I don't understand how a watery fruit salad got so much hype, but I love Emmy and her recipes are always fun to watch. Her commentary makes a watery fruit salad worthwhile ❤️
That's just TikTok and other modern-day media for you. Take something, name it something pretentious and get easy clout and earn big bucks from idiots worshiping you and your massive brain.
When Emmy said to "beat the heck out of" the pomegranate, it made me realize that she's basically the Bob Ross of food! He always said to "beat the devil out of" his paintbrush. Both kind, calming, hilarious, and so talented!
Love ya Emmy! some word origin info: the word "pomegranate" does come from French for the "pome" part meaning apple (via latin), but the "granate" comes from Latin via the word "granatum" meaning "having many seeds." The word "grenade" was so named due to it resembling a pomegranate, so it is a borrowed word from the French word, which evolved from the latin words "pome" (apple) and "granate or granatum" (having many seeds). i love words.
So.... basically a fruit salad or fruit cocktail. I'd honestly have no problem eating that but to call it "nature's cereal" is kind of pretentious - the kind of thing you do to convince your toddlers to eat their fruits and veggies. Or (stupid) rich people to spend $$$ on your restaurant's breakfast/brunch. 😁
I think the latter. Trying to use that type of moniker on kids tends to backfire hard. Just ask anyone raised with the whole "nature's candy" BS. It never worked. Oh well. At least the cereal comparison is somewhat more accurate.
Ya, i really dislike that there is this desire to name things incorrectly. Cereal means something. It does not mean bowl of something with liquid. What if someone took a bowl of meat and added gravy, is that meat cereal? No, cereal refers to the grain.
Granted its called "Nature's cereal," I'm surprised they didn't use the coconut milk instead of coconut water. Just imagine your favorite regular cereal with water 😕
@@dianethoroughman9541 I actually used water on Corn Flakes quite a few times growing up when we were out of milk. Add sugar, sliced bananas, bing. Ay, you do what you gotta do! It was ok, but no real substitute for the white stuff 🥛
I ate cookie crisps cereal with water once when I was younger (because we ran out of milk and my parents were asleep on that Saturday morning). It is NOT the same I do not recommend. It’s gross with water lol.
I feel like the people on the ticktocks that flip their shit over this are people who just never ate fruit before.... yeah, it's great, it's fruit.... it was always delicious. But Emmy's hype is about to make me spend like $30 on off season berries.
Well in the summer this would be amazing to cool of with especially since all of these minus the pomegranate would be In season unfortunately pomegranate Is a fall to early winter Fruit
This probably wouldn't be as good tasting but during off season I wonder how well frozen berries would work. I might try it with frozen to see how it turns out
A lot of Americans don't eat fruit though. The only thing we have all that common where I live is apples, and it can get really expensive buying other fruits that have to get imported even from other states. Heck, if it gets people to eat more fruit, I'm all for it.
@@chapstick6555 Adding chia seeds and leaving out the coconut water is quite nice. Adding coconut water when your berries are already soggy doesn´t sound great.
Well, we in Indonesia have a similar dish called Sup Buah (Fruit Soup) which is made from variety of fruits like watermelons, cantaloupes, strawberries, blueberries, rambutans, etc and soaked into milk (You can use either whole milk, evaporated milk, or condensed milk with water. A lot of street vendors use condensed milk with water due to cutting the cost. Or if you're vegetarians or having lactose intolerance, you can substitute to soy milk, almond milk, etc.) That's my explanation in it......
Not all freshly harvested coconut water turns pink. It depends on the cultivar (variety) of coconut and also the age of the coconut. For those that do turn pink, when exposed to oxygen and/or heat, the enzyme _polyphenol oxidase_ (PPO) causes the coconut water to create black, brown or red color pigments. Mangos, apples and avocados also oxidize when their surface is exposed to oxygen. The resulting pink tint in fresh coconut water varies, depending on the variety of coconuts used to supply the coconut water-and how long it's been since the coconut was opened. It tends to happen in the coconut water from young coconuts (7-8 months old) more than older coconuts (9-10 months old). Therefore, if a particular variety of coconut had a low Polyphenol Oxidase level or the coconuts were older the water would not turn pink. Turning pink can *also* happen when exposed to heat during manufacturer processing. Most store bought coconut water should naturally appear pink, due to the time it takes to transport the water from its source to your hands. If your coconut water isn’t fresh from a coconut and isn’t pink, the manufacturer may have added chemicals to remove the polyphenols from the product. This is why the pink color is an indication of the product’s purity.
My father used to go out every year to pick low bush blueberries in secret spots he knew of in town. We used to freeze some for use throughout the year, but we used to also put the fresh berries in a bowl, pour in milk and a sprinkle of sugar. Delicious!
I always do this with strawberries, basically turns into strawberry milk, amazing. Sometimes blueberries too, pretty much any berry works. My favorite way to consume berries.
@@badgeoshame389 yeah, they do usually. Though, most commonly they're referred to as fruit cocktails if they have a liquid in them, fruit salad if its just the fruit.
How is Granola any more natural than cereal? It's usually packed with preservatives and cane syrup and sometimes high fructose corn syrup hardly natural unless you're making it yourself with unrefined oats, nuts and raw honey whose sourcing you can verify as completely unprocessed.
@@jinx2736 I get it. We used to put orange juice on ours occasionally. As we got older liquir 😆 even sugar and masserate and the fruits juice. Lol we never called it nature's cereal tho.
@@justhereforthevideos2798 yeah for sure! It’s not really the most accurate name for it but Ive just never seen so many people getting upset over watered down fruit salad. Some of these comments are ridiculous. 😅
@@jinx2736 I personally think a lot if people are over these 'content creators' thinking they invented the wheel.v worse is those who trot behind them in droves. Like please for the love of God have an original idea. That's not been done in so long lol guaranteed to make u go viral 😆
@@justhereforthevideos2798 right. They definitely didn’t invent it but I also don’t see an issue with someone calling it whatever they wish to call it. It’s just food at the end of the day! 🥰
I went to buy the stuff to make this today and my total came out to 54$ so I got everything home and was pumped to try it. It WAS good like I have no complaints but at the same time I spent 50$ for a bowl of fruit so I couldn’t bring myself to enjoy it fully you know?
@@insomniac598 well to be fair I did have to get multiples of some things because they didn’t come singular and the pomegranate seeds were prepackaged so I probably could have gotten it cheaper if I had tried more than one store.
@@violetviolet888 it'll be sloppy, like she said you wouldn't get the crunch. Do Americans just pay more for fruit? Like I shop in a little farm shop and can spend £20 and get enough fruit and veg for 2 weeks for 2 people?!
@@insomniac598 Produce in general is more expensive than junk food here. That's a major contributor to our obesity problem, and it's why obesity and wealth are _inversely_ correlated here.
I always just peel them with my fingers, its such a beautiful process, seeing the clusters, the individual seeds falling off... don't want to waste a single one by slicing the fruit in half... its a calming thing for me though.
As someone who's always on the look out for fruit at the supermarket, I did some math: 4$ expensive coconut water + 4$ pomegranate + 4$ (if you're lucky) blueberries + 4$ (if you're lucky) blackberries = one damn expensive snack. Love ya tho Emmy
Well... it's not like you're gonna add all the coconut water at the same time for one bowl, same goes for the fruits. You just use a small quantity for your bowl! Yes it might be pricy for a snack but personally I eat bowls of fruits all the time by themselves and to add this extra coconut water might make a totally new experience!
As someone with an anxiety disorder I just wanted to say I can’t help but appreciate how calm and positive your energy is in videos. I’ve been subscribed for years and you never fail to comfort me ❤️
Rice, bran and wheat tend to make me bloated, so I actually used to make a “natures cereal” using dried white mulberries, raisins and currants for the body of it, pomegranate seeds, fresh raspberries and blueberries to be scattered throughout and topped it with some sliced banana, shaved almonds, fresh cinnamon and a drizzle of honey. And I soaked mine in milk. It was sweet and almost kinda muesli like. Tasted good with yogurt too. Perhaps a bit more substantial than this one, but this one is great for something super cold and refreshing and light on a hot summers day.
I think it's because it is crunchy, liquidy and sweet and cold like when you eat a bowl of cereal for breakfast. At least where I am, people use the word "cereal" to describe the end product that you buy and eat, not necessarily to describe any of the individual ingredients outside of the context of the morning meal.
Here in Lithuania (Europe) we eat similar "Nature's cereal", which is usually some type of seasonal berries (mostly strawberries, wild blueberries or cherries) with sugar and milk. Some people eat this with rye bread, which is more filling :) I eat my nature's cereal vegan - with almond milk and maple syrup. And it's the best summer food ever. Especially when the berry season begins.
a bunch of baloney, did you ever look into whether eating fruit and veggies actually has a positive impact? Look into how long Eskimo's lived on a meat only diet (70 years on average without modern medicine). Blue Whales live up to 90 years old and their diet consists almost exclusively of krill.
@@karllaur3866 yea rats are a great animal model. Tortoises are primarily herbivorous and can live over 100 years. I dont see the point of comparing distinctly different species with vastly different metabolic systems and concluding that since whales eat only krill therefor humans should eat only meat. I mean i agree with you on the Eskimos, thats a valid discussion. But what do i know about animals im only a veterinary science student.
Growing up my dad would take a bunch of different kids of berries and put them in a bowl and pour half n half on it and that was my breakfast on many occasions
I’ve been doing this with frozen berries for years . Trader Joe’s has really good deals on frozen berries especially blueberries and cherries, so I would get a bowl of them… frozen, and whatever other fruit was in season, add a splash of almond milk and top with raw old fashioned oats for crunch. Perfect breakfast and also gives you a little protein, calcium and vitamin d in the oats and almond milk to start your day off right
Seems like a wonderful summertime breakfast that I’m definitely going to try sometime. Very luxurious too, all of these fruits/berries are pretty expensive here in Sweden 😅
Pick Swedish blueberries ("bilberries" in english) and wild raspberries in the forest when they are in season. You might even find blackberries wild depending on where in Sweden you live. If you live in the north of Sweden, you might also add hjortron ("cloudberries") which should also give you added texture with their larger seeds, and a hint of honey to the flavour 👍🙂. I live in Stockholm myself, so no cloudberries for me 😔 I might even try to add some lingon to this, when I think of it. Pomegranate and coconut water will definitely add to the cost though. Curious what the coconut water adds to this, I always thought coconut water was boring. I'm definitely going to try this though, based on Emmys reaction 🙂
@@ei96byod I live in central Gothenburg so it’s a bit of an excursion to go to the forest and pick berries lol, especially since I don’t have a car. Also I’m not the most outdoorsy person so I wouldn’t know where to even look 😅 I’ve never had Hjortron but I’d love to try them. I wonder why they aren’t sold in stores, I’m sure a lot of people here in the south would buy them if they were.
This is just a another version or a foreign Fruit Salad of sort!! The one I know is our locally known version of a Fruit Salad which is sweetened condensed Milk, Coconut Flakes, Nata De Coco (Coconut Gel), Sugar Palm fruit, chunks of Melon, and Pineapple (Basically a Fruit Cocktail) with Cherries, Green Grapes, Apple and Cheese (all optional)!! Best served frozen and you're good to go, this one is more of a dessert breakfast cereal if you will!!
yeh I was thinking this, it's just a bowl of fruit salad 😂 get rid of the pomengrates and it's just summer berries in general, I honestly don't think this was something to fuss over tbh
I was just thinking that the white bit of the pomegranate looks a little like honeycomb, and then Emmy said what I was thinking. Get out of my head! LOL
Growing up, I called any mix of berries "bumbleberry". Like, I would classify this is bumbleberry, and make things like coulis, yogurt, etc. Once, I made a bumbleberry pie, and called it such. An acquaintance who liked the pie asked me what it was called, and when I told them, they were like "Oh no, I don't think they sell bumbleberries where I live..." 💀💀
My cousin and I were playing outside once. Dad yelled to stay away from those yardberries. She didn't get what he meant butI knew that old Dad joke. Yardberries are produced by bunnies and are not to be eaten under any circumstances. 🤣
I think the easiest way of opening them is to cut and then break it apart in a bowl of water. We had a tree and would get like 100 in a week and that is how we opened them.
@@pz4971 We usually just picked as many as we could and gave them to friends and co-workers. I would bring a whole brown paper grocery bag full and just put it in the break room. One year we did go all out and juiced dozens and dozens and made real grenadine and had a cocktail party and gave everybody tiny 2 oz bottles to take home. It took HOURS and HOURS to juice, strain and reduce it but real grenadine and not cherry flavored syrup is really good.
Yeah, I didn’t understand this trend when it went viral…but I’m also someone who doesn’t like tart fruits or anything with seeds (it’s a texture thing - I’ve never been able to eat berries whole)…so it just looks like a bowl full of yuck to me. But I’m sure it’s super healthy.
Pomegranate seeds have a structure called sarcotesta which contain the juice- not true arils. Examples of a true aril would be a lychee! A little technical but an aril is a close structural analog (and more well known) to a sarcotesta
She said it with such confidence she had me doubting my own pronunciation enough to look it up. I realized I'd never heard anyone else say arils! I'm sure different dialects say it slightly differently but yeah not to the point that it sounds like "aerials" as in, the circus act.
@@Purelychem Technically, the term *arils* is the proper term for this object in the pomegranate despite your alternate definition. Neither of them is incorrect in context.
Pomegranate is actually called ”granatäpple” in Swedish which literally means “grenade apple” Never though of it before but now the “pomegranate” makes sense as well
Tik Tok might call that cereal, but I call it a fructose sugar bomb! My liver is scared LOL. Beware if you have T1D, T2D, pre-T2D, insulin resistance, or NAFLD! A few berries is great, but a bowlful is hard on your liver
Four ounces of sugar is four ounces of sugar wherever it comes from. That is why a few bits of fruit in a nice big oatmeal porridge is so scrumptious and nourishing compared to this sugar rush tooth killer.
Wonder if the people who say things like "nature's cereal" are aware that cereal is not inherently the sugary thing we eat for breakfast, but a type of grain that comes from nature... Health nuts are weird at times.
Emmy, please try eating different versions of Filipino fruit salads. Where I grow up sometimes, if there is any big events like birthdays, there are either macaroni salad or buko salad present (both are fruit salads but has different main ingredient and can be eaten with canned or fresh fruits). Personally, I really like my mother's version of fruit salad where you only need milk and some local fruits like banana, papaya, mango, etc. This is my favourite afternoon snack in summer because there are many local fruits grown fresh and ripe to be eaten immediately.
So many people are getting so worked up about the fact that it's a fruit salad and cereal is already from nature. Yes, we get it, but it's not like Emmy named the dish! She's only using the name that was given on tik tok by someone else.
Botanically speaking, pomegranate is technically considered a berry. However blackberries, raspberries and strawberries aren't, they are considered aggregate fruit. 😂
When I was growing up we ued to call this "a bowl of fruit" amazing how a bit of viral marketing can change the mundane suddenly in to a trend. over here in the UK it was mainly Apple, Berries, Orange juice. Coconut water just seems a really expensive step to add. but looks delicious and healthy.
I'm wondering why this isn't just a bowl of fruit? I eat a mix of blackberries, blueberries, raspberries and strawberries all the time. No coconut water. It's delicious. I guess the name is just a TikTok gimmick. 🤷🏻♀️
I've found that the least messy way to open a pomegranate is to cut it in half and then submerge each half in water and turn them inside out. The water keeps your hands from getting stained, and the yellow/white part floats away.
As a kid my little brother and I grew up near a wild pomegranate grove in Southern California and we used go harvesting them, bring them home and make, what we called pomegranate soup which consisted of pomegranate arils, lime juice and salt, yup we were salty boys, but we had to stop that tradition during the nightstalker era when we weren’t allowed to go into the woods and we never really recovered this tradition, too many murders in the hills of Northeast Los Angeles then.
Nice. This is not abnormal. Many cultures add acid, salt and often chili powder to fresh fruit. It's just not common for Americans. You'd like the seasoning "Tajín". Should be able to find it in most grocery stores at least on the west coast. Or get it online.
Speaking of being a “strawberry girl”, when I was little my maternal grandparents had a U-Pick-Em strawberry field in addition to their other strawberry fields and I was the unofficial spokesperson. Toddler me would be up at the main stand with her curly pigtails and strawberry-stained face and shirt asking all the customers “Do you want to buy a bushel?!” 👧🏻🍓 I am honestly surprised I never developed an allergy to strawberries because I ate as many as I could get my little paws on!
I LOVE EMMY been watching you for years. Sorry, I've seen a few of these tik tok vids. Where the newer genes finally figure out how to do something. That has been a thing long (ie decades) before it was ever a thing. Honestly, how do these people survive the day to day?
In replacement of the water I'd add a cup of sugar to the fruit, add cubes of jello and heavy whipped cream. Maybe season it with a bit of candy sprinkles.
Another tip to easily open pomegranate that Emmy briefly mentioned: personally I don’t cut off the top, I just score along the outside ridges and break my open. Then, take a bowl of water filled about half way and submerge your section in thumbing at the seeds, and repeat. This takes away any big possibility of staining kitchen ware or counters, and cuts most of the tedious process of picking out the white flesh! Plus you can take a spoon, cup, or hand strainer and just scoop the white flesh off the top since the seeds sink to the bottom of the bowl as you thumb them off underwater! :)
The “granate” in pomegranate comes from Latin. It means “having grains”. Which does make sense. The inside looks like red grains. A grenade also splitters into small grain-like pieces, hence the name.
No. It's fruit which is nutrient dense with healthy antioxidants, vitamins and fiber that the microbes in your body need to function well so that you function well. Not processed, extracted sugar which is devoid of enabling your body to perform optimally.
I would be prone to using actual coconut milk not coconut water. I’m not much of a fan of the water. I do recognize that she’s using other peoples recipes here but I would also add a tiny bit of Stevia too. I like sweet “cereal” 😊
@@tomevans3246 Right?! It’s just weird. It makes my mouth feel anesthetized. Kind of a warm, dulling, sensation. It’s hard to explain but it’s definitely gross. 😝
I appreciate how Emmy shares unusual recipes to hacks with us. She’s the first to actually assess the taste, textures and appearances accurately and honestly.
We've all seen Emmy whip up some incredible food creations. She is fearless! I'm confused and strangely unsatisfied watching her wax ecstatic over a mouthful of fruit.
„I‘m such a strawberry girl“ Reminds me of „I‘m a medium-rare girl“ 😂 greetings from kitchenhell. Great video Emmy, I was kind of skeptical at first but if even you say it‘s up to the Hype, I‘ll give it a try
Both great ways to cut a pomegranate, an even easier way to harvest them is to cut them and then put them in cold water for 5 minutes. The water loosens them up and they just fall right out with a spoon or your thumb
Harmless Harvest is the best coconut water ever! I buy it in bulk from Costco or get the big ones from target for $9.99. I cannot stand any other brand because they pasteurize it and it tastes sooo acidic.
Omg seriously. I tried it when they were sampling it once and I was HOOKED! It’s SO GOOD! It got me to drink coconut water form other brands occasionally (because harmless is quite expensive, even at Costco it’s at least like $16 for six, and it’s like $6 a bottle bought individually at a grocery) but they’re always disappointing.
You can OD on certain berries. Blueberries have similar blood-thinning properties as pineapple and should be consumed with caution if you've acquired a fracture or similar. I learned it the hard way.
No, it's just fruit. A smoothie is blended fruit. Deconstruction involves atypical forms, out of normal context. There's nothing abnormal about fresh fruit.
@@violetviolet888 Yeah I should have said unblended smoothie, but I made this comment at like 3 a.m. so 🤷♀️. Lizzo's version has ice, which is what makes it an unblended smoothie in my mind. Otherwise it's a fruit salad (which, as we all know, is yummy yummy).
Here’s how I make this (without knowing this stuff ever existed). I wanted to go low carbs so I was inspired by this Korean trick of making strawberry milk which involves cutting strawberries into small pieces and crushing some of them, adding some sugar and then letting it sit for a while until strawberry flavor intensifies. Once it intensifies, any type of milk is added. It’s the best strawberry milk technique by the way. Traditionally we are used to simply blending strawberries with milk which isn’t good at all. So I made my own Korean inspired low carb strawberry milk “cereal” by cutting strawberries into small pieces, adding some monk fruit (or any sweetener) and once flavor develops I add some almond milk and eat with a spoon like a cereal. Trust me it actually kills any cereal cravings and it’s delectable. I highly suggest it.
You... seriously don't know why everyone is criticizing it? How about that this is called "nature's cereal", when cereal is by definition a grain product... and this is just a fruit salad with coconut water in it. Lol. Nothing against Emmy, but to call this concoction a "cereal" just doesn't make any sense.