What is one thing that looks like fruit but tastes like bread? It's Breadfruit. This is one fruit that is packed with variety of nutrients which you can't actually count on your fingers. This fruit has been a staple of people living in the tropical climates.
In my hometown, Mangalore, there are quite a good number of bread fruit trees and my mum makes really cool flitters out of these little fruits that promises 100% of the vitamin c that our body requires. Bread fruit is also rich in dietry fibres that our body requires.
Breadfruit is an understated fruit because people don't actually know it's nutritional values. Though this humble fruit remains just a seasonal fruit, acients have noticed it's powers and the research has proved its powers in curing cancer, heart disease and many other minor and serious health problems.
Bread fruit flowers can act as an insect repellent came as a shocker to me. I didn't know about this until I started writing this post. Research has found that burning dried clusters of bread fruit flowers can keep insects at bay. I am surely going to try this one. At least I can be safe from those branded aerosol filled sprays ruining my lungs.
Apart from it's insect reppelling power, bread fruit can protect your heart from damage, can keep your blood sugar levels under control, help you cope with stress, the anti inflammatory bioflavonoids ensures that you stay cancer free and also boosts your immune system.
This is basically the bread fruit season and I am enjoying the delicacies that my mom makes whenever she gets hold of this super food. Next time she makes those finger licking tasty spicy bread fruit flitters, I will make sure to click step by step process pictures and post the recipes.
Do let me know if you have any other good bread food recipes. I have plenty of them around, so would want to make something different out of them and try.