Breadfruit

Originally from the Pacific (remember Mutiny on the Bounty?), this large round fruit looks like a green cannonball with a distinctive pattern on the skin. Usually served as a vegetable, boiled, roasted or fried like chips, it is often simply roasted whole in the fire and then cut open and eaten with butter. Its flesh has a bland, starchy flavour and is rich in carbohydrates and vitamins A, B and C. It has a delicious nutty flavour and is sometime used in breads, pies and puddings. It is generally cooked before it is ripe as it tends to become too sickly sweet.