucks in Los Angeles, vegan eateries in London – and <a href="https://www.plantbasednews.org/post/pizza-huts-vegan-jackfruit-pizza-sales-target" target="_blank">now even at Pizza Hut</a>– jackfruit consumption is surging among diners <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2019/jan/31/veganuary-record-high-participants-plant-based" target="_blank">looking for an ethical alternative</a> to meat.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="cheryl, post: 874, member: 1"] [URL='https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/feb/16/jackfruit-stinking-vegan-food-trend-star'][B]How the vegan food trend made a star of the pungent jackfruit - The Guardian[/B][/URL] [I]The easy-to-grow crop has the potential to be much more than just a fashionable alternative to meat in the west [/I] Lush, densely forested Kerala, the exuberantly green south Indian state sometimes called “God’s own country”, is exactly the kind of place you would expect to produce a superfood. It just wouldn’t be the jackfruit. Covered in spikes and emitting a stench of rotting onions, [URL='https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2014/apr/23/jackfruit-miracle-crop-climate-change-food-security']jackfruit[/URL] can balloon to an ungainly 45kg, and its inside is coated in a thick gum that stains axes, machetes or whatever heavy-duty tool is employed to attack its leathery shell. Yet thousands of miles from this tropical forest habitat, in food trucks in Los Angeles, vegan eateries in London – and [URL='https://www.plantbasednews.org/post/pizza-huts-vegan-jackfruit-pizza-sales-target']now even at Pizza Hut[/URL]– jackfruit consumption is surging among diners [URL='https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2019/jan/31/veganuary-record-high-participants-plant-based']looking for an ethical alternative[/URL] to meat. [/QUOTE]
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