{"id":180915,"date":"2024-01-19T16:22:22","date_gmt":"2024-01-19T22:22:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/01\/scientists-think-this-weird-looking-odd-smelling-fruit-holds-the-key-to-fighting-world-hunger-as-temperatures-rise"},"modified":"2024-01-19T16:22:22","modified_gmt":"2024-01-19T22:22:22","slug":"scientists-think-this-weird-looking-odd-smelling-fruit-holds-the-key-to-fighting-world-hunger-as-temperatures-rise","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/01\/scientists-think-this-weird-looking-odd-smelling-fruit-holds-the-key-to-fighting-world-hunger-as-temperatures-rise","title":{"rendered":"Scientists think this weird-looking, odd-smelling fruit holds the key to fighting world hunger as temperatures rise"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/scientists-think-this-weird-looking-odd-smelling-fruit-holds-the-key-to-fighting-world-hunger-as-temperatures-rise2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Innovative! Drought resistant and doesn\u2019t need a lot of fertilizer. And it smells like bread. Especially good for Africa which was mentioned.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>This fruit curiously smells like baking bread and tastes like potatoes \u2013 and it might also provide a means to help feed communities amid drought and famine.<\/p>\n<p>Breadfruit, despite its name, is not made of bread. It\u2019s a tall <a href=\"https:\/\/news.northwestern.edu\/stories\/2022\/08\/climate-resilient-breadfruit-might-be-the-food-of-the-future\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"\">tree<\/a> native to islands in the Pacific that produces a starchy fruit, similar to a jackfruit.<\/p>\n<p>Researchers at Northwestern University have been studying breadfruit because they believe it could help feed the world as our more vulnerable crops are plunged into jeopardy due to rising global temperatures.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Innovative! Drought resistant and doesn\u2019t need a lot of fertilizer. And it smells like bread. Especially good for Africa which was mentioned. This fruit curiously smells like baking bread and tastes like potatoes \u2013 and it might also provide a means to help feed communities amid drought and famine. Breadfruit, despite its name, is not [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":528,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1506,1522],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-180915","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-food","category-innovation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180915","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/528"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=180915"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180915\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=180915"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=180915"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=180915"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}