It may not yet be rated amongst the world’s ‘blue ribbon’ vodkas, but the Mutiny Island Vodka has created a sufficiently robust regional stir to possibly increased demand for breadfruit, widely believed to be an untapped superfood. It may be tasty, filling, loved across the Caribbean and versatile in terms of the things it can do but here in Guyana it has ranked, up until relatively recently, among the most wasted fruit. Indeed, while these days, a breadfruit fetches a fair price in the markets, it still drops from trees and rots in many places.
On the Caribbean island of St. Croix – one of the U.S Virgin Islands – however, the advent and the fair success of Mutiny Island Vodka, a creation of an American named Todd Manley, who now lives in St. Croix, has presented breadfruit in a new light and Guyana may well be tempted to begin to pay attention not just to the export potential which Mutiny Island Vodka might have opened up but also the various other ways in which the versatility of the fruit can be exploited.
