Watch the whole Coco de Mer Series! Part 1: ruclips.net/video/GqicsIDYmgU/видео.html Part 2: ruclips.net/video/aNoN0txy-pE/видео.html Part 3: ruclips.net/video/wJizOKSY19M/видео.html Part 4: ruclips.net/video/WPo0wvvc2O0/видео.html Part 5: ruclips.net/video/lu_gWOO1kQU/видео.html
Wow! They... were... EXCELLENT!! I'm looking forward to seeing more epic documentaries like this. You may even revisit some fruits you have documented in the past but are worthy of similar treatment.
With all the decades-old agri-biotech out there, no one has so much as attempted to try to...I dunno...Clone (or something) this thing? Somewhere out there *has* to be some eccentric Mad Scientist, with [Chinese-?]Mob connections, who has figured out how to “easily” cultivate this thing (or at least something like it, proverbially “Good Enough for Government Work”), and has a nice little garden/orchard in his/her underground lair. (“Underground”? Hey, LEDs and all that, doncha know?)
Man, you went so far above and beyond with this series. This was one of the most interesting and engaging series I have seen on youtube in a *long* time, and I am sad it is over. Your passion for fruit hunting is infectious, and I feel like this series, more than any other videos on your channel, really made me experience this journey through your eyes. I learned more than I ever thought possible about something I didn't even know existed. I really can't understate how enjoyable this was to watch. Thank you so much for all the time, money, and effort you put in to making this. I hope others enjoyed it as much as I did.
Okay. You want to know what it tastes like? It's jelly. Slightly fermented flavour to it. You know those chunks of coconut squared jelly you get in mixed fruit cocktail cans? Well that's it. They hosted a creole food festival a few years ago in Seychelles and I got a chance to taste it. It was okay. Didn't feel like I got any wiser or anything though 🧐😅
A lot of commenters seem to think that throwing money at the trees will make them grow faster. It's a tree that takes *DECADES* to fruit. Unless you're buying a time machine, put your black card away. You can't buy _everything._
@@RPD_ps I mean that tells a lot about what kind of education people is receiving this days, everyone is thaught to pursue money and power instead of pursuing happiness and knowledge
Thank you for this. We tend to glorify people who get blinded by their goals or will do anything to get [blank]. But rules exist for a reason, and protecting an endangered species is worth more than you getting to check another thing off your bucket list.
@@baddie1shoe Thanks for asking. If they were worried about it going extinct they would incentivize private ownership and sale of the fruits by private individuals. If what was stated in the video was true then individuals would grow the tree so they could sell the fruits to tourists
@@vitriolicAmaranth no.... All nuts are used for reproduction of the tree. If i give you a golden egg or a 10% chances of having a golden eggs laying goose, what will you choose. In the next 40-50 years, it will be still a little expensive but definitely not rare anymore, and the best thing is that your children and grandchildren can also taste it.
@@bachvandals3259 That's a lie. All nut's are definitely not used for reproduction of the tree. He just said in the video, that they take the meat out of the nut and use it to make alcohol and local medicine.
@@3000gtwelder He ask about outside sources. Also, no... Even on the island it's impossible to buy anything like that, "once had been made from it" is the right words. And no, ... You can't make alcohol from coconuts, it's not a real thing. You can however make distilled alcohol from fermented flower sap, Which... Is legal, i believe they call it arrack or something.
I am glad you resisted the temptation. You two have been going around the island asking about the fruit, raising eyebrows. What if it was a trap? You're not only doing the right thing by saying no but also playing it safe. Very wise decision.
I'd say you did a 100% great job in this series even with how you got to describe the flavor at the end. Thanks for posting this series and glad with your decisions made in this video!
This video series, and the one about Baobab should be compulsory watching in schools regarding protection of these plants. It was a truly incredible serie to watch, and to echo the sentiment here, the fact that you decided to do the right thing speaks volumes about the kind of person you are, Jared. Chapeau.
The fact that you didn't give in says a lot about you. I'm legitimately so happy to have found a slice of what it means to be a documentarian left on RUclips through you. Weird Fruit Explorer in the most literal meaning of that name. I'm so close to being caught up with all of your videos (not just fruit) in chronological order, and I'm happy, but I'm also sad. And it takes an incredible series to be able to introduce that sadness in me. So, genuinely thank you for making me sad!
I’m so happy that you made this series! This was a legit documentary on the Coco de mer. You know have one of them most informative video collections on this tree throughout YT! I’m so glad you decided to remain within the law and respect their protection rules. Again, thank you so much for this whole video series! I absolutely loved it!
I'm happy with your decision of not having it illegally, :) as a botanist I have learned so much more than I could have in college, thank you for this great series. You're such a great guy!
So awesome to meet you yesterday, Jared!!! You should be so proud of what you've accomplished with this documentary, including sticking by your principles and doing right by vulnerable plants. You're a very cool person.
Don't regret, this palm is very similar to toddy palm (Borassus flabellifer) except for the nut size. I bet it will taste like the palmyra nut. When the fruit is young, inside jelly-like and after germinating is like the coconut you have shown in one of your videos.
This was your masterpiece, just beautifully made and I thank you. I so enjoyed learning all about the legendary coco de mer. Though you and Steven were unable to taste “the fruit of Eden” it was intriguing to hear from those who did. I let my imagination conjure an image of you both savoring that sweet, aromatic jelly. Delicious! 😋
I never thought I would be so relieved and so proud that you did not taste the fruit that sent you on this massive journey. We were all waiting for this final episode, interested maximum Pique... And 10 mins in all I could think was... PLEASE don't eat it. That's to me what made this series so meaningful. All the research and interviews are what gave you such a profound knowledge of the history and life of this fruit. If you had eaten it, then it would have showed that you didn't understand it at all. Amazing amazing work!!
I really appreciate your conservation message. It's important to remember that there is a cost to seeking exotic experiences. Stephen summed it up when he said he'd love to try it, but feels lucky to just have seen the plant in the wild. And...it really is a great hat, sort of Indianan Jones!
i personally loved watching this series, you went far beyond what i expected when it came to what content and information would be in these vids, and that bit at the very end about how it tasted was basically all anyone could reasonably ask for. thank you so much for producing this series!! it was truly entertaining and obviously informative!
You live vicariously through the experiences of others. Temptation is a very powerful thing, good thing you're stronger than that. Great job, fantastic series.
The Seychelles was one of my most favorite places I've ever visited. True to the souvenirs of the fruit everywhere. The Smithsonian has one on display. The people are amazing. The memories are vivid. The bats flying around are huge. Truly a gem so many don't even know exists.
i have to say that i teared up a bit at the end, when you were explaining why you decide to not have a taste. Its incredible how we can assign so much monetary and spiritual value to things like big nuts
I very much admire your passion and dedication to the proper care and respect for these plants. I think it's very easy for people to lose their perspective in the pursuit of goals, and to downplay the natural consequences of disregarding these rules. The most important fruit of all is that of respect and consideration, and yours is a bountiful harvest, Jared!
after hearing so much about how they protect it, i knew you wouldn't try it 🥰 so glad you aren't contributing to something awful. i think one day maybe you will be able to see how it tastes.. legally. i hope so anyway. great job on the documentary! it was so enjoyable 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
I probabily would've fought to get some seeds, convince the people in our country to grow it in the botanical gardens and so on, and raise the interest of the people here, so they may preserve it as well, the problem was that the people in Seychelles probably didn't want the tree to be grown elsewhere in the world because it would reduce the worth of the fruit, but if it has any medical properties and so on, the it is thus more worth it, I do have to say, nice documentary either way and I do hope that fellow botanists will save this species of palms soon enough.
How to legally eat coco de mer: 1.) Take a bunch of nuts 2.) Plant them 3.) Wait 30 years 4.) Eat a few nuts from the trees you planted If everyone who wanted to try the coco de mer would do this, the tree population will explode in like a century.
And yes, I am very proud of your decision and happy to watch yoyr channel. You illegally eating that fruit would have killed the curiosity but I wouldn't be able to keep watching this channel. Thanks for being true to yourself :')
I am a big fan of yours Jared. A fellow fruit hunter. Love your videos. This is your best one yet! It is simply fascinating! Being originally from Hong Kong, I miss the taste of the wampee along with other tropical fruits. It is a shame that I have no access to them in the states. Just so you know, you should always eat a wampee with the skin on. The flesh is very tasty, but the fragrance/essence is in the skin. As with the kumquat, the whole point of eating a wampee is all about the skin. That perfume of the wampee skin is simply intoxicating! From my childhood, I remember a very rare fruit that I've tried. In fact, it is so rare that I've only had it once as a gift from a local former who had this strange tree on her land that she said grew out of nowhere. It had never produced enough to made it to any market. It is called "the baby chick fruit" in Cantonese according to the old lady former. Perhaps she made the name up? It is yellow in color and a little bigger than a ping pong ball. The fruit is nicely mild in flavor, but it is very floral in fragrance. The fragrance of this fruit reminded me of the "sweet olive flower" crossed with roses. It is very light, sweet and airy. Frankly, it tastes exactly like what you would expect a little toddler would enjoy. Lightly sweet, zero sourness, simple (without complexity) and not overpowering. The most distinctive thing about it is that it is hollow in the inside with a perfectly round (brown) seed about the size of macadamia nut knocking around when you shake it. The flashy (eatable) shell part is not very juicy, but it is firm and crunchy about a 1/3rd of an inch thick. After all these decades, I still remember the baby chick fruit as it is one of the most rare and unique fruit I've ever tasted and never again. The skin is yellow, the flesh is firm white and the seed is brown while being hollow in the inside. It looks just like a small yellow guava or a well rounded macadamia fruit. The closest thing to it that I saw on your videos was the yellow mangosteen and that is not it! What I am pointing out here is that there are fruits in the world that are pure elevation in the olfactory sense even when it is mild tasting. I hope you'll come across it in your travels Jared and make a video of it as it is such an unknown fruit to the world. My fellow fruit hunters are more than welcome to charm in to fill in the blanks. Please add to our knowledge base. Thank you.
I don't know why the RUclips algorithm is just now recommending this to me. I've followed you forever and I love documentaries. Well done man! This was brilliant. Please make more in this format
I grew up in Sri Lanka where there is a lot of coconut trees and many trees that belongs to the palm tree family but never heard about coco de mer …thank you for the great programs that you do and the knowledge you give people…I enjoy watching your shows
You can really tell how much work went in making this series, it is so informative, interesting and entertaining. Thank you so much for sharing your journey, as well as the history and life of the plant.
As a consolation you should seek out the smallest coconut - coquito from Jubaea chilensis. Very chewy but very moreish. I got some from a UK supermarket over a decade ago and have not seen them since.
I went into this series really REALLY hoping you’d find a way to taste it, but I ended up being so glad that you resisted the temptation. I think that says a lot about the quality of this video series and the deep respect for the history of the coco de mer that it imparts. Thanks for another great video!
Have watched all 5 segments on the coco de mer, fascinating, disheartening, and inspiring. Wonderful coverage of this rare and endangered nut, well done!
I really appreciate that despite the fact that hunting down and tasting fruits is a huge part of your channel and life, you kept your integrity and settled for just learning the fascinating story of the coco de mer. It takes a lot of strength at times to fight the temptation to try something so rare and unique, but to do so would be to support a horrific industry that harms so much of the worlds endangered life, be it plants or animals.
Sometimes, it's all about the journey, not the destination. You might not have tasted the coco de mer, but you, and us with you, tasted a big, juicy and full of flavour slice of history and culture. I had no idea about this fruit, the legends, the myths, and yet I found myself completely immersed and fascinated throughout this series. As tempting as it was, I am glad you resisted the proposal. I have a sensation that it would have left you with a bitter after taste anyway.
This series took a serious turn. I really hope these trees are around in the future. They survived millions of years on their own but a couple hundred of years of human intervention had just about wiped them out. This was a great set of videos. I'm happy you did the right thing. You helped by spreading the word that these trees must be protected.
Our lives are veritable blip on the radar of time. Nature is forever so it's worth protecting so that people can continue to have journeys like you had in this series. Sometimes we have to forego certain experiences to avoid stoking the flames of human greed but I think that's a price worth paying.
I sincerely appreciate and love your thoughts on wildlife conservation and vegetation preservation as well as how intellectual you are! you're an amazing human, more people should take notes from you! too many selfish people in the world today
Thank you for making this marvelous series. And THANK YOU for spreading the message of conservation. I hope that everyone's efforts are "fruitful" and this interesting species can rebound. And maybe one day it will no longer be endangered and you can return and try it!
I am glad they are “protecting” this super rare life. But one issue with the strict laws is it could prevent this plant from getting a new home set up that will outlast the rising water levels and destruction of that small and fragile habitat.
A shame you couldn't try it but I have so much respect for you for not perpetuating the illegal trade of this fruit. Gained a subscriber for your great content and moral resolve.
I enjoyed this series and its bittersweet ending. I hope the day would come when it would be removed from the endangered species list, and tasting will be legally allowed for the public.
Isn't it a bit dangerous to have an endangered plant only growing in two (tiny, very close together) locations? Shouldn't they give a few specimens to, for example, Hawaii, or anywhere else it could grow?
there's some other commenter that said that they have them on hawaii. The issue with it all is that it's not natural - so it takes away from understanding evolution, etc.
Great job with these 5 videos. I feel that it is great that you did not try anything illegal to get the fruit. I can understand your disappointment in not eating it. The end of the video when you showed what other people thought of the flavor was wonderful. You did the best that you could do so that your fans could maybe get the feeling of the flavor. I live in Japan and it is almost akebi season, I wish that you could have eaten it when you were here. It is one of my favorite fruits.
Coco de Rasta. The way the locals describe it as "jelly" makes me think of the jelly nut, which is the coconut at a young age before the coconut water turns into liquid, it is a sweet jelly.
(10:55) "Woul have veered into us and ran us over". Hahaha you know it.😂 Good job at descbing the real cost of tasting the nut. Maybe one day the will look into tissue culture on them.
Clearly, the answer is to get Steven to Grow a bunch of Coco De Mers in his farm and in like 30 years, we'll get to see the episode of you finally tasting it!
Thanks for the really interesting documentary! I love how respectful you are of nature, it is really informative and inspiring. Fruit Safari is such a cool idea!
I'm really happy you made this series about conservation. I love watching you try fruits I probably never will (and some that I now want to try because of you). But I also massively appreciate that you tell about the history and native use of the plants. To me that has always been an interesting, essential, respectful element. And it's lovely when that element includes meeting those people in your travels. You clearly love what you do, but this series really feels like a culmination of that love, and really brings all those elements together. I'm proud that you didn't try the forbidden fruit, and satisfied that you gave us a taste of it from the native peoples who are working so hard to protect it.
I understand the laws and why. I am a coconut freak and would LOVE to try it. I never even knew, or heard of it! I LOVE coconut in all of its gestational stages. Such a beautiful video!🥥❤🕊
The most brilliant details I've couldn't watch over and over again the details are super accurate i come from Seychelles and i deeply salute your wonderful effort to share the details of coco de mer palm tree.. Greatful for immensely entertaining us into chapters regarding the Coco de mer.. Better than our local news .
What a wonderful story and I'm so pleased you got to make the sacrifice on behalf of the tree because every bite of a nut meat is an entire tree that can't be grown. I'm hoping that when they retrieve and hollow out the shells they are able to germinate the seed inside and maybe they're propagating the species with the best of them sometimes. It was a very good idea to interview the locals about what it tasted like as that was fantastic.
Know this is years later, but my Uncle went on holiday to the Seychelles a long time ago, and brought back these nut shells as souvenirs for the family. So yeah, I've known about this fruit for over 10 years now as my household owns a shell, but I never knew the deep history, mythology and how culturally significant it is to the country. Amazing documentary dude. Don't know how or why this ended up in my feed, but I'm glad it did. Watched all 5 episodes. Good luck with your future adventures Mr. Fruit Hunter!
Ya know with how the locals explained the flavor, I think it'd be good to suggest people try sprouted coconut as substitute. It's most likely very much the same flavor! And, ya know, it's much more legal to try sprouted coconut instead XD
After seeing the whole series, I respect you even more. As an old guy in Ohio this has been a truely enlightening lesson for more knowledge in my head. But breaking the law or violating a countries ethics it s a no no. Thanks for this series.
Please know I know how silly this sounds, but this is some of the most interesting journalism I have seen in awhile. I really appreciate you sharing this with the world. I like your content.
I’m almost finished with the series and this whole time I kept hoping you would get to try it until this video and suddenly I’m hoping that you don’t. It’s so interesting that some thing I never even knew existed became important to me over the course of five small videos. Great job man! Truly a great series.
Your videos are incredible! This adventure reminded me of the classic point and click games like Monkey Island and Broken Sword: the exotic islands, the quest, the mystery, the music, the moral lesson in the end. Beautiful stuff.
Watch the whole Coco de Mer Series!
Part 1: ruclips.net/video/GqicsIDYmgU/видео.html
Part 2: ruclips.net/video/aNoN0txy-pE/видео.html
Part 3: ruclips.net/video/wJizOKSY19M/видео.html
Part 4: ruclips.net/video/WPo0wvvc2O0/видео.html
Part 5: ruclips.net/video/lu_gWOO1kQU/видео.html
So, it doesn't taste like chicken?
Anything special planned for episode #420 ?
Jared, I have started captioning the series. Will be done soon
Wow! They... were... EXCELLENT!! I'm looking forward to seeing more epic documentaries like this. You may even revisit some fruits you have documented in the past but are worthy of similar treatment.
@@stanervin6108 Hempseed is an achene, so technically a fruit.
With all the decades-old agri-biotech out there, no one has so much as attempted to try to...I dunno...Clone (or something) this thing?
Somewhere out there *has* to be some eccentric Mad Scientist, with [Chinese-?]Mob connections, who has figured out how to “easily” cultivate this thing (or at least something like it, proverbially “Good Enough for Government Work”), and has a nice little garden/orchard in his/her underground lair. (“Underground”? Hey, LEDs and all that, doncha know?)
Man, you went so far above and beyond with this series. This was one of the most interesting and engaging series I have seen on youtube in a *long* time, and I am sad it is over. Your passion for fruit hunting is infectious, and I feel like this series, more than any other videos on your channel, really made me experience this journey through your eyes. I learned more than I ever thought possible about something I didn't even know existed. I really can't understate how enjoyable this was to watch. Thank you so much for all the time, money, and effort you put in to making this. I hope others enjoyed it as much as I did.
^^what they said.
Mad respect for you not for not getting into the temptation eating the fruit and it was a great journey knowing more about this fruit from this series
Clearly just people milking the island for tourist money, as its already going to go extinct. Just a matter of time...
@@projectnemesi5950 : Clearly just milking the comments section for attention, as his parents never gave him any. Just a matter of no love.
Im your 300th liker here and bye.
He passed the test
Okay. You want to know what it tastes like? It's jelly. Slightly fermented flavour to it. You know those chunks of coconut squared jelly you get in mixed fruit cocktail cans? Well that's it. They hosted a creole food festival a few years ago in Seychelles and I got a chance to taste it. It was okay. Didn't feel like I got any wiser or anything though 🧐😅
thanks for sharing. Now I'm good and if I want to taste it, I'll go grab one of those coconut jellies.
I feel the taste isn't special - it's the allure that is.
I hope your comment gets pinned - this series really needs it!
hahaha awesome. Thanks for this
Interesting! Thanks for sharing this.
A lot of commenters seem to think that throwing money at the trees will make them grow faster. It's a tree that takes *DECADES* to fruit. Unless you're buying a time machine, put your black card away. You can't buy _everything._
True man. And a guy saying that they're already going to go extinct, may as well milk them for money. What the fuck....
@@RPD_ps I mean that tells a lot about what kind of education people is receiving this days, everyone is thaught to pursue money and power instead of pursuing happiness and knowledge
Homo sapiens history is full of foolish actions so no surprise there 😉
Still better men than us sadly
Thank you for this. We tend to glorify people who get blinded by their goals or will do anything to get [blank]. But rules exist for a reason, and protecting an endangered species is worth more than you getting to check another thing off your bucket list.
This is protecting something but it's not the trees.
Well said. I was close to trying whale in South Korea but had the good sense to turn it down when the moment arose.
adwinjones - what do you mean?
@@baddie1shoe Thanks for asking. If they were worried about it going extinct they would incentivize private ownership and sale of the fruits by private individuals. If what was stated in the video was true then individuals would grow the tree so they could sell the fruits to tourists
adwinjones -So, are you saying that the government of Seychelles is really only interested in protecting tourism?
I’m confused.
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wow, coco-de-mer is the true forbidden fruit really
There is a way of eating it: buying a property that has a tree (good luck there)
I wonder if you can eat it in another place they've been introduced to. I imagine that would be crazy expensive though.
@@vitriolicAmaranth no.... All nuts are used for reproduction of the tree. If i give you a golden egg or a 10% chances of having a golden eggs laying goose, what will you choose. In the next 40-50 years, it will be still a little expensive but definitely not rare anymore, and the best thing is that your children and grandchildren can also taste it.
@@bachvandals3259 That's a lie. All nut's are definitely not used for reproduction of the tree. He just said in the video, that they take the meat out of the nut and use it to make alcohol and local medicine.
@@3000gtwelder He ask about outside sources. Also, no... Even on the island it's impossible to buy anything like that, "once had been made from it" is the right words. And no, ... You can't make alcohol from coconuts, it's not a real thing. You can however make distilled alcohol from fermented flower sap, Which... Is legal, i believe they call it arrack or something.
@@bachvandals3259 Dude, did you even watch the video, or understand my statement?
I am glad you resisted the temptation. You two have been going around the island asking about the fruit, raising eyebrows. What if it was a trap? You're not only doing the right thing by saying no but also playing it safe. Very wise decision.
That didn't even occur to me, I wonder if the police there does coco de mer stings...
@@WeirdExplorer I wouldn’t doubt at all that those happen
This whole series was amazing, and I had never heard of the fruit until now!
you hear it when you look at the most exotic and world record druits.
I respect you so much more for respecting the local culture and understanding how important their conservation efforts are
I'd say you did a 100% great job in this series even with how you got to describe the flavor at the end. Thanks for posting this series and glad with your decisions made in this video!
That ending actually made me tear up. The whole series reminds me a little of the movie Adaptation (2002), but a lot better.
This video series, and the one about Baobab should be compulsory watching in schools regarding protection of these plants. It was a truly incredible serie to watch, and to echo the sentiment here, the fact that you decided to do the right thing speaks volumes about the kind of person you are, Jared. Chapeau.
I am very proud of your decision. Beautiful documentary :)
The fact that you didn't give in says a lot about you. I'm legitimately so happy to have found a slice of what it means to be a documentarian left on RUclips through you. Weird Fruit Explorer in the most literal meaning of that name. I'm so close to being caught up with all of your videos (not just fruit) in chronological order, and I'm happy, but I'm also sad. And it takes an incredible series to be able to introduce that sadness in me. So, genuinely thank you for making me sad!
Youre a real planet-teer!
The power is yours!
I’m so happy that you made this series! This was a legit documentary on the Coco de mer. You know have one of them most informative video collections on this tree throughout YT! I’m so glad you decided to remain within the law and respect their protection rules. Again, thank you so much for this whole video series! I absolutely loved it!
My social anxiety wouldn't let me do any of this, if I got scolded by that woman like that i'd die inside for months
I'm happy with your decision of not having it illegally, :) as a botanist I have learned so much more than I could have in college, thank you for this great series. You're such a great guy!
So awesome to meet you yesterday, Jared!!! You should be so proud of what you've accomplished with this documentary, including sticking by your principles and doing right by vulnerable plants. You're a very cool person.
" I don't want to be a Captain Planet villain" Words to live by!
Don't regret, this palm is very similar to toddy palm (Borassus flabellifer) except for the nut size. I bet it will taste like the palmyra nut.
When the fruit is young, inside jelly-like and after germinating is like the coconut you have shown in one of your videos.
This was your masterpiece, just beautifully made and I thank you. I so enjoyed learning all about the legendary coco de mer. Though you and Steven were unable to taste “the fruit of Eden” it was intriguing to hear from those who did. I let my imagination conjure an image of you both savoring that sweet, aromatic jelly. Delicious! 😋
Thanks!
He likely tried it but will not admit it..
@@jessewilson8676 yes, because everyone is evil and selfish, and those laws and conservation totally don't matter 🙄
I never thought I would be so relieved and so proud that you did not taste the fruit that sent you on this massive journey. We were all waiting for this final episode, interested maximum Pique... And 10 mins in all I could think was... PLEASE don't eat it. That's to me what made this series so meaningful. All the research and interviews are what gave you such a profound knowledge of the history and life of this fruit. If you had eaten it, then it would have showed that you didn't understand it at all. Amazing amazing work!!
I really appreciate your conservation message. It's important to remember that there is a cost to seeking exotic experiences. Stephen summed it up when he said he'd love to try it, but feels lucky to just have seen the plant in the wild. And...it really is a great hat, sort of Indianan Jones!
i personally loved watching this series, you went far beyond what i expected when it came to what content and information would be in these vids, and that bit at the very end about how it tasted was basically all anyone could reasonably ask for. thank you so much for producing this series!! it was truly entertaining and obviously informative!
Amazing work on this series dude. It was so cool to see it on the big screens yesterday!! Keep at it 🤙
You live vicariously through the experiences of others. Temptation is a very powerful thing, good thing you're stronger than that. Great job, fantastic series.
The Seychelles was one of my most favorite places I've ever visited. True to the souvenirs of the fruit everywhere. The Smithsonian has one on display. The people are amazing. The memories are vivid. The bats flying around are huge. Truly a gem so many don't even know exists.
oh man those flying foxes were huge
Foster Botanical garden in Honolulu has a few plants and growing more from seed. Really worth a visit.
cool! i'll check it out sometime.
hopefully there'll be enough to restore the species or at least keep it alive!
i have to say that i teared up a bit at the end, when you were explaining why you decide to not have a taste. Its incredible how we can assign so much monetary and spiritual value to things like big nuts
"We are good people"! I am so proud of you for the respect for nature! Thank you!
I very much admire your passion and dedication to the proper care and respect for these plants. I think it's very easy for people to lose their perspective in the pursuit of goals, and to downplay the natural consequences of disregarding these rules.
The most important fruit of all is that of respect and consideration, and yours is a bountiful harvest, Jared!
I came to learn about the fruit, I stayed because the people sound amazing. I would want to visit just for the people alone. Well done.
after hearing so much about how they protect it, i knew you wouldn't try it 🥰 so glad you aren't contributing to something awful. i think one day maybe you will be able to see how it tastes.. legally. i hope so anyway.
great job on the documentary! it was so enjoyable 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
I probabily would've fought to get some seeds, convince the people in our country to grow it in the botanical gardens and so on, and raise the interest of the people here, so they may preserve it as well, the problem was that the people in Seychelles probably didn't want the tree to be grown elsewhere in the world because it would reduce the worth of the fruit, but if it has any medical properties and so on, the it is thus more worth it, I do have to say, nice documentary either way and I do hope that fellow botanists will save this species of palms soon enough.
How to legally eat coco de mer:
1.) Take a bunch of nuts
2.) Plant them
3.) Wait 30 years
4.) Eat a few nuts from the trees you planted
If everyone who wanted to try the coco de mer would do this, the tree population will explode in like a century.
"I don't wanna be a Captain Planet villain" - my new motto for life
Thank you for your integrity. Few in your position could have resisted.
I can't say I wasn't disappointed, but nice job on the videos and I respect your decision not to eat the Coco de Mer
And yes, I am very proud of your decision and happy to watch yoyr channel. You illegally eating that fruit would have killed the curiosity but I wouldn't be able to keep watching this channel. Thanks for being true to yourself :')
I am a big fan of yours Jared. A fellow fruit hunter. Love your videos. This is your best one yet! It is simply fascinating! Being originally from Hong Kong, I miss the taste of the wampee along with other tropical fruits. It is a shame that I have no access to them in the states. Just so you know, you should always eat a wampee with the skin on. The flesh is very tasty, but the fragrance/essence is in the skin. As with the kumquat, the whole point of eating a wampee is all about the skin. That perfume of the wampee skin is simply intoxicating! From my childhood, I remember a very rare fruit that I've tried. In fact, it is so rare that I've only had it once as a gift from a local former who had this strange tree on her land that she said grew out of nowhere. It had never produced enough to made it to any market. It is called "the baby chick fruit" in Cantonese according to the old lady former. Perhaps she made the name up? It is yellow in color and a little bigger than a ping pong ball. The fruit is nicely mild in flavor, but it is very floral in fragrance. The fragrance of this fruit reminded me of the "sweet olive flower" crossed with roses. It is very light, sweet and airy. Frankly, it tastes exactly like what you would expect a little toddler would enjoy. Lightly sweet, zero sourness, simple (without complexity) and not overpowering. The most distinctive thing about it is that it is hollow in the inside with a perfectly round (brown) seed about the size of macadamia nut knocking around when you shake it. The flashy (eatable) shell part is not very juicy, but it is firm and crunchy about a 1/3rd of an inch thick. After all these decades, I still remember the baby chick fruit as it is one of the most rare and unique fruit I've ever tasted and never again. The skin is yellow, the flesh is firm white and the seed is brown while being hollow in the inside. It looks just like a small yellow guava or a well rounded macadamia fruit. The closest thing to it that I saw on your videos was the yellow mangosteen and that is not it! What I am pointing out here is that there are fruits in the world that are pure elevation in the olfactory sense even when it is mild tasting. I hope you'll come across it in your travels Jared and make a video of it as it is such an unknown fruit to the world. My fellow fruit hunters are more than welcome to charm in to fill in the blanks. Please add to our knowledge base. Thank you.
I'm curious what that would be... maybe this one? ruclips.net/video/HShFg-lt0vE/видео.html
I don't know why the RUclips algorithm is just now recommending this to me. I've followed you forever and I love documentaries. Well done man! This was brilliant. Please make more in this format
Truly a forbidden fruit
I grew up in Sri Lanka where there is a lot of coconut trees and many trees that belongs to the palm tree family but never heard about coco de mer …thank you for the great programs that you do and the knowledge you give people…I enjoy watching your shows
The surprise ending killed me! But awesome.
Good for you, thank-you for being a good person! We need more people like you on the earth!
You can really tell how much work went in making this series, it is so informative, interesting and entertaining. Thank you so much for sharing your journey, as well as the history and life of the plant.
You're a good man, Jared
As a consolation you should seek out the smallest coconut - coquito from Jubaea chilensis. Very chewy but very moreish. I got some from a UK supermarket over a decade ago and have not seen them since.
Wonderful end to the series and an awesome trip! I really enjoyed this format.
I went into this series really REALLY hoping you’d find a way to taste it, but I ended up being so glad that you resisted the temptation. I think that says a lot about the quality of this video series and the deep respect for the history of the coco de mer that it imparts. Thanks for another great video!
Proud of you bro. We need more people like you in the world.
What a nice ending. You documented this well
You have my respect for the integrity you have shown in this video.
Have watched all 5 segments on the coco de mer, fascinating, disheartening, and inspiring. Wonderful coverage of this rare and endangered nut, well done!
thank you!
I really appreciate that despite the fact that hunting down and tasting fruits is a huge part of your channel and life, you kept your integrity and settled for just learning the fascinating story of the coco de mer. It takes a lot of strength at times to fight the temptation to try something so rare and unique, but to do so would be to support a horrific industry that harms so much of the worlds endangered life, be it plants or animals.
Sometimes, it's all about the journey, not the destination. You might not have tasted the coco de mer, but you, and us with you, tasted a big, juicy and full of flavour slice of history and culture. I had no idea about this fruit, the legends, the myths, and yet I found myself completely immersed and fascinated throughout this series. As tempting as it was, I am glad you resisted the proposal. I have a sensation that it would have left you with a bitter after taste anyway.
This series took a serious turn. I really hope these trees are around in the future. They survived millions of years on their own but a couple hundred of years of human intervention had just about wiped them out. This was a great set of videos. I'm happy you did the right thing. You helped by spreading the word that these trees must be protected.
Our lives are veritable blip on the radar of time. Nature is forever so it's worth protecting so that people can continue to have journeys like you had in this series. Sometimes we have to forego certain experiences to avoid stoking the flames of human greed but I think that's a price worth paying.
I sincerely appreciate and love your thoughts on wildlife conservation and vegetation preservation as well as how intellectual you are! you're an amazing human, more people should take notes from you! too many selfish people in the world today
Thank you for making this marvelous series. And THANK YOU for spreading the message of conservation. I hope that everyone's efforts are "fruitful" and this interesting species can rebound. And maybe one day it will no longer be endangered and you can return and try it!
So wonderful how protective they are. Just seeing it is enough. I wish Australian looked after our wonderful nature.
I was catching up on the series and I received the notification the final episode was up! Great work. I've been looking forward to this video.
I am glad they are “protecting” this super rare life. But one issue with the strict laws is it could prevent this plant from getting a new home set up that will outlast the rising water levels and destruction of that small and fragile habitat.
Yeah this all sounds less like protection and more like a racket
Maybe they should sell some legally and use the money for the protection ? Anyway great and interesting video
A shame you couldn't try it but I have so much respect for you for not perpetuating the illegal trade of this fruit. Gained a subscriber for your great content and moral resolve.
Thanks Mike. welcome to the channel
I enjoyed this series and its bittersweet ending. I hope the day would come when it would be removed from the endangered species list, and tasting will be legally allowed for the public.
Isn't it a bit dangerous to have an endangered plant only growing in two (tiny, very close together) locations?
Shouldn't they give a few specimens to, for example, Hawaii, or anywhere else it could grow?
Dangerous? I'm not sure what you mean. I'm pretty surr he said that there are some growing in gardens in India and others.
@@birdlawyer6191 oh, I didn't hear that part.
there's some other commenter that said that they have them on hawaii. The issue with it all is that it's not natural - so it takes away from understanding evolution, etc.
Great job with these 5 videos. I feel that it is great that you did not try anything illegal to get the fruit. I can understand your disappointment in not eating it. The end of the video when you showed what other people thought of the flavor was wonderful. You did the best that you could do so that your fans could maybe get the feeling of the flavor. I live in Japan and it is almost akebi season, I wish that you could have eaten it when you were here. It is one of my favorite fruits.
Coco de Rasta. The way the locals describe it as "jelly" makes me think of the jelly nut, which is the coconut at a young age before the coconut water turns into liquid, it is a sweet jelly.
(10:55) "Woul have veered into us and ran us over". Hahaha you know it.😂
Good job at descbing the real cost of tasting the nut. Maybe one day the will look into tissue culture on them.
Here in L.A. they wouldn't have run you over, but they would likely have called the police to report you as a suspicious character.
There's no way the kernel isn't gonna be disappointing anyway. I really liked this series and am glad you didn't poke until you got an actual kernel
Clearly, the answer is to get Steven to Grow a bunch of Coco De Mers in his farm and in like 30 years, we'll get to see the episode of you finally tasting it!
Yeah Steven. Now is the time to plant!
Forbidden fruit. 🤣🤣🤣great series, thanks for sharing.
Glad you enjoyed it!
Thanks that was soo good thanks.
Thanks for the really interesting documentary! I love how respectful you are of nature, it is really informative and inspiring. Fruit Safari is such a cool idea!
I'm really happy you made this series about conservation. I love watching you try fruits I probably never will (and some that I now want to try because of you). But I also massively appreciate that you tell about the history and native use of the plants. To me that has always been an interesting, essential, respectful element. And it's lovely when that element includes meeting those people in your travels. You clearly love what you do, but this series really feels like a culmination of that love, and really brings all those elements together. I'm proud that you didn't try the forbidden fruit, and satisfied that you gave us a taste of it from the native peoples who are working so hard to protect it.
I understand the laws and why. I am a coconut freak and would LOVE to try it. I never even knew, or heard of it! I LOVE coconut in all of its gestational stages. Such a beautiful video!🥥❤🕊
what is the reason they are not trying to grow them elseware?
The most brilliant details I've couldn't watch over and over again the details are super accurate i come from Seychelles and i deeply salute your wonderful effort to share the details of coco de mer palm tree.. Greatful for immensely entertaining us into chapters regarding the Coco de mer.. Better than our local news .
Congrates on 400 epi! and nice job with this coco de mer project.
Are there efforts to propagate more trees? or do they just let them fall to the ground and geminate by themselves?
What a wonderful story and I'm so pleased you got to make the sacrifice on behalf of the tree because every bite of a nut meat is an entire tree that can't be grown. I'm hoping that when they retrieve and hollow out the shells they are able to germinate the seed inside and maybe they're propagating the species with the best of them sometimes. It was a very good idea to interview the locals about what it tasted like as that was fantastic.
Wow. Epic journey. This video series is over the top.
Know this is years later, but my Uncle went on holiday to the Seychelles a long time ago, and brought back these nut shells as souvenirs for the family. So yeah, I've known about this fruit for over 10 years now as my household owns a shell, but I never knew the deep history, mythology and how culturally significant it is to the country. Amazing documentary dude. Don't know how or why this ended up in my feed, but I'm glad it did. Watched all 5 episodes. Good luck with your future adventures Mr. Fruit Hunter!
Thats great! I'm glad I was able to give more info about your shell!
Great series.
And Steve's hat is awesome.
It’s beautiful that you choose to respect the tree and it’s preservation. 💕
Ya know with how the locals explained the flavor, I think it'd be good to suggest people try sprouted coconut as substitute. It's most likely very much the same flavor! And, ya know, it's much more legal to try sprouted coconut instead XD
After seeing the whole series, I respect you even more. As an old guy in Ohio this has been a truely enlightening lesson for more knowledge in my head. But breaking the law or violating a countries ethics it s a no no. Thanks for this series.
Please know I know how silly this sounds, but this is some of the most interesting journalism I have seen in awhile. I really appreciate you sharing this with the world. I like your content.
I’m almost finished with the series and this whole time I kept hoping you would get to try it until this video and suddenly I’m hoping that you don’t. It’s so interesting that some thing I never even knew existed became important to me over the course of five small videos. Great job man! Truly a great series.
This was one of the most entertaining videos I have seen in a while! I absolutely loved it :)
This whole series was super amazing! Mad respect for you to take the high ground on something like this.
Yes, finally! What a great series! 😄
Thankyou for the videos and thank you so much for not being a captain planet villain. You made the right choice.
Your videos are incredible!
This adventure reminded me of the classic point and click games like Monkey Island and Broken Sword: the exotic islands, the quest, the mystery, the music, the moral lesson in the end. Beautiful stuff.
Great series I always enjoy your content but you went next level with this one ! Thanks,
I usually prefer shorter videos but I really enjoyed this in-depth look at the history and significance of this fruit.
Well done! I respect your morality and discipline. You are an example for us all.
Awsome series loved the ending!
Thanks!