Common Name: Cempedak
Vernacular Name: Chempedak
Botanical Name: Artocarpus champeden
Specimens From: Malaysia
Specimens Weight: 1104 gm [2 lb 6.9 oz]
Cempedak, the smaller cousin of the well-known, jackfruit. It adopts the Malay name as it does not have an English name. It is a seasonal fruit native to southeast Asia.
Cempedak looks similar to the jackfruit except that it is much smaller in size but it is large in comparison to other fruits. It is also sweeter, stickier and with a strong odor when it is ripe.
You will know when it is ripe as it will emit a strong odor that fills the room, similar to the durian. It will turn light green with dark brown spots appearing on several of the flattened studs. It is also slightly sticky when you touch it due to the secretion of latex through the rind.
The rind is thick but soft, so it is easy to cut it length-wise into half. There are many fleshy, yellowish-orange pulp which encases each brown seed inside. The pulp is sweet, sticky and mushy with a rather chewy skin if you eat it raw. Another style is fried cempedak, a popular Malay snack. It is very tasty. The hard seeds can be eaten too when boiled or roasted.
Cempedak; Chempedak; Artocarpus champeden; Moraceae.
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Interesting, I've never seen those before.
ReplyDeleteThis looks like a fruit I saw in Brazil. If it's the same one that I am thinking of, it's called "bread fruit" in English and "Jaca" in Portuguese.
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I've eaten this fruit with my Vietnamese friends and they also said there's no English word for it. So I just say the "sticky green fruit!"
ReplyDeleteNever think I saw that when I was in Malaysia but it looks delicious.
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Jack fruit is seasonal fruit. This fruit is very soft and fleshy nature. It is used to prepare medicines.
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Your blog is always so interesting. I've never heard of a cempedak. I've heard of jackfruit before but honestly know nothing about it other than its name.
ReplyDeleteWow, interesting fruit. May be one day I will have opportunity to try it, lol. Thanks for sharing. Anna :)
ReplyDeleteWhat a neat looking fruit. Never had heard of it so I learned something new today!
ReplyDeleteThis looks like a fruit I saw in Brazil. If it's the same one that I am thinking of, it's called "bread fruit" in English and "Jaca" in Portuguese
ReplyDeleteInteresting blog :) Looking forward to your new 'fruit'.
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Great fruits for great skin http://www.hewo.com/article.aspx?id=142
5 Smelly but Healthy Fruits http://www.hewo.com/article.aspx?id=251
What a weird-looking fruit but it sounds scrumptious.
ReplyDeleteHey, Fruity. Wild wave!!! It's been too long since we've visited each other.
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Thanks for all your comments.
ReplyDeleteBreadfruit is another fruit under the same family. It is not the cempedak.
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HOW COOL. I just clickstumbled to your blog.
ReplyDeletevery interesting.
off to explore.
M.
My family have cempedak trees and when the season come we will sell it. My mum used to make a dry cempedak because it is just too many to sell. I don't really like it because i hate it when my hand get sticky but the taste really nice..:)
ReplyDeleteHey jack fruit cousin is lovely . good taste, colour & quality.appealing !
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I love cempedak! Cempedak goreng (fried cempedak) taste heavenly! It's totally different from Nangka (Jackfruit) although they look similar.
ReplyDeletehave you eaten all of these fruits??
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