Try the crunchy asian types, the soft variety jackfruits are more popular in the west, especially among folks of carribean and european extractions.  My friend who own a very large asian carribean grocery in Davie, buy up all my crunchy thai jackfruit i can produce for his mainly south east asian clients and the soft slimy varieties he get from a Surinam guy in the redland for non asian clients whom make shake and ice cream out of it.  I recall in southeast asia the soft jackfruit variety are grown more to fatten cattle and lumber uses. I prefer crunchy thai mai, zima, borneo red, vietnamese  baby jack, but for soft jackfruit without gagging effect, try chemadak a jacfruit relative, although I have been unsuccessful growing it here, what I have tasted as fritter in Singapore was extrodinary.  I dont know anyone that still have a live one fruiting in s. florida that was not killed by freeze  of the last couple years.  The crunchy varieties are sold here premium to the soft gagging variety at most Asian Grocery. I used the soft variety for making Gelato and its superior over the crunchy variety. So next time try it again in shake, fruit crepe or ice cream and you find it is excellent as the crunchy variety for eating au natural.  Even the crunchy variety under or over ripe can be just as nasty as the soft variety you have eaten.  Yes most black gold i have eaten I was not impress with, but my redneck brother in law think its is the best; that is why we have different variety for every taste buds.

My 9 feet star anise bush is about 15 years old full of flowers. I never used the dry fruit since the fresh leaves and twig give my Vietnamese Pho that unique flavor you will never get in a restaurant.  The dry fruit does not give that subtle sweet aroma that fresh leaves & twig render to a five stars roast peking duck.  I will have seeds in the fall, they are just blooming for me now.  Fruit & Spice have a fruiting bush in a container in the Garden.  There are many strains, my came from Vietnam, it thrives well here in Boca Raton coquina soil and I discovered it is more vigorous than the strain they have growing in a pot at Fruit & Spice Park.  Mine is in the coquina sand with coconut mulch for nematode control.  It suffer in full sun slow growing until i move it to a partly shade in morning but get the late afternoon sun seven years ago where it thrive and fruit.

The one in Vietnam especially the yellow red type by the old military airport in Saigon are much bigger than any i have seen growing from Melbourne Florida to key west here in the states.  Cambodia have some large one the fruit being size of a dime planted along the roads.  Seem to be more popular with the kids over there. Here in Parkland FLA, I had a volunteer tree that was almost 2o feet but die of cold this spring, fruit year round on coquina rock that is at this property. It sprout from a volunteer bird dropping after the hurricane of 2006 i think. Fruit was small, over fertilizer does not produce bigger or more fruit; just lot more branches & leaves to trim for hurricane season. Side note mix bird dropping with fruit and spread it on sand, saw guy in Cambodia who work for city park department use this technique; hope that can help those who have trouble germinating this kid fruit. Its a common tree used as ornamental planting in southeast asia how we plant the loquat tree in central & north florida.  There is a large tree at deerfield beach Fla arboretum, Constitution Park. During rainy season you can see people picking seedling under the sandy soil beneath the large tree. So if you run into fruit variety the size of a quarter, please let us know; after all my wife keep reminding me that I am not a kid anymore but I seem to have fond memory of surviving on this fruit during the Vietnam war 40 + year ago. 

Hey that is it Oscar!! Why I did I not think of that.  Yes you are right, its the artic blast that that come and ruin the flavor during our camito ripening period.  All my kepel seedlings (seed got from you)survive the artic blast of the last three years, I put them under my camito tree out in parkland  and they thrive, my jackfruit froze to death. Thanks for your cold resistant kepel strain. The kepel strains ii got from excaliber & jakarta , singapore all suffer during the last three years of artic blast. Thanks now i have to convince my HOA to allow me to built a greenhouse around my 25 feet tall camito, flavorful fruit I will have; now I have to worry abou Hurricane & occasion Tornado:D

The best purple i have tasted came from central vietnam, the best green gold i have tasted came from burma and madagascar. I have been gravely disappointed with camito grown here in Florida, even the Lara farm green was mediocre. I have been growing camito for 20 years in Boca raton & Parkland properties and I have chainsaw down 20 so plus varieties purchased at PIN, Frankie, lara , excalibur, etc; for what ever reason Florida climate or soil does not produce a flavorful fruit nor productive tree.  The one I have in Hawaii & Fiji were superior to my florida trees even though its the same cultivars brought back.
  And yes I have came to the same conclusion that the Hatian cultivar is uninspiring to put it mildly. Camito is my favorite fruit and of late the only tree still left standing in my grove collection, g is the Green Emerald from Hawaii which i found better than the common jacob green popularize by those rfc people a few year back. So from my experiences, its not the color of the fruit, its our Florida Climate or soil that is not producing the flavor profile we have came to expect from tasting fantastic camito in the best far flung tropic.  I recall on a dive trip in Belize, fishing in Costa Rica & colombia this year; some of the wild trees we ran into were superior to any of my own best selection. So it has to be something in our soil or climate that ghe Sunshine state is not becoming a camito growing region of the world. On the plus side I sm replacing my 19 camito trees with tampoi angulata and tampoi macro... Species... I am recently hook on them from diving trip in Indonesia, wish me luck

Yes if any left I would like 10 too!