name: Breadfruit

flavor_db_name_variants: breadfruit

source: foodb

status: draft

food_db_id: Breadfruit

id: 309

name_scientific: Artocarpus altilis

description: Breadfruit (Artocarpus altilis) is a species of flowering tree in the mulberry family, Moraceae, growing throughout Southeast Asia and most Pacific Ocean islands. Its name is derived from the texture of the cooked fruit, which has a potato-like flavor, similar to fresh-baked bread. Ancestors of the Polynesians found the trees growing in the northwest New Guinea area around 3,500 years ago. They gave up the rice cultivation they had brought with them from Taiwan, and raised breadfruit wherever they went in the Pacific (except Easter Island and New Zealand, which are too cold). Their ancient eastern Indonesian cousins spread the plant west and north through insular and coastal Southeast Asia. It has, in historical times, also been widely planted in tropical regions elsewhere.

itis_id: 184181

wikipedia_id: Breadfruit

picture_file_name: 312.jpg

picture_content_type: image/jpeg

picture_file_size: 69866

picture_updated_at: 2012-04-20T09:30:15.000Z

legacy_id: 339

food_group: Fruits

food_subgroup: Tropical fruits

food_type: Type 1

created_at: 2011-02-09T00:37:32.000Z

updated_at: 2019-05-14T18:04:22.000Z

creator_id: null

updater_id: null

export_to_afcdb: false

category: specific

ncbi_taxonomy_id: 194251

export_to_foodb: true

public_id: FOOD00309