GUELDER ROSE FRUIT (Viburnum): This Foot-Flavored Fruit is a Symbol of Love! - Weird Fruit Explorer 

They taste really good and sort of like really sweet currents in the winter. They lose the sourness and bitterness with the snow. Even though those were ripe they weren't ripened properly. As weather cools down a lot of fruit get sweeter as sugar production ramps up

Usually if it's tiny, red, and mostly only birds that eat it in nature.... it's not going to taste good. And most such species rippen late in the season, meaning they've evolved to be a perfect saviory or acrid/sour/fermented fatty fall/winter meal for their preferred seed dispersers, birds.

My Ukrainian grandparents grew this in thier backyard it is called kalyna and from what I understand it is EXTREMELY important to let the berries be touched by frost before you eat them or they will be inedible. They would almost never ate them, but I think when they did they cooked them

imagine just slipping these in with a bowl of normal wild cherries lol.

I've seen them grow in Latvia, Ukraine and Russia. They are very hard to eat raw, and even with crazy ammounts of sugar, the bitterness is horrible. What I found while experimenting with them - you can boil the juice out of them, and when diluted enough, it kinda reminds berry-flavored tonic. Just need to add some fizz to it. People in Ukraine and Russia would often make tea, adding some viburnum and honey to fight cold in winter. And for jam - I found it best to just make it out of pulp - without skins or seeds. Just press the berries on the sieve and make jam from the soft part that goes through. Boiling with seeds - not a good idea.

The smell is due to 2- and 3-methylbutanoic acid. It is the identical chemical found in valerian, cheese, stinky feet and some badly brewed homebrew. Some varieties may have a lot less. Edited to add, it might be an anticonvulsant.

Eats berry #1: eww! Yuck! Eats berry #2: whoa! No. Yuck.. _fool me once_

That first look on your face said it all . God love you for entertaining us Jared :-)

This guy sacrifices so much for our amusement, and I love that

"its the symbol of love, and love hurts."

There are native fruit shrubs in Alaska that me and my brother found in the woods just called "cranberry bushes" but were actually probably related to these. The WHOLE forest would reek like vomit when they were red ripe. Uggh, I feel sorry for you, man haha!

This grows wild in New Brunswick, Canada and we made jelly out of it every Autumn. We call them High Bush Cranberries. Once made into jelly it tastes pretty much identical to bog cranberries. My grandmother used to make ginger snap cookies and use the jam to hold two cookies together like a sandwich. That flavour combo was amazing and they are still my favourite cookies!

It's really good in hommade spirits, jams and tea. The trick is to dilute the taste to an acceptable level of sourness and 'funky' taste. Then its quite a treat! But eating this raw from stem is like eating whole lemon with rind and leaves... you can do it if you want to, but the result will not be nice.

That's love, sour, bitter, cheesy

Slightly poison cheese berry jam, I wouldn't believe this existed if not for you Jared. Thanks for sacrificing yourself for our entertainment :)

7:38 KITTY 🐱🤗

THANK YOU WEIRD FRUIT EXPLORER

I'm Russian, and if you are interested in other disgusting "fruits" that Russians can consume (under certain circumstances), you should try berberis and sea-buckthorn. They are all theoretically edible (like kalina you just tried), but only theoretically. The thing is, there are not many fruits that grow in the North, but as our ancestors still needed vitamins, they had to consume these things somehow, although they are barely edible. I don't think there are many people who eat them now, when you can buy fresh apples all year round.

They should get better after several freezing/thawing cycles.. (as I know they traditionally were eaten in the middle of winter .. and mostly as a vitamin supply)

They look like maraschino cherries

Foot cherry🤔

I'm Russian, and I never associated it with anything too special. It's just a barely edible winter berry better left for birds, but you can make jam, can its juice or keep some frozen. It's mostly consumed diluted, almost as a spice. It's not supposed to be great, it's just something different. I don't find them especially disgusting, they are just too sour to enjoy raw. I don't remember anything cheesy about the taste. Maybe medicinal, but not cheesy. They are just meh, frankly. It's important though, they may actually be quite unpleasant if not frozen before eating. They are collected in winter. My mom has a couple of bushes at her summer country house, my aunt has a giant almost a tree as old as I am. So I'm about as well acquainted with it as I could be.

I like your videos, especially the curiosity thing ones. But I want to give you a tip on the tastiest berry ever. Called blåhallon, Rubus caesius, unfortunately they are not in season but a really ripe one almost melts in the mouth and tastes amazing.

We pick them in winter on way from school. They are much less stringent after they get frozen and defrosted on tree again 😁

First read it as Vibranium Fruit. Thought it was a prank

One of my favorite berries. Somewhat sad what it will get bad reputation because of this video. I do not know what preparation is necessary before you can eat them but my grandmother was making very tasty berry drink out of those. Maybe you need to freeze them before cooking. Also, you can use seeds as coffee substitute. :)

Quentin Tarantino would like this fruit

I make jam from the berries, boil for about half an hour, rub through a sieve. I make compote from the remains of mashed berries. There is no bitterness at all, the aroma changes. It doesn't smell like cheese. The taste is simply wonderful, one of the tastiest jams.

I’ve tried several species from this genus and all of them tasted about like your description, supposably Nanaberries are the best tasting member of the genus. The ones I tried had that medical flavor.

I made my jelly with a little cardamom and a lot of sugar! It is delicious!!!

Cheesy fruits go well with real cheese 👌👌👌

Kalinka, malinka, malinka moya... 😂

When pronouncing Latin it's important to forget your native English pronounciation and utter a sound for every letter you see (except diphthongs). Hence edule is pronounced ed-oo-lé.

alternate names: "cheesy cranberries" "cheese cranberries" "cranberries of cheese" "cranberries o' cheese" "cheeseberries"

Regarding that cheesy pungency, there must be some genetic variation in the perception of that smell. I tried these berries today at my aunt's summer house, looking for the cheesy flavor and I think I could only detect a hint of it because I expected to find it. They're not exactly ripe right now, but my mom and aunt, who don't like stinky foods as much as I do, pick them after first frost in autumn and do not think they smell like cheese at all. Indeed, after a quick google search, I did find a handful of posts from people who love these berries and were surprised when their family members complained about the smell, or wanting to buy viburnum perfume, only to be told that it apparently smells horrible.

Congratulations, an effective recipe for toe-jam, enjoy.

8:19 should call it ramberry 🐏 haha

It feels like we are getting a video every day 🤗

Weird Explorer: "Oh! That is not very good...It's sour...it's bitter, like you took a grapefruit rind and took a bite out of it...and there's also a bit of like a cheesiness to it." Also Weird Explorer: "So I'm gonna make a jam out of it!" Me: "Nooooooo"

id like my pizza extra guelder berries plz

In Russia, red viburnum (kalina krasnaya) is a symbol of prison. There's a cult Russian movie called like that about a man released from prison. And also brand of cheap vodka 🤷‍♂️

I cooked mine down with some wild grapes and elderberry. To counteract the bitterness I added a couple pinches of cardamom to taste and then added my sugar. No more bitter or cheesy taste. I think you should give it another try. It’s delicious in a mixed berry jelly.

looks like it would make a good red dye tho?

My grandmother used to harvest the viburnum edule (called pimbina around here) . She would cook them into a jam, strain the solids and freeze the resulting juice into ice cube trays. Then when she made apple pie, she would put one cube into the pot she cooked apples in. Best apple pie ever.

Bitter! Sour! ;-)) That made me chuckle. You miss an information, they are better once wintered. Not mature as yours, we can get accustom to the taste with years. Here we have Viburnum edule (ay-doo-lay) that gave its name to the river I am built on. They are pretty obvious while flowering so early in spring. Incidentally, yesterday, I was comparing the taste of V. edule to cranberry with my neighbour. When not fully developed, not winthered, they can be eaten after few years of practice. Once ripen (after hard cold for days) they both get less sour and bitter but still retain some of this basic nature of theirs. The main major change is the sugar made by the fruit to help dispersion by birds or small animals. And so, they are easier to eat like cranberry jam with the famous turkey. They both make and excellent out of the ordinary jam too. Harvesting V. edule is correct in the red semi-translucid state like yours both still need more hard freezing followed by few days at room temperature. It is like cranberry for that matter. If you choose to let them winter on the bush you take the chance it will serve to some species of bird like waxwing, roselin... So, in my situation, I usually harvest them mid-winter, mid-february to mid -march. (Snow cover is gone by begiinnnig of may here.). When I go by those bushes I only eat 1 or 2 fresh after mid-winter.

10:03 I...I think I hafta try that combination now. I mean, hell, I've mixed pickle juice/brine in with sparkling Martinelli's, I've made banana pork, and I've done some _really_ weird combinations, too.

I use the berries to make medicines. Lol Fun and tasty.

Love your videos, esp like your kitty

So this is more FROOT than fruit a mix of foot & fruit. Perhaps the jelly syrup jam would be good with a strong cheese.

Cool! 😮

maybe, you first person who called "this berries like a "cheese" 🤣

They actually taste quite good even without any frost etc . There is no cheesiness to it. They are pleasantly sourly bitter but nof too much. But I don't eat sweets and avoid processed foods. The seeds are heart shaped ♥ . I would eat more but people say that they are somewhat toxic if eaten more than a few raw.

Cats like to be up high to get a more complete view of their surroundings. This makes them feel secure.

in turkey they put in a jar with water to flush the bitterness out but you need to do that like 4-5 times over 1 to 1,5 month

are they related to hydrangeas?

Lithuanians refer to them as Putin Berries or Putin Bush berries (Putino uogos or putinas medis) and are found in forests, rivers, meadows and homesteads. On berry bushes, berries can stay until mid-winter. It's important to pick them after the first frost, which is when they lose their bitterness.

That's what love tastes like. Gets bitter quickly :'D

We call it Gelderse roos in the Netherlands

It's a strong anti-cough and anti-cold remedy. In Russia and Ukraine is used for curative purposes.

The disappointment fruit xD

It should be noted that the snowball flower is a variety and not what the species looks like in general. It was like 25 years ago I put one of those berries in my mouth, but I had no idea what it tasted like. That was the only time I did it. Nasty (V. opulus)

LOL that they list it as "exquisite" jelly recipe

Ha ha ha! At least its not stupid hot peppers genetically engineered for men to prove they're more men-like.

Choke berries are astringent because of tannic acid, which can be countered with baking soda. Maybe this will work.

If he hasn't had any yet, he should try Teaberry.

The only viburnum I've tried is Viburnum lentago, nannyberries, which I like.

The Viburnum native to Sweden ( Viburnum opulus) is poisonous , it give you the runs.

There is a cherry that look like that in jamaica

I have what I was sold as a high bush cranberry plant. It must be related to this. Looks very similar. I noticed in the garden a smell, like smegma. Finally realized it was the berries. I was told it was a good cranberry substitute. Had a similar experience trying to make a jam. I was told it was a native too North America plant. Yes a bit like cranberries but...that smell and taste of cheese or worse.

Still going through my suggested posts to find that ad that is using your videos to catch attention. Will update when found. I've seen it atleast 3 times in 2 weeks so it will reappear I'm sure.

your face says it all lol

If you eat those you will never crave humman food again!!

Have you tried Mongongo nut? It is a staple in the African diet for thousands of years.

These were widely planted in Iowa where I grew up, and I remember trying them after seeing books on wild edibles. Nah. Even after freezing they were not good. Never tried cooking them though.

I've tried to taste these berries once, it was quite an experience..., these berries have got so strong, to me I'd say even overwhelming, bitter taste 😖 with some sourness to it

From what the comments are saying. I'm assuming you could put them in the freezer if you live in a place which doesn't snow much.

Always love to see the cat! Does she like cheese? Our cats love cheese but the male is lactose intolerant. 😸

Blergh. Once I was working on a green strip with some Viburnum trees. They had old berries on the tree and many on the ground. My shoes and work clothes stank so bad after working there. Disgusting to imagine eating those.

I wonder how much the other ingredients would’ve helped?

I bought a huge jar of Nance one time thinking I'd get to try a cool new fruit 😔

You should make pasta out of this.

not easy bein' cheezy😎

For me, it was the cherry cough syrup descriptor that made me question it. Limburger cheese is one of my favorite things in the world. Cherry cough syrup is my least favorite medicine flavor in the world...and I got a methylprednisolone tablet stuck in my throat last week (which literally tastes like bile...not an exaggeration at all). The bitter and sour of the raw sounds good to me, though astringency is a bit of a turn-off (that said, I like fresh cranberries so...who knows). There are like three flavors in the world that make me gag: dust, canned mixed vegetables, and cherry cough syrup.

I’ve picked some of these wild and have no idea what subspecies they are but at least when you make jam with them you cook the shit out of them so any toxic alkaloids etc might be weakened.

In Michigan we call them "American Highbush Cranberry". They smell like dirty socks.

Your faces 😂😂😂😂😂😂

Is that Jared's new kitchen?

In Russia cheese berry good

This video should have opened with Kalinka playing

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A good artist suffers for his art. Take them as an example.

Oh Jesus Christ I just tried this. It doesn’t smell bad to me, but does taste like grapefruit and I hate grapefruit. I tried adding apples and I’ll ;eave it to cool down to see if I might like it more later.

There is one of these growing on the river bank near my house, I think I will not touch it

Your very welcome. But also, I'm very sorry. lol

So I've had a question, I suppose recent events will make this difficult considering the whole virus issues. However I feel it's worth asking. I am considering going vegetarian for a while just to see how it is. But I love chicken and I'm not sure I could go without. Any suggestions on how to either break that habit or replace it? As of this point in time I don't eat any other meets but can't seem to find anything to curve the craving for that particular one. Also great video I gotta try these.

Just a quick point. Using the prefix “the” before Ukraine expresses a very specific political connotation that you may not have intended.

By cheesy what do you mean? Like an actual cheese smell? Or like a fake processed one? I don't know about you, but I personally love cheese.

Ukraine, not “The Ukraine”, The Iron Curtain has fallen...a while ago.

Sup froot man

Love does hurt (⊙︿⊙) 3:58