How to Eat a 20 Pound Jackfruit and other Jack Fruit Information 

Anytime i need advice and search for it, John Kohler always has the answer. Thanks dude

Had my first jackfruit today!!! Loved it! Bought from a farmer in Thailand. He cut it up for us. Now I know how to do it myself. Thanks for great video!!!.

So many memories of India when I watched this video. I grew up eating this everyday. Thank you for the nice video!

I thought I disliked jackfruit until I tried it again in the tropics. I realized fresh jackfruit tastes nothing like canned jackfruit. Wow, what a huge difference!!! Jackfruit convert right here!

Your video is what made me try jackfruit. I bought one about 4 years ago and I loved it. Put all that I couldn't eat which was a lot, into Tupperware and it lasted about a week, shared it at work with everyone. They had never heard of it.I loved it.

The taste of different fruits in only one bite from this jackfruit was AMAZING!!

Thank you, for the information. My next door neighbor has a jackfruit and we never knew what it was. Thanks again John! Keep up the good work.

So awesome, thanks god for creating all these magnificent fruits and trees.

I have never heard of jackfruit but I happened across this video - OMG!!!! I went to the Asian market here in Colorado Springs and followed your directions on how to tell if it is ripe - it was PERFECT! Thank you for introducing a new fruit to me!

Ha. I didn't know you had another channel. I've been hooked on your growing your greens one for a while now. Cool. I just subscribed to this too.

I always see this in the market, but this is the first time that I've seen how to consume it. Thanks

I thought this was a fake fruit, grown only on Farmville! I'm enjoying all this new information! Thanks you!

Thanks John for the tips... I am about to open mine for the first time.

Nicely done. I have seen jackfruit at the flea market in St. Petersburg, Florida but had no idea how to eat it.

I planted a jackfruit in my yard here in Mexico a couple years ago. This summer while I was in Canada the tree produced two giant jackfruits and I wasn't here to experience them. Bummer. But right now there is a huge one just begging me to pick it! But I have no idea if it's ripe & ready to be picked yet. That's why I'm here. But after watching this video I still don't know..unless I wait for it to fall off. But then maybe my chickens will eat it! So off I go in search of clues. This video made me hungry for fresh Yucca! (as they call jackfruit here) Thanks for the video. :)

Jackfruit is a wonderful treat! We're enjoying some right now!

I am so jealous, I had this a few years ago in Thailand, first time I ever saw or tried it. Can't seem to find it here, but like you its one of my favorite fruits! It is really something special, love it

I've loved this fruit since i was a kid in jamaica. now i live in japan, but introduced my japanese wife to jackfruit in LA. she hooked.

I like your videos don't stop

For some reason this was on my home feed I have no idea why but I decided to watch it anyway

Finally ate a fresh jackfruit and loved it!

bought my first 25lb jackfruit. Thanks for the hot tips. They worked

For anyone who thought they were better than the jackfruit and used no gloves and/or did not use enough oil....Use an orange citrus based oil cleaner! Had to go through many solvents and household cleaners before I found this magic.

Thanks so much! My kids and I see jackfruit all the time at the fruit stand we go to, and have been wanting to try it. We will definitely be getting one next time! We're going to eat the seeds too. :)

Thanks John! I just bought Jack Fruit for the first time. I bought 2 giant ones for only $15 at the Produce Terminal. I'm watching your video to learn how to open and eat it. :D

Thank you for sharing the Jackfruit video, it was well done, informative, and bought me good memories of my childhood! Sorry thou I did not like the taste of JF as a child, probably we didn't know how to eat the fruit. Be safe and well in your informative research trips. Best, Dense.

Good job of showing how to eat a jackfruit, Thanks.

it's interesting to see the whole fruit. in stores by me I only see them cut into slices and quartered.

dude all these fruits look so awesome!

John your cool with your fruit/agriculture adventures. keep on doing them bro. knarly

Jack fruit seeds are delicious and energy-giving snacks-my favorite

Bought our first Jackfruit last night. We should have watched your video first. My husband got latex all over his hands. :)

You convinced us and we bought one. Awesome!!!

I also saved all the seeds and planted tons of Jack fruit seeds when I was in Thailand. That was fun. I also boiled the seeds and made a potato like meal out of them. They taste like potatoes

Durian - A very exotic and flavorful fruit. This fruit was found in south eastern Asia, somewhere in Thailand. This fruit is different from the Jack because it has a more bitter taste, hard and moist texture, and has hard to peel, rough and spikey skin. Jackfruit - A very smooth, lightweight fruit, with a bite similar to a mango. This, too was found in south eastern Asia, but in the western part of India. This fruit is cherished among Indains.The skin is flat, thin and edible

Hey John! Keep on growing those seeds. I believe they bare fruit in only two to three years! Although they do get big, I believe they will produce fruit even when relatively small. So maybe you could grow some yourself after all!

Looks delish. I recently tried durian and really like it. Strong but not unpleasant smell. Mild and surprising taste, I thought. Smell was definitely stronger than flavor. I'll now be on the look out for jackfruit. I love Juicy Fruit gum but never knew where the flavor came from. Thanks, John!

Great video John, very informative. Thanks

Those individual orange pods are called ARILS, and they are wonderfully delicious. I boiled some of the seeds and found them edible but not particularly tasty. There must be some way to make them taste good. Durians are similar looking but very different on the inside. The flesh is creamy and really delicious and sweet, but it smells like rotten onions.

use any edible vegetable oil on your hands / fingers, in sufficient amount before you open the fruit or you will have a mess. If you can wait open only a very ripe one, if you can tell. the best ones are some times splitting or cracking open on their own as they ripen. the seeds can be cooked after these are dried or as additives in a stew, or in fish or chicken dishes, as you would small red potatoes, these are very edible, Excellent posting. I have been able to get these even in the mid west grocery stores. Thank you

These are a really nice treat. Thanks for introducing me to these. I'll definitely have to buy a whole one soon just for the experience. It looks like an adventure eating one of these things.

Finally, I discover the flavor behind JuicyFruit gum. I have wondered ever since I was a child.

I live in northern Alberta Canada ...and found fresh jackfruit at an Asian market yesterday ...it cost $13 for about 2lbs of flesh...but soo worth it!

thanks jackfruit is awesome just tried it in the can and it was good so I know the fresh ones will be good thanks

I love jackfruit especially the unripe and cooked in coconut milk with matching steamed rice.

i saw these yesterday at Hong Kong City mall in Houston, they had like 50 of these things sitting there in the grocery store and it smelled amazing!

Thanks John, great presentation!

Nice Video ! I love jack fruit. Thanks for sharing.

Jackfruit is really good. I've never bought fresh jackfuit only the canned ones. Now I'm tempted to one next time I go to the Asian market

I went to Thailand last summer I had, jackfruit, mangosteen, compoot, its the best!

i love j-fruit too - and now i am living in a home in Florida that has a jackfruit tree - yumm!!

Thanks for the tips on selecting and eating a jackfruit. We recently tried durian, and jackfruit is next on the list. :)

You can get at Seafood City at 3rd & Vermont in LA. $1.50/lb

Got two large fruits today from a community garden. They were free so I won't complain, but I'm worried they may not be completely ripe. Fingers crossed because this will be my first time having jackfruit.

the way you're sitting and cutting open and eating jack fruit reminds me of my dad

If anyone in the South-east wants some jackfruit, you can find it (when it is in season) at Grand Asia Market in Stallings, NC (Charlotte area).

Awesome video John!

I never heard of it before, I gotta try it.

I would describe that rather dry yellow fruit similar to foam like pineapple without the acid, like a hundred different light tropical fruits in one. (maybe that's why its called a Jack fruit... like jack of all fruits er i mean trades) also its similar to how an orange has that white kinda bitter fiber in the middle and in between chunks.

Pho 79 has a jack fruit shake that's really good. I was at the Hawaii market and they cut one open and cellophaned it. OMG... I stood there for 10 minutes sniffing the fruit it smelled so good.

My parents are Asian and they don't have a problem cleaning up the knives and their hands with soap an water trust me all you need to do is just put soap on sponge and scrub hard on your knife or hand wash it off and done all gone simple as that

love your videos, Brobro. Do you have a pinterest as well?

Artocarpus heterophyllus, I love em..use to own three trees of Jackfuits.

best way to know if the jack fruit is ripen when you could smell the fruit miles away, you know you a ripen fruit. mater fact i just had eatin jack fruit today, yes in usa, nj.

Funny how i had to watch a cooking school ad for a raw food channel.

Im from jamaica i love it so much

Jackfruit is okay raw... but I'm a sucker for the fried version. :) (it's a texture thing for me.. I like the texture better when it's fried.)

I like the foliage foreground

The fruit...of all fruits!

Hey John K. thanks I can find you in the garden, and now on travelling. Good fruit for the Asians, the jackfruit. Fresh and not soft like what other posted already overriped.

Good video John

Jackfruit is ripe if the cells you eat are almost orange or dark yellow. The lighter the yellow color the less ripe the fruit is. For hand eating like this guy is doing, the fruit should almost be orange or at least dark yellow. Some Asian deserts use the fruit that is less ripe because they don't want the pieces to fall apart and are lighter in color and are a little more chewy.

Do they ripen off the tree?

I've ate the seeds, they are nice...

I just ate a TON of fresh jack fruit...then I found this video :-)

ive never even seen one. sounds good.

Amazing video man ivwant try this fruit.

ODD question.. can you make a digestion diet video on the benefits of jackfruit?. Curious on how it affects your digestive tract etc.. thank you so much. man you make me want a fruit and fast!

Everyone is saying these r at Kroger I might just have to check because I don't think I've ever seen them there

U can get those in my back yard for free hahaha the bird and the bat are the one who eating my jackfruits... here in indonesia jackfruits are so cheap and we dont even want to sale them...! i got 4 jackfruit tree and wood aple and some cempedak and rambutan, duku, palm, and some other more exotic fruits

I just tried some this week. Tastes like candy, maybe butterscotch? I just bought a small container. They wanted about 40$ for a whole fruit about that size. And it was very green. Now I'm glad I didn't buy it now that I know more . I should move closer to the coast so I can get a better choice. Thanks John!

"It's odd I'm cutting a fruit this big" I guess this man has never seen or cut a common watermelon before.

I bought one just the other day, it smells amazing but the taste is meh. Maybe I need to ripen it more? The edible part is yellow, a more bright yellow if that says anything

en autlan jalisco hai esta fruta yackfruit :) mucha mucha de esa fruta

I can't enough it this incredible fruit!!!

Nice!!!

Thanks okraw. Great video. ;)

"jackfruit carcass" LOL! What an interesting natural creation. Amazing! Really happy to see that made u so happy. :-) Out of 20 lbs how many pounds r actually edible?

know the food called "Turon"? we put jackruits inside to make it sweeter and taste better... we called that Langka in the Philippines...

hi okraw, do you know you can eat the seeds! boil them, taste like chestnut but i like chest nut better.

you know you can set the sesds? Just boil them or roast and they very good

I just tried jackfruit today, the thing is amazing, I am thinking of starting my own website "30 jackfruits a day"

John what do you think of Soil associations standards. They are meant to be higher than organics??

I would love to find an orange jacket, but I don’t know what to look for that would indicate that it is in orange Jackfruit?

Jackfruit!!! Had it yesterday on x-mas :)

Oh and forgot to tell u when u cut up the jackfruit cut up in 4s like watermelon then just slice on bottom an side pull off and done but when u bite the fruit just bite around the seed

Good info. Thanks

Boil the seeds with cajun seasoning and old bay until they bust open. Then pull off the hard shell!

Seems like a lot of work to get the Juicy Fruit gum flavored fruit. If I were to eat jackfruit, I'd get it cut up or frozen like you mentioned. Not in the mood for latex all over my hands and knives.

Your knife safety skills frighten me a bit...