Plant 12 of these trees, and you really won't have to worry about a year's food supply?

Everyone knows that bread is made from wheat flour, but on some islands in Southeast Asia and the South Pacific, the bread the locals eat is different from the bread we eat. Instead, it is picked from trees and can be eaten directly after being boiled or roasted. This magical tree that can produce "bread" is called the "breadfruit tree" by local residents.

Even if it is edible, why is it called the breadfruit tree? This is because the fruit of the breadfruit tree is rich in starch, contains a small amount of fat and protein, and is rich in vitamins. Its food value is the same as that of taro. The breadfruit, after being boiled or roasted, tastes just like bread, soft and delicious, with a tartness mixed with sweetness, and is often used as a staple food. Therefore, the tree that produces breadfruit is called the "breadfruit tree."

According to historical records, precisely because it was easy to grow and highly productive, in the mid-18th century, in Britain's colony of the West Indies, because only sugarcane was grown and Black people had long suffered oppression and lived in hardship, especially with insufficient food, a great famine broke out.

Moreover, on the island of Jamaica alone, 15,000 Black people starved to death. The breadfruit tree was an important method used by the British colonists to solve the famine. They collected breadfruit saplings from the South Pacific island country of Tahiti and transported them to the West Indies to plant, and only then successfully got through the famine at that time.

The magical breadfruit tree grows in Samoa, an island country in the South Pacific, where breadfruit trees can be seen everywhere, so the people of Samoa live very leisurely. There is a saying among the people there that a Samoan man only needs to spend 1 hour planting 10 breadfruit trees to fulfill his responsibility to the next generation.

Because the fruit produced by just 12 breadfruit trees is enough for one person to eat for a whole year. Not only that, the breadfruit tree is also a raw material for various items. The wood is light, soft, and coarse, and can be used for construction, and can last 50 years; island residents use it to make small boats, their most important means of transportation. Even the bark can be used to make rope and various daily necessities. Even if none of these uses are needed, it is also suitable for planting as a street tree or garden tree.