A tropical West Indian fruit tree and its pear-shaped fruit with yellow arils, used in Caribbean cooking especially with saltfish.
From Wolof akee or Twi ackee (African languages), showing the African origins of this plant brought to the Caribbean through the slave trade, now iconic to Jamaican cuisine.
The ackee fruit's journey tells the tragic history of colonialism and the slave trade, but today it's become a symbol of Caribbean cultural identity and culinary pride.
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