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I have never heard of the name chocolate pudding fruit for sapote negro, but I remember always eating these like pudding whenever I was in Mexico :D You just scoop the pulp out and pass it through a fine sieve into a bowl, to more or less "puree" it. At my grandpa's house we would also mix this 'puddinng' with a bit of orange juice :)
i’ve fallen down this youtube rabbit hole and came across your videos... i love your passion for adventure and staying open about new opportunities. idk why but all these videos are addictive to watch haha
Sadly, there’s no way a fruit will ever taste like chocolate. 😔Chocolate is an extremely complex cocktail of hundreds of chemical compounds that develop during the fermentation and subsequent roasting. The probability that a fruit would naturally evolve to produce all those hundreds of compounds in exactly the right proportions is astronomically low. It’s even hard to replicate chocolate flavor in the lab.
It can lean towards tasting like chocolate though. When someone says a random exotic fruit tastes like bananas, there is no guarantee it contains the same chemicals that give bananas their taste as well, they are just making the most similar comparison their brains can think of.
You have never had a cabernet that has strong chocolate notes? The word “like” is quite open to interpretation as well. I would say it is quite possible given the amount of species and the fact that chocolate itself is a fruit product it would be foolish to think otherwise.
Black Sapote looks like chocolate pudding, but it doesn’t taste even a little bit chocolatey. It’s in the same genus as persimmons, and I think it tastes as much like a persimmon as anything (but not the same as a persimmon).
I have never tasted it yet, but I bought the plant for the texture of the fruit. I think it could be awesome as a base ingredient for low calories healthy sweets. Have you tried using it mixed with something?
I added some of the ripe fruit in blender with milk and plain yogurt... for my infant son... He loved it! Totally organic and healthy. Add cereal for more texture.
Totally agree with you, last week it was my first time on mexico, and I went there and compared to what you find in Costa Rica there were only like 5-10 different fruits, I don't go specifically on fruit hunting, I do seed hunting and bee work, but what really did call my attention is that by going on just 2 markets I could find 29 of the around 60 commonly used hot pepper varieties! And well, they are fruits, and I have yet not seen a video of yours trying hot peppers, capsicum genus. (I have been watching all your videos in order up to this one today)
I think I figured out my weird addiction to your videos. I'm sick of not traveling due to the pandemic. Miss that rush of new places and you're providing me that fix. Thanks.
More of an ingredient for one of those famous moles. Looks like a persimmon. Granny, who is going farther and farther away. She would have combined with other ingredients. A flavor. Thanks always for this project!
Thank you very much. I have complicated feelings about Mexico. That fruit doesn't taste like chocolate. It is still good. Mostly for pigs, old people, chickens, and children. We would never dream to offer food to enemy.
Its texture when it is ready to eat is like an ointment. Literally like Vaseline. It should feel unctuous, creamy. It taste really sweet when is ready. Also taste a little bit like plant. To counteract the heavy texture, what is done is to prepare ice pops with it. Zapote ice popsicles are something else.
We have black sapote here in oz (thinkv they grow in Queensland), tried it once and it's surprisingly refreshing, but the flavour is really mild, it's sweet tho.
The white zapote is even better, when matured it is really soft and sweet, is really rare to find them for sale but they are quite easy to grow as a tree, I have two on my garden and they can start giving fruits as early as 5-6y/o
one of my faves, at home we mix them with a bit of milk (or yoghurt) and sugar in a plate and eat it like a kind of pudding. you can also mix it with orange juice. doesn't taste like chocolate at all tho. it's more like creamy and sweet and vaguely reminds me of coke soda.
I think the Sapodilla (Manilkara zapota) is native to Central America including Mexico. I've tried it before here in the UK when it was occasionally offered in a big supermarket store (Tesco). When unripe, it is terribly astringent and unpalatable, but ripe fruits are deliciously malty and moderately sweet. As with most fruits, there are different varieties of sapodilla which undoubtedly vary in taste and texture; see if you can get hold of one in Mexico.
Weird Explorer Have you ever tried the nightshade Berries? I have had them for over 2 weeks, the Solenum Americanum is common in South America from what I hear, they have very clusters between 4 and 7 usually, more of a savory sweet flavor with the skin tasting of tomato/tobacco, similar to blueberry mouthfeel inside the berries, Ripe when the berries appear black and they are actually incredibly dark purple, in India the plant is used - Solenum Negrum
Thanks for your review. I was thinking about planting a black sapote tree, but now that I know it doesn't taste that grate I will plant something else.
These videos are really cool, they are entertaining and I learn new kinds of fruit! I just subscribed, for once the youtube recomendations actually led me to a good channel
hey, I've never read any of the comments but I love your videos. I have a question though. Have you ever found yourself having an allergic reaction to fruits youve never tried before?
I tried on is Hawaii and I came up with exactly the same result. They really don't have any flavor but do look like pudding. I added a little sugar so it wasn't so bland.
Definitely doesn't taste like chocolate. Best way to enjoy it is to use it as a base. I put chocolate liqueur on top of it and it then tastes divine. A bit like a rollinia that lakes in flavour on its own, squeeze a lemon on top and it just add a bit of sourness and flavour to it.
I always found it somewhat reminiscent of chocolate pudding, of course not like chocolate. I've never had a chocolate pudding that really tastes chocolatey either, unless made from scratch and extra cacao added. Kind of like when I make chocolate pudding from mamey sapote. Have a safe trip and find some really good things
My tree, in Ft Myers, FL, produces a near chocolatey texture and distant flavor. And the wildlife... crazy for the fruit! Fruit here ripens about January - March time-frame. Jared, where was your fruit from? Mexico? My fruit is very tasty.
Yeah they definitely do not taste like chocolate! Most of the ones I’ve had aren’t even that sweet compared to other fruit. You can tell they’re in the same family as persimmon though from the flavor. They’re a fun fruit to eat a couple of times but more of a novelty than something tasty I’d reach for for a snack!
Try the original fruit of the gods,Diospyros Lotus( there is no video on youtube about it).Diospyros Japonica its another small persimmon like Lotus but native to Japan(its not the same as D Kaki).And monkey plums from africa are also interesting and black like the Texas persimmon that you liked.There is even an almost black,bluish japanese persimmon,d kaki and somme that are brown inside .All,verry interesting fruits.
unfortunately black sapote inorder to be sweet has to be tree ripened, this means that it cannot be transported, in order to get the full effect you have to either grow it yourself or know someone that grows it.
Love your vids. I just stumbled across your channel and subscribed after watching 1 video. I've been hunting for a fruit my cousin and I use to eat off of a tree in the woods behind my grandmother's house in North Carolina when we were very young. It looked very similar to a blackberry but it was very sweet and juicy and not tart at all. The core was hard and white and the cluster of berries were dark purple. When we pull them off the tree the core would stay on the tree and you could eat the whole thing. My grandfather had all of the trees cut down when I was 10 and I've been searching for that berry every since with no luck. Any guesses as to what it might be?
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Hey dude, I live here in the Philippines. I've watched several of your videos and I saw that you've already been here! Nice! So, I heard recently that the sweetest mango in the world is like found in Guimaras, Philippines, did you ever have the chance to taste them? I don't know if it's true since I've never had the chance to taste them myself. If you did have the chance, what are your thoughts on the claim of it being the sweetest mango?
Oh cool, can't wait. I have a question though. Does going to another country just to review a fruit kinda like bother you? Like in the case of the Ice Cream Bean, where you went all the way to South America just to try them. I don't know, not sure if the fruit was the only reason. Anyways, all love bro.
I felt pretty confident about going, but my friends and family were nervous. I couldn't really get a clear report about safety there. Other foreigners online were all reporting it safe because they were sealed off inside their beach resorts. I had no intention on staying in a resort. I was going to be wandering off on my own taking shared vans out to little markets across the country. I have no clue how safe that would be, so I decided against it. Hopefully in a year or two it will be a different situation there and I'll try again.
i really dont think it wouldve been a big issue because i live here and i didnt know about a state of emergency. but mo bay is not the safest place in jamaica so i can get why a foreigner would be concerned about safety. maybe if i lived in mobay, i wouldve volunteered to be a tour guide. but there is always a next time
Richard Portman now a days tijuana has calmed down, the dangerous sites now are morelos and guerrero. Mexico city is sligtly safe, it has its dark zones still
*facepalm*. I've lived in Mexico for 6 years now. Safe, like almost anywhere, depends on where in a given City, or State you are, time of day/night, and your own activities/associations. One thing we don't have here is random movie theater/school/night club/concert shootings. How safe are you walking down the streets of Compton, or parts of Detroit/Chicago/St Louis at night? Are there places that are categorically unsafe here? Of course. Sinaloa, Juarez, much of Michoacan, etc. And there are plenty of places you are just as safe as in the USA or Western Europe... unless you do stupid things or hang out with Narcos.
