1. Main functions
Bread tree is a woody edible plant and can also be viewed. This fleshy fruit is rich in starch and can be eaten after barbecue. It tastes like bread. Suitable for street trees and garden trees.
Why is the bread tree called the bread tree? This baked fruit is soft and delicious, sweet and sour, and tastes like bread, so it is called "bread tree". The result came out in one year and nine months.
Ami people in eastern Taiwan Province and Dawu people in Lan Yu eat the fruit of bread trees. When the fruit is about to ripen, the Ami will peel off the peel and boil it. In addition, they also provide children with white milk to chew like chewing gum.
2. Edible value
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Bread and fruit are rich in starch and can be eaten after barbecue. Toast fruit tastes like bread. Soft and delicious. Sweet in acid. It is often used as food rations.
Bread trees are easy to survive and have high yield under suitable conditions, which is an important way to solve famine. According to historical records, in the middle of18th century, the West Indies, a colony of British colonists, suffered from great famine, especially food shortage, due to the single cultivation of sugarcane.
Bread trees are the staple food in many tropical areas. Polynesians usually carry the roots of this tree when sailing and exploring in order to plant it on other islands. This fruit is rich in starch. Before eating, it is usually cooked by baking, steaming and frying. After cooking, it tastes like bread and potatoes. A bread tree can bear 200 fruits a year, which is one of the most prolific edible plants.
3. Other applications
Wood is light, soft and thick. It can also be used in buildings. The islanders regard it as a canoe. Bread trees are suitable for planting as street trees and garden trees. In some parks in the south of China, bread trees are planted just for viewing.