Idea 494 of 500. Cluster 27: The fruit nobody grades
Jackfruit-seed and breadfruit flour, gluten-free, for the bakeries of Europe
The mechanism, from the book
Fruit the world wants, sold in a heap by the road. Grading, a name and a cold box make the heap an export and the season a reason to visit.
Every idea in cluster 27 uses this mechanism.
A first step
Dry and mill a small batch of jackfruit seeds and breadfruit, and ask a food laboratory to test it, including whether it is free of gluten. Bake a loaf and a biscuit with it and note how it behaves. Send samples with the test results to two gluten-free bakeries or flour importers in Europe, and ask what they need. The proof is a paid trial order.
- Who pays first
- A gluten-free bakery or flour importer in Europe that wants a new flour with a story behind it.
- What leaves today
- Jackfruit seeds and breadfruit earn little at home; milled and tested here, they can leave as a flour with a foreign price.
The idea and the mechanism are from the book. The first step was written for this site as a suggestion; if you know a better one, say so.
The test
Does it keep value that now leaves the island, or build the proof that lets somebody else do so?
The only test any idea on this site has to pass. The four rules that go with it are here.
In the book
- Ch. ElevenThe Mechanisms
What a brand and an owned variety are worth, from the kiwifruit growers - Ch. TwoAn Island Nobody Has Counted
The island's resources, counted
More from cluster 27
- 486The Karuthakolomban mango, the finest the island grows, graded, packed and sold under its own name, from Jaffna and every district that grows it, to Colombo and the world
- 487A fruit-grading standard and the graders trained to it, so that Grade A from any district means the same thing to a buyer in Dubai
- 488Mangosteen and rambutan flown fresh in season to the Gulf and Singapore in graded boxes, not left to the roadside
- 489The island's bananas sold by name, kolikuttu, seeni and ambul, in Colombo and in the Sri Lankan shops abroad, not as "banana"
- 490Avocado orchards in the hills for the breakfast tables of the Gulf, which now fly the fruit in from much further away
- 491Fruit-tree nurseries selling grafted saplings of the named varieties, with a guarantee that the tree is what the label says
Idea 494 of the 500 in the appendix of Why Not Sri Lanka? Every one can be started by one person, one family or one small firm.