Here’s what I just discovered recently, from a TED talk by an Indian researcher: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bSsZYhXLE6Y
The green jackfruit flour can reverse fatty liver, pre-diabetes and even diabetes. Just one tablespoon per day (per meal) into their roti.
So I started hunting for the product; found it in Lazada Singapore but they do not ship to Malaysia. Finally, I found two overseas websites. I ordered and one arrived yesterday afternoon from New Delhi. One more order is coming from Kerala too.
But a kind friend sourced for it and found it available at Citra Spice Mall right here, in Brickfields, at only RM15.90 per packet of 200g! Value Bazaar in Brickfields might have the product too, in January 2025. Currently, they have no stock.
Right here in our own backyard, in Brickfields!! I’ve tried all the Indian grocers in Subang Jaya but none of them sells it.
So this is going to be my meatless breakfast daily now and probably other meals as well. You can get creative incorporating all sorts of vegetables into your roti or pancake with a tablespoon of green jack fruit flour.
I was diagnosed with moderate non-alcoholic fatty liver disease a few months ago. Since I don’t have a sweet tooth and I am already on a low-carb staple diet, I think the culprit is drinking fruit smoothies daily for years, without knowing that certain fruits have very high fructose (in particular, grapes, mangoes, apples, etc.). So beware – not all fruits are equal or even good. Now, I can only eat avocados and berries. No other fruit until I get my fatty liver disease reduced or, hopefully, eliminated in time (it might take years, or 90 days?).
This is the green jackfruit flour. The keyword here is GREEN. Not the ripened jackfruit – that’s sweet and full of sugar.
On a another note, a nutritionist told me that we should all eat our fruits green, before it ripens, like green papaya, for example. If we wait for it to ripen, it’s mostly sugar – the biggest culprit of so many diseases, including cancer. And the worst sugar is fructose, which is found mostly in fruit! At least all cells can use up glucose, but fructose goes to the liver and gets stored as triglycerides and liver fat. Sucrose (table sugar) is half glucose and half fructose. Beware of fructose, my friends. Fructose feeds cancer cells too.
I don’t buy table sugar and don’t have it in my kitchen. But I’ve been very guilty of drinking fruit smoothies for many years. Don’t drink your fruit, eat your fruit.
I made pancakes with it yesterday.
This morning, I made jackfruit flour omelette. Or, you could call it vegetable pancakes too, a favourite of the Koreans.
For an authentic Indian flavour, I added curry leaves, turmeric powder and black pepper too, along with some sliced carrot and cabbage. Turmeric (curcumin) has anti-inflammatory properties and black pepper (piperine) and some oil enhance its bioavailability by 2000 times. Incredible, right? One has to know all this. Otherwise, turmeric by itself is poorly absorbed. So, we can eat all the good stuff, but is it absorbed? Is it bio-available? That’s the key question.
Having said that, latest reports say that turmeric when combined with piperine can lead to liver injury. So, which is which now? Perhaps the best is to use it in moderation and with caution.
That’s my omelette for this morning!
An update: The green jackfruit flour is super excellent as a thickener for Cantonese-styled stir-fried vegetables. Or, it can be mixed with water and just drunk. It’s so easy.
Bon appetit!
I went to Citra’s to get my supply too.
Updates: The next day, an FB follower said that Citra’s had sold out on this product. The day before, three Chinese ladies came in (at different times) and bought up all their stock! I must be one of the guilty ones.