MOUNTAIN SOURSOP - Why Don't People Eat This RARE fruit? - Weird Fruit Explorer 

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"Difficult to eat, but the flavor is not hugely objectionable!" raves Weird Fruit Explorer.

People in Jamaica use the mountain sop to make juice. It's unusual as the more you put water on the flesh of the fruit it makes more juice, you can get a gallon of juice from one fruit.

Bam, you've invented the Sopsicle®.

When you blended it I thought it looked like "soft-serve banana nice cream" and was going to comment that you should try to freeze it, so glad you thought the same! Great video about a fruit I don't think I'll ever find

Never really realized how unique and vast the fruit selection is in the world.

That happy-go-lucky-disney music buildup leading to ...."its alright" killed me

Floam was magical

Appetizing thing to note: Hagfish slime is composed of very long protein threads. Perhaps the mountain soursop pulp released microfibers of some sort?

Hey whats up! I'm from the slime hand-mixing subcommunity on RU-vid, and we're thrilled to see you join the club, Jared! Not only do you have perfect hands for manually mixing slime, but your choice of slime is superb! A lovely ooze, if I do say so myself! Keep it up, can't wait for more goo videos! Love ya, -x_GunkMonk54_x

The careful background and study you do would work really well with mushrooms. I don’t know if you want to expand the “weird explorer” brand but there are a lot of parallels.

Where's the 7 hour slime video? Asking for a friend

I am growing one in my front yard in Hawaii from seed. It took a few years to make fruit. It’s excellent in a smoothie. It’s best if you wait for it to fall off the tree and it’s mushy. It needs to be slightly browning from the tree.add some sugar or honey.

I started watching you like 5 years ago before I was about to travel to Borneo and watched almost every video you had produced at the time. I remember you were at like 4K to 10K views per video and I really thought it was such a niche thing for people to be interested in weird fruit botany, and you are such not a typical fake high energy youtuber. I honestly never thought you'd blow up. But look how wrong I was! I'm thrilled to see your views exploding and to all the viewers I'm so stoked other people are interested in this too! Weird fruit community!!

Hmm… I ended up getting a random Annona montana seedling years ago and it’s turned into a nice little tree now. It hasn’t fruited yet but it’s been growing well. I never really knew what the fruit was going to be like and I’m super not thrilled with what I’m going to get! At one point I wanted to collect as many anonnas as I could but I finally realized there wasn’t much of a point if they weren’t super tasty (or died from the cold in winter). Maybe I can graft something else onto it since it does seem to handle our winter temps quite well (in San Diego 10a, down to about 32 F). Edit: Glad to see there are some things I can try with this! I’ll be trying those foamy slime pudding and popsicle recipe!

We have this fruit in southern part of Taiwan,we usually just blend it with sugar and eat. sometimes we make it into ice cream or juice too.(you need to add lots of water to make it look like juice.) I think this fruit has nearly no sweetness,no matter how I eat it, I would just add some sugar to make it taste better 😀

Acids thicken sweetened condensed milk, this is like a key lime pie filling with a little something extra. This slimy texture lends well to mouthfeel in frozen desserts. Edit: kept watching and you got it!

Mountain soursop (Annona montana) is used as a rootstock in Florida when it comes to grafting various Annonaceae cultivars. It’s leaves are also very potent in medicinal some even claim it’s more potent than Soursop (Annona muricata). Mountain soursop in my home country (Colombia) is used to make delicious juices - but sugar is added. Also there is a short time frame in when you harvest the fruit that it has a superior taste and texture - in this video your A. montana looked way past that point. Interesting video nonetheless thanks for sharing this Annonaceae video. I grow many of them over in Florida.

Looking forward to the 7 hour version

My children and I are reading a book called Turtle in Paradise, which takes place in key west in the 30s. The ice cream man in the story had soursop flavor. Had no idea, and just stumbled upon this video. Fun 🙂

SOURSOP aka guanabana as I know it is like my favorite fruit. It tastes so good despite having that sour taste it's generally very sweet though. Usually more so than an apple if you ask me. I'm used to the varieties grown in puerto rico so it's possible the varieties down there are sweeter.

I guess “macaroni in a pot” is a bit more accessible as a lyric than “mountain soursop in a bowl”

I'd imagine that if you boiled your slime, it would denature the proteins that cause the slimy texture.

I absolutely love your editing and commentary. That slow zoom as you're making the juice with your hands and talking about the dark web. Oh my sides.

My Brazilian wife introduced Sousop to me a couple months ago and I was amazed by how good it is. I definitely recommend it!

I wonder how it would be in baked goods as like an egg replacement, Always enjoy your videos🤘🏻

You apologized for taking time to give us some facts, but I really love facts and you don't need to apologize 😊 Love your videos, as always!

Oo looks interesting, it look similar to our local species but not quite the same. I think we call it English durian here

This gives me a good idea though, mountain soursop and durian nog? It might work.

I'm familiar with atemoya and cherimoya but this was new to me. After massaging it in the bowl it looks exactly like the snot you'd pull out of your nostrils on dry days; a bit slimy with crunchy, dark bits in.

Soursop is great, I got to try it for the first time when I visited my cousin in Hawaii, he had a tree full of them. It's a weird experience, lots of seeds and the fruit is really goopy, but the flavor is amazing. It would make an incredible smoothy...

I wonder how well this would do as a medium for sautéeing food. Being that it is slimey, maybe it could also be used as a thickening agent, something similar to a roux, in cooking.

those blender editing choices were hilarious.

I would probably like this because ever since I first tried natto, I've been loving slimy foods and trying to find more. It's surprising how few foods are really slimy and sticky like natto and mountain yam. Thanks for the video and all the research and background info! Very interesting!

I really liked the editing, I noticed the effort put in. Big fan of the clips of fruits mentioned and definitely not sarcastic cooking montages

condensed milk + avocado + lime + ice is my favorite smoothie.

Here’s an interesting suggestion that would help with the texture on the final beverage (the one with the condensed milk and lime it in). Try freezing it/putting it in an ice cream maker. Then you don’t have to deal with the slime and it may even have a creamy feel while eating it once frozen, especially if it have a good amount of air frozen into it like ice cream…

Guanabana is one of the best fruits in the world. While I was living in Puerto Rico, they were rare, but worth the time spent looking for them. I'd pick them straight off the tree, allow them to ripen a bit, and then make juice out of them. As far as the mountain variety, the plant is a lot heartier, especially against a hurricane. I actually introduced it to my wife's family because they'd always thought of it as inedible. But it's actually very similar to guanabana when it's ripe. And it'd be an acceptable substitute if you can't find the regular soursop.

As someone who loves bananas but is allergic to them, making the popsicle sounds genuinely appealing.

love the post-production effects on this, makes it feel very

This is definitely on my Annona fruit try. Here in the Toronto area we get Soursop, Atemoya and Sugar Apples in fairly regularly (mostly in Asian grocery stores),,, but that's it! Wish there was more!

The inside of the mountain soursop reminds me of pineapple based off appearance. I've never had soursop, and honestly never heard of it until now. You always manage to pull out some really obscure (to me at least) fruits thay I've never heard of, and it makes me want to try them lol

Here's a suggestion for separating pulp from seeds if you run into another fruit / vegetable that's difficult separate from seeds or skin (etc.); use a food mill. If you're not familiar with what a food mill is, it's basically a metal bowl with a sieve at the bottom and a hand-cranked plate that processes food through the sieve while separating out inedible vegetable matter.

Citrus will always be my favorite family of fruits but I can't deny that Annona fruits have some wild traits about them. I will have to take the time to try a few once I have the time to travel.

I bet this would make a good icecream or maybe a custard. Or maybe like a hollandaise type sauce?

That’s some serious commitment to finding a way to enjoy this! That slimy texture seems appropriate for an October video…

Hey Weird Fruit Explorer! We have a large very productive mountain soursop nearby our property here in FL. I find the best way to eat one is to wash the skin and just bite/scrape/eat the outer 1/2"-1" layer off the whole quasi-spherical fruit and you can eat that whole layer without getting any fiber! It to me resembles canned pear texture with a littl bit of grit like soursop skin and sugar apple. THe interior could be tinctured or some other purpose if one wanted to utilize it. Definitely a banana pineapple-esque flavor with herbal notes in these fruits. The further into the fruit, the more fibrous every time without fail, i have yet to let one get to near spoiling as an experiemnt i intended to do to see if fibers are reduced with ripeness, but i doubt it. I actually enjoy these, (esp bc theyre free) also the medicinal properties i think also cause a slight euphoria, they make me feel real good! Currently grafting with these rootstocks, choice varieties of atemoya such as dream and phet pak chong, but soon will be grafting pink ilama, soncoya and beyond! We do also get soursop proper fruiting in this area, which is in a mini microclimate (Tampa Bay Area), as well as red custard apples and sugar apples by the barrel. It is very interesting to see how these different fruits perform on the cusp of their cold tolerance. Also there are some other good and quite cold tolerant annonas with greater edibility rating (besides cherimoya of course) One we are growing here is Annona rugulosa, said pineapple meets sugar apple flavor but no fiber. Happy to get you some new weird fruit to do a video of sometime down the line. Would be awesome to see one of Duguetia sp. such as Duguetia phaeoclados (Cherry Sugar Apple). We have that and another species in Duguetia genus growing now fingers crossed! Thanks for the laughs and the fun vids!

Yours was totally unripe, those don't get mature off the tree well, they are supposed to be almost white on the outside and very soft and juicy when ripe, they taste like pineapple soursop. But it was the true fruit you had, that is the seed color and the slime in the juice problem is also true, even with fully ripe ones. But with any soursop juices they have the problem you need to take the seeds out of the envelopes they come in by hand before juicing. Great idea with the icecream!

Melons also have slime with its seeds. If blended together with some water and olive oil, the slime and seeds become somewhat like a seed milk substitute. An egg can also help with the emulsifying of the olive oil in the mix.

2:49 it's rather strange to me for someone who eats a ton of fruit to not enjoy wine. I love both.

That description of the yogurt/smoothie sounds really appealing. Like a tropical smoothie/yogurt

I found this as a frozen whole fruit during a previous exploration at a Asian supermarket. The freezing process made it so I only experienced the slimy texture, but I am glad to see you had the same experiences in trying to find a way to eat it.

Sometimes when he pauses I can predict exactly what he’s going to say.

Come for the soursop, stay for the duckstab.

Dude, you just made vegan Gak!

I stumbled upon this channel just now. Not sure if this meant to be funny. But I just can't stop laughing while I am eating a regular grapefruit. Great performance plus great imagination plus outstanding ability to describe flavors.

The consistency after you blended it looks like kogel-mogel, basically egg yolk beat with sugar we eat in Poland. Bet it's slimier than that though.

I never understand people who don't like slimy food. I'd rather have pudding over mealy applesauce any day.

Hey I loved that sponsorship bit. I wanna try those oils. New effects are pretty funny BTW xD

I got you it is found in Jamaica 🇯🇲. Maybe I have heard of mountain soursop but have completely forgot about it. I have been living in Canada for many years.

Boyfriend drank a soursop (fresh juice) smoothie. He really enjoyed the taste. Almost 1 hr later, it made him throw up and have diarrhea for the rest of the day. It was the first time he’d had soursop ever. If you look up the fruit, it can cause this reaction. Lol

Man, that slimy pulp segment actually made me nauseous. I don't think I could taste that.

someone needs to try making mochi out of these.

Enjoyed watching video. great information.

09:14 "Don't make me eat this, please" spoken like a guy who tried so many unpleasant fruit lol. No need to eat rotten fruit for us! Just regular, slimy, not really good fruit

You may not be diggin' the texture, but we are totally diggin' wathcin' you try! Well done and good save with the Popsicle option.

This is so funny yet informative! Great video! + loved the Residents T shirt!

this guy is phenomenal. great work mate!

Great uses for movie props!

That weird sub community from the dark corner of RU-vid here, can confirm we have been here and subscribed for a long time now :-)! Love the content!!!

Thank you for this video ! 😄

I'm sure mixing it with egg and/or cream would make an excellent custard or you could make a meringue pie.

Seven hours of slime massaging, ASMR heaven!

Enjoyable video. All of your videos really. Thanks for sharing!

I'd love to see if this would make a good smoothie. Add some pineapple, maybe a berry and a little dollop of an agave nectar for a sweet boost.

Dang, look at that Duck Stab shirt. Respect.

This def has potential for a gourmet dish

Can confirm that this subcommunity does in fact exist. It's called "Wet and Messy" and they're the same people who like seeing people get pied in the face.

I always thought that the olive oil at the super market tasted like Linseed oil. Never like it. But I do like eating natural olives (not the salty brine one). Think I'll try the one you talked about with a sprinkling of Italian seasoning with toasted Italian or french bread.

such a fantastic channel, thanks for the education!

Your videos are very informative. You've actually accomplished something important with all these videos.

Add sugar Freeze the mixture you made Then eat frozen It will get rid of the Slime ... well at least most of the slime texture

Maybe you should try adding a little pectin and making a soursop pudding. Seems like it's almost there already, and the taste you describe seems excellent for a pudding.

Very clever turning it into a popsicle!

For whatever reason we have at least a dozen or so small fruit on our cherimoya trees right now despite it being fall. Usually don't see those until winter or spring in Southern California. Even in season those kind of fruit aren't cheap.

Might be a good substitute for cream and eggs in fruity pastry recipes when combined with drier ingredients. A woman was offering loads of the fruit on my Facebook Florida gardening group . The tree is apparently super productive as a backyard tree.

Another great video 👍🏻

Slimed pulp juices have great health benefits when fermented over night. Just add some sugar or molasses to make sure it does not rot.

The "smoothie" you made out of it would be great in a tres leches cake!

I can't lie. I started crying from laughter when I saw the sparkle effect at 12:00

Oh! I have those same popsicle molds!

In Poland puddings and thick yogurts are very popular, especially amongst young children, so perhaps this could be sold as a new more exotic product! Maybe sold similarly to "Danonki" in little yellow pots

Great video! Have you thought about doing a new best tasting fruit in the world for 2021 or do you think it hasn't changed much since your last video? Also do you keep or resell the seeds of these rare fruits you try? Love the videos man!

I got halfway through this before I noticed the Duck Stab shirt! Great album!

The music in this episode is wonderful

love your vids thanks for being fun

thank you for the information,

I was just thinking it kinda looked like ice cream, and so the pudding pop mold was a good idea.

Interesting. I’ve always been intrigued by the soursop boba they sell at my local boba shop. never tried it though because I was scared I wouldn’t like it haha

Pure edutainment gold!