How Do You Get Food From A Breadfruit Plant?
You are lost on an island in the South Pacific. You’ve been able to procure fresh water and erect a crude shelter (priorities number one and two in a survival situation), but now your stomach is rumbling and you know without a doubt that you must find food and soon. Never fear as your location almost guarantees that you are close to a breadfruit tree and that means sustenance. Here’s how to get it. Learn well how to positively identify a breadfruit plant. The breadfruit is a tree and can grow up to 30 feet high. Its leaves, about 1 foot wide and 2.5 feet long, are dark green and divided. Breadfruit trees possess an almost lime-colored fruit, roughly the shape of a ball, that can measure up to 1 foot in diameter when fully grown. Locate a breadfruit tree. Look for the breadfruit throughout the South Pacific, the West Indies, Polynesia and anywhere in humid, tropical regions, on the edges of forests. Harvest the breadfruit tree’s ball-like fruit. Remove the hard outer covering of some of