KUMQUATS - Comparing Limequats! Mandarinquats! Orangequats! And More!- Weird Fruit Explorer
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- Опубликовано: 9 мар 2021
- Kumquats - Weird Fruit Explorer
Species: Citrus japonica, Citrus × floridana, C. unshiu x C. japonica
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Which kumquat would you like to try most?
Pomelquat - have they done that one yet?
The second one
fukushu
Mandarinquat
You don't have the kumquats that we have in our yard... sweet rind and sweet flesh!! You're missing out!! :) Everyone is always surprised and come by every year to get some. They always say that "they're as sweet as candy"
Mandarinquats: we come from mandarines!
Limequats: we come from limes!
Kumquats: *sweats nerviously*
At least they didn't call them kumlimes
LMAOO
Haaaa
Awkward, should of had a tissue to wipe his face after that.
I almost choke in laughter lol 😂
He needs to make a bitter chart
Where 1 is a glass of water, and 10 is my divorce.
@@raggedyanarchist whooaaa.
@@raggedyanarchist Genuine lol
@@raggedyanarchist what is 5 though?
@@WildVoltorb Haha. Hadn't put that much thought into it. Maybe a grapefruit.
Kumquats go really well with black tea, like an English breakfast. I can't stomach eating too many, but if you just cut the top off and squeeze one into your teacup, it's better than a lemon or lime. If any of you are black tea drinkers, you owe it to yourself to use a kumquat and some raw flower honey at some point.
sounds nice!
@@WeirdExplorer It most certainly is. ^_^
I didn't know people did that. I'll have to try it.
I'm an avid tea drinker and never knew what kumquats were but seeing this comment and now knowing what they are, imma have to try that!
Wouldn't surprise me if they went well with earl grey tea, too
i remember eating this kumquats when i was a kid i lived in a farm, usually walked like 2 miles to arrive one tree of these tasty fruit, my mom has planted these tree a long time ago and planned to construct a house close to the tree, i had forget that until i see your video. Unfortunately the house was never built and the farm was sold piece by piece due to money problems at the time. it was a long time ago but the memory of the flavor still remains with me... Maybe someday I will be able to go back there and try this wonderful and tasty fruit again, if the tree is still alive haha (sorry if the text got confused im from Brasil)
“You wouldn’t take a bite out of a lemon wedge. And you wouldn’t take a bite out of a lime wedge. “
I yelled YOU DON’T KNOW ME! 😂 I love limes and lemons!
I ALWAYS eat the lemon wedges when they get served to me at restaurants. Whether it's meant to be squeezed on food or in my glass of water, that lemon wedge is going in my mouth instead. Lol
@@emilieloveskiwi yes!
@@emilieloveskiwi I think I'm in love.
@@Gatorade69 Well, I'm single, sooooo 😂
I grew up noshing on lemons and limes. They are so good! I can’t do it anymore because my teeth have gotten too sensitive.
I knew kumquats were a thing that existed since I was young, but had never seen one before watching this channel. Never thought to look them up. I always imagined them as something much stranger.
You’re not wrong about the artificial sweetener bit. Some citrus fruits contain neohesperidin; Seville oranges are a particularly rich source. It’s extracted commercially and chemically modified to make a semisynthetic sweetener.
Very interesting!! As someone who wants to breed citrus
Mandarinquats are my favorite that I’ve had, I like that it’s larger yet still completely edible. I do like the limequats though, they remind me of eating Warheads candy as a kid and getting punched in the mouth with sourness lol
Your citrus series needs "does it marmalade?"
I know Jared is only discussing fruit, but he had me for the whole video.
Literally, im even using this as a podcast
I'm a part of the Texas RFG group and personally have 19 varieties of citrus growing right now. So excited to see all these fruits taste tested!!
Citrus fruits remind me of dogs in how many incredibly different size and types there can be and the hybrids from those oddball combos.
My list:
Golden Grapefruit
Page Mandarin
Shiranui Mandarin
Nippon Orangequat
Thomasville Citrangequat
Indio Mandarinquat
Nagami Kumquat
Changshou Kumquat
Meiwa Kumquat
Marumi Kumquat
Key Lime
Giant Key Lime
New Zealand Lemonade
Australian Finger Lime
Yuzu
Seville Orange
Carizzo Citrange
Trifoliate Orange
Rangupur Lime
Love your Channel!
I love Kumquats. The combination of sweet and sour is just so good. They're also super easy to grow, and they're one of most cold-hardy fresh eating citrus (they can handle somewhere around 10-15 degrees when mature). They also grow well in pots for those who can't grow them in the ground.
That's pretty much the reason to grow the limequat - it's hardy enough to grow in places you can't grow lemons or limes.
Limequats are indeed powerful. I took a bite thinking they would be sweet/sour like a kumquat and regretted instantly. I turned them into a nice limequatade :-).
I've got a newly, potted, 3ft tall Lakeland Limequat Tree, in my bedroom!
My tree will be epic, because I love eating Limes.
Take a shot every time he says Kumquat.
A kumshot
Lol.
I'd be so drunk I would...
I made it to 4 minutes...
A shot of kum.
I swear jared has inspired me to begin my own weird fruit journey
how is the journey going?
So... follow this logic with me. Orangequats, mandarinquarts, limequats, kumquats...
Yes.
Cumquat
@@AdamBeyond very interesting word.
*slurps up kumquat*
Ain't nothing you can't have with that quat.
can't wait for the sequel "for a few kumquats more"
Trying kumquats for the first time is how i realized i have a mild citrus oil allergy. Great flavor until my mouth goes numb lol
The best Kumquats I have ever had is from trees at the U of A Tucson . They are so good .
I have both a limequat and a mandarinquat tree in my backyard. They produce nonstop all year, and produce hundreds of pounds! So much so that the branches grow downwards sometimes from the weight of the fruit
I usually just take a bite into it, and squeeze out the juice into my mouth, and toss the skin out
You've really built your tolerance to sour fruits. I remember several years back when you compared a few varieties of lime and you just seemed like you were in pain the entire time.
Meiwa is pronounced "may-wah" as in the month of May.
good to know! thanks!
11:30 he's trying so hard for us guys, he in pain but he's trying to figure out the sweetness level for us 🥲
I once got several kilos of the regulars and ate them all.
They are so delicious.
I'd like to try them all, Jared.
TY for tzhe video.
I do eat lemon and lime wedges. I know, I’m a freak. May have to try these
Now I want to make a mixed kumquat marmalade
that would be great!
On crepes
Thanks for taking one for the team with that limequat. You're awesome. Love your channel. Thanks for the frequent uploads of late. Great content.
Kumquats are fantastic. Had the luck to have access to a large variety of them in large quantities when I used to work for a company that was importing exotic fruits in the UK. And boy, oh boy… these things are insanely good
never tried a kumquat but now i'm intrigued
When I lived in Phoenix many years ago, I had what I think was a Meiwa Kumquat tree in my yard. I would roast or grill them which dried them a little but enhanced the sweetness. Thanks for the videos!
Will try it in Tucson.
That’s so cool! I just bought a Korean jello pouch that was Philippine lime flavored and I was wondering what sort of fruit that was. Thanks for the content!
ah that is the calamansi. I did a video of that a few years back, heres a link: ruclips.net/video/KJTGecvn074/видео.html
My grandfather had a lot of hunting gear. One was a duck call he called the 'Kumquat Call', and he'd blow it about 4:30 in the morning to get us up to go fishing. When they came back from Florida he pulled a bag of Kumquats out of the trunk of the car...
I love kumquats theyre just awesome snacks from nature and we even used to grow these in our garden but not anymore sadly
Since watching this channel, every time I see berries growing on a bush, I always think to myself, are those edible? Would Jared eat them?
The answer is usually: probably not and yes.
eating wild fruit without knowing what they are is like playing the lottery. it could be edible, but it's not guaranteed to taste good. you could've had it unripe, and it might be absolutely repulsive in that state. or it could just be poisonous and you might be hugging the toilet a few hours later.
@@somethinginthewalls388 yeah but before watching this channel, I would never have even glanced or seen most of the wild berry looking plants growing near the bank, near the doctor office, near the post office, on the sidewalks, near my favorite restaurant, on a bush or tree guarding the office... you see what I’m saying?
@@sleepyoldtiger372 yeah, i understand that.
You clearly don't have a palate for sourness, but whenever I see that wince, I know you are taking one for the team. I really appreciate your perseverance in this regard, and I believe it's one of the things that make your reviews great to follow.
I love kumquats. They’re an amazing fruit. I almost never find them where I live
I didn't try kumquats until I was 30 (they aren't super popular in Australia) and I'm obsessed, I have my own nagami plant with little baby fruits on it, exciting!
This video makes me happy! Kumquats have always been my favorite citrus. :)
I have a limequat tree and love them whole! They are a prolific producer of fruits. The skin is modestly sweet and mild, very juicy. I imagine it would be great chaiser with tequila shots!
Imagine cross breeding a kumquat and a blood orange(i think its called that) if that exists already i will eat it no matter what since that might be a good think
I've always thought about that! I wonder if it would be a red kumquat or a really sour blood orange
@@chad3883 yeaah i wish it was a red kumquat that would be awesome
I wanna buy trees for both and try crossing them
Bloodquat has a ring to it alright
some of the australian native "finger limes" are blood red, as well as having an interesting internal structure of like packed globules. the fruits are small and the flavor is very good in the ones i tried, so these might be ideal if you can find them
Second. I’d really like to know what a good kumquat tastes like. My guess is the stuff I get around me are ok at the best.
Yeah, they are definitely best when picked fresh. I recommend growing them yourself. If it's too cold to grow them in the ground where you are they do well in pots.
Tang.
*Great* video!
I love the citrus fruit videos. After finding the channel I have gone back and watched all the previous citrus videos.
You inspired me to go pick some kumquats from my tree. I made marmalade from them a few times which turned out great, but always found them too intense to eat out of hand. But I really enjoyed them this time. Cutting them in half and squeezing out a little of the sour flesh really helped get the right balance of sweet and sour for me. Thanks!
If there's one thing this channel has taught me it's that humans love making up citrus fruits
This was worth watching just for your limequat reaction! I'm growing the meiwa but I want all the others too... can't find them easily. They grow so prolifically it makes me feel like an expert gardener.
I should’ve known you’d have a video like this 😂😂 Love ya Jared
i love kumquats. Wish I was tasting them. Thanks. good info
Aw, I was hoping that the kumquat selection would include a Citrangequat. They're usually hybrids of a citrange (a citrus and poncirus) and usually a nagami kumquat. They're famous for being about the hardiest citrus palatable citrus, only edged out by the trifoliate orange.
Just watching you eating those quats makes my mouth water lol
Hope you get to try Marumi, a larger type kumquat with a less sour interior and less sweet skin but without bitterness. Meiwa has the best flavor, an intensely orange flavor
I love mandarinquats, I wish they were more readily available. They're really nice sliced thinly and laid out on a platter. Like crunchy orange chips.
Kumquats are my all time favorite fruit!
"A Fistful of Kumquats" was the least successful spaghetti western ever filmed, but its sequel was a star-maker.
I've lived with a Nagami bush/tree my whole life. I like to bite off the stem end first and suck out the juice slowly and spit the seeds. Then I either nibble the skin and pith slowly or chomp it whole. I'm excited to try the other varieties when I encounter them.
Edit. They make an amazing marmalade too.
you had a good variety of Kumquats there.
so recently pomelos have been at rock bottom prices like $150-175 each in stores so I bought 10 of them and made some candied citrus peel with them. out of all the citrus peels there are I think pomelo is one of the best fruits to use. go try it folks its super easy and those peels are edible as fork!
$1.50? damn. I just bought two at $9 a pop
@@WeirdExplorer Oh yea, I might mention that is central Cali prices... prices in other places might vary. Just about every store has them here, it's like someone drove a fleet of pomelo trucks around town and needed to sell them to empty the trucks out for the next delivery.
@@WeirdExplorer
Here in Tucson AZ, they're running $10/dozen at street fruit vendors now. A dry quart basket of standard kumquats going for $6. The HUGE lemons are going for 3 for a dollar, but are virtually tasteless (zest works in salad or seafood, though). The local citrus has been outstanding this spring. Guessing due to drought conditions the last twelve months. Netted the fig tree. Kept the birds out. Ants and yellow jackets appreciated the effort. End of rant. Peace. Love. Rock 'n' Roll. Fruit. The four states of conciousness.
Kumquats - the fruit with the name that brings out my inner 10 year old.
I only just had kumquats for the first time a few days ago since my local grocery store finally had them and they're really good, although the smaller ones are a little extreme with the sourness
The face at 7:01 killed me. That could be a meme.🤣
My friend has a kumquat tree that gives bumper crops every 3-5 years. I get bags of these things in those years and devour them quickly.
Just yesterday I was thinking about the quinotos I ate when I was in Argentina when I was a kid and today you make this video. Talk about a coincidence haha
A Fistful of Kumquats... I think I saw that movie.
Awesome! Kumquat rinds are the best! If you ever make a video and try to make kumquat marmalade I’d definitely try making it as well.
Have actually made marmalade with kumquats and ruby red grapefruit! Yummy on a bagel with philly cream cheese!
I found limequat juice at the old store I worked at and I really liked it. I couldn't find it again, and it isn't at my new store.
Kumquats are so delicious, yum.
In south Florida we have quats the skins are super sweet with sour flesh so unique and delicious
good video my Dr.s office has a tree the kumquates like your 1st one from supermarket, are the shape & size of a date, last office visit 2 weeks ago they where green w/ a little yellow do they turn yellow then organe? like when are they ripe to eat? can I pick them when there are half green half yellow,
we at located in centrel Alabama 200 hundred miles north of gulf of mexico, never sean a ctrius plant/tree north of the panhandle of Florida where a friend grows lemons.
My lulo seeds come in tomorrow and I'm so excited. I figure if I can grow weed I can grow a tomato relative indoors.
There were limequats at a store here in MO a few weeks ago. They tasted exactly like lemon to me, too sour by themselves so used them in tea and drinks.
the channel, Smartereveryday? thats really cool of him to give back to other creators.
I LOVE WEIRD FRUITS‼️‼️‼️‼️
Mandarins are my favorite citrus. Looks like I should try a kumquat if I get the chance.
I like the smell of citrus peels, yet they taste bad....
Kumquats? NOICE!
The only citrus where the peel is sweeter than the flesh
Growing up as a kid on the coast in Mississippi we had those alot. Specifically the miewa or little round ones if I misspelled that. Idk if they are native there or because we have a high amount of Vietnamese families after the war but we ate them a lot.
The first time I tried kumquats I didn't like them but because know it has been brought to my knowledge that there are other hybrids that might as well be better, I would try and find those!
I grow fukushu and meiwa and I've tasted Nagami. I absolutely love the fukushu. It's the perfect balance of sweet and sour and I don't get much bitter at all. It is on the larger side but I find it to be extremely flavorful, satisfying and refreshing as a single bite fruit. I have a big mouth;)
Sounds great!
I have all 3 growing and so far I have only taste the Nagami and meiwa, but the Meiwa is soooo good!
@@SKiLLsSoLoN meiwa is great and definitely much better than the Nagami in my opinion.
They only rarely come into UK supermarkets. It used to be the delicious oval one with many seeds, but has been the pointy one with few seeds. My Mum used to have one as a houseplant, and whenever I visited, it was covered in delicious fruit, but my parents would not belive me when I told them they were edible! They are the only 'orange' in UK supermarkets that tastes of anything at all, but are very expensive, and usually chill killed, so the day after you get them home the pointy end has turned to mush. I try to buy them and plant seeds whenever I can, but, so far, they always get to about 4" high, and then the leaves turn yellow and drop off. One year, I had 12 of them, in small pots, and every one died at 4" high. :( I grew a little tangerine from seed this year. Trying to hold it at a foot high, but no flowers yet.
Here there is only one variety of lime 'Tahiti', and it has no pips at all, but is less likely to immediately turn velvetty blue like the chill killed lemons do. You have the best job in the world! Here there are hardly any fruit and veg varieties in superstores, and nearly all of it is ddead, and rots if you don't put it straight in the fridge. Kids never get to taste anything ripe. It's good to see so much enthusiasm in other countries. I used to like the California Rare Fruit Growers monologues on growing exotic fruit from pips. I had forgotten about them till you reminded me. Another good resource is PFAF 'Plants For A Future', which tells you about the uses of your local wild fruits, that hardly anyone (in UK believes ou can eat. I've even had school kids ask me what cherries were, when I was picking them off trees in the town centre. Even the pigeons wouldn't eat them. They only eat dropped burgers. :(
if you can get kumquat verities that have no seeds theyer excellet ot make fine marmalade.. you slice them upnd boil them with sugar and pectin and its just Delicious toast. i recall having them in tarts with other frut like a pear and kumquat jellied tart . its really good to make kompot drinks with too .
Sadly not an breakthrue in Kumquatbreeding. My favorit is the Limequat rind and seeing you suffer, when biting into the Limequat slice🤣👍 Love your content😘
kumquats are awesome, grow them in the backyard
What is the season for kumquats? I'd love to make some marmalade, but I never see them for sale.
I love my limeqaut tree, wish It'd produce more
Hey Jared, how do you perceive your taste pallet has evolved over the years of trying exotic fruit?
My dad has a kumquat tree and I like to munch on them when I visit but the ice storms that hit the South last month did in the last of the kumquats. I don't think it killed the tree but I'll have to wait till next year for them.
I'm a fan of the quats
Yay!!! He has a Sailor Mouth!!!!
I really need to get into citrus breeding. My favorite fruit resides here. 😂
Oh wow my mom has two different varieties growing and they’re both the size of grapes
would love to grow these!
My mom has a kumquat tree that I think is a Nippon orangequat. I can confirm that their taste is quite sour.
I tried a few kumquats years ago and they seemed little more than a neat oddity, a citrus with an edible rind. I found the inside was too sour and full of seeds to be something that I would pay money for again. Though now I'm wondering if the ones I had just weren't that good.
Seems like the crosses defeat the biggest drawing point of the kumquat by adding the typical bitterness and astringency back to the rind. Would be interesting to see them crossed with a citrus like a Amalfi Coast lemon that doesn't have much bitterness in the rind either but are very aromatic.
Have trees of all the above varieties, minus the Nagami, but with the addition of the Marumi---which is much like the Meiwa. I have really enjoyed this guys channel over the yrs and was a member of the Arizona Rare Fruit Growers Association for a few yrs. But he really disses these---not sure why. I love almost all of them & don't really get the bitterness--minus the Nagami, which is usually too tart. I can even pop my Eustis Limequat whole, as it is NOT quite as sour as a regular lime. They are sour but tolerable---and very tasty. They as also very healthy, with the combo of rind & pith...
Did you save the seeds from all these rare citrus varieties?
got that straight up forest whitaker eye on that limequat
"You don't want to take a bite out of a lemon wedge."
... Wait, it's not normal?
when i get a lemon wedge with food at a restaurant i normaly squeese the juicy bt over chips and vegies then eat the rest,it always tasts good.
13:48 hmm... I dont drink alcohol myself, but the possibilities of rare fruits in cocktails is something that seems kinda interesting to me
I love kumquats but my mouth feels like its on fire after eating the kumquat peel I still eat it because it's very good but do I have an allergy or is it just the limonene?
A Kumquat crossed with a Pomelo would be cool if possible. Would it be tiny sweet grapefruit or sour 100% piff?