If One Tree Gives 200 Fruits a Year, Why Don't We Eat Breadfruit?

Why don't we eat breadfruit? One tree can grow around two hundred fruits a year, for half a century, with no ploughing and no sowing. Roasted, it looks and eats like fresh bread. It grows across the whole tropical belt, where most of the world's hungry people live. So why have you probably never tasted one? The answer runs through a three-thousand-year voyage across the Pacific, the most famous mutiny in history, a second voyage that landed 690 trees in the Caribbean, and the people they were meant to feed, who did not want them. At the end we put breadfruit through the five tests every world food has to pass, and find the one thing wheat has and breadfruit never will. CHAPTERS 0:00 A tree that grows bread 1:11 The tree that sailed 3:13 Bread on a tree 4:24 The cheapest food on Earth 5:36 The floating greenhouse 6:56 Mutiny 8:41 The second ship 9:46 Nobody wanted it 11:03 Five tests 14:00 The comeback 15:14 The answer IN THIS VIDEO Why a breadfruit is really 1,500 tiny flowers fused into one ball How Pacific voyagers carried a seedless tree across the ocean, root by root Fermented breadfruit pits that kept a famine reserve for years The buccaneer whose starving crew planned to eat their captain Why Britain's sugar planters wanted a free food for enslaved people HMS Bounty: a floating greenhouse, the mutiny, and Bligh's 6,700 km open-boat voyage The second voyage, the Hollywood water myth, and the 690 trees that reached the Caribbean Why the people it was meant to feed did not want it The five tests every world food must pass, and why grain built empires Tissue-culture trees, gluten-free flour and the climate study that gives breadfruit a second chance #breadfruit #history #food #mutinyonthebounty #whydontwe why don't we eat breadfruit, breadfruit, breadfruit tree, what is breadfruit, mutiny on the bounty, hms bounty, william bligh, fletcher christian, pitcairn island, food history, history of food, why don't we eat, forgotten foods, tropical fruit, jackfruit, ulu, ackee and saltfish, jamaica history, pacific islands history, polynesian voyaging, canoe plants, against the grain, why grain built empires, perennial crops, survival food