thanks for highlighting my comment your the best. by the way dried pickled ume is a Japanese candy it is also traditional. it is sweeter and chewy you can get it from most Japanese or Japanese candy shops
Ume actually i will put it as 2nd favorite fruit,because i like them,and in taiwan people loved to eat them and I ate them often. and tastes better when pickled to me
After having to eat papaya seeds for the reason, I completely understand the vomit taste, as I put payapaya in a smoothie and nearly puked it up. Vile, and only traditional modern hardcore f****** medicines that cost Pennies on the dollar overseas will fix this problem. I do sincerely hope that none of you know what I'm talking about, but if you do I'm soooooooooooooooooo sorry and just take the medicine. It will kill them.
His descriptions are the absolute best! Between "it tastes like something you would use to curse someone" and "if someone ate cheddar cheese and vomited it on a lemon" i dont think ive ever heard a more obscure and detailed description of something in my life!!!
Lmao, several years ago, I nearly accused my aunt of smelling bad only to find out there was a Noni fruit ripening on the table next to her. That was my first encounter with the fruit. They don't smell when green but when it starts to ripen omg smells like shit sweat. One love from Jamaica
Your comments about cempedak remind me of why some people like my dad hate papaya- there's this overlaying vomit-like smell/taste they just can't deal with.
in asia some people squeeze lemon or lime juice on papaya. i personally cant stand the smell of it until lemon juice and a small sprinkle of salt is added on it.
When I visited Guyana in 1993, my host suggested I try a fruit called "awara". It was _not_ nice lol. Incidentally, in Barbados we call noni fruit "dog dumplings". So, there might be something to the dog poop reference. ha ha
Awara is great. Maybe you had a thin skin one. Choosing a fruit to get the best experience is important. Noni is prolific in Guyana as well. Guyana has some amazing fruits but unless you go to the villages in Berbice , Demerara and Essiquibo, you won't get many good ones in the city.
There are two types of wood apple, the one you had is en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Limonia_acidissima, and we mix the pulp of this fruit with salt and pepper, also very popular with kids, make sure you don't eat the too ripe ones. There is another kind of wood apple, and it is called Bael Fruit, en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aegle_marmelos, this one you are suppose to eat it ripe, nobody eats it as it is, we strain the pulp, mix it with wather, ice, and sugar, a very refreshing drink on a hot summer day, and it is suppose to be very good for your stomach. In thailand they dry the bael fruit and make herbal tea with it.
The second one is the fruit used to make marmelade. I don't recall eating it but i've seen them because some people actually make their own marmelade over here.
You made me laugh a lot with number one! My father used to eat it raw. I had one bite and it was disgusting, like stinky vomit. I had to spit it immediately.
If you want to eat ume and like it, buy a umeshu (plum liquor) bottle that comes with a ume plum inside and eat it. Pickled ume (umeboshi) like you had are, like natto, well known for not being to the taste of foreigners in Japan and at the same time, it's usually more commonly eaten with rice to add the salty flavor. I didn't particularly liked it in an onigiri i ate but at least the umeshu and the plum inside were really tasty. As for the regular fruit, maybe it is in fact that japanese plums don't mature as much as european plums but that looked exactly like a very very unripe plum too early in its development to taste anything other than awful. If i took an european plum at the stage that they look exactly like that one and ate it, i'd have the same reaction. But it does seem the japanese variety unlike other plums don't mature fully and instead stop at a point that the only way they found to consume it was to pickle them. Much like the cherry trees which are so ubiquitous in Japan but its fruits are even worse than the ume, so much that there's not a single cherry fruit eaten in Japan that doesn't come from western species. They're awesome to look at and have a beer under them, though.
I tried dried betel nut Tasted fine/weird to me, just chewed on it for a while, then my tongue went tingly and slightly numb, and after like two minutes I couldn’t breathe and I felt like I was going to have a heart attack, I spat it out and then felt like I had heartburn for the next half hour. Gross, scary, and harmful. Then again, so is tobacco the first time you try it. Addiction to betel nut starts the same way as tobacco addiction: deciding to do something stupid more than once.
Even before watching the video, I knew the infamous noni would be the top 3. And it's hilarious to see your facial reaction to that witch doctor fruit, you r brave man lol
There’s nothing funnier to me than to watch someone taste something so vile then watch their facial expression! Congratulations, you win that award! I was laughing well after the vid ended. Tyfs!
this is the second video I've watched from this channel and I have to say you have an odd appeal, in a good way. Unpretentious, interesting content, genuine reaction, etc. Keep up the good work!
We prepare it with a few other things to give it that texture. I would not recommend eating that thing overripe. The plant creates alcohol internally, using yeast that survived from pollination.
LOL .. I knew #1 was gonna be what it was as soon as I saw where Durian and Cempedek rated on here! I remembered the reactions the first time I saw them, and I still can't stop laughing as I see them again. Thanks for the stroll back down memory lane!
Imagine having a fruit so bad that you'd want to suppress the memory of consuming it. This isn't a channel known for comedy but goddamn the descriptions are funny 😭💀✨
the noni comment had me dying..lol.. when i was growing up, we use to call it Duppy breadfruit! (DUPPY= GHOST) Then suddenly one bright day, this hated, scorned fruit that people was afraid to even touch with their bare hands, was supposed to be the almighty anti-cancerous cure all. you could see me carting bucket loads of this vile fruits for my mom, who, would ferment them and collect the juice to add to her daley diet and pretending like, "oh! it's not that bad, as long as you get past the taste!" AS LONG AS YOU GET PAST THE TASTE?? what were we thinking? lol!
I love umeboshi plums but it's usually spread out over a bowl of rice it's put in the sentence and you've got a lot of rice to eat a little bit of it with.
I was given umeboshi to eat on its own by a Japanese teacher and had to swallow it down to be polite. I wish it had been sliced in a dish - that would have been much better! Too salty!!!
Haha, your Gac experience sounds exactly like mine with Dragonfruit. This shit looked just unreal with it's vivid pink-purple skin and bright green top, I could see how it would resemble a dragon's egg in people's mind. Even upon cutting it open it looked interesting with pure white pulp and jet black seeds buried in it. Took a big scoop of a bite and....nothing. Tasted like absolutely nothing. 'watery pulp' was all I could use to describe it, it was so bland. (sigh) Bigger disappointment then coconut water, which tasted like a chunk of cardboard had been left in water until it dissolved, and drinking that. At least there are still delicious fruit surprises out there for us like custard apple and durian. But even the latter is controversial, thus your #10 pick.
@@Ninjaananas Hahahah, sorry to contradict you Fam, but 'very mild' is a MASSIVE understatement! Can you honestly find the name of a fruit you think it even vaguely tastes close to? (not bagging on you, this is a legit question.)
@@exidy-yt Coconut and pomelo also have similarily mild tastes. And some cultivars of pears. Then there are also a bunch of vegetables with mild flavors.
@@Ninjaananas I agree with those statements (except that pomelo and coconut taste similar. The only word I could use to describe the taste of pomelo is 'insipid'.) but I don't agree that the dragonfruit has any taste at all. Prove me otherwise.
You've got a whole blooper reel in just these fruits that you didn't like! I have been laughing out loud and I'm all alone in the house. It would make a real funny ass blooper reel! The way that one just fell out of your mouth it was so bad!
I don't know how I get to your video. You did an awesome job on describing each fruit. Your face expression cracked me and my co-worker up so hard to the point our tear come out :).
Wood apple can be really nasty especally when it is rotten, and this is quite often! Mould on the outside is normal, but not on the inside. Once i ate one wood apple and on the other side of the pulp mass i found two worms! You must eat a number of them to be able to understand if it is good or not. The inside must be light brown. It has a strange taste of breeded fruit. I enjoy it best with added sugar.
I have a book on superfoods and noni is in there somewhere, it's like the new trend like acai was. the only other edible like superfoods were coconut, hemp, cacao, bee products, and some species of fungi.
wood apple you can't take it without preparation, make it with little bit salt, sugar, green chilli, little bit mustard sauce, little bit oil, some coriander leaves then taste it and always use good ripe one not rotten one.
Lol great channel!! 🥭 the worst fruit I ever tried was Kiwano...To me it tasted like when you empty the vacuum cleaner dust bag cuz it’s full, and you get a dust cloud puff up, and that smell of that dust, was what Kiwano tasted like! Lol Musty dust and moth balls! Had to throw it in trash, gross! 😂🤷🏼♀️🤮. My favourite No1 in whole world is Feijoa!!! Omg I could eat like 100 sliced Feijoa in one day! Lol 💚 They are like heaven to my taste buds! Tangy sour...Tastes like sour gummies, fizzy sour candy! ! They make my gut feel good too! My dream home would have a Feijoa tree in back yard, an endless free supply!! 😂💚👌🏽
That woodapple is totally not the proper texture or flavor. It looks incredibly dry. In Sri Lanka this year I had woodapple plain and woodapple nectar. I found that they smelled quite bad, but they tasted nothing like the smell. Kind of like mango nectar with lemon, but not super sour. It has the texture of jam. You really need to give it another try.
love your videos man, really interested in growing some of the fruits you have reviewed. Can't wait for next weeks vid. P.s. I know of a few rare/intersting fruits that you have not reviewed yet, not sure if I should mention them or if you just prefer finding out about new fruits and reviewing them yourself?
+justinlukenelson Always good to know of fruits to look out for. If there is anything in particular you'd like me to review let me know! I live in the USA, next trips will be Japan and Borneo.
+Jared Rydelek got a pen handy? here is a list of stuff to try if you can get your hands on them... Cassabanana, Bitter Melon (momordica charantia), Changunga (byrsonima cassifolia), Biriba (rollinia deliciosa), (monstera deliciosa), Galia Melon (cucumis melo var. reticulatus), Feijoa (acca sellowiana), Gold kiwifruit, Kiwiberry (actinidia arguta), Kiwano (cucumis metuliferus), Icecream Bean (inga edulis), Imbe (garcinia livingstonia), Australian Finger Lime, Lilly Pilly/Riberry, Peanut Butter Fruit (bunchosia argentea). Good luck in trying these fruits and all the best :)
+justinlukenelson I have reviews for Monstera, Feijoa and Kiwano already filmed and I will be posting them in the upcoming weeks. I have sources for a couple others on your list and will keep an eye out for the ones I don't.Thanks for taking the time to make that list (especially with the scientific names)! Lots of very interesting ones to look out for. :)
Thats great! Hope the monstera didn't cause you any grief lol. And no worries, it can be hard to research fruits without the accompanying scientific name so thought it might help to add them
+The Awesome Tropical Germinator Hmm... not a bad idea. they are very different fruits. But it would be interesting to have an episode dedicated to cactus fruits.
You should do fruits that are not sweet, Tomatos, olives, peppers, squash, cumcumbers, and all that kind of stuff. How do you eat this stuff. I had a friend from Chile, and she had this fruit that tasted rank, but she let ripen, and ground it up with milk. Damn, that stuff tasted like the best Butterscotch I've ever eaten. I knew this other guy who was on beach in Maylaysia. This expat had these vines growing behind his house with these Blackberry type fruit on it. The fruit only grew once a year, and they were so strong in you used only one in food you were making. The guy ate a bowl of them. His girl friend made him sleep out side he smelled so strong.
Heh, I'm surprised that Trifoliate Oranges didn't make it on this list, with how sour & bitter they are... Also, I actually like Pickled Ume, particularly if they're in Umeshu (Apricot wine), which is my favorite adult beverage. ;)
Hey man. First I have to say that I love your videos. I have been a subscriber for a while now and I really enjoy your channel. I think if you invest in a good camera, lighting and a nice mic it would make your video much more attractive and people will have an easier time following your channel. Just a thought. Keep up the good videos coming brother :)
We have an woodapple tree, the woodapples are orange inside. Mom makes woodapple juice which she likes. I don't like woodapple but I can still consume it, it's fine, I can drink a glass of the juice. Unlike bitter melon of which I can eat just few small pieces.
Ever tried cahoon nuts they are kinda nice but kinda flavorless like a coconut but... Weirder, it is hard to explain if you had bet tried it but if you have not, head over to Belize :P
Gooseberries: Eat it along with salt or a mixture of salt and chilli powder. After you eat it drink water. You'll feel sweetness in your mouth when you drink water Jackfruit: There are many varieties of them. Some are like super sweet, some tasteless. But you can make crepes/dosa out of tastless ones. A very good meat substitute. You can curries, sweet dishes etc. Because it is one of my native fruits/Vegetable, I'm familiar with it. But the key is you need to be expert on the fruit to enjoy it.
I think you can list them like that based on pleasant flavors a raw fruit has. A few of these plants are of high medicinal value like Noni. You just don't eat like that. I pluck a few fruits that are slightly yellowish not too ripe straight from tree, cut them, juice them then mix with other fruit juice. I love the taste. The terrible rancid oil smell is from very ripe noni. The Nipah palm is also not eaten like that it is used to make Gula Apong (brown sugar) that makes cake or desserts smell so good. Gag fruit is also a nature's gem. They are all precious to me. Thanks for the review. The nature is full of goodness.
Jarad, you are the cutest thing ever. I don't travel, and don't know much of anything about exotic fruit, but I'm learning from you and you make it fun - love your video's. I discovered you looking for info on my strawberry trees, I had no idea those berries were edible. Good to know, thanks. I may try to make some jam out of them.
Hi there, enjoy your vids. I've got a bucketlist of fruits I'd like to try, so thanks for adding a few and warning me against a few others! :) The worst fruit I ever tried was a paddy melon. They're an introduced weed that grow wild in the Australian desert. They look like miniature watermelons, about the size of a softball, and grow on a ground vine. I was a curious teen, so I sliced one open. It smelled like a watermelon, so I put the very tip of my tongue on it for half a second... OMG! The explosion of alkaloid, bitter astringency that filled my mouth is nothing like I've ever experienced. That could be taken another way, but that's exactly what it was. :) I ran around spitting for five minutes, no amount of water would wash away the bitterness, and the taste lasted for _hours_... I later found out they're poison. But you can prepare them to be edible. Dunno why you'd want to. :)
Yep sometimes fruit tastes bad for a reason. Its kind of comforting to know our bodies have such an adverse reaction to the flavor of poisonous plants... sometimes.
Exactly, right? Even lychees can be deadly poison to children if too many are consumed on an empty stomach. Or a few cherry pips, or even apple seeds! That's why the most important sense when trying new foods is common sense. Find out from the locals. :)
Herro! Just discovered your show - awesome stuff! I was surprised about the ume being one of the worst fruits. Raw, I'd say definitely! But have you ever tried the honey-soaked ones? It's kind of like sweet and sour candy. I eat pickled ume in tiny bites, with spicy asian foods. Kind of like a palate cleanser. The honey ones might change your mind! Also, have you tried ground cherries / cape gooseberries (Physalis spp.)? They grow in paper lanterns, and have this amazing tropical flavor like a pineapple with the texture of a tomato. The grocery store ones taste very bland but during late Aug / Sept you can find them at farmers markets in Michigan / Ohio. They are my favorite local seasonal fruit, and they are only around a very short time. Def worth a try if you haven't! Keep up the awesome work on your show! ^_^
I've had noni juice (out of curiosity), and it tasted pretty good. Though it was probably mostly sugar. The noni fruit trees smell terrible though, and I was not tempted at all to taste the fruit directly.
That wood apple was prematurely picked. Usually people hold out on it and let it ripen a bit more. Too long and it'll actually rot. I've had _unprepared_ wood apple before, and because I like sour things, I tolerated eating it. That said, wood apple is usually prepared with a combination of sugar, mustard oil, 1-2 green peppers, and sliced lemon leaves/juice. The wood apple is cracked in half, half of the inside is taken out and the other half has a little of those ingredients mixed in (about 6 grams of pure cane sugar is usually enough). With a spoon, the inside is chopped and evenly mixed, and finally the other half is put back on and you shake the half empty wood apple, then you take the remaining half, put it inside (chopped) and shake it too. The outcome is the equivalent of a brown paste, and smells like chutney. Give it another chance, don't eat it unprepared.
Ume is an acquired taste, usually it is used as seasoning for white rice. Similar to black licorice for me on the level of how much I disliked it at first, to how much I seek it out now that I have grown accustomed to the flavor.
that gooseberry is delicious when cooked with sugar i think. my grandmother's sister has a large tree of that fruit in her garden and would cook them for long time, hours and hours(don't know the recipe) and it's to die for, sweet and sour flavor. one of the best cooked fruit you'll ever taste in your life.
Its not awful dont get me wrong it has little flavor. I find oranges have often none either and have not done for many years. Tangerines, on the other hand are much tastier
You can never make such a broad statement that "oranges often have none either", as there are potentially hundreds of different types of oranges, with varying flavor levels.
I think Goji Berry is not bad, it just kinda mild. In Chinese cuisine, Goji Berry is used to boil some broth or soup. It will add a special sweetness to the broth.
Dude I legit broke down laughing during the wood apple. I'm thinking oh my god nobody should eat that thing what the hell is that, burn it with fire. I'm over here freaking out over this dirt looking fruit and then you start talking about the primal I shouldn't be doing this reaction. Yea I totally had that same reaction.
the Limau Kedangsa looks a lot like 'Satkora' which is a staple fruit of North Bangladesh, used as a zesty citrusy vegetable for cooking. A good satkora is incredible, gives a wonderful citrus tang to a spicy dish that is much better than lemon, which you couldn't use anyway because lemon rind is bitter. Lemon juice tastes identical to citric acid, the flavour of satkora is richer. Sometimes you get bad satkora which has some bitterness, but it is still fairly pleasant.
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thanks for highlighting my comment your the best. by the way dried pickled ume is a Japanese candy it is also traditional. it is sweeter and chewy you can get it from
most Japanese or Japanese candy shops
Weird Explorer no 5 is kaffir lime fruits..no one eat it sir
Ume actually i will put it as 2nd favorite fruit,because i like them,and in taiwan people loved to eat them and I ate them often.
and tastes better when pickled to me
emmymadeinjapan tried noni on her channel, and then made fermented noni juice. Hardcore.
After having to eat papaya seeds for the reason, I completely understand the vomit taste, as I put payapaya in a smoothie and nearly puked it up. Vile, and only traditional modern hardcore f****** medicines that cost Pennies on the dollar overseas will fix this problem. I do sincerely hope that none of you know what I'm talking about, but if you do I'm soooooooooooooooooo sorry and just take the medicine. It will kill them.
His descriptions are the absolute best! Between "it tastes like something you would use to curse someone" and "if someone ate cheddar cheese and vomited it on a lemon" i dont think ive ever heard a more obscure and detailed description of something in my life!!!
Isadora Obsidian I’m still laughing at the cheese and lemon one! 😂😂😂😂😂
The lemon soap one made me understand. Its really is a toxic kind of taste
The wood apple looks horrifying. It's like someone stuffed roots and gunk from a rain gutter into an old baseball. Why would you make that nature??
I believe it was way too over ripe, from all the other videos ive seen the inside isnt all dark and fermented looking like that
@@Landon_Lucas which is stupid considering everyone were saying that 'oOoOo it's not ripe enough' smh make up your mind people
I guess im stupid then because i could have new insite sorry for saying anything sir
the wood apple he ate was rotten. if you go the original video u can tell people from countries where wood apple is grown say it’s rotten too
@@Landon_Lucas see above
Lmao, several years ago, I nearly accused my aunt of smelling bad only to find out there was a Noni fruit ripening on the table next to her. That was my first encounter with the fruit. They don't smell when green but when it starts to ripen omg smells like shit sweat.
One love from Jamaica
huh when me and my dad tried noni we didnt particularly like it but it didn't even taste all that bad, I thought it was alright, a little seedy.
Jared your facial expressions tell a great story when you do your tastings. Very cool. :)
+Praxxus55712 Thanks!
Praxxus55712 Ray!!! Never would have thought you were here. Awesome to see
Jared? Oh man. Subway says sorry for ruining ur name forever.
I don't even know how I got here but once I started watching your videos I couldn't stop. This one really makes me LOL.
+Alice Pearce Haha, so nice to hear that!
Same for me, but 4 years later 😂
@@bangxeloz lol, me too
Me too I can't stop
Omg same
When you were eating that wood apple i saw the look of despair and a questioning of life choices that were made that led up to that point.
Your comments about cempedak remind me of why some people like my dad hate papaya- there's this overlaying vomit-like smell/taste they just can't deal with.
NephilaClavata I’m glad I’m not the only one that thinks they taste like puke.
Thank you!!!! I think it taste like puke with a plastic like after taste. It’s my mom’s favorite but I can’t
Stand it
in asia some people squeeze lemon or lime juice on papaya. i personally cant stand the smell of it until lemon juice and a small sprinkle of salt is added on it.
I really like how papayas look, but to me they smell like foot and taste like latex. It's such a strange fruit.
I hate papaya too it’s so disgusting
"It's like somebody ate some cheddar cheese and then vomited on a lemon." hahahaha love the description!
When I visited Guyana in 1993, my host suggested I try a fruit called "awara". It was _not_ nice lol. Incidentally, in Barbados we call noni fruit "dog dumplings". So, there might be something to the dog poop reference. ha ha
"dog dumplings" hahaa that is a far more fitting name than "noni"
Awara is great. Maybe you had a thin skin one. Choosing a fruit to get the best experience is important. Noni is prolific in Guyana as well. Guyana has some amazing fruits but unless you go to the villages in Berbice , Demerara and Essiquibo, you won't get many good ones in the city.
There are two types of wood apple, the one you had is en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Limonia_acidissima, and we mix the pulp of this fruit with salt and pepper, also very popular with kids, make sure you don't eat the too ripe ones. There is another kind of wood apple, and it is called Bael Fruit, en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aegle_marmelos, this one you are suppose to eat it ripe, nobody eats it as it is, we strain the pulp, mix it with wather, ice, and sugar, a very refreshing drink on a hot summer day, and it is suppose to be very good for your stomach. In thailand they dry the bael fruit and make herbal tea with it.
The second one is the fruit used to make marmelade. I don't recall eating it but i've seen them because some people actually make their own marmelade over here.
You made me laugh a lot with number one! My father used to eat it raw. I had one bite and it was disgusting, like stinky vomit. I had to spit it immediately.
The inside of a Durian looks like lungs in formaldehyde
If you want to eat ume and like it, buy a umeshu (plum liquor) bottle that comes with a ume plum inside and eat it. Pickled ume (umeboshi) like you had are, like natto, well known for not being to the taste of foreigners in Japan and at the same time, it's usually more commonly eaten with rice to add the salty flavor. I didn't particularly liked it in an onigiri i ate but at least the umeshu and the plum inside were really tasty. As for the regular fruit, maybe it is in fact that japanese plums don't mature as much as european plums but that looked exactly like a very very unripe plum too early in its development to taste anything other than awful. If i took an european plum at the stage that they look exactly like that one and ate it, i'd have the same reaction. But it does seem the japanese variety unlike other plums don't mature fully and instead stop at a point that the only way they found to consume it was to pickle them. Much like the cherry trees which are so ubiquitous in Japan but its fruits are even worse than the ume, so much that there's not a single cherry fruit eaten in Japan that doesn't come from western species. They're awesome to look at and have a beer under them, though.
I don't drink but I did have a non alcoholic umeshu once that tasted quite nice.
I have another top-10 recommendation: Top-10 underrated fruits, and top-10 overrated fruits.
Noni: the fruit that made Coyote Peterson throw up.
Durian best eaten when meat is very firm, the scent will be milder but flavor will be between custard & alvocado.
AJ Jay I’ve never had it. How can you tell when the flesh is firm, without cutting it open?
lol that wood apple looks like a rotten black walnut the size of a coconut.
I love the Lao Gooseberry. Marinate it in some sugar, chili powder, salt... it taste wonderful
I tried dried betel nut
Tasted fine/weird to me, just chewed on it for a while, then my tongue went tingly and slightly numb, and after like two minutes I couldn’t breathe and I felt like I was going to have a heart attack, I spat it out and then felt like I had heartburn for the next half hour. Gross, scary, and harmful. Then again, so is tobacco the first time you try it. Addiction to betel nut starts the same way as tobacco addiction: deciding to do something stupid more than once.
Yeah its such an unpleasant feeling :/
Even before watching the video, I knew the infamous noni would be the top 3. And it's hilarious to see your facial reaction to that witch doctor fruit, you r brave man lol
There’s nothing funnier to me than to watch someone taste something so vile then watch their facial expression! Congratulations, you win that award! I was laughing well after the vid ended. Tyfs!
im sorry I laughed so hard about looking all day for someone to open a fruit.
“A tumor that grows from a tree” Hahahaha your whole description of noni makes me crack up.
this is the second video I've watched from this channel and I have to say you have an odd appeal, in a good way. Unpretentious, interesting content, genuine reaction, etc. Keep up the good work!
Your description of the wood apple was SO funny! “You will be haunted for the rest of your life!” 😂😂😂
wood apple that ripen properly will taste like sweet tamarind + it own unique aroma
also it flesh will have a soft(almost watery) and creamy texture
We prepare it with a few other things to give it that texture. I would not recommend eating that thing overripe. The plant creates alcohol internally, using yeast that survived from pollination.
woodapple: Jared: " is it ripe? " (guy selling it):"yes, sure it's ripe, i want your money"
In Star Trek, "Gac" was a Klingon dish which had alien worms crawling out of it, or something like that. You eat it before it eats you.
This is the exact comment I had hoped I would see. ♥️♥️♥️❤️❤️❤️🌹🌹🌹 Thank you.
LOL .. I knew #1 was gonna be what it was as soon as I saw where Durian and Cempedek rated on here! I remembered the reactions the first time I saw them, and I still can't stop laughing as I see them again. Thanks for the stroll back down memory lane!
+izonker Thanks! I figured anyone who remembers that episode would have guessed it would be #1 on the list :D
Ahhhhh... Noni... _now_ I understand Jared's Divine t-shirt! LOL
Imagine having a fruit so bad that you'd want to suppress the memory of consuming it. This isn't a channel known for comedy but goddamn the descriptions are funny 😭💀✨
I agree. Noni is horrible! My dad has a tree on the yard and it smells like a bunch of smelly socks. Your reaction was priceless.
Noni =Very good for you though...
This video was hilarious 😂Great narration
hilarious video :D looking forward to seeing the next episode - will try to grow everything that you found to be 'top 10 delicious'
Thanks Julie! If you manage to grow all these fruits in one garden, just be sure to invite me over. :D
haha sure thing - see you in 10 years or so
the noni comment had me dying..lol.. when i was growing up, we use to call it Duppy breadfruit! (DUPPY= GHOST) Then suddenly one bright day, this hated, scorned fruit that people was afraid to even touch with their bare hands, was supposed to be the almighty anti-cancerous cure all. you could see me carting bucket loads of this vile fruits for my mom, who, would ferment them and collect the juice to add to her daley diet and pretending like, "oh! it's not that bad, as long as you get past the taste!" AS LONG AS YOU GET PAST THE TASTE?? what were we thinking? lol!
I love umeboshi plums but it's usually spread out over a bowl of rice it's put in the sentence and you've got a lot of rice to eat a little bit of it with.
I was given umeboshi to eat on its own by a Japanese teacher and had to swallow it down to be polite. I wish it had been sliced in a dish - that would have been much better! Too salty!!!
Haha, your Gac experience sounds exactly like mine with Dragonfruit. This shit looked just unreal with it's vivid pink-purple skin and bright green top, I could see how it would resemble a dragon's egg in people's mind. Even upon cutting it open it looked interesting with pure white pulp and jet black seeds buried in it. Took a big scoop of a bite and....nothing. Tasted like absolutely nothing. 'watery pulp' was all I could use to describe it, it was so bland. (sigh) Bigger disappointment then coconut water, which tasted like a chunk of cardboard had been left in water until it dissolved, and drinking that. At least there are still delicious fruit surprises out there for us like custard apple and durian. But even the latter is controversial, thus your #10 pick.
yeah, coconut water tastes like paper stew
Dragonfruit is very mild but I still find it pleasant to eat.
@@Ninjaananas Hahahah, sorry to contradict you Fam, but 'very mild' is a MASSIVE understatement! Can you honestly find the name of a fruit you think it even vaguely tastes close to? (not bagging on you, this is a legit question.)
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Coconut and pomelo also have similarily mild tastes. And some cultivars of pears. Then there are also a bunch of vegetables with mild flavors.
@@Ninjaananas I agree with those statements (except that pomelo and coconut taste similar. The only word I could use to describe the taste of pomelo is 'insipid'.) but I don't agree that the dragonfruit has any taste at all. Prove me otherwise.
Love learning about these exotic fruits! Keep it up my friend
Thanks!
LOL, I loved watching this! You try so hard to be a good sport, and it's so funny when they're bad! Great video!
You've got a whole blooper reel in just these fruits that you didn't like! I have been laughing out loud and I'm all alone in the house. It would make a real funny ass blooper reel! The way that one just fell out of your mouth it was so bad!
I don't know how I get to your video. You did an awesome job on describing each fruit. Your face expression cracked me and my co-worker up so hard to the point our tear come out :).
I enjoy all of your videos thanx for making them 😀
+Duke Family thanks!
Wood apple can be really nasty especally when it is rotten, and this is quite often! Mould on the outside is normal, but not on the inside. Once i ate one wood apple and on the other side of the pulp mass i found two worms! You must eat a number of them to be able to understand if it is good or not. The inside must be light brown. It has a strange taste of breeded fruit. I enjoy it best with added sugar.
One day i will find one that is ripe! I am determined
Wood Apple looks like dirt 😖
+Meet Emmy Looks, tastes and feels like dirt.
In the region where I'm from, its called Codh Behl. Literally Mud Bell. Its not meant to be eaten as he did.
Dude I laughed so hard!!! I think this is my first laugh for the year... I teared up!!! I loved this.. Really hope you do more!!!
Glad you enjoyed it. Thanks!
I have a book on superfoods and noni is in there somewhere, it's like the new trend like acai was. the only other edible like superfoods were coconut, hemp, cacao, bee products, and some species of fungi.
wood apple you can't take it without preparation, make it with little bit salt, sugar, green chilli, little bit mustard sauce, little bit oil, some coriander leaves then taste it and always use good ripe one not rotten one.
+Nabin Bairagi Thanks!
Thanks for the very funny, entertaining and informative video. I LOL a lot!
Lol great channel!! 🥭 the worst fruit I ever tried was Kiwano...To me it tasted like when you empty the vacuum cleaner dust bag cuz it’s full, and you get a dust cloud puff up, and that smell of that dust, was what Kiwano tasted like! Lol Musty dust and moth balls! Had to throw it in trash, gross! 😂🤷🏼♀️🤮.
My favourite No1 in whole world is Feijoa!!! Omg I could eat like 100 sliced Feijoa in one day! Lol 💚 They are like heaven to my taste buds! Tangy sour...Tastes like sour gummies, fizzy sour candy! ! They make my gut feel good too! My dream home would have a Feijoa tree in back yard, an endless free supply!! 😂💚👌🏽
Feijoas are so good! Great description of it :)
found a bottle of some feijoa-flavoured juice/drink, could drink that all day hhh
I laughed all through this. Great descriptions.
That woodapple is totally not the proper texture or flavor. It looks incredibly dry. In Sri Lanka this year I had woodapple plain and woodapple nectar. I found that they smelled quite bad, but they tasted nothing like the smell. Kind of like mango nectar with lemon, but not super sour. It has the texture of jam. You really need to give it another try.
love your videos man, really interested in growing some of the fruits you have reviewed. Can't wait for next weeks vid. P.s. I know of a few rare/intersting fruits that you have not reviewed yet, not sure if I should mention them or if you just prefer finding out about new fruits and reviewing them yourself?
+justinlukenelson Always good to know of fruits to look out for. If there is anything in particular you'd like me to review let me know! I live in the USA, next trips will be Japan and Borneo.
+Jared Rydelek got a pen handy? here is a list of stuff to try if you can get your hands on them... Cassabanana, Bitter Melon (momordica charantia), Changunga (byrsonima cassifolia), Biriba (rollinia deliciosa), (monstera deliciosa), Galia Melon (cucumis melo var. reticulatus), Feijoa (acca sellowiana), Gold kiwifruit, Kiwiberry (actinidia arguta), Kiwano (cucumis metuliferus), Icecream Bean (inga edulis), Imbe (garcinia livingstonia), Australian Finger Lime, Lilly Pilly/Riberry, Peanut Butter Fruit (bunchosia argentea). Good luck in trying these fruits and all the best :)
+justinlukenelson I have reviews for Monstera, Feijoa and Kiwano already filmed and I will be posting them in the upcoming weeks. I have sources for a couple others on your list and will keep an eye out for the ones I don't.Thanks for taking the time to make that list (especially with the scientific names)! Lots of very interesting ones to look out for. :)
Thats great! Hope the monstera didn't cause you any grief lol. And no worries, it can be hard to research fruits without the accompanying scientific name so thought it might help to add them
as a japan-man, you just made me rly want some umeboshi but i have to quarantine.... :'(
the fruit gusher no one asked for
cant wait 4 next vid. hey heres an idea. How about a prickly pear vs dragon fruit comparison. just an idea!
+The Awesome Tropical Germinator Hmm... not a bad idea. they are very different fruits. But it would be interesting to have an episode dedicated to cactus fruits.
You should do fruits that are not sweet, Tomatos, olives, peppers, squash, cumcumbers, and all that kind of stuff. How do you eat this stuff. I had a friend from Chile, and she had this fruit that tasted rank, but she let ripen, and ground it up with milk. Damn, that stuff tasted like the best Butterscotch I've ever eaten. I knew this other guy who was on beach in Maylaysia. This expat had these vines growing behind his house with these Blackberry type fruit on it. The fruit only grew once a year, and they were so strong in you used only one in food you were making. The guy ate a bowl of them. His girl friend made him sleep out side he smelled so strong.
lmbo! I never knew you were so funny! Too gd! Thanks for this one!
I love that painting behind you with the ladder. It's almost haunting just like my life has been
Its dark but I take it as a cautionary tale not to be complacent where you are but to strive for bigger things
Weird Explorer yes and complacent this one thing I have never ever been. Too old to start that now!
Very funny, thanks !
Very entertaining. Reactions are priceless.
This video was interesting but I'm really looking forward to next week's video!!
+Brad Suarez It will be a good one!
Heh, I'm surprised that Trifoliate Oranges didn't make it on this list, with how sour & bitter they are...
Also, I actually like Pickled Ume, particularly if they're in Umeshu (Apricot wine), which is my favorite adult beverage. ;)
@14:32 noni triggered your inner AVGN
Hey man. First I have to say that I love your videos. I have been a subscriber for a while now and I really enjoy your channel.
I think if you invest in a good camera, lighting and a nice mic it would make your video much more attractive and people will have an easier time following your channel. Just a thought.
Keep up the good videos coming brother :)
Hey, thanks for the input. I recently bought a new HD camera, so that should fix some problems, lights are next on the menu. :)
We have an woodapple tree, the woodapples are orange inside. Mom makes woodapple juice which she likes. I don't like woodapple but I can still consume it, it's fine, I can drink a glass of the juice. Unlike bitter melon of which I can eat just few small pieces.
Ever tried cahoon nuts they are kinda nice but kinda flavorless like a coconut but... Weirder, it is hard to explain if you had bet tried it but if you have not, head over to Belize :P
Cyrus Khalvati I have tried them and they're not horrible but quite odd.
Gooseberries: Eat it along with salt or a mixture of salt and chilli powder. After you eat it drink water. You'll feel sweetness in your mouth when you drink water
Jackfruit: There are many varieties of them. Some are like super sweet, some tasteless. But you can make crepes/dosa out of tastless ones. A very good meat substitute. You can curries, sweet dishes etc. Because it is one of my native fruits/Vegetable, I'm familiar with it. But the key is you need to be expert on the fruit to enjoy it.
Can you tell me a bit about the ladder painting? I understand its message (i think) but was curious about its backstory
Its a print by Pawel Kuczynski. An amazing artist
Is gac the noise you make when you eat it?
I think you can list them like that based on pleasant flavors a raw fruit has. A few of these plants are of high medicinal value like Noni. You just don't eat like that. I pluck a few fruits that are slightly yellowish not too ripe straight from tree, cut them, juice them then mix with other fruit juice. I love the taste. The terrible rancid oil smell is from very ripe noni. The Nipah palm is also not eaten like that it is used to make Gula Apong (brown sugar) that makes cake or desserts smell so good. Gag fruit is also a nature's gem. They are all precious to me. Thanks for the review. The nature is full of goodness.
I really really needed a good laugh today and you have cracked me up!!!
+Rebecca Gutierrez Glad to hear it :D
thumbs up
Nope I can't see why it would either. Its just a stimulant.
Weird Explorer yeah. theres no hallucinogenic properties. its simply a mild stimulant, milder than coffee imo. even in larger doses.
I’ve been eating candy and watching your videos all day, doing reviews of the candy and pretending they’re fruit
The most fun was the almond joy
"It's like someone ate some cheddar cheese and like vomited on a lemon, that's kinda what this tastes like."
Jarad, you are the cutest thing ever. I don't travel, and don't know much of anything about exotic fruit, but I'm learning from you and you make it fun - love your video's. I discovered you looking for info on my strawberry trees, I had no idea those berries were edible. Good to know, thanks. I may try to make some jam out of them.
Well shucks Martha. Thank you. Glad you are enjoying the videos and finding them useful! :)
Hi there, enjoy your vids. I've got a bucketlist of fruits I'd like to try, so thanks for adding a few and warning me against a few others! :)
The worst fruit I ever tried was a paddy melon. They're an introduced weed that grow wild in the Australian desert. They look like miniature watermelons, about the size of a softball, and grow on a ground vine.
I was a curious teen, so I sliced one open. It smelled like a watermelon, so I put the very tip of my tongue on it for half a second...
OMG! The explosion of alkaloid, bitter astringency that filled my mouth is nothing like I've ever experienced. That could be taken another way, but that's exactly what it was. :) I ran around spitting for five minutes, no amount of water would wash away the bitterness, and the taste lasted for _hours_...
I later found out they're poison. But you can prepare them to be edible. Dunno why you'd want to. :)
Yep sometimes fruit tastes bad for a reason. Its kind of comforting to know our bodies have such an adverse reaction to the flavor of poisonous plants... sometimes.
Exactly, right? Even lychees can be deadly poison to children if too many are consumed on an empty stomach. Or a few cherry pips, or even apple seeds!
That's why the most important sense when trying new foods is common sense. Find out from the locals. :)
Eating Durian is like eating Raspberry custard downwind from a sulfur processing factory.
Hilarious ! Especially the last one on the list were the girl was sitting next to him. The reactions of hers' and his were priceless.
Like,Trying to open a Rock..This is Wrong what I'm doing is wrong.. Comical Commentary.. Worth a like.
Herro! Just discovered your show - awesome stuff! I was surprised about the ume being one of the worst fruits. Raw, I'd say definitely! But have you ever tried the honey-soaked ones? It's kind of like sweet and sour candy. I eat pickled ume in tiny bites, with spicy asian foods. Kind of like a palate cleanser. The honey ones might change your mind! Also, have you tried ground cherries / cape gooseberries (Physalis spp.)? They grow in paper lanterns, and have this amazing tropical flavor like a pineapple with the texture of a tomato. The grocery store ones taste very bland but during late Aug / Sept you can find them at farmers markets in Michigan / Ohio. They are my favorite local seasonal fruit, and they are only around a very short time. Def worth a try if you haven't! Keep up the awesome work on your show! ^_^
thanks for the tips :)
Anytime!
When you're talking about the Ume, is it the same thing as an Umeboshi Plum?
Yes, those are pickled Ume
I've had noni juice (out of curiosity), and it tasted pretty good. Though it was probably mostly sugar. The noni fruit trees smell terrible though, and I was not tempted at all to taste the fruit directly.
That wood apple was prematurely picked. Usually people hold out on it and let it ripen a bit more. Too long and it'll actually rot. I've had _unprepared_ wood apple before, and because I like sour things, I tolerated eating it.
That said, wood apple is usually prepared with a combination of sugar, mustard oil, 1-2 green peppers, and sliced lemon leaves/juice. The wood apple is cracked in half, half of the inside is taken out and the other half has a little of those ingredients mixed in (about 6 grams of pure cane sugar is usually enough). With a spoon, the inside is chopped and evenly mixed, and finally the other half is put back on and you shake the half empty wood apple, then you take the remaining half, put it inside (chopped) and shake it too.
The outcome is the equivalent of a brown paste, and smells like chutney.
Give it another chance, don't eat it unprepared.
Ume is an acquired taste, usually it is used as seasoning for white rice. Similar to black licorice for me on the level of how much I disliked it at first, to how much I seek it out now that I have grown accustomed to the flavor.
that gooseberry is delicious when cooked with sugar i think. my grandmother's sister has a large tree of that fruit in her garden and would cook them for long time, hours and hours(don't know the recipe) and it's to die for, sweet and sour flavor. one of the best cooked fruit you'll ever taste in your life.
Yes, I've had a sweetened juice made out of these and its quite nice, unprepared they are very harsh though.
I am now definitely, DEFINITELY sure that I NEVER, EVER, EVER want to be anywhere CLOSE to Nonifruit! 😖😝
Durian tastes SOO GOOOOOD THO
You commented something on a 3 year old video and got a heart!
I looove durian
Dragonfruit is no good. It has no taste (though not a bad one necessarily)
Its bland for sure, but I think its refreshing... especially with a little lime squeezed on it,
Its not awful dont get me wrong it has little flavor. I find oranges have often none either and have not done for many years. Tangerines, on the other hand are much tastier
You can never make such a broad statement that "oranges often have none either", as there are potentially hundreds of different types of oranges, with varying flavor levels.
JB 6000 Try a yellow dragon fruit, that opinion will change quick.
you are courageous! I enjoyed watching the video and learning! I agree with you on the noni description! I'd rather do like Divine and eat dog dookie!
+Flying Fox Fruits Thanks Adam! Haha, my thoughts exactly. I would have been more grossed out at Pink Flamingos if it ended with Divine eating a Noni!
It's amazing how many things can taste bad but aren't poison
He talks about the wood apple like it molested him lmao
I love your videos man, I'm an exotic fruit lover too.
Have you ever tried unripe Custard apple? It's nasty.
+David Graham Thanks David! Glad you're enjoying the videos. Yes I have had an unripe custard apple and it was terrible!
I’m surprised the goji berry didn’t make the list, the plant that has been growing in my backyard has been gross every time I tried it!
I don't hate them. but they aren't my favorite.
Oh yeahhh and you’ve been to the Jean Talon Market (I was there a like last week lol) are you from Montreal cause I love exotic fruit too! 😀
I think Goji Berry is not bad, it just kinda mild. In Chinese cuisine, Goji Berry is used to boil some broth or soup. It will add a special sweetness to the broth.
i heard big yellow Hawaiian noni is alot better after keeping in a jar for few months
Dude I legit broke down laughing during the wood apple. I'm thinking oh my god nobody should eat that thing what the hell is that, burn it with fire. I'm over here freaking out over this dirt looking fruit and then you start talking about the primal I shouldn't be doing this reaction. Yea I totally had that same reaction.
Betel nuts are like chewing on the grounds for 600 shots of espresso and the effect is pretty much the same.
Speedy but unpleasant.
Isn't betel nut, super super addictive?
Yep, like nicotine basically
😂woodapple "haunted for life and noni like dog crap." 😂
I love durian, but noni tastes like bitter blue cheese vomit.
the Limau Kedangsa looks a lot like 'Satkora' which is a staple fruit of North Bangladesh, used as a zesty citrusy vegetable for cooking. A good satkora is incredible, gives a wonderful citrus tang to a spicy dish that is much better than lemon, which you couldn't use anyway because lemon rind is bitter. Lemon juice tastes identical to citric acid, the flavour of satkora is richer. Sometimes you get bad satkora which has some bitterness, but it is still fairly pleasant.