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I've had this fruit when I was in Hawaii there was a hint of chocolate but no "Hershey" if you get a chance to visit Hawaii check out Frankie's Nursery they have a huge assortment of tropic fruits.
Yeah I've never had one that tastes like chocolate. It looks like chocolate... If you scoop it all out and whip it with a little sugar and cocoa powder and cool it in the fridge its damn good. But it's also kind of cheating. What doesnt taste good with sugar and chocolate added.
+Dylan T Exactly. It almost tricks your brain into thinking its chocolate. I guess if you're trying to limit your chocolate intake, adding a little cocoa powder to it could be a healthier alternative.
I got one here in Hawaii at a farm festival it was black on the outside and super rich dark and pasty on the inside.. it tasted like dark chocolate pudding mixed with prunes. it was very tasty and strange but good. little intense so it took me all day just tasting bits of it throughout the day. what was most surprising was that it tasted just like chocolate. I think the taste of fruit can vary depending where you get it and by what means it was grown and harvested.
The-the seeds were germinating...how the hell is that unripe??? That’s like saying a yellow banana is unripe because it hasn’t turned totally black and mushy to use in banana bread. Ridiculous
You know I've noticed is channels with fewer subscribers that are a little bit more geared towards niche topics have been popping up in my feed. I heard it's because of the new RUclips algorithm I know it sucks for the heavy hitters but without it I wouldn't have known about this really cool channel. Thanks for the obscure fruit info Mr. Rydelek👍
This fruit is also found in the tropics of Australia and the chocolate pudding favour is acheived when you add sugar to it. Perhaps next time sprinkle sugar over it or mash the two ingredients together.
Also it can be blended into milk to make a chocolate milkshake. I had one, over 20 years ago, at Tropical Fruit World, not far south of the Tweed River (not far south of the NSW/Queensland border).
We, in Mexico, are very aware of the "Sapote Negro", we used to find them under a great tree in our Aunt's house in Puerto Vallarta, Mexico. Also had it in Zacatecas, Merida Yucatan. The way I learned to eat it is adding sugar over a low flame, just the peeled clean fruit. You add some Sherry give it a gentle boil to burn off the alcohol, take off the heat. Have a freezer-safe container and put the pure in the mold and freeze. Serve like ice cream. You can also serve chilled with some whipped cream
Same here haha. Yet I get hungry every time I see it in video. Although technically it *is* rotten. It's just no one eats it when it's ripe since it tastes bad then
That was so sad. So many years of waiting to find out it is so so. It looks like chocolate pudding. There you are looking at this delicious chocolaty goo. You take a bite and....eh. Just eh. So, so sad. Hopefully they are good in smoothies.
+Viki Banaszak Yeah the texture is nice, so it would be good like that. I ended up making a "chocolate" coconut sauce with the rest and it was pretty tasty.
Was yours also really black on the outside? I tried them here in Mexico and fhe flavor was indistinguishable from chocolate pudding, maybe a little hint of mamey and coconut.
Sorry to hear the Black Sapote disappointed in flavour Jared! Sometimes the journey is more interesting than the destination. Never commented on your videos before, but have been a very long time viewer. No one in my personal life shares my deep fascination and love of exotic and rare fruits. Ever since a visit to Thailand when I was 19, and found weird and wacky fruit being sold by vendors, I have never stopped looking for, and trying, as many rare fruits as I can get my hands on. Unfortunately being stuck in the UK and Europe most of the time, I have to buy very expensive fruit from the supermarkets or African/Asian stores whenever they appear. SE Asia is close to my heart and watching your travels and videos are the next best thing to experiencing it myself. So thank you for these! You have a dedicated fan here who eagerly awaits every new upload. Keep up the great work (ipso facto the HD camera) and I hope you have continuing success in your main career. Liam
+Liam Don Thanks so much for the kind words. The journey is definitely the driving force behind these videos. Fruit is great and all, but the adventure in finding it is priceless. Keep hunting around and I'm sure you'll come across some interesting finds.
we have finally had the chance to try these here in Tenerife for the very first time from a tropical nursery, that gave it to us right from the tree as a gift, the first one was ready and ripe and the other one took maybe two more weeks to be mushy, we loved the texture and the taste very much, we sprouted the seeds and now growing little plants, very excited ! it’s hard to get fruits here let alone trees, so we feel very grateful 😍 do you have a place in NY to grow plants ?
hey Jared! I found an awesome fruit for you to explore. It is called the gummy worm or gummy bear fruit, and it is the fruit of the Cecropia tree and birds tend to favor them. they're shaped like a green gummy worm and is very tropical and fruity tasting, and has the consistency of a gummy worm. awesome looking fruit!
They look a lot like persimmons. I just googled it. Apparently they belong to the same genus, which is diospyros. Then I got to the point in the video where he talks about the persimmon connection. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diospyros I wonder if you could cross the two or graft sapote onto persimmon for greater cold tolerance.
you mentioned that its of the persimmon family. well persimmons is also basically flavorless and they also have a kind of nutty flavor, very interesting.
Properly ripened persimmons have a lovely sweet flavor. Well Asian persimmons, anyway (Diospyrus kaki). Black sapote (Diospyrus nigra) looks exactly like a black persimmon - since it is. Everything about it looks the same, with the same appearance and kind of somewhat stringy soft texture except that it's black inside when fully ripe and the outside is green. It does taste different though. The one I ate was disappointingly not really like chocolate pudding, but it did taste good, as far as I recall.
After watching a couple of videos on youtube of people raving about Black Sapote I went on a quest to find some and yes disappointed was an understatement! I couldn't even finish half of one!
+Brad Suarez there's a lot of hype around it. I think people want it to taste like chocolate so bad that they imagine that flavor. Its just not there though.
it's a little ridiculous to call it chocolate fruit just for the color... you should let it mature much much more until the skin rips and the pulp is very soft and like mashed up, that's the moment to eat it... and it's super sweet and delicious. and you can mix it with orange juice, that's a way to enjoy it, here in méxico
Are they not freezer safe? Was it possible to freeze them until you got back and then let it ripen? I would think the texture wouldn't be affected much
Hot diggity, You are a beautiful soul. Sorry about the fruit fail hopefully it was just slightly over ripe, cause I'm all hyped & excited about trying one myself and haven't been to ANY exotic locales that may have them. I would suggest jackfruit if you've never tried them but they're freakin huge lol
I've never had a black sapote but I can say from experience with Longans that the ones that have started to sprout are less sweet. So maybe the one you reviewed was tainted by the fact that the seeds had started to sprout.
Darn this fruit has been on my must try list for the longest time. I Love White Sapote's I know there's no relation but still want to try it. Love your videos man keep it up 😊
When I found this channel I look for a review of this fruit because I love it, it's too bad you didn't get a good impression but that black sapote was missing being more ripe and a little orange juice make it better. In Mexico is a well know fruit
i love this fruit! but i think the reason i like it is bc of this review! i did not have high expectations of this fruit after i watched this review and i knew exactly what i was in for. a persimmon like soft fruit. but i rlly liked it! u have such s specific way to describe fruit and i love it. keep up the good work!! love from perth australia!!
Osito Kintsugi I’m married to Japanese woman and have a 4 year old son with her. I’m happa did you somewhere in your dumb mind think that it would be hard for me to get a woman? Lol ok there little bear.
I believe the germinated seed might have affected the taste. Like the Fujian longan (or matoa), the seed absorbs the goodness of the fruit to germinate. So I believe your fruit was over ripe, therefore the disappointment. If it is indeed a persimmon variety, then you'd have to treat it like a persimmon, to eat it before it starts to wrinkle.
I live in Idaho (zone 6) and have a year and a half old tree that I ordered from Ecuador. I keep it in a container so it can come inside for the winter. I'm hoping that it will bloom in another couple of years. I just hope these aren't single gender plants. It would suck if I had to have two to pollinate.
Here in mexico we eat that, we also have white zapote, whoever told you it tasted like chocolate pudding is crazy lol, it tastes more like a sweet avocado
This is kinda cool. I'm going on my own weird fruit journey right now. Since you are more seasoned in this area than me, what are some weird fruits that I can get in western/mid west area in America?
Wow, I would love to try out so many new fruits myself. But unfortunatelly at this moment it's not possible for me. So watching you is the next best thing. Thanks for sharing :)
Well double disappointment! I'm a fan of persimmons, especially the American wild persimmons, and have always wanted to try this one. But the ripe one looks really different from the previous ones. Or was it distorted in shipment?
I would Luv 2 have some of those seeds. I've actually grown the mamea supote. Where can I get the seeds ? And I actually go 2 different stores & flea markets 2 find seeds 2 plant the seeds lol
Ha--if that's the Robert's in Florida City I used to live about a mile from there! We had all kinds of fruit in our yard, except guavas--my grandfather forbade them.
Black sapote is one of my favorite fruits (along with little sweet banana and dry plum) Never have I experienced a "chocolate pudding taste" with a sapote... Just a sweet treat, sometimes dry, sometimes "glossy" It doesn't have a fruity taste I love to eat the strange membrane around the seed which has a strange texture : it's like bitting into a fine slice of cooked apple ( the one you find on a good apple pie) Hope one day, you'll experience the joy that I had when was a kid to taste a good black sapote
I know it's years later and you've changed your music by now. But I really like the intro and outro music you've used here. It's calming, but also feels like you're going on a journey. Or coming home
I agree on your flavour thoughts exactly & I guessed every word you said after tasting it as it was the same in my experience but I still brought it again cause I looked for it for so many years. I guess it's known as the black pudding fruit or chocolate Sapote only cause of colour and nothing else.
I’m assuming this tastes like when my vegan friend tells me their soy yogurt tastes like my chocolate mousse. 😂 I love my vegan friends, I just don’t love their food that is “just like” something else.
I felt the same exact way when I tried it. I tossed the seeds in the yard anyway and of course they grew like weeds. Of course because I don't care for them they'll likely produce a ton of fruit. 😆
I have one of those in my yard too. The fruit is just OK. Perhaps an acquired taste. Have you made a post about canistel/egg fruit. They remind me of sweet potato pie. My neighbor asked me how many trees I was going to plant. I told him I wanted one of each kind. I enjoy your posts.
It's a damn shame this isn't good, i was about to go on a quest to find it, have you tried the proper sapotes or sapodilla? they are very recommended as long as they are ripe
+Pseudonym Persona Yeah sapotes are great. A nicely ripened Mamey Sapote makes a great breakfast. There's a review of mine somewhere, it tastes like sweet potato pie.
I think black sapotes taste good. It's true the flavor is mild, and not like chocolate, but I find it very pleasant. It's something like persimmons with hints of nutmeg.Maybe you did get some bad ones. I have some black sapote seedlings I started this year. Get back to me in about 3-4 years and I'll tell you if I get fruit from them.
Yeah, I've been hearing that you can get some trees that produce more flavorful fruit than the ones I got. Not chocolatey, but more than sweet mush. Good luck with the tree!
+Jared Rydelek Wild American persimmons are certainly quite varied in terms of intensity of flavor, and especially texture. Weather also seems to affect the way they ripen. Maybe there are some better ones out there still!
This is a big reason I haven't taken the dive to ordering from Miami fruit. I grt the pricing, but these things are ridiculously expensive for what often turns out to be what we consider a bland fruit. Cultures have different tastes, and the "tropical" factor plays such a huge role. I've tried a lot of ripe, supposedly amazing fruits and they're just different, but not good. I'm past the point in my life where anything novel is instantly going to probably be good
I have a tree. They take forever to ripen. I leave them on the tree for almost 18 months until they get soft.. Yours was still so green. Mine start to turn yellow when ripe. I think they are better right off the tree.
Theres a lot of different black sapote cultivars. Some of them really do have a mild chocolatey flavour, and the texture is veryrich and pudding-like. There's also usually that greenness that you smelled in the background of the flavour, so you still know you're eating a fruit. They aren't the absolute best fruit ever by any stretch, but definitely enjoyable and interesting. Just find a good one.
Do you know where I can spend way too much money to buy achacha fruit in the USA? I am almost to the point of trying to grow it myself here in South Texas. I have become obsessed with trying to get it but that just isn't going to happen where I live.
not too sure, there might be some private growers who would send to you. You can try tropicalfruitforum.com they mostly deal with seeds/plants but migh tbe able to hook you up
my guess, for a fruit like this, it might be ahealthier alternative to chocolate puddings and deserts, and they have to be prepared as such. being so soft, i could totally see it being blended more and turned into a real pudding consistency, and add a bit of sugar and other flavors like vanilla, and it could be a completely organic natural pudding substitute
If it’s related to persimmons, I wonder if you can ripen them the same way. I usually ripen persimmons by popping them in the freezer. I take them out and thaw them out. When they’re thawed they become incredibly ripe. The consistency of the black sapote reminds me of dates. I wonder if it tastes similar to dates? I’d love to try it even if it was a let down haha
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I've had this fruit when I was in Hawaii there was a hint of chocolate but no "Hershey" if you get a chance to visit Hawaii check out Frankie's Nursery they have a huge assortment of tropic fruits.
You’re kinda cute
When it comes to getting a ripe and delicious black sapote fruit the time that you pick your fruit is important.
@@bonsaikiss 'Koi in your pond' indeed... ^^
Here in Mexico we eat black sapote in a pudding mixed with fresh orange and the flavor of that is so amazing! November traditional candy for Mexican.
Your dedication to fruit reviewing is exemplary and I have been inspired
Slippery Boy me too -
I have some interesting things on my list
It's way too long of vid for such simple points to make
and for your beautiful comment too ..bless you and him
It’s made me eat more fruit in my diet, my mom wants to pay him now. 😂
Don't you mean he's a gentleman and a scholar?
Yeah I've never had one that tastes like chocolate. It looks like chocolate... If you scoop it all out and whip it with a little sugar and cocoa powder and cool it in the fridge its damn good. But it's also kind of cheating. What doesnt taste good with sugar and chocolate added.
+Dylan T Exactly. It almost tricks your brain into thinking its chocolate. I guess if you're trying to limit your chocolate intake, adding a little cocoa powder to it could be a healthier alternative.
Could just use honey or Maple syrup whip it up into a pudding
Wait until it's not brown but black, that would be when it becomes chocolate-like in flavor.
It would make sense if instead it tasted like caramel/coffee sort of flavor, which is absolutely a flavor that can be found in fruit alone.
Pickles would taste awful with sugar and chocolate so would steak ramen noodles chicken soup and many other things
it looks like a reverse avocado
youve poisoned my mind with the truth
It looks like a green persimmon!
@@HighlanderNorth1 they're related to persimmons.
I hate that your correct
@@HighlanderNorth1 they’re in the same genus
I got one here in Hawaii at a farm festival it was black on the outside and super rich dark and pasty on the inside.. it tasted like dark chocolate pudding mixed with prunes. it was very tasty and strange but good. little intense so it took me all day just tasting bits of it throughout the day. what was most surprising was that it tasted just like chocolate. I think the taste of fruit can vary depending where you get it and by what means it was grown and harvested.
I have yet to have one that tastes like chocolate, but I did try one that tasted more flavorful than this one. I'll keep hunting :)
so coo! I grow one plant here...
Still Waters z
Weird Explorer from other videos on the sapote..u ate it before it was ripe..exterior should b black..soft & wrinkled
@@tuneinat yeah. it doesn't taste good before it is really ripe. as you said, black and wrinkled
ITS UNRIPE! When it is brown in color like that it is not ready! it needs to be black and juicy inside like jello chocolate pudding.
i don't think pudding is juicy
@@baldkiwi444 It falls off a spoon, even when it is cold. This at room temp was very solid.
agreed !
The-the seeds were germinating...how the hell is that unripe??? That’s like saying a yellow banana is unripe because it hasn’t turned totally black and mushy to use in banana bread. Ridiculous
@Tropical Bay Area I dont undeerstand why wont he just get them with him to malaysia?
You know I've noticed is channels with fewer subscribers that are a little bit more geared towards niche topics have been popping up in my feed. I heard it's because of the new RUclips algorithm I know it sucks for the heavy hitters but without it I wouldn't have known about this really cool channel. Thanks for the obscure fruit info Mr. Rydelek👍
ah nice to know. I'm maybe a bit biased but this makes more sense to me
This fruit is also found in the tropics of Australia and the chocolate pudding favour is acheived when you add sugar to it. Perhaps next time sprinkle sugar over it or mash the two ingredients together.
Also it can be blended into milk to make a chocolate milkshake. I had one, over 20 years ago, at Tropical Fruit World, not far south of the Tweed River (not far south of the NSW/Queensland border).
Trump how about you go choke in your diet coke and happy meal burgers ?
buddy, its not actually trump
shout out to tropical fruitworld! wew
Jodiann Walker oh wow another angry black girl surprise surprise
We, in Mexico, are very aware of the "Sapote Negro", we used to find them under a great tree in our Aunt's house in Puerto Vallarta, Mexico. Also had it in Zacatecas, Merida Yucatan. The way I learned to eat it is adding sugar over a low flame, just the peeled clean fruit. You add some Sherry give it a gentle boil to burn off the alcohol, take off the heat. Have a freezer-safe container and put the pure in the mold and freeze. Serve like ice cream. You can also serve chilled with some whipped cream
Having such a dark color, it probably has some good antioxidants in it.
Saw you on a Twitter post today. Has sent me down the rabbit hole of weird fruit! Enjoying it immensely. Thanks for each vid💗
I know it looks all wrinkled and overripe, but that still looks a bit underripe. It should be darker, and flattening under its own weight.
You're basically describing my big mama.
@@BoopSnoot lol
i have never been so excited to watch someone slowly eat fruit
teacher: "describe yourself"
me : 7:56
thin skin
me: 9:50
What do you do for a living where you can afford to travel all the time?
I would not eat that if I found it in nature. I would think it is rotten.
Same here haha. Yet I get hungry every time I see it in video. Although technically it *is* rotten. It's just no one eats it when it's ripe since it tastes bad then
core 25 Quite the opposite sadly, I’m constantly struggling to gain any weight. Too skinny
core 25 Nope, I got checked recently. I have a high metabolism and it’s super hard to keep up.
Osito Kintsugi it’s ok my guy lol np
melon melon it doesn’t work like that man
That was so sad. So many years of waiting to find out it is so so. It looks like chocolate pudding. There you are looking at this delicious chocolaty goo. You take a bite and....eh. Just eh. So, so sad. Hopefully they are good in smoothies.
+Viki Banaszak Yeah the texture is nice, so it would be good like that. I ended up making a "chocolate" coconut sauce with the rest and it was pretty tasty.
Was yours also really black on the outside? I tried them here in Mexico and fhe flavor was indistinguishable from chocolate pudding, maybe a little hint of mamey and coconut.
Sorry to hear the Black Sapote disappointed in flavour Jared! Sometimes the journey is more interesting than the destination.
Never commented on your videos before, but have been a very long time viewer. No one in my personal life shares my deep fascination and love of exotic and rare fruits. Ever since a visit to Thailand when I was 19, and found weird and wacky fruit being sold by vendors, I have never stopped looking for, and trying, as many rare fruits as I can get my hands on.
Unfortunately being stuck in the UK and Europe most of the time, I have to buy very expensive fruit from the supermarkets or African/Asian stores whenever they appear. SE Asia is close to my heart and watching your travels and videos are the next best thing to experiencing it myself.
So thank you for these! You have a dedicated fan here who eagerly awaits every new upload. Keep up the great work (ipso facto the HD camera) and I hope you have continuing success in your main career.
Liam
+Liam Don Thanks so much for the kind words. The journey is definitely the driving force behind these videos. Fruit is great and all, but the adventure in finding it is priceless. Keep hunting around and I'm sure you'll come across some interesting finds.
I feel you my brother.
your living the dream.Your cat is partying right now.
In the Philippines we add some powdered milk to it and it is good
Whut? Which part? Mindanao? Never seen one before 😆
wow fruit looks just like persimmon from outside; and apparently same genus. Awesome.
finally HD
Nice channel man !
Good luck :)
+جلاديوس Thanks!
Lol what
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you earned my subscription. I think your videos are awesome and your descriptions of the fruits is very thorough. Well done.
we have finally had the chance to try these here in Tenerife for the very first time from a tropical nursery, that gave it to us right from the tree as a gift, the first one was ready and ripe and the other one took maybe two more weeks to be mushy, we loved the texture and the taste very much, we sprouted the seeds and now growing little plants, very excited ! it’s hard to get fruits here let alone trees, so we feel very grateful 😍 do you have a place in NY to grow plants ?
I can not stop watching your channel very satisfying thank you for sharing your journey
So jelly of those seeds that are already sprouting 💕
Just tasted my first black sapote yesterday, mine tasted like mildly sweetened avocado... but was good on bread though!
I love the candor! Look at this clump of crap. Had me rolling.
hey Jared! I found an awesome fruit for you to explore. It is called the gummy worm or gummy bear fruit, and it is the fruit of the Cecropia tree and birds tend to favor them. they're shaped like a green gummy worm and is very tropical and fruity tasting, and has the consistency of a gummy worm. awesome looking fruit!
wow that looks amazing!
I agree. Sweet mush. Not chocolatey at all. I've only tried it once.
Th fruit should start being brown on the outside and then it's perfectly ripe tasting like chocolatey goodness
LOL You need to try another one. Make sure it's really rotten next time. :-)
They look a lot like persimmons. I just googled it. Apparently they belong to the same genus, which is diospyros. Then I got to the point in the video where he talks about the persimmon connection.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diospyros
I wonder if you could cross the two or graft sapote onto persimmon for greater cold tolerance.
you mentioned that its of the persimmon family. well persimmons is also basically flavorless and they also have a kind of nutty flavor, very interesting.
Typical Persimmons have more flavor than these, but yeah they are also very mild
Properly ripened persimmons have a lovely sweet flavor. Well Asian persimmons, anyway (Diospyrus kaki).
Black sapote (Diospyrus nigra) looks exactly like a black persimmon - since it is. Everything about it looks the same, with the same appearance and kind of somewhat stringy soft texture except that it's black inside when fully ripe and the outside is green. It does taste different though. The one I ate was disappointingly not really like chocolate pudding, but it did taste good, as far as I recall.
After watching a couple of videos on youtube of people raving about Black Sapote I went on a quest to find some and yes disappointed was an understatement! I couldn't even finish half of one!
+Brad Suarez there's a lot of hype around it. I think people want it to taste like chocolate so bad that they imagine that flavor. Its just not there though.
it's a little ridiculous to call it chocolate fruit just for the color... you should let it mature much much more until the skin rips and the pulp is very soft and like mashed up, that's the moment to eat it... and it's super sweet and delicious. and you can mix it with orange juice, that's a way to enjoy it, here in méxico
Are they not freezer safe? Was it possible to freeze them until you got back and then let it ripen? I would think the texture wouldn't be affected much
Hot diggity, You are a beautiful soul. Sorry about the fruit fail hopefully it was just slightly over ripe, cause I'm all hyped & excited about trying one myself and haven't been to ANY exotic locales that may have them.
I would suggest jackfruit if you've never tried them but they're freakin huge lol
I've never had a black sapote but I can say from experience with Longans that the ones that have started to sprout are less sweet. So maybe the one you reviewed was tainted by the fact that the seeds had started to sprout.
Did you say persimmons?
Darn this fruit has been on my must try list for the longest time. I Love White Sapote's I know there's no relation but still want to try it. Love your videos man keep it up 😊
Anthony Parra thanks! hope you find one soon :)
Lol!! His face when he took that first bite!! hahaha!!
My grandma used to make a puffing of these for me when I was a baby
When I found this channel I look for a review of this fruit because I love it, it's too bad you didn't get a good impression but that black sapote was missing being more ripe and a little orange juice make it better. In Mexico is a well know fruit
Oh man this was exactly how I felt when I first tasted it lol
Why did I discover your channel at 1:30am, I was suppose to go to sleep.
i love this fruit! but i think the reason i like it is bc of this review! i did not have high expectations of this fruit after i watched this review and i knew exactly what i was in for. a persimmon like soft fruit. but i rlly liked it! u have such s specific way to describe fruit and i love it. keep up the good work!! love from perth australia!!
I feel so sorry for you. This experience was such a clusterfuck.
Your global pursuits are truly inspiring.
It looks like it would taste like a prune or raisin. Could you blend it up and use it as a topping on other fruit?
Oh you just spoke about blending it up lol
Osito Kintsugi what kind of fake ass Japanese name is that? There is no “si” sa, shi, su, se, so.
Osito Kintsugi I’m married to Japanese woman and have a 4 year old son with her. I’m happa did you somewhere in your dumb mind think that it would be hard for me to get a woman? Lol ok there little bear.
I believe the germinated seed might have affected the taste. Like the Fujian longan (or matoa), the seed absorbs the goodness of the fruit to germinate. So I believe your fruit was over ripe, therefore the disappointment. If it is indeed a persimmon variety, then you'd have to treat it like a persimmon, to eat it before it starts to wrinkle.
I live in Idaho (zone 6) and have a year and a half old tree that I ordered from Ecuador. I keep it in a container so it can come inside for the winter. I'm hoping that it will bloom in another couple of years. I just hope these aren't single gender plants. It would suck if I had to have two to pollinate.
One of my favorite fruits.
That looks freaky but awesome. Keep up the good work.
Thanks!
So interesting that it’s a persimmon!! I saw the leaves and suspected it was :)
I tried it for the first time last year in Australia, it tasted sweet... no sugar or extras needed
How were you able to take fruit from a different country and bring it back to your own? Isn’t that like illegal through flight or something
Yes they have have very little flavor. I like that, I don't really like really strong tasting fruit so I enjoy the blandness.
Here in mexico we eat that, we also have white zapote, whoever told you it tasted like chocolate pudding is crazy lol, it tastes more like a sweet avocado
Best facial expression of any of your reactions. "Hmmm......hm.......uh.......eh.....mm......hem.....meh"
This is kinda cool. I'm going on my own weird fruit journey right now. Since you are more seasoned in this area than me, what are some weird fruits that I can get in western/mid west area in America?
Fantastic! I use bananas for tomatoes, apples, mangoes and everything else to ripen.
Wow, I would love to try out so many new fruits myself. But unfortunatelly at this moment it's not possible for me. So watching you is the next best thing. Thanks for sharing :)
glad to be of service, thanks!
This thing tastes great when properly prepared though. Black sapote Ice cream is really popular.
Every black sapote I’ve had was delicious. Not chocolate pudding but that’s the closet you can get to describing it
Well double disappointment! I'm a fan of persimmons, especially the American wild persimmons, and have always wanted to try this one. But the ripe one looks really different from the previous ones. Or was it distorted in shipment?
+sazji Yeah its supposed to look like that.Worth trying still, but don't expect too much.
In the central Hill Country of Texas we have a Black Persimmon it is very small really dark fruit color and is very sweet.
Sounds like a Texas Persimmon, I reviewed that at some point- very tasty one!
New subscriber and I give you mad props for wanting to try this for 2 years and actually getting to this time. Sorry you got let down though. Bummer.
I would Luv 2 have some of those seeds. I've actually grown the mamea supote. Where can I get the seeds ? And I actually go 2 different stores & flea markets 2 find seeds 2 plant the seeds lol
Ha--if that's the Robert's in Florida City I used to live about a mile from there! We had all kinds of fruit in our yard, except guavas--my grandfather forbade them.
Similar to passion fruit for the ripeness. It looks bad but delicious. Nice video ✌🏽😎
Black sapote is one of my favorite fruits (along with little sweet banana and dry plum)
Never have I experienced a "chocolate pudding taste" with a sapote... Just a sweet treat, sometimes dry, sometimes "glossy"
It doesn't have a fruity taste
I love to eat the strange membrane around the seed which has a strange texture : it's like bitting into a fine slice of cooked apple ( the one you find on a good apple pie)
Hope one day, you'll experience the joy that I had when was a kid to taste a good black sapote
I know it's years later and you've changed your music by now. But I really like the intro and outro music you've used here. It's calming, but also feels like you're going on a journey. Or coming home
I wish I could keep it, but it's copyrighted
@@WeirdExplorer Unfortunate. I appreciate the effort in production
I agree on your flavour thoughts exactly & I guessed every word you said after tasting it as it was the same in my experience but I still brought it again cause I looked for it for so many years. I guess it's known as the black pudding fruit or chocolate Sapote only cause of colour and nothing else.
Yeah.. I've had people argue otherwise, but I've yet to have one that lived up to the hype
In Mexico it is eaten mixed with orange juice and sugar, and then made as ice cream... it is REAAAAALY GOOD!!!!!!
that does sound good!
@@WeirdExplorer IF you ever come to Mexico, you should try it when it is in season!!! You´ll gonna love it!!
I’m assuming this tastes like when my vegan friend tells me their soy yogurt tastes like my chocolate mousse. 😂
I love my vegan friends, I just don’t love their food that is “just like” something else.
I felt the same exact way when I tried it. I tossed the seeds in the yard anyway and of course they grew like weeds. Of course because I don't care for them they'll likely produce a ton of fruit. 😆
"You wouldn't expect for it to be so dark on the inside, for how it looks on the outside" He just described me.
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Didn't expect you to respond :P I love your vids! I would love to try them all, except for Noni, or what's it called ;p
I have one of those in my yard too. The fruit is just OK. Perhaps an acquired taste. Have you made a post about canistel/egg fruit. They remind me of sweet potato pie. My neighbor asked me how many trees I was going to plant. I told him I wanted one of each kind. I enjoy your posts.
It's a damn shame this isn't good, i was about to go on a quest to find it, have you tried the proper sapotes or sapodilla? they are very recommended as long as they are ripe
+Pseudonym Persona Yeah sapotes are great. A nicely ripened Mamey Sapote makes a great breakfast. There's a review of mine somewhere, it tastes like sweet potato pie.
That’s sad 😢
Did you try Kratom in Malaysia? 😁
you gotta try a good one! mexico had really delicious ones and I even found a tree that dropped them once in a while :)
I have a redo coming soon... in Mexico.
Weird Explorer nice looking forward, Mexico has lots of good fruit!
I think black sapotes taste good. It's true the flavor is mild, and not like chocolate, but I find it very pleasant. It's something like persimmons with hints of nutmeg.Maybe you did get some bad ones.
I have some black sapote seedlings I started this year. Get back to me in about 3-4 years and I'll tell you if I get fruit from them.
Yeah, I've been hearing that you can get some trees that produce more flavorful fruit than the ones I got. Not chocolatey, but more than sweet mush. Good luck with the tree!
+Jared Rydelek Wild American persimmons are certainly quite varied in terms of intensity of flavor, and especially texture. Weather also seems to affect the way they ripen. Maybe there are some better ones out there still!
It has been four years since you posted this comment, Gary Cooper. Have you gotten your black sapote to fruit yet?
This is a big reason I haven't taken the dive to ordering from Miami fruit. I grt the pricing, but these things are ridiculously expensive for what often turns out to be what we consider a bland fruit.
Cultures have different tastes, and the "tropical" factor plays such a huge role. I've tried a lot of ripe, supposedly amazing fruits and they're just different, but not good. I'm past the point in my life where anything novel is instantly going to probably be good
"And i have three pounds of these" XD lol
You are king of fruits
Thank you for the honest review, someone here is trying to sell these for $100 a box 😂
Here in Mexico we have a recipe for a candy made with this and orange juice. It's delicious.
LOL, i love the ending. How ironic.
+AuntyM66 Haha, glad to know you watched until the end! I was so angry when I found that tree in Malaysia, but what can you do haha.
I just found your channel and I am completely fascinated! Thank you!
Mix it with vanilla ice cream, then you will get the chocolate flavor. It’s very rich when fully ripe and delicious in a shake.
When he finished chewing I can feel the tears welling up in his eyes
I have a tree. They take forever to ripen. I leave them on the tree for almost 18 months until they get soft.. Yours was still so green. Mine start to turn yellow when ripe. I think they are better right off the tree.
Theres a lot of different black sapote cultivars. Some of them really do have a mild chocolatey flavour, and the texture is veryrich and pudding-like. There's also usually that greenness that you smelled in the background of the flavour, so you still know you're eating a fruit. They aren't the absolute best fruit ever by any stretch, but definitely enjoyable and interesting. Just find a good one.
A good way to prepare black zapote is add freshly squeezed orange juice and lime juice with a pinch of shuggar
Do you know where I can spend way too much money to buy achacha fruit in the USA? I am almost to the point of trying to grow it myself here in South Texas. I have become obsessed with trying to get it but that just isn't going to happen where I live.
not too sure, there might be some private growers who would send to you. You can try tropicalfruitforum.com they mostly deal with seeds/plants but migh tbe able to hook you up
Oh sweet! I didn't come across this place when I was searching. Thank you!
my guess, for a fruit like this, it might be ahealthier alternative to chocolate puddings and deserts, and they have to be prepared as such. being so soft, i could totally see it being blended more and turned into a real pudding consistency, and add a bit of sugar and other flavors like vanilla, and it could be a completely organic natural pudding substitute
Taste like sweet potato and pumpkin mix with a touch of sweetness .
I'm from mexico,,, and I don't know if it grows there or its shipped to mexico. But I personally love black zapote.
My mom had Black Sapote ice cream in Australia that she quite enjoyed. Maybe making something out of them is the way to go.
definitely. These would be good for a dairy free ice cream actually.
If it’s related to persimmons, I wonder if you can ripen them the same way. I usually ripen persimmons by popping them in the freezer. I take them out and thaw them out. When they’re thawed they become incredibly ripe.
The consistency of the black sapote reminds me of dates. I wonder if it tastes similar to dates? I’d love to try it even if it was a let down haha