GREEN SAPOTE - Finally Trying This Delicious & Rare Fruit! (AND "Sapotes" Explained) 

What do you think is the best sapote?

"If you want to make me mad call something a sapote" You can't give your audience this power

We had 3 dozen green sapote trees at our growing area, and I wasn't sure people would like the fruit, so I didn't push them. That's what's so great about having reviews like this that I can post to our group's page. Now people have some testimony that it's A TASTY FRUIT!

I remember when I was a kid, maybe around 8 years old, I used to walk down the neighborhood with my grandmother. We would always stop by this small neighborhood park, where large, brown sapodilla trees would grow and would drop dozens of fruits every summer. We'd sit beneath those trees for hours and feast on the fruits that had dropped, talking about our day, and just spending time together, sometimes in silence, sometimes she'd sing some tunes while we peeled away at the soft, syrupy flesh of the fruit before stuffing it in our mouths until we were so full we had to rest before heading back. I will never forget the delicious, gelatin-like brown-sugar like texture and sweetness of the fruits that I was so addicted to as a child.

I would love to see Jared open a restaurant that deals with not only the fruit he loves, but the peppers, the roots, the leaves, any plant product. He could make the best vegetarian restaurant because no one else would have his variety. Imagine being a vegetarian and getting sick of the same things over and over again. With Jared as your chef, that's not going to happen. He could sell his unique ketchups and jams. This guy is a treasure trove of knowledge.

The mildly pornographic Sapote is clearly the best sapote.

The word "sapote" sounds like a dirty Animaniacs joke.

This man and his sapote lmao

My mouth is watering even though I've never tried those fruits. I love sweet potatoes and sweet potato pie. So I'm sure I'd really enjoy the fruits your showing. Thank-you for sharing!

Your sponsor segments are always thought out and well woven in such that they feel like part of the episode and I appreciate that

1) You finally got a proper knife! So proud. 2) your breakaway sponsorship segments are the best I've seen. 3) that glass was classy.. pinkie out next time.

Wait... so i am getting a full serving of fruit everyday. Thanks coffee!

My father-in-law grew up on the Keys and talks fondly about eating sapotes (whichever variety grows there) off the trees.

god i wish i could try this

How is one person sapote know all this?

Thanks for sharing all of these things with us. Your channel is unique and very informative!

Thats a funny lookin apple

Being an Arthopod nerd it upsets me when people call any of them bugs, so I get the Sapote thing

Exciting! I love mamey sapote, and never knew there was a green relative.

Great video! Nice waking up on a Monday morning and having a video like this to watch. Never tried this one but now it is on our list.

Great comparison video. You’re very good at defining flavour profiles 🤓 which is why I love your videos. I’m now on the hunt for green sapote!

Glad you’re back man Edit: maybe RU-vid algorithm was hiding your channel from me for awhile

You have to try Pouteria Torta (Guapeva in brazilian portuguese). It is a hairy fruit, produces a milky glue (latex i supose or kinda similar), it has a taste that i can't full describe because isn't like any fruit, but it is sweet, floral, soft, tastes like a mix of Mango/Apple/Sweetsop. Please you have to try it! Cheers from Brazil, amazing work you doing out there! EDIT - I found out that, Abiu (Pouteria Caimito) is similar to Guapeva, but ISN'T the same fruit. IDK Abiu taste tho

Green sapote is a fruit species that has been blowing up lately among rare fruit growers, particularly on Tropical Fruit Forum. Your review seems to match what other growers have articulated about its taste: that it is like mamey sapote but better. Another benefit to growing green sapote appears to be that it is more cold-hardy than mamey sapote. The fruit is very difficult to find and expensive to purchase when it is available for sale (I saw one grower pricing them at an outrageous $30 per fruit). Luckily, more seedlings are starting to be propagated with some of the larger nurseries also starting to offer grafted specimens. I think green sapote fruit will be much easier to find and less expensive in five years time, though it does not ship as well as mamey sapote and will likely never become a supermarket fruit. Jared, now that you have added green sapote to your Pouteria tasting experience, hopefully you will be able to locate and try a cinnamon apple, Pouteria glomerata (syn. Pouteria hypoglauca). I am very curious what that one tastes like since I have it growing in my collection. I added it to my collection without getting a chance to actually try the fruit, so I am interested in what type of fruit I will get in a few years once it starts fruiting (and that species fruits quite slowly).

That Trade Coffee sounds like a great Christmas gift for my mom. Thanks!

Maybe try to convince Miami Fruit to start growing these, haha. I know they certainly LOVE pushing their mamey sapote.

When you go to eat a fruit or whatever, do you do so when you are hungry or when you have just eaten a meal? Do you cleanse your palate before you try a different fruit within the same episode?

I like your honest food videos :)

The finest of RU-vid rabbit holes.

Used coffee grounds can be ground up and fed to soil life as a compost tea

These are soooo good

Great review Jared :) interestingly whatever cultivar they grow here (Australia) is a fair bit larger than that one, looks closer in size to the lucuma shown

Looks so unedible in the outside but so tasty in the inside.

Thanks for the excellent review. I love your descriptions 🤓 A seller in Far North QLD Australia has these seedlings in stock. Even though I live further south in the subtropics I’m gonna go ahead and get one and do my best. I’m totally sold! Cairns is a tropical fruit lovers paradise, all sapotes can be found there, but I’ve never seen the green ones

A local ice pop place makes sapote flavored ones,they're incredible

the insides remind me if a chico complete with the one seed thing (though I forget if chicos have multiple seeds in them instead of one)

I'm growing a green sapote tree here in Lakeland Florida. It's about 10' tall and has some fruit on it now. They will ripen in March I believe plus or minus a month. Haven't got to try it yet but I do like Mamey.

im going to try out that coffee the one your having the cherry and peach note i like light coffee too especially sumatra beans golden roast im going to bookmark that coffee site big time, i want to try the green sapote big time i love good sweet flavors and looks very delightful beautiful seed alsolearning a lot from you so very much appreciated i hope to one day grow some of these also.

Looks good

One heck of a seed in there

It's really interesting how one person's "weird" food is just regular food to someone else. I've been exposing my roommate to exotic stuff like chicken livers, pickled beets, and kiwi. In turn he has astounded and bewildered me with Mac and cheese made with cream of mushroom soup, chilli spiced with cinnamon, and dark roast (bleh!) coffee. You make the green sapote sound tasty but I'll have to make do with a fuyu persimmon.

Thanks for the commercial. I roast my coffee on my porch. Extra fresh!

Pouteria is probably my favorite genus of fruit. Lucuma, mamey and sapodilla are all amazing, as is egg fruit. I always have mamey or lucuma pulp in the freezer and make smoothies multiple times a week. The other Non-pouteria sapotes I have had have not been very good. Black sapote is perhaps the most overhyped fruit of all time. I was promised chocolate pudding but got less juicy and sweet persimmon. Stick with the sapotaceae.

i really really really wish these and other uncommon fruits like garcinia were available in american grocery stores

I don't care much for mamey but I LOVE green Sapote

Another fruit I need to try

LOL. The Sparkles. I died.

Green sapote = chicosapote Sapote (brown) = mamey The black sapote with orange or tangerine juice it's delicious. And frozen black sapote taste like chocolat.

Fun fact, in dominican spanish "mamey" is the word we use for the color orange (althought this is the fruit we call "mamey": en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mammea_americana). What is it about that color that everyone names it after a fruit?

you must also try bleck zapote... excellent friut

I actually quite viciously dislike sweet potatoes and I've only ever liked someone's pumpkin pie once. Despite all that, I really want to try this fruit. Idk what it is, I'll probably hate it, but much like me trying pumpkin and sweet potato pie every November just to make sure I still hate it... I gotta try this!

I tried mamey sapote earlier this year the worst part was waiting for it to get soft. Delicious, but you have to be so patient bc they ripen slowly from the outside in, so even if it's soft outside it will still be tough inside.

for a second I thought that what you called green zapote was what I know as chicozapote. But no, chicozapote is actually Manilkara Zapota. Have you tried that one? it's super sweet and the sap of the tree is what was used to make the original bubble gum (before it was replaced by synthetic stuff) there are still some companies out there that make bubble gum with this sap.

I like that this channel is not trying to be normal youtube food content, btw.

I love getting the frozen lucuma and mamey pulps and blending them with milk sugar and ice

I just bought a home in Miami with several different fruit trees I never heard of. We have sapodilla and Mamey. We have soursop but there’s no fruit on the trees yet. We have avocado trees that have blessed us with the best avocados I have ever tasted in my life. We have mango but I think those don’t have fruit this time of year.

I've only had the mamey sapote and LOVE it! Have you any idea where can I get my grubby little hands on green sapotes in norther California (Silicon Valley)?

nice sparkles. :-)

i grew up eating small mame sapote. i would eat the peel too because it was just so good.

Mamey sapote takes 3 years from flowering to harvest. Maybe green sapote is faster as it is smaller if the one in the video is typical size. As the mamey takes 3 years, a hurricane or whatever can mean no harvest for 3 years.

Now we’ve got to try making a Mamey sapote pie for the holidays

Thank you. I was wondering how the green sapote compared to the mamey. Mamey is marginal here in Southern California, but I've heard green sapote does well here.

Wow all of these look like really tasty fruit, I've never seen any of them. Also, the mamey sapote looks a bit like a papaya and the name is similar to how we know some papayas in South America (mamón). I hope I can get my hands on some sapote, any sapote lol

A rare fruit shop that imports from Colombia (and they also import from other places) opened near my place and they have some very very niche things! I'm in Canada so it's very rare to see those here!

When is saw this i ran out into my Guatemalan garden recognizing the fruit and ate it i hate zapote mamey but these are absolutelly delitefull

Bro hi, I love your videos. I have seen a video of black apple (aka honey apple in Japan only). Have you tried that before?

So, uhh.. Any chance you still have those glorious, beginning to sprout seeds? I'd LOVE to try and grow them!

"Does that clear things up" yes yes it did. I'm growing the chocolate one now and have a yellow somewhere.

In the Philippines, we have a fruit with flesh and seeds like the Mamey sapote called chico. The fruit does look like the Mamey but much smaller.

The only sapote I know is the chikoo/sapodilla and it doesn't get mentioned, when Jared said this had a toffee/butterscotch flavor I thought he would surely mention the sapodilla because from what I remember it has a similar brown sugar/molasses like flavor.

The Mamey Sapote reminds me of a Chiku but way bigger. The insides of both sapote also reminds me of Chiku. I googled it. It turns out The scientific name for the Chiku/Chikoo is Manilkara Zapota or Sapodilla. The Chiku looks more like the Mamey Sapote but from your descriptions I would say it taste similar to the Green Sapote where it has a butterscotch/toffee flavour

I can see a similarity between these fruits and Nesberry (sapodilla) except Nesberry usually have up to six seeds. But the roughness and color of the Mamay skin is the same as the Nesberry. I also think that persimmon have just a slight taste like Nesberry.

I am fully torqued at the sight of that milkshake.

Zapote juice made in milk is my childhood. It's so damn good.

I think the mamey sapote has a silght grittiness to it which reminds me of sweet potato with brown sugar in it

Hello weird fruit explorer I just went to target the other day and got these things called apple pears? They’re weird and very tasty

any info on distribution and cultivation?

In Trinidad 🇹🇹we have a fruit called sapodilla that looks like a smaller version of the mamey sapote

In the Caribbean, I think we call ours 'Sapodilla"..However, never had it green. Very delicious and extremely sugary and sweet. Tastes like eating raw, brown sugar..I can only eat one per day, lol!

I think a « Not a bergamot » weird explorer t-shirt could be very fun! 😆

Watching your channel makes me crave things that I cannot get! I like your no-nonsense approach (versus my previous weird fruit experience in another channel, run by an asian lady who tries too hard to be cool)

Great video as always, keep it up! (Until you try everything, haha!)

have you try petai?

LOL, "dimple". A contradictory euphemism.

Always making me hungry for fruit

Damn fine cup of milkshake!

Ooo I’ve tried the black ones but never green!

Looks like a sapodilla too

the thing about sapote not being a clear family of fruits goes back to the fact that common names are stupid, a large mouth bass is not in the bass family for instance. Basically, someone looked at the fruit thought it looked soft or "sapote" as you mentioned and forever cursed the world with yet another common name that was declared out of convenience then anything else.

the texture looks really nice, i would definitely like to try some kind of sapote one day

Hey Mexican here, just if You want to improve the pronunciation. The mamey is with an "i" (spanish i) sound at the end (mamei). Like the name Mei, ma-Mei. And the strong sound is in the the e: ma-mÉi

Next: Ross sapote and Black apple (Pouteria australis)

Ur need to try casscaca

Nice cat

I wanna try... 🤤🥭

I really want to make a banana lucuma cream pie. Or just lucuma or this green sapote.

It looks like a cross of a chiko fruit and overripe papaya.

Those seeds are so alien looking

This is a interesting fruit, I sapote

How do i buy exotic fruit 😢 I just want to try them Kentucky doesn't have a wide variety of fruits