the best jackfruit

[namdocmai]

What is your favorit jackfruit variety?

There are mushy jackfruits for sale, crispy ones, yellow or orange or red ones but which one is the best?

In BKK they sell the sweet yellow crispy jackfruit on the streets/markets and they are really nice. I asked them many times which one it is and mostly they say it is Pet Raa Chaa. Last week my seller didn't have pet raa chaa and i wanted to go elsewhere but decided to buy what he had. It was Thong Prasert and really nice, the best i ever had but very similar to pet raa chaa.

Today i bought Daeng Suria which is orange/red color and it is sweet and very crunchy but i prefer thong prasert because it has more complexed flavours. Daeng suria is mainly sweet only.

Which ones did you eat and how were they and what is your favorit jackfruit?

The mushy ones are loosing terrain now in BKK.

[tim armstrong]

This sounds like a wine tasting. I prefer the yellow ones. Ours change a bit depending on how much rain there has been, but are creamy and not too sweet.

[namdocmai]

There are loads of different jackfruits and in the jackfruit-family are also loads of different fruits. I wonder why there is only jackfruit availlable in Thailand. Breadfruit, Chempedak, pedalai to name a few.

Today i bought a Thong Prasert jackfruit-tree for fun, i don't have space to grow it so it will be in a big pot. This is my favorit jackfruit so far, a yellow crispy one.

Yes jackfruits can taste different even from the same tree, depends on how ripe they are or the amount of rain/sun etc.

Now in BKK i had to ask many tree-dealers for the thong prasert, they tried to sell me daeng suria which they have in stock but that one tastes so common, i grew one of those but i killed it today and use only the rootstock of it which i grafted on my new thong-prasert. Tree's with multiple rootstocks can fruit earlyier and are stronger against diseases.

[ilovepayingukvisafees]

A week or so ago ( mid March) there was a vendor selling a few different varieties outside one of the big seafood restaurants in Bang Saen. Best tasting Jackfruit I can remember tasting. The guy told me they were called a variety called Pet Chompoo (presumably pink diamond).

 

After a lot of searches, I am unable to find anything listed by that name. The fruit is a little deeper yellow and the fruit is shorter than most of the jackfruit I have seen. The flesh is also a little less rubbery than normal....

 

Has anyone come across this or have any idea of another name it might go by?

 

Many thanks.