JAMUN - A Refreshingly Dry Little Fruit (Java Plum) - Weird Fruit Explorer
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- Опубликовано: 11 сен 2024
- Episode 642: Jamun
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Hi I'm a fan, and have been checking out your channel every once in a while. Just throw it out there, but I'm a native Thai, I wanna know is there anyway I can participate in the tour even if I'm in Thailand? I studied the US and just relocated back to Bangkok, Thailand.
Thought I'd point out wild grapes that usually some consider a weed has this same astringent effect Soo in a way it does taste like a grape ・▽・
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@@WeirdExplorer Seeds are used for sugar control
When I think of astringent + refreshing that a lot of people might be familiar with (at least in the US), cranberries come to mind.
That's a good comparison
Also pomegranate juice!
@@sjisx yes pomegranate juice is a closer comparison for sure.
@@WeirdExplorer ב''ה, when talking about amla, I'd say between cranberry and lemonade, with its own flavor of course.
Yup, it tastes like Cranberry
This is so common here in Brazil that people don't believe it's not native. The same history goes to jackfruit, that can actually be invasive in some places how well they have adapted.
Fun fact: the seed has so much oil that the use for landscaping has caused many car accidents.
Here in Brazil we call it “João bolão”, at least here in Sao Paulo.
@@jeremiasremix acho q jambo é outro fruto por aqui, mas o nome q se ve mais pra essa é JAMBOLÃO, eu nunca vi ninguém chamando de João apesar da sonoridade ficarparecida
@@gabrielgp000 sim, perdão, confundi completamente! Kkkkk
@@gabrielgp000 corrigindo, o nome comum aqui é azeitona roxa. Embora não tenha qualquer relação com a azeitona.
-- it's called "purple olive" in my state.
@@gabrielgp000 acho que esses dois são corruptelas de Jamelão. Aqui em Manaus chamam de Azeitona Roxa também o que me deixa bastante incomodado considerando que existe azeitona de verdade que é roxa e essa fruta não tem nada a ver com ela.
One of my fondest memories was being in india at my grandfathers house in some remote village. They had a massive jamun tree, almost 4 stories tall. We’d climb up and shake the tree to get all the fruit off the tree. People from around the village would come to get some.
Hahaha same here too
At least from where I grew up in the Philippines, we toss the ripe duhat (local name for this) with rock salt to lessen the astringency and make it refreshing to eat 😋
That is how they are sold on the streets of India too❣️
Salt sugar and some chilli pepper flakes
The salt shares taste receptors with bitter, so if you eat salt and try a grapefruit it will taste sweeter. Alton Brown on “ good eats” did a episode the subject
@@isaiahwall3689 The Jamun / Dohat is not sour or bitter. It is “astringent” like some Persimmons (either specific asian varieties or the American genus). Similar to consuming high tannin things like a strong black tea. But thanks.
@@isaiahwall3689 I aplogize: I am sure pH has a role to play, but ‘astringency’ is more of a mouth feel/texture response than part of the “taste”. But thinking about it, does seem to be more alkaline fruits than acid fruits. Astringency is also like the effect of eating very hot chilli but without the actual heat/spice more the how the fire feels if that makes any sense⁉️ But some people actually have more receptors to taste certain acid things - I take it to mean that in the wild we have evolved to eat more a variety of wild foods that tend to be more bitter/sour... certain of like light-green is a larger proportion of the spectrum we see but yet some people can actually see a little more on the periphery (spectrum) as well...
Java plum + salt + naga chillies (in moderation, you need the heat but the flavour is more important) ->> put them in glass or mug ->> shake them real good (I mean real good so the fruits are kinda smashed but not juiced) ->> It’s “jaam vorta” aka smashed jamun aka smashed java plum for you. Delicious 😋
sounds great!
Ooh damn. I got the taste in my mouth, just reading the comment. 🤤👌
I'm from brazil, and this is one of my favorite fruits! We call it "purple olive" where i live, and when it's season the floor under the trees get stained purple. Me and my mom can eat a kilo of these in one sitting, with a big glass of water on the side to lessen the drymouth
(Edit 2) Something you forgot to mention, is that when you eat a few of these, you tongue will get VERY blue, like dyed candy blue. The sensation on your tongue takes a while to go away too, even if you brush it, but i don't think it's a bad feeling
Purple Olive is an apt description!
This is a great snacking fruit, you can eat a lot without feeling full. They grow wild and very easily in the tropics. Nothing is better than plump, juicy, ripe jamun fruit. Yes, you nailed it describing the astringency/sweet/fruity taste, the astringency compliments the fruit. Really easy to eat since it does have a decent flesh to seed ratio. The astringency is similar to the astringency in the jacote fruit if anyone have every had it. Once you've had this fruit, it will be memorable and you'll miss eating it. Besides that, this fruit is tied to a lot of people's childhood memories.
Here in Assam
There is a variety of jamuk ( Assamese name here for jamun)
Which is very tiny pea sized known as kutari jamuk (jamun) .
It's not at all astringent and super sweet also there is also a white one known as Boga jamuk ( very rare to find ).
Hoped you find them some day
I love companies that grow exotic fruit and sell it to us in the US for a fair price. Much respect to you all for the education and new experiences.
Eyyy, we have these in Suriname(South America) too. I see them less and less on markets, but you can often find them on farms where people have cows, they leave them on the fields for shade.
I can't imagine having these as decorative bushes in the cities, bc when birds eat it, they poop and drop it all over the place and the fruit stains.
7:23 looking at the Wikipedia page for the Genus Eugenia, it seems like many plants from the Myrtaceae Family were reclassified: "Molecular phylogenetic studies have changed the historical circumscription of the genus. Many species formerly placed in Eugenia have been moved to Syzygium." So it's likely that the previous classification was known as Eugenia jambolana, especially since that redirects to the Syzygium cumini page.
This. I have come across _several_ reclassified Eugenia. It doesn't surprise me at all.
Jamun used to be a summer staple in India, and it still is quite popular. The riper the fruit, the less astringent it is, although even the ripe ones have some astringency to them. As kids, the fun of eating them fresh was showing off the purple tongue 😄
Makes a delightfully delicious drink
I've been looking through your videos for one on my own favorite edible plants that my mother taught me about and it seems like you might not have tried this one: Mahonia trifoliolata, or by the much simpler name of Agarita, they grow all over Texas so you shouldn't have any trouble finding them, they're not sold anywhere to my knowledge but it's easy enough to find and pick some. I'd describe the flavor as a thin slippery bit of intense sour around a pit, it's not exactly much to write home about, but it is a neat little treat sometimes and the birds love em.
Jared, when I was a kid my dad planted a hedge that produced dark berries that us kids loved. My parents didn't like us to eat them because they didn't know if they were ok to eat or not so we would sneak them. They were delicious and the darker they got the sweeter. I can't remember at all what the leaves looked like but the berries had a similar shape to the Jamun but a different dark purple color. The berry was hollow inside and had an interesting cellular structure, maybe akin to a cactus pear. I wish I could explain it better. We lived in Hawthorne, California and the bushes came from a local nursery. The bushes made a great hedge. Does this berry sound at all familiar? I have wondered ever since what they were and would love to know.
Do you remember which season they grew in?
@@mysticfox1663 If I'm remembering right it was summer.
Are they small and sort of spongy and slightly Styrofoam in texture ?
@@nataliejoel Yes, small, oblong, about 3/4 to 1 inch long and 3/8 inch wide when they got big and plump, but otherwise smaller. Texture crisp and maybe can be called spongy, kind of like cactus pear.
And no seeds.
i have a jamun tree in my house in India, what I've noticed is that if it fully ripens the insides become purple and there is almost no astringency. its also eaten with a bit of salt and chilli powder or just salt sprinkled on top.
salt or salt+chili is my favorite way to eat melons, bananas, apples, pretty well any sort of fruit
@@torydavis10banana’s😦🥴😵💫😨😨
We have that in guyana! We make jamun wine with it👌🏽 (very strong).
Had a Jamaican moment, we're jamun, we're jamun, when you introduced the fruit! Always enjoy your videos and each time I am amazed at the different fruits from around the world. Here in the U.S., we are sort of limited, and most of us really aren't aware of the what is out there. Thank you for giving us the opportunity to learn about the wonders of fruits we had no idea existed.
its one of my favorite fruit. Its such a shame you can't get it here in california except frozen in bags for a ridiculous price.
I will send u
It’s available in FL and TX although it’s considered invasive in the US.
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It's towards the top of my bucket list to share a delicious fruit with you someday, so I'm hopeful that I'll be able to do one of the tours. It just sounds like a lot of fun. Thanks again for sharing this with us!
I LOVE these !
TIP : most of the astringency is in the skin. It's a bit of work to peel one before eating the flesh , but it is worth the effort.
Thanks Jared for sharing these videos! I get to experience different fruits through your descriptions 💛
Sounds like it'd be great in a savory chutney
In Hindi we have an adjective often used to desribe this astringency - we refer to any such fruit as being "कसैला" (pronounced cuss-ella). Jamuns also remind me of really dry tannin heavy wines that leave a layer on the tongue.
In my country Indonesia or specifically in java, this fruit has many name, like juwet and jamblang, and this fruit usually have mystical stories about the tree as the home of astral beings😅
In India 🇮🇳 too 😂 parents would scold us if we go in afternoon or alone as mostly it was located on village outskirts. Astral beings are active in summer afternoon too as there are almost no people outside home 😂 Jamun and Tamrind trees were scary for older generation
“Blackberries, Oregano, and Dry Mouth: The Weird Explorer Story” should be the name of your memoir
The most astringent I've ever experienced was from an astringent persimmon. It was 32 years ago but the memory of it is still razor sharp !
I have like 4 trees on my farm
LOVE THEM!!!!
A fruit whose tree use to be in our front yard. Our duhat(jamun) tree is long gone due to typhoon, but the tree has given me good memories. Duhat + salt is how we consume it.
Your Weird Fruit Explorer videos are uniques and excellent, because exploring fruits and their health values is an important subject that everyone should know about and take seriously and that why i like your channels. I like your channel because it help us to see weird fruits, what they look like how, they taste and the health benefit that is derives from the these fruits and the pro and con about certain fruits kinds. Excellent channel. thanks.
Congrats on 300K!! You deserve it!
Yaaay congrats on 300K!
This is your best review that Ive seen, you communicate your ideas really well in this video!
It also grows in Hawaii as a weed tree. When I lived there it grew all around the papaya farm where I worked
I really love the way how you explain every single fruit you taste! I have learn so much from your channel! Love fruit❤
Thank you this was very helpful. I live in central Florida. And I have a Java plum tree in my front yard tree in my front yard. It was planted by the lady that used to live in my house and she’s from Thailand. My tree is fruiting and I’ve never ate the fruit so thank you for your explanation. This year is a bumper crop so I’m going to give them a try.
Great fruit review! I typically veer away from anything described as astringent but you make this sound interesting enough that I’ll give it a try if I ever come across them.
This is very good for daibetes help in insulin maintenance
This is one of my memories from my childhood this tree was in my house we use to climb and shake the tree and get jamun to eat also some outsider come and ask toget the jamun we also give them free
Wow, a trip like this sounds like a dream 🤩
I ❤️ these! When I was a kid, we used to put them in a container with some sugar, then shake vigorously for 15- 20 seconds. Pure heaven 😋
we usually beat it up/bruise to remove that astringency back in ph when i was a kid, like put it in a Tupperware and shake it really hard for a couple of minutes, then add salt and eat it
I have one of these in my garden but no fruit yet. I remember as a child the purple mess on the driveway of my aunt house..lol! It is used in the Caribbean to make homemade wine.
Now I really wanna try cooking some pasta with these... had me at basil/oregano flavor.
But they are sweet
@@elhombredeoro955 tomatoes are pretty sweet too, if you balance them out with some garlic, should work nicely
@@TheFloatingSheep I really don't think that it's a good idea, but whatever makes you happy. Do tell me how it turns out.
@@elhombredeoro955 Not sure where I could find these things in europe lol
Nooooo. Not meant for pasta and it tastes nothing like an olive. It’s sweet, sour, astringent.
Congrats on 300k! Your videps are so interesting to watch 🙂
Have a Jamun tree in AZ. It takes full desert sun. Probably about 12 feet tall now and five years old. Has not fruited yet but can’t wait to try it. Thanks for the taste review.
jamunnnn!!!! I love this fruit
OMG my childhood fruits... We call it duwet / juwet here in Java.
Put a bunch in a container, put some rough salt, shake well, and eat! The salt reduce the astringency and bring out the sweet taste.
I immediately thought of SHOTS SHOTS SHOTS. I wonder if it would work well with cocktails.
estoy en Guanaja, Honduras, recien comi esta fruta, estoy maravillada con todo sus sabor. estoy experimentado haciendo jalea, fermeto, vinagre... tengo pulpa secando y su olor es un enigma.
The last time I ordered from Miami fruit I hit the lottery... literally...it was the only way I could afford to spend $100 on a tiny box of fruit...love the variety tho ..if ur wealthy or recently rich give them a shot
I visited the Philippines in 1984.
I enjoyed a different fruit.
sounds like this would be super good with chamoy tajin and lime juice (like what some fruit stands do with mango or melon)
Yessss ending the video with Vostok - what a treat! 😻🐾🐾
As a kid I hated this fruit but now as an adult this is one of my favorite fruits
We call it jaam. It very common fruit in Bangladesh
Congrats on 300k!
These are an invasive exotic here in Florida, though it is always a treat to find them!
one of my favorite fruit 😋
The tours sound like a great idea. You seem like a really nice guy so I hope everyone on your tours are nice people and I hope you do well.👍
This was very interesting and luv all the different juices and how you convey what your tasting .Ty.This was a great video.
I have one at the side of the house here in Jamaica bearing like crazy at the moment. I just eat them straight off the tree.
Pleasure juice 😃, so original series Star Trek-esque.
this fruit is very good for diabetics . the seed are dried and ground to a powder and used as a medicine to reduce sugar levels. even the tender leaves are ground up along with neem leaves, tulsi leaves, mango leaves, guava leaves into a fine paste. 1 spoon of this paste mixed with warm water works wonders for your health.
I have noticed the uptick in views for this video. All of this channels videos deserve view counts like this or better.
This grows wild all over my town. Stuart Florida. I know of probably 15 trees. They taste ok
The trees do look nice
Yummy yummy Jaw plum 😋. We call them Jaw plums in my country 😋
Really cool plant, leaves are very aromatic . Seeds from this plant also germinate very easily, I have seen damaged seeds sprout into healthy plants and animals love to eat the leaves off of the plants. A lot of health benefits are attributed it so the leaves are also given to sick animals.
We call it "Duhat" in the Philippines. A little salt would go nice with it.
Would be interested to see you follow in the footsteps of Coca-Cola inventor Pimberton. Try to dilute and add sugar to the tonic to make it more palatable! Would be cool if you used a soda stream on it too
This Java Plum grows wild, here in Hawaii. I have one here in my yard, on the Big Island.
I love jamun i wanna eat again
My favourite fruit and haven’t ate one of those since last 29 years
my wife and I were hiking and trying wild fruits in the boise forest yesterday and we found a white berry. when you taste it it it was sweet but it immediately dried your mouth up. we decided that it probably wasn't good to eat. lol
Best to not bite them , just squish them with the tongue , against the roof of the mouth .
Where I live most forest fruit is edible , some is chewable , others best swallowed whole , others the flesh can be scraped & eaten , along with the seed - it's case contains toxins enough to kill - the seeds can have a bread made from them .
Sounds like a great way to earn yourself a Darwin Award.
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Actually, that’s worse than a Darwin Award because you’re bringing someone else down with you. Please consider solo hikes from now on. Or y’know don’t eat random things
Don't eat berries you can't identify.
Thank you for this video! 😀🌻
Jambu is very tasty, but that kind of cultivated jamun is so expensive nowadays... Also, IRL they look nothing like grapes. Throw salt and kashmiri chilli on it and the astringency becomes pleasant.
If you haven't already, try out Kalakkai! Also called Bengal Currant in English, but I don't think anyone in India will call it that. It's an experience and a half to consume.
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I love jamun
It's one of my childhood fruit, In Indonesia we call it juwet/duwet/jamblang
Juwet there are two types of
The black and white, although it is now rather rare to find (not all places there are) both, but the white one is harder to find.
Hope you have a chance to try white juwet, because it tastes sweeter and fresh than black.
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It is sort of addictive, specially the fresh from the tree ones, and I dont know why.
Oooooh if I have the cash soon, I’ll join you on the May Vietnam tour!!! Exciting!
in Indonesia we call it juwet/duwet/jamblang.
my grandma/mom likes to dip them in salt water for a day prior to eating them.
Had these in Pakistan while visiting family. First time I already had a fruit that was featured on this channel lol
There's a plant of these along my regular walk to the train in Miami!
In Java, I think this fruit is known as "jamblang" or "duwet". I remember seeing this fruit being depicted in Indonesian elementary science book in mid 2000s. It is interesting because one of the commenter said that the fruit is known as "duhat" in Filipinos and--even though morphological similarity can't really be used to establish correlation--because Indonesian and Filipinos are kind of similar in language, one term might be derived from the other.
The hole on the bottom reminds me of a fig. I wonder if there are jamun wasps. Edit: The floral taste reminds me of fig as well, since figs are internal flowering fruits
(This is just what I observed after trying some jamuns and a bit of googling, so feel free to correct me if I'm wrong about anything.) The opening at the bottom is actually sort of a remnant of the flower! If you google images of the jamun's flower, you'll see they have a sort of cup shape surrounded by stamen, with the stigma in the middle. If you have a close look at a jamun, the little hole (which used to be the cup-shape of the flower) will also have the remains of the stigma. Some other fruits (perhaps all? I'm not sure) in the myrtle family (myrtaceae) share that feature, and some more obviously than others.
Anyway, they aren't pollinated internally like the fig, but whether or not they're pollinated by wasps, I'm unsure.
@@GlimzytheBee There are lot of people who sell Jamun honey in the Indian subcontinent so I tend to believe that they are pollinated by native honey bee species.
Sounds like it's perfect to slice thinly and either use fresh in a salad or pizza topping.
Dehydrated, or baked like tomato slices in the oven.
Here in Kenya we call it Zambarao which simply translates to purple. The bark is used as a fish poison in rivers and streams.
Here in bangladesh 🇧🇩 you can get as much of these as you want during summer! It grows in plenty here! We call it Jaam!
Dang it I know what the channel is about, but The lighting in this vid is superb! I hope to taste this fruit one day.
Ha, thats funny because I was too lazy to set up my lights. I'm just filming in front of a window.
great thumbnail today!
Funny you say you'd expect the taste of a grape, but it is astringent. The grapes I like best are also somewhat astringent. I guess you'd call it tannic for grapes. In fact you can use sloe plums (strongly "dry-mouthy"), mixed berries and spices and some rum and sugar with boiling water to make an awesome winter drink similar to glühwein.
The Jamun sounds pretty good to me!
These trees grow all over here in south Florida. My family loves them.
I used to pick those after playing football in the afternoon
Yay, new upload after almost a week. Would've been nice if the sweetness and sourness had been rated, wouldn't complain much because happy to see a new video.
That thumbnail had me thinking he was holding a galaxy in his fingers lol.
Can relate to cat hair getting everywhere. I have a mixed breed cat with pretty long hair.