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Summary
Line art drawing of a breadfruit. Breadfruit is fried, boiled, roasted or baked and has a taste like fresh-baked bread. The skin is green and the interior is white. It is a starchy staple food native to the Malay Peninsula. Fruit bats pollinate these trees. The wood of the tree was used extensively in Samoan architecture and to make outrigger canoes because it is lightweight and highly resistant to termites and shipworms. Its wood pulp is used to make paper called breadfruit tapa. It has also been used to treat illnesses. The sticky sap has been used by Native Hawaiians to trap birds to make feather cloaks.

Other names for Breadfruit foods in other languages: Hawaii - breadfruit poi - poi ʻulu Puerto Rico - panapen - pana Dominican Republic - tostones - mofongo South India (Kerala, Karnataka, Mangalore) - Kadachakka - Gujje Belize - masapan