With an  Average fruit size of about 35 pounds, they are often much larger, sometimes as large as 100 pounds, making it naturally easy to grow and a great high-yield crop for farmers. , it can be eaten raw when it’s ripe or cooked when it’s unripe.

unripe jackfruit has a stringy, meaty texture similar to that of beef or pork.

This texture, along with the fruit’s neutral, is almost bland. Jackfruit has a stringy, meaty texture similar to that one, which can accommodate the flavor of whatever it’s cooked in—which is a large reason why jackfruit is such a popular meat alternative.