NANSHO SOUR ORANGE : This Fruit is More Sour Than a Lemon! (Citrus Taiwanica) - Weird Fruit Explorer 

I am so happy I found this channel. I have eaten easily twice as many types of fruit as ever before. Jared has improved my quality of life immeasurably. Thank you!

If I lived somewhere hot enough I would collect citrus hybrids like Pokemon

Marang smells like gasoline the way black walnuts taste like wall paint... delicious, buttery paint

Try it with miracle berries

I haven't gotten to the rating scale yet, but I'm excited to see how you rate it on a scale from 1 to 10, where 10 is a lemon! Edit - I was not disappointed!

gasoline: aromatic hydrocarbons , terpenes, etc .sort of amazing more plant dont have these. after all, hydrocarbons are chemically altered carbohydrates. very closely related.

I'm addicted to your videos. Also, the thing you said about cross-pollination, you cross pollinate onto a flower, and then the fruit produced by that flower will be the same as the rootstock plant (the one with the flower). Then, when you take the seeds from that individual fruit and plant it, you will get your hybrid. It can take several generations to get a consistent variety.

My mouth started watering just from watching...

With ice and sparking water the little drink you fixed at the end would have probably been *outstanding!*

You should try it with the miracle fruit pills that change sour to sweet. See how much it get sweet and maybe tell the flavor notes better ?

Damn, this might be the most intense sour reaction you had.

Always exciting to see fruits that break your attribute scales!

Not sure I’ve seen that type of sour orange, but sour orange juice is common in Mexican cooking and sour oranges are usual for British orange marmalade. The sour oranges I see here in Florida are similarly seedy with similar flesh. Often they get mold-covered in the stores.

makes your teeth instantly detonate

As a connoisseur of sour candies and fruits that I have access to, I definitely want to get some of these and try them out.

I will try to explain how something makes a new variety to those wondering. Like Jared said on you cross pollinate one variety with another when it is in the flowering stage. You then harvest the seeds and plant the seeds. That is where many people get confused. The initial plant will stay the same but the seeds will become the next generation. You then grow out plant after plant from generation to generation to make sure it is a stable breed before sending it out into the market. It actually will take years to get a new breed which is why most people will patent certain varieties and there will be no propagation clauses on certain plants like raspberries that tend to spread out new shoots all the time.

Don't forget to use the skin zest, tons of aromas come from those oils.(general citrus comment)

Man got an opioid high from that sourness lmao

It broke the scale! Omg

This is one of the Citrus aurantium that grows around Aisa. They are usually called sour orange or stinky citrus.

HOWDY FRUIT MAN LOVE THE VIDS YEEEEEEEEE HAW

Biologists gonna get mad that you put taiwanica in capital letters in the title, lol. That was quite the vid! So many different species of fruits. The other day I had an apple that was EXTREMELY sweet, and it had a litchi taste to it. They also had a dark spot on on side that was very hard, almost woody, but still crispy, kinda hard to bite through. IDK the variety, but it was a bit too sweet for my liking lol, I like slightly tart apples.

Definitely relatable! I describe some things smelling resinous or camphor-like. Holy basil, for instance, tasted and smelled like gasoline to me last year. This year I like the way it smells.

I think i know a food item that is worse in scent than noni, its the spice known as asafoetidia. Its a resin extracted from the roots of the ferula genus. The scent is from a lot of trisulfide compounds, however, its suppose to mellow to a rich, cooked onion/leek when cooked! The closest thing i can say the snell is like, is really strong durian mixed with certain types of algae. Ive not cooked with it yet!

I totally understand your gasoline comparison. Never had marang, but I get gasoline whenever I have Durian or durian flavored things. I also have always liked the smell of gasoline haha.

That sounds like a fun pie.

I hope one day you get to try type another sour orange (scientific name: Citrus indica) which is sour than a lemon as well but only grows here in my home state

"Taste the parentage."

😂😂😂😂 the reaction tho!!!! thank you for sharing ❤❤

It’s making my lips pucker just watching you eat this 😂

Nice!

Love the Duck Stab T-shirt!

it would have been interesting for you to try the zest and express the oil from the rind. bet the zest of this would be amazing in a salad dressing or just straight up on a salad

Your courage is admirable. Those chillies didnt hit you are hard as the nansho.

I need to get a batch of these to prank my friends lol

I love your videos man

Wow! Surprised to see a Duck Stab shirt! Good taste.

Hi Jared, as I eat lemons raw, I really wanna try it. I bet I don't dislike it as you do.

Yuzu has that bit of that funk too. I get what you mean.

Well now I need to fine them so I can make lemon squares with them.

Omg yes i cant believe there is finally an actually very sour fruit!

you can make a drink with it more delicious than orange juice and has almost no carb in it, it tastes really good with sucralose (artificial sweetener)

Would love to see a will it ketchup episode for this one.

Tartness scale upgrade! 4:24

Living in taiwan, I could eat them whole and I like tart fruits very much.

This was so sour I started salivating in sympathy.

when i first got a seville orange to try before i knew that it was used for marmalade i found it to be more sour than a lemon but in reality it could have been a 9/10 since i wasnt expecting it and took a big bite like how one normally does with an orange i got a lot more sourness than if i took a bite from a lemon cuz it would be a smaller bite. but i do sense that there are plenty fruits out there far more sour than a lemon and at least a different type of sour

I'm not surprised that you ended up making orangeade from these since you deacribed them as being so sour. I guess that makes three types of oranges that are suitable for making orangeade: the trifoliate orange, the seville/calamondin orange, and the nansho sour orange.

Would be interested to know what the zest, peel and pith taste like and if they are unique in flavor as well.

Mom has these super juicy giant oranges will get their name later

Id absolutely try this....Also, Imo, japanese quince(chaenomeles japonica) is just as sour or more sour than lemon.

pucker.. instant dry mouth feeling 🤣

Have you had lemon drop mangosteen?

I have a hybrid of this fruit with poncirus trifoliata. "Taitri" no fruit yet but it survives outside in NJ

Would the potent sourness of this fruit be lessened or made to taste super sweet by chewing a miracle fruit tablet? Thanks for this review, and have a great week✌

I’ve tried these

@wierd explorer you should try to try bitter orange and see if @Bob Hasler could send you some bitter orange

3:38 K.O

Thanks for trying this for us. I like eating fresh lemon flesh, but I think I would try this fruit as a sweetened watered down drink to see if I enjoy it. Especially after seeing your reaction to it. Love your video content.

It would be interesting if you sampled some citrus with litmus paper!

Every time you taste it, my face scrunches up. Sympathy sours, I guess.

Did you try to eat Miracle Berry before you ate the "so sour" orange?

If that sour was a spice it would be a ghost chilli.

Who needs sour candy when “punch in the mouth” orange exists ??? I really wanna try this now . Im a huge fan of sour fruits

You should do a video trying kesusu fruit lols

So glad I finally know what the very bitter orange tree fruit in my backyard is named. No one will eat these because they are soooo bitter !!!!

So this is what dan Humphrey does now?

Do you know the smell of turpentine? I think that some fruits (for example, some mangoes) smell or taste of turpentine (more than of gasoline).

One of my eyelids stuck shut watching the first taste! 😉

Did you try the skin/rind? Is it similar to lemon

Try naranja agria from the Dominican republic.

lemon meringue pie or lemon marang pie?

Hey! Love your vids! Kinda off topic but what is the bands name on the shirt you’re wearing? I can’t for the life of me remember but I love their music.

Watch out folks, this one goes to 11...

How would this taste with a miracle berry?

A substitute for lemon maybe?

Im afended

On a scale of 1 to 10 where 10 is a Warhead candy, how would you rank it?

Interesting, maybe this is my "nasty tangerine" that I've never properly identified.

I wonder how some exotic sour fruits taste after eating wonderberry (i think that’s what it’s called? Makes it so you can’t taste sour)

Is it more sour than a warhead candy?

Probably it's related to Yuzu

3:35 lookin like me after a fat dab🤣🤣🤣

Make a marmalade out of them!!

Duck Stab Buster?

Which is the best citrus for sweetness and flavour?

is that the most sour fruit youve had?

My fruits look like a mandarin but it taste like a lemon 🍋

It's a sour orange and it's sour, we use in the tropics all the time and doesn't taste like a mandarin.

But will it ketchup?

I Iike to Collect a lot of Exotic fruits and then grow from the seed

Duck Stab

That went sour fast.

lol, your face was worth a 1000 words

I tried one of these at an Asian market this March and it tasted more bitter than sour to me, I didn't really like it.

LSD would add to it

Man you need to start sharpening your knives, it's painful to see you cut.

Marinate meat with it

Not much sour than a (Insert gender here) (Insert race here) SJW!

Apparently, Citrus taiwanica is critically endangered, tho the last assessment with a conclusive result was in 1998, recent assessment in 2012 and 2017 categotized it as data deficient