If this kind of fruit is eaten, it will add enough sugar. If we don't know, we will die immediately

Jamaica's Ackee strange fruit, originally from West Africa, looks very colorful and delicious, but its appearance can fool you if you don't know how to eat you can die within 24 hours.

Ripe Ackee fruit has turned red yellow and opened itself but if you are not wise enough to open an unripe fruit and taste it inside, you will quickly become a victim of Jamaican vomiting , technically This is called hypoglycin poisoning . You can die within a day.

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Ackee is a strange fruit.

But despite all this, Jamaican people like Ackee's golden meat, and it is an ingredient in their national and national food.

Ackee is a pear-shaped fruit found in warm climates. When the ackee ripens, it turns from green to bright red to orange and splits to reveal three large shiny black seeds, each surrounded by soft, white to yellow flesh.

This fruit was imported into Jamaica from East Africa before 1725. Today, ackee fruits are canned and one of Jamaica's main export items.

Ackee and cod

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Jamaica's national soul food is made from Ackee fruit.

To prepare food, salted cod is stir-fried with boiled ackee, onions, Scotch Bonnet peppers, tomatoes and spices. It is often served as breakfast or dinner along with bread, hard dough bread, dumplings, fried bananas, or boiled green bananas. Ackee and cod can also be eaten with rice and peas or white rice. If you go to Jamaica without trying a national dish, this country is like you've never been to Jamaica.

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