Rare Banana Varieties of Mexico (Red Banana, Seda, Dominico, Tobasco) - Weird Fruit Explorer Ep. 292
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- Опубликовано: 23 авг 2024
- A look at a few of the banana varieties that are available in Mexico.
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"019 Ffuge No Five" by Miranda taylor and Mike Hunchback
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I’ll never forget the first time I tried a different banana variety- I couldn’t believe they could taste complex, slightly tart, and in this one’s case, slightly citrusy. It was so amazingly delicious! I immediately decided to start growing some and am continuing to search for particularly tasty varieties! That seda banana you tried looks great! Everyone out there in the US who likes bananas even just a little bit should make an effort to seek out unusual banana varieties. We’re SO limited in what we have access to that most of us have no idea these other ones exist! I sure didn’t!
Absolutely! There are over 1000 varieties of bananas out there and the one we get is one of the least interesting.
It’s so amazing how you manage to make your videos feel like an 80’s PBS show and I mean that in the best way possible! Love your content!
"I know this is disgusting, and you know what...I don't care" LOVE IT!! ( I didn't think it was disgusting ,btw, but I know the people you're talking about.) I find that people can be so picky, easily offended, love to express their NEGATIVITY but rarely give good feedback. I just found your channel...love your descriptions. Very Nice. New Sub !
Missing many other bananas commonly enjoyed in Mexico. To start, all of the bananas you tried have different uses, only a few eaten raw, as you did it. Some are ONLY used for cooking, others are eaten roasted, like the one what you called 'Red Banana', Platano Manzano (Apple Banana), which has a wonderful flavor once it's fire roasted and served hot, drizzled with sweetened condensed milk as an afternoon street snack (sold on portable wheeled smoke wood ovens on the streets). One of the most popular you missed, was the overgrown 'Macho Banana'. An essential ingredient in many hi-end Mexican dishes, such as the famous Mole Poblano (the 30+ ingredients exquisite chocolate sauce) and many others. Great video. Cheers
Love your videos man, I’ve been addicted to your fruit videos for a while and I always thought you looked familiar until I finally read what’s on your about page. I was so freakin shocked to find out what you do and that I remember seeing you on National Geographic when I was younger, don’t ever stop making these videos I love them so much.
That's awesome! I did that show something like 10 years ago now. Amazing that you remember it.
Intro music sounds like Bon Iver playing as the titanic sinks
i use the red ones in banana bread and banana pancakes. they are wo~nderful!!!
Yes - the bite marks might be considered disgusting, but they give information about texture that a knife slice couldn't (e.g. graininess)
WOW your channel is exploding! it was steady and slow and this month exploded 17k subs and like a bajillion views congrats
Edit: I believe it is your upload consistency so keep that up I love learning about all these fruits that I will never be able to eat even though they taste so good.
We were fans of the Fruit Hipster before it was cool.. no big deal.
OMG, I’m such an idiot. I thought the video seemed familiar, and I forgot with patreon we get to see your next video before others! 😂🤣🙄😱
Oh, well, entertained me two times! 🍌
Good news is that next weeks episode is up on Patreon! I'll also be putting an outtake from this video later today. So there is more fruit to be had!
Weird Explorer Awesome! Thank you!
hunger 4 the banan
Forever jealous of your banana endeavors
I've had the red ones. I thought they were sweeter than normal variaty.
i have had the red ones, and I agree that they are sweeter than the normal ones
There is a very similar red banana easily found in Singapore. Not sure if it is the same species to the Mexican ones. Yup, those found here in Singapore also have a slightly tougher skin to peel unless they are very ripe. I find them sweeter and also have a nicer fragrance to the Cavendish.
I had red bananas in Mexico last year. They blew all other bananas I had out of the park. I think yours wasn’t ripe enough. They need to be a bit darker. To me they blew normal bananas out of the park. I haven’t tried that berry banana tasting one though so I’ll trust you. Gosh I want to try those!
finally your reviewing the red ones i really want to try some now.
Too good.... "this is disgusting, but I don't care"...... HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA......
It's utterly fascinating for me to see the inside of fruits.
Lol I liked that part of the vid 😂
Sitting here recovering from surgery, bored out of my FLIPPING mind, and a new weird Fruit explorer video comes on about red bananas (among other things)! Hooray! I recently noticed red bananas are being carried by Whole Foods, and I wondered if I should try to grab some next time I see them! Thanks, Jared!
Now, going to watch the video! 😆👍💃🏻
You could replace cavendish bananas with tabasco bananas and no one would notice. That is powerful. It may not be the best, but it is probably the safest replacement.
I could watch you eat bananas all day.
you can let red bananas ripen a little more and they get a really nice texture, very pleasant.
Your channels great. Thailand has an abundance of interesting and different fruits.
I lived in Houston for 10 years and we had a few of these varieties including red bananas. :) I miss having the variety of fruits that normal grocers had in that City... Denver is always so lacking in variety
“i know this is disgusting but you know what i dont care” AAHAHAH yes dude work it
Love the bananas!
Hi just subscribed and am binge watching your videos. I saw a couple of videos where you talked about grapes and they don't have a whole lot of flavor to you. I was wondering if you have ever tried concord grapes. I find them to have a strong 'grape' flavor with the skins being a bit tough and tart but the fruit sweet. They are excellent jam and wine grapes. They ripen in the cooler autumn days if I remember correctly.
I haven't found Tobasco variety any where. My favs are the Seda & the red. the red is seasonal one, available only for a short period of time, & not available in all stores. I used to find them in Whole foods Market in Princeton, NJ.
"This banana has a very strong banana smell." Haha
The Silk banana is called 'Manzano' here because the flavor is suggestive of green apples, and is one of my favorites. I find red bananas somewhat astringent unless they're very soft.
As I am closely inspecting each banana segment to compare texture and moisture, you say, "I know this is disgusting, but I don't care." LOL Guess I didn't realize that would be disgusting? The Seda and Red bananas would be my choice, and was pleased they were your top 2. Great video.
Thanks for making this video !!
Morado actually means purple
I recently had a red banana. It tasted like grass clippings, and gave me immediate dry mouth
bananas are great, i wanna try all the varieties. also this intro music is nostalgic ❤
This is a great topic. Fun video!
Red bananas are really good but they take so long to ripen.
Have you tried the king coconut yet? If not, you should. I heard they are sweeter than normal coconuts
I see no comments pointing this out....but shouldn't it be "Tabasco"? Source: I live in the state of Tabasco. In Mexico. Where it's sold. That type is also known locally as "guineo" and it's the most common comercially all over Mexico.
🎶"One banana, two banana, three banana, four. Four bananas make a bunch and so do many more. Over hill and highway the banana buggies go, coming on to bring you the Banana Split Show. Making up a mess of fun...making up a mess of fun...lots of fun for everyone! Tra-la-la-la, la-la-la-la! Tra-la-la-la, la-la-la-la!"🎶
I'll see myself out....great video btw!
that was beautiful
If you go to India try the varieties over there. The southern part itself has 10-15 varieties
Do you ever plan on coming to Australia? We have some of the best fruit in the world, I think you would love it.
Love your series! And your ability to finely discern and distinguish the varied components of flavour really makes it useful and interesting. But PLEASE, get the locals to help you pronounce the names properly. I know Americans aren't big on other languages, but it's embarrassing. Plus, for instance, if you had been able to say 'seda' properly ("say-duh"), it would have been immediately obvious to Spanish speakers that the reference is to silk.Just saying :). By the way, 'tabasco' is named for its geographic origin, in the Mexican state of the same name.
The "tabasco banana" is a cavendish raised in the state of Tabasco. The soil and weather it's grown in affects the taste of a banana, like most other plants, so where a banana is grown affects its quality. Mexican food in Mexico is complex, varied and sophisticated. If the only "Mexican" food you know is American Tex Mex food, real Mexican food is a wonderful revelation.
Great review. Quick note, 9 markets in the same region is just the same market. As in any large country, regions will vary greatly and should be addressed individually.
Great channel, really enjoyed the video.
love this channel
I've heard of different flavor banana"s like vanilla and Strawberry but that was from a person that was growing them in their own garden... Amazing and yummy... I have one question, some fruits you say aren't supposed to be eaten because they can make you sick, Have you gotten sick from any fruits?? Thank you for your amazing video's😍
I ate these in a vacation in the Philipines and they were delicous. And when I returned home I would miss them so much that I would colour the yellow ones red with a marker.
(Side note: I was around 7 at the time)
Have you tried the Ackee fruit yet or plan to do a video on them soon? I heard they are often cooked in dishes with fish and I'd love if you could make or find someplace that makes it! ☺️
I originally wanted to go to Jamaica to document the ackee but it wasn't safe at the time. Hope to get out that way soon though!
Morado actually means purple 💜💜💜 Mexico has some interesting fruit varieties
perhaps the word for red bananas could be 'leathery' ?
Morado means purplish.
Now I have to add a Seda banana plant to my collection.
Fun fact: Red banana is one of the only fruit in the world that may never ripen
The only banana you can safely transport on a boat.
In Barbados those little ones are called figs and we have a few of the red skin ones
Thank you, good sir!
Did you know banana's are actually berries I'm mind blown 💥💥💥
so are watermelons! :o
wtf?!!! makes no sense to me... but, they all make a good fruit salad.
Those are good Bananas I routinely fine those here in the central valley of Ca. Did you get a distinct Floral or fragrant flavor from the Seda? the ones I get had that quality.
Red bananas are better when the skin has black smudges throughout and no green on the tip.
in my country , i remember the seda as being called silk/sill fig. (in my country, we call bananas figs)
i dont see the silk fig(banana) any more, sometimes i see the grosmichel, but i do luv the cavendish, i prefer it to the grosmichel.
other than that, there is a cooking fig(banana) that remains green when ripe, only it gets a bit brown then brown spots when over riping. i like that..
They actually carry the red bananas on a fairly regular basis at the local Food Giant here (I live near Gettysburg, PA)... Of course they also carry Plantains, due to the large Latin American immigrant population in the area, so that might explain it. I like to get the red bananas when they have them in.
On a side note, I have some banana trees in my yard that are the hardiest variety of banana in the world (they have wintered over in the ground for the past 2 winters & come back in late spring), but the growing season here is too short for them to actually get bananas, and considering that they are grown as a fiber crop (similar to Manila hemp bananas) & the fruits are chock-full of seeds that are about the size & general hardness of buckshot, I doubt you'd want to eat them anyways... Still at least I can say I have bananas growing in my front yard in southern PA, lol.
Possibly a just a Cavendish that was grown in Tabasco. I have found Cavindish vary a fair amount due to cultural factors.
I'm in SoCal, my fave variety that I can get here are called "Burro" bananas. Creamy with a lemony flavor even when really ripe.
My red bananas are almost orange inside, and bananas actually have a very different taste even being the same clone depending on the soil they are grown.
You need to go to India and try the red bananas there. They’re much like the one here you are describing but longer, sweeter and bananerier than any banana I’ve ever had.
This would make an excellent ASMR channel. No music, eating noises.
I had a girlfriend once that liked asmr videos, she had to watch with headphones because it has the opposite effect on me. But yeah if I made 2 hour long videos eating bananas I'd probably get a lot of subscribers... for a lot of reasons.
Love me some reds
Peppers, peppers. You need to try peppers
Even if you can't handle the heat, there are a lot of nice heatless peppers in different places
almost 300!
Ive had red bananas. If you’re lucky, they’ll sell them at Kroger in America.
Red bananas or morado in Spanish. Those were ripish, if you waited longer for it to ripen it should be super creamy and sweet.
I wonder at the grocery if organic Chiquita or Del Monte vs non organic are any different? What I’m accustomed to all my life🎅🏻
You should do a video on calamansi from the Philippines. You can use it in/on a dish as a lemon substitute since it would be very sour to try by itself.
I've done it twice :) once alone and then again comparing the ripe and unripe ones. do a channel search for the video. They are great though, love the flavor.
ooh, I want to try those Seda bananas, though I don't know where I can get any. I don't wanna have to go to Mexico to get them...
I remember a week ago or so I saw a bunch of tiny bananas (some sort of non-Cavendish, but I couldn't tell what kind it was since...) while at our local supermarket, I got really excited and wanted to get them but my mom was feeling shitty and in a hurry since she broke her hand and just wanted to go out. It might have been one of these bananas since we live rather close to the Mexican border.
How do they get so many varieties of banana without seeds?
you've gone bananas
out of the 4 I've tried only the red and the seda. Honestly,i actually don't really like the Cavendish very much.
Esos "Dominico" parecen los que se conocen como "Manzanos" porque te recuerdan a las manzanas.
The intro music reminds me of the ending theme of Berserk (The original animation)
Will you go to a farm or institute that breeds unusual banana varieties?
I did in one of my past reviews, I didn't film on the premises though. Maybe in a future video.
I am not sure how they develop new varieties. Since edible bananas are seedless, they can't be bred. Do they just remake the original hybridization over and over from the seedy ancestral species and hope for something interesting? Or are bananas just super-prone to mutation (radioactive potassium isotopes?)?
I remember an add that used to pop up all the time about the red banana. It was "doctors hate this crazy trick for penis enlargement!"
It's a weird one, but native to the Pacific Northwest at least; any interest in checking out wapatow/arrowhead? I've heard they're pretty good, but take that with a grain of salt. I imagine the tuber is probably better with salt too.
I’m going bananas!
You should try macho banana it’s bigger and it taste better than the Tabasco one
Tabasco, con A. Y has oído de Musa gigantea, de Nueva Guinea, que alcanza los 30 metros de altura?
I'm getting some red bananas tomorrow
didnt get the info I was hoping for. does anyone know how to tell if a red banana is ripe enough to eat?
Mine is a bit underripe, should have some more browning to it
Very droll..... VERY funny...... of course, informative too!!!!
I’ve got so many fruits pre-ordered from Miami Fruit, that when they start shipping again the end of this month, I’ll probably get boxes of fruit, and hopefully I won’t waste any! If you’re back in N. America, you can swing over to Tennessee to eat fruit with me! 🍌 🍎 🍉
Oh nice! Yeah last time I got a box from them I had so much fruit in my apartment I had to get strategic and made a bunch of jam.
Weird Explorer I’ll probably just share with my neighbors, because I’m too lazy to make jam. 🤣
mria621 their Banana Variety Box is sold out. :’(
endel12 Bummer! I can’t honestly remember everything I pre-ordered, so I’ll have to check my orders to even know what to expect. I know I have ice cream beans, custard apples, and egg fruit ordered, but I’m pretty sure I preordered a banana box, too, before they were sold out. It’s like Christmas in summer time! 😂 I’m a dork, I know. 👊
I have never seen 'seda' bananas in Mexico. That variety is common in Peru. I seriously wonder if 'seda' bananas are not actually the same as 'dominico', perhaps grown in a different area. Also, while many have already noted this, 'Tobasco' is actually 'Tabasco', as in, the state of Tabasco-although they are grown all the way down the southwestern coast of Mexico.
I just read somebody note that Seda is a synonym of Dominico on a Banana Forum, so you may indeed be correct. Love
one banana i tried tasted like mango..if you close your eye and tasted it definitely mango while in reality its banana..its peel is super thin to the point its breaking apart while you peel it..its better than pisang keling certainly and similar to seda in appearance
Great video, have you tried macho bananas? They're huge and they are eaten super ripe when the Peel is Black.
They’re for cooking.
No one:
RUclips: would you like to watch a banana review .
Is the next episode is in Mexico
yup Mexico goes up until episode 300, then its off to India
not tobasco, but Tabasco, its the name of the region/state, just like the "chile" and the sauce
Seda, pronounced “say-thah,” means “silk.”
“Morado” means “purple.”
Tobasco is the name of a Mexican state, so that might be where they are grown, as opposed to the name of a variety.
Go to Kerala you will find all these varieties along with other different 25 varieties you never seen or tasted
Fried red bananas with salt and parmesean is good.
Make sure they are unripe
Btw “morado” is purple: they are purple before ripeness
You can find these in South West Florida farmers markets in areas predominately Latino
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chiapas has pineapple bananas ,, they are amazing !!!!!!!!