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Speaker 1: We are talking about jackfruit in the Northern Territory and

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Speaker 1: as I've been saying, we know researchers in the NTA

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Speaker 1: are working with food processes and major grocery retailers to

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Speaker 1: try and develop jackfruit products in a bid to expand

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Speaker 1: the Australian industry. Joining me on the line to tell

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Speaker 1: us a little bit more about some of the work

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Speaker 1: that is underway. It's Dak shina Ya Dove, good morning

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Speaker 1: to you, Dak Shena, good morning Toothy. I do apologize

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Speaker 1: for the phone issues we've been having there and Doug,

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Speaker 1: good to hear you on the line. Now for anybody

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Speaker 1: out there listening who's not tried jackfruit or is unsure

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Speaker 1: about it, can you explain what it looks like and

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Speaker 1: how it tastes.

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Speaker 2: Oh, it's the biggest Trea bond fruit with his with

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Speaker 2: green to yellowish in color. When it dripes, it can

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Speaker 2: be yellow in color or orange in color when it

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Speaker 2: can be consumed at different phenological growth his stasis. So yeah,

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Speaker 2: when it's unripe, it's it's slightly whitish in color, but

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Speaker 2: when it's ripe it's yellow orange color. Aerals beautiful areas.

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Speaker 1: And so can different parts of the fruit be used

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Speaker 1: for different things.

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Speaker 2: Absolutely, different different seeds can be used consumed as nuts.

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Speaker 2: We can also con people also use when the fruit

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Speaker 2: is undripe. Their rags can also be used to make

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Speaker 2: pickles curries. In a lot of Asian countries they make

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Speaker 2: curries when the fruit is unriped. So yeah, definitely, And

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Speaker 2: the fruit also has different pnutroceutical value as well.

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Speaker 1: And I understand that there is the further research underway

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Speaker 1: at the moment into different innovative uses for jack fruit.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, that's right. So in this project we are we

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Speaker 2: are developing three ready to eat jack fruit products. So

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Speaker 2: one of the reasons why Australian jack fruit is not

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Speaker 2: so popular among our Australian consumers is because the fruit

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Speaker 2: itself is so big and our consumers don't know how

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Speaker 2: to deconstruct the fruit and it takes a lot of time.

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Speaker 2: But through this project, we are developing three ready to market,

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Speaker 2: ready to eat products which will be which will be

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Speaker 2: easily available in the supermarkets in the future and the

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Speaker 2: consumers don't have to spend a lot of time cutting

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Speaker 2: the fruits and they can straight away eat the fruit.

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Speaker 1: And so what sparked this project, and what's the aim.

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Speaker 2: The aim of the project is to help Australian jackfruit

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Speaker 2: growers and the processors achieve their reason of making the

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Speaker 2: Australian grow, Australian grown value added products a reality.

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Speaker 1: I reckon it's a great idea. Now I understand that

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Speaker 1: some of the products will consumers had a bit of

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Speaker 1: a taste taste in Sydney, Is that right?

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Speaker 2: Yes? Absolutely? Yeah, which yep?

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Speaker 1: And what did I think?

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Speaker 2: Oh, people loved it? Nine five person Also the out

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Speaker 2: of our we did a survey on and gains God

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Speaker 2: the feedback from the customers, the consumers who tasted the

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Speaker 2: jack route last week on Wednesday at Healthtome in Sydney,

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Speaker 2: and nine percent of the people they loved it. And

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Speaker 2: there were people who had never tried jack fruit in

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Speaker 2: the past and they tried it for the first time

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Speaker 2: and they loved it. As people thought, you know, some

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Speaker 2: people thought it tasted like custod apples, some people thought

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Speaker 2: it tasted like pople so different hair. People had different opinions,

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Speaker 2: but they loved it.

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Speaker 1: And so what are the next steps? What's you know, what,

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Speaker 1: how do we sort of take this further? I suppose?

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Speaker 2: Yeah, So the this is this trial was kind of

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Speaker 2: our first stape towards towards testing our toes and water

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Speaker 2: in terms of gazing, customers, consumers acceptance into this. That

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Speaker 2: the final three adults, but next year we'll be doing

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Speaker 2: the similar trial in Melbourne. And because Sydney and Melbourne

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Speaker 2: are the two niche markets and we want to we

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Speaker 2: want to get gaze, the gaze, the consumer feedback from

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Speaker 2: these two niecee markets. So this projects will will develop

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Speaker 2: the supply chain and also for the processors and the growers.

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Speaker 1: Well dark shana Ya Dove, researcher for DAF. We really

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Speaker 1: appreciate your time this morning. Thanks so much for having

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Speaker 1: a chat with me and telling us a little bit

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Speaker 1: more about it.

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Speaker 2: You're welcome. Hey, thank you,