There are 2 types of canned jackfruit, green young jackfruit in brine and ripe jackfruit in syrup. You want to buy the type that is packaged in brine for this recipe and for other meat replacement ...
Jackfruit is the new darling of the food blogs ... and it will be clearly marked as “in brine” to distinguish it from the ripe fruit in syrup. Make sure you get the right one.