The Incredibly Strange LITTLE CHICKEN FRUIT (Cuayote) - Weird Fruit Explorer

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Episode 664: Cuayote
Species: Gonolobus edulis
Location: San Jose, Costa Rica
Special thanks to Marco for sharing this with me.
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@WeirdExplorer Год назад

How would you make use of this fruit's texture?

@belg4mit Год назад

Might be interesting in an apple pie

@-PRPLEHZE- Год назад

That seed was one of the coolest things I have seen in a while, i had thought seeds that required such dispersal would be on the outside, it was so fascinating when you opened the fruit and it fell away like that. Makes me wonder if the fruit is destroyed by something in the wild to have created a dispersal reliant upon the seed being exposed.

@GringatTheRepugnant Год назад

@@-PRPLEHZE- Related species like Cryptostegia have fruits that dry out and split open to spread the seeds, so I'm guessing the cuayote does too when the fruit ripens or at least did in the past. Cultivation by humans could lead to a fleshier fruit that's better for us but means the seeds can't disperse without us planting them.

@FunkyFyreMunky Год назад

It seems like flavour-infusions are the way to go. Make different flavour profiles and use the fruit as a carrier for tossing into salads, or additions at the plating-up of a dish.

@mirandamom1346 Год назад

I wonder how it would go if you boiled it in broth and then used it in a pot pie- kind of like a cross between celery and chicken..?

@jrcorsey Год назад

The awkward knife handling has become part of your charm, as well as adding a frisson of danger. When you give up and pull the fruits apart with your fingers, it feels like you're struggling with the whole idea of tool use. It makes me feel like I'm routing for an underdog.

@anne-droid7739 Год назад

My thoughts exactly! =D

@sussybawka9999 Год назад

Grug no like use sharp rock

@anne-droid7739 Год назад

@@sussybawka9999 I think Grug would be just fine with use sharp rock; however, Grug, like everyone else, no like use really bad B&B knives, and Grug maybe too underfunded as of yet to hunt and gather good knives for his own cave in NYC.

@WeirdExplorer Год назад

@@anne-droid7739 Grug have Global Chef Rocks in NYC cave. But Grug too busy to sharpen them. Grug sad.

@anne-droid7739 Год назад

@@WeirdExplorer Grug have mate dragged back to cave by hair, have Grug not? In pre-Grug times, when this old lady was young, mate dragged back to cave by hair could be made to sharpen rocks. But this old lady be very glad Grug not make mate sharpen rocks! Good for Grug!

@sphinxtheeminx Год назад

Despite your terrifying knife skills I love your videos. I am so glad you are doing this so I don't have to - I'm British and bananas are considered exotic here. Love your channel and your subject.

@PapaCharlie9 Год назад

I thought I was the only one that winces every time Jared cuts something with a big knife. I keep expecting fingers to go flying.

@scenenuf Год назад

Don't worry he literally use to eat swords while contorting.

@lolcatz88 Год назад

@@scenenuf well technically he still does…

@GringatTheRepugnant Год назад

so not only is it shaped like a plucked chicken with wings at the back, but it sounds like one when you cut it and it's full of feathers!

@WeirdExplorer Год назад

its a headless inside out chicken!

@shannabolser9428 Год назад

@@WeirdExplorer oh no, you don't eat meat! 😉

@nicholas755 Год назад

Hahahaha I was reading this comment when I heard the squawk

@paulus.tarsensus Год назад

This plant is a tropical milkweed and fruit is an edible milkweed seed pod. The fruit weighs very little; it wants to dry out and release its cotton parachutes once seeds ripen. Growing, it looks very much like honeyvine milkweed ( Cynanchum laeve ) growing on chain link fencing. We used to harvest the dried pods for Xmas ornaments.

@PhosphorAlchemist Год назад

I was thinking that the seed shape and arrangement looks very similar to local milkweed pods I've seen in the US but with a spongy layer of fruit inside the shell. Supposedly some of these north American pods are also edible if harvested at the right stage and prepared correctly, but my poor innards freak out easily and I'm not brave enough just yet to try it.

@paulus.tarsensus Год назад

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@paulus.tarsensus Год назад

Some milkweeds are edible when young plants, as you can parboil and eat the shoots like asparagus and the tender leaves make good pot-herbs. The flower cluster balls ( that smell like lilac, btw ) are also good to eat. Other species of milkweed are quite deadly ( e.g. dogbanes ). Older leaves and stems shouldn't be eaten because the latex sap becomes toxic and milkweeds should only be eaten cooked anyway. Supposedly, you can also cook and eat younger milkweed seed pods, but from what Jared has shown us here, ¿ why bother ? Way too much work, I think, lol.

@better.better 16 дней назад

I mean it's in Apocynaceae, of which milkweeds (Asclepias) are also a family, but it's in family Gonolobus, not the Asclepias. however you are correct in that this is basically a giant milkweed pod

@paulus.tarsensus 15 дней назад

@@better.better Gonolobus, like Cynanchum and Asclepias, are all genera of milkweeds in the family Apocynaceae.

@norffc6557 Год назад

These videos are unerringly some of the most valuable gems of content on RU-vid. You open a window to a world of botanical peculiarities that are seldom documented anywhere else. Thank you!

@seanhuntington5491 Год назад

When you opened it, it reminded me of a giant milkweed pod (which are edible), turns out they're in the same family! You should try milkweed pods and compare

@sojoboscribe1342 Год назад

Exactly what I was going to say! Wonder if it's a host plant (I checked, and both Monarch and Queen Butterflies live in Costa Rica).

@twilightraven1232 Год назад

I was thinking the same thing!

@crystaledwards9878 Год назад

Exactly my thought.

@darkjanic6668 Год назад

They are the same family as willughbeias which is also quite rare to find and most species of willughbeias can be found in parts of Southeast Asia

@Just1Nora Год назад

Same! I was like, that's totally milkweed fluff.

@-PRPLEHZE- Год назад

It honestly never ceases to amaze me just how much of usability you get out of a fruit, I love your videos for that, kind of reminds me to think in more resourceful terms. Thanks!

@sou1daddy503 Год назад

Those seeds look like milkweed (Asclepias incarnata, pretty common in northeastern US). I wonder if they're related. Googlin' time! Edit: Yup! Milkweed is in the dogbane family, Apocynaceae.

@albertozino1474 Год назад

not only in the same family but the same group, Asclepiadeae. Some milkweed pods may also be eaten when small and immature. However other typical apocynaceae like Oleander or Plumeria have totally different flowers and fruits and most are extremely poisonous.

@jwfisher4658 Год назад

Kinda what I was thinking too!

@erikjohnson9223 Год назад

Asclepias syriaca is edible if prepared correctly and the parts eaten are young. Asclepias incarnata (FYI), is probably a better larval host for Monarchs because it is much more toxic (to us, not to milkweed butterflies, which sequester the toxins to make their bird and lizard predators very, very sick) and therefore should *never* be eaten by people. It is heart poison.

@DeathMetalDerf Год назад

That's absolutely wild, and brand spankin' new to me! I've never even heard of a dogbane or the cuayote before now! Thanks for another great video! I hope everyone is well and having a great day!

@NattybyNature Год назад

Interestingly this fruit is used to dial chocolate drinks in southern Vera Cruz, Mexico but only in a few villages around Xalapa

@kyrab7914 Год назад

Marco and his mother are absolute gems. Idk if Marco sees these, but he (and Marco's mother) are mvp

@MeliponiculturaenCostaRica Год назад

I do

@BuenavistaNZ Год назад

@@MeliponiculturaenCostaRica show us some of your fruit trees 👍

@JP-lw4ci Год назад

@Meliponicultura en Costa Rica bro you're awesome thanks for putting yourself out there to teach us!

@MeliponiculturaenCostaRica Год назад

@@JP-lw4ci Thanks!

@OglenStillafano Год назад

It reminds me a lot of a chonky milkweed pod. Whose seeds are also spread via wind. Very strange fruit you got there.

@jessev2197 Год назад

Looks like a large milkweed pod. You can cook milkweed pods too when they are picked small. Like Okra.

@ShotgunLlama Год назад

The way you describe the texture reminds me of wintergreen berries. Don't know if they're actually similar, but they're like little styrofoam fruits

@zeideerskine3462 Год назад

This looks like a cross between a dandelion and an avocado.

@astrielmaahes1116 Год назад

Everything about this reminds me of milkweed pods, just much large and the pod very thick.

@shedrow4265 Год назад

Reminds me of a giant milkweed pod.

@allen3784 Год назад

That’s because milkweed is also in the dogbane family and you can eat the seed pods as well but you’re suppose to boil them.

@FAMUCHOLLY Год назад

I always find your taste in music as interesting as your taste in fruit. Thanks for the videos!

@stephsexoticpets Год назад

wow how cool! the seed looks like the inside of a milkweed pod. I loved the texture and seeing you pull it apart was very satisfying. thanks!

@durtwizzerd4432 Год назад

Its very much like a giant milkweed pod. Even the seeds are arranged the same way. Makes sense. Both are in the dogbane family. if you havent tried milkweed pods yet, you really should.

@wumbojet Год назад

From what my family has told me, "gallinita" refers more to the seed than the fruit, the feathers and scales kind of resemble chicken skin and feathers. You can also eat the seed raw for a very very mild but refreshing flavor. It really is not common at all, more of a traditional rural dish from times when people didn't have much money and made the most of what they had in hand.

@Xebelan Год назад

I would love to try making waldmeister candies with this-- i think the cushiony crisp texture would pair well with the vanilla-but-sexier flavor of the sweet woodruff.

@mariakasstan Год назад

Dogbane is a relative of milkweed in Canada, I think. Young milkweed pods can be eatern if cooked in several changes of water and if you see it growing, you can't miss the resemblance.

@pattheplanter Год назад

If you get the non-bitter variety of common milkweed ( _Asclepias syriaca_ ) then you don't need any changes of water. The flowerbuds are even better.

@ericsafran6108 Год назад

Milkweed is also in the Dogbane family Apocynaceae. It is actually edible and tasty in most stages of its life.

@erikjohnson9223 Год назад

Only SOME milkweeds are edible. Asclepias syriaca in the East, and I believe A. speciosa west of the Mississippi River, are low toxicity and can be eaten. Many other species are very toxic (cardiac glycosides). Monarch caterpillars eat these plants to make themselves toxic to birds.

@apoc4 Год назад

This is neat. Thanks for trying out neat fruit that I did not know existed.

@nozrep Год назад

i did not at first notice the “chirpee” sound when he cut it like others pointed out but yah, it makes sense! And also, from a “modern perspective” per se, the chirp sound is like the chirp when rubbing bits of rubber together, or rubber soled shoes on a gym floor, typical latex or rubber things and the fruit as he says has natural latex in it. But again yah I can see how people hundreds of years ago would have named it that for its chirp sound when cutting it or looking at it.

@jonathanadam1029 Год назад

It would be interesting to see the results of the small chunks being put into a dehydrator after being cooked with the sugar and spices.

@MeliponiculturaenCostaRica Год назад

Great idea, just like crystalized chiverre Cucurbita ficifolia

@kjokjojessica Год назад

Thanks for mentioning the latex in it. It's very helpful for me and my mother because of our allergy.

@alecity4877 Год назад

I'm amazed at how much the inside reminds me of mohogany fruit even when the genus isn't even close.

@mrnobody043 Год назад

I think you could use this fruit as a "filler" ingredient. Like if you were to make an apple pie, you could add bits of this fruit to the apples when they are cooked. The flavours from the sweet apples and sugar will transfer into this fruit too. I think you would hardly notice the added Cuayote fruit on the finished product. So, if you happen to live in that country and have one of these trees, i think they might use it for that purpose if the taste is basically flavourless, as a filler ingredient.

@__w__o__w__ Год назад

Marco should make YT vids about his gardening and bees and foraging. That'd be really cool

@MeliponiculturaenCostaRica Год назад

I should!

@Danny.._ Год назад

the name little hen does not actually come from the appearance of the fruit, but from the appearance of the seeds inside - the overlapping seeds are said to look like the overlapping feathers of a mother hen

@canaanval Год назад

The peeled and chopped fruit looks a lot like the inside of a couch cushion after a cat or dog has decided to tear it up🤣

@ShellyS2060 Год назад

The sound on this episode was beautiful. When you cut into it it sounded like a chicken. A totally new fruit to me.

@WeirdExplorer Год назад

maybe thats why its called little chicken, it chirps when you cut into it 🤔

@00squigzilla Год назад

@@WeirdExplorer when I saw the seed I wondered if the name came from the little seeds that are layered on top of one another kind of like feathers.

@OlWolf1011 Год назад

Inside seed-core reminds me of milkweed when you crack the pod open before it’s ripe enough to split and toss seeds.

@barrett5195 Год назад

Your cooking videos always help me calm down.

@JTMusicbox Год назад

So interesting that it stays both fluffy and crisp through cooking.

@mleshoestar777 Год назад

Amazing! I would try to fry or bake it. Maybe rosemary & garlic, kinda like a potato. I wonder how it would react with oil or fat, would it be like shrimp chips or pork rinds in texture? What a wonderfully curious fruit :)

@sharoncox1734 Год назад

The cutting noises even sounded like a chicken clucking gently 🐔

@larryd6143 6 месяцев назад

Great video. I am so glad you are doing this. Most people are unaware of the amazing diversity of fruits and vegetables out there. Its subfamily is the milkweeds and that is the biggest milkweed seedpod I have ever seen! Thanks.

@smellycat249 Год назад

That thing looks like a giant milkweed seed pod, inside and out.

@WeirdExplorer Год назад

Its in the same family!

@albertozino1474 Год назад

same family and same tribe, Asclepiadeae. Some milkweeds may also be eaten when small and immature, kinda like okra

@realblakrawb Год назад

Re air bnb knives. If you can't pack your own knife, pack a little quick sharpener to make your life easier.

@shannabolser9428 Год назад

That is a great idea for the next time I travel. Thanks

@telegramsam Год назад

Ran across a vine in my yard that had a fruit pod type thing with seeds in it like that only much much smaller (maybe an inch and a half in length?) and more dry rather than with fruit pulp. Had no idea what it was but I guess it's something else in the dogbane family. I remember pulling the pod open and seeds like that were in the center very similarly. (After wikipedia diving... maybe Gonolobus suberosus?)

@albucc Год назад

Just a dumb question: have you looked for "cuayote dulce" on youtube? There is this "Mario TV" video that shows the making of the sweet: it is something to be simmered for a long time: first they make "ash water", and let the pulp to be immersed in it for some time. In parallel, they make a dillution of brown sugar and water, and they boil that pulp in that sugar solution for a long time. There are many sweets that demands this sort of preparation.

@Just1Nora Год назад

If I was going to prepare this I'd probably quickly blanch it whole to help with skin removal. I know the point was to also show the raw insides of the fruit so you didn't want to do that, but just an FYI if you have a fruit with a very firm skin that you want to quickly remove, a quick blanch in boiling water will make the skin come off easily. This works well with pomegranates too and doesn't damage the pips.

@trex70 Год назад

I think it is related to Chayota Edulis, and i couldnt find a Wikipedia Page for it.

@WeirdExplorer Год назад

Nope! The name and appearance is similar, but they are not related to each other.

@trex70 Год назад

@@WeirdExplorer ok, thank you

@bidzoutheking Год назад

Huh. The shape, seeds and latex reminded me of wilkweed (asclepias genus), and sure enough, dogbane is in the same family ( Apocynaceae). You can eat milkweed pods when they are unripe, but they neef to be boiled and the water discarded too. I personally pickle them and they are yummy... reminds me of asparagus and brocolli.

@RoseNZieg Год назад

that fruit eerily reminds me of a bigger, but less straight, less wrinkly version of a fruit bore in my mother's garden. the skin is thick and slightly waxy and can be hard to cut if picked too ripe. the inside structure is almost the same as your fruit right down to the way the seeds are formed. the fruit grows on a vine or a shrub. I can't recall which. it had to be propped when full of fruits because the load starts to drag the branches down.

@hudefuk Год назад

There is a vine that grows in the Western Australian outback that is in the same family and produces a smaller version of a similar fruit. The seeds of the young fruit are the most desirable part, they taste like peas.

@hudefuk Год назад

Just to confuse the issue it is commonly called "Bush Banana" (Marsdenia australis) though it has no bananaesque qualities except a vague resemblance in it's shape.

@pattheplanter Год назад

@@hudefuk This last March, the most respected of the world's expert teams on asclepiad taxonomy decided that it should now be removed out of _Marsdenia_ and put back as _Leichhardtia australis._ They separated from _Marsdenia_ about 24 million years ago. It was first called _Leichhardtia_ in 1848 to commemorate the German explorer Ludwig Leichhardt whose expedition disappeared in central Australia in 1848, never to be seen again.

@Kikilang60 Год назад

Thanks. Some people think the world is small, and getting smaller. Nope. The world is a big place, and no one person can see it all.

@patriciatoomingtheplantpar2558 Год назад

Milkweed is also in the Apocynaceae family (dogbane) so it makes sense they have the same seed formation and dispersal system, that may not be ripe enough by the looks of the seeds. Bet the plant is a butterfly magnet, like milkweed

@johnstamos4629 Год назад

"Little hen thats had its head cut off" LOL! I didnt see that until you said it. XD!

@chrishelmuth4065 Год назад

I love that is it accommodating if you need something sweet OR savory! Excellent find!

@ChimpChumpable Год назад

When I look at this fruit, I see the chicken shape the opposite way around. Maybe they also call it "little chicken" because of the feathery parts inside the seed.

@TheRockInnRobin Год назад

This really sounded like you were cutting through a damp nerf football lol

@WarlamSotoFlores Год назад

Hiiii, I'm from Costa Rica that fruit grows in our gardens but like a weed.... I always thought it was poisonous. Love it when is dry and gets open... To disperse the seeds.

@apteropith Год назад

i was not expecting this to be a large edible milkweed pod, but the surprise is pleasant

@rajgill7576 Год назад

I think you held it EXACTLY upside down when trying to view it as a hen 😄 And that seed be looking like a pangolin

@jamiecurran3544 Год назад

Very interesting n strange looking😁, when you was opening it I was thinking to myself it reminds me of the green casing of the horse chestnut, then you said it tastes similar lol!😂😜✌️🇬🇧

@nozrep Год назад

Walmart sells Mexican style traditional style sweet potato candy and pumpkin candy in my south USA region. And dang is it good! That is how I discovered it. I wonder if any Mexican or Costa Rican or Hispanic style candy company also makes this and sells it in the USA? Still probably not as good as “momma’s”😅 but worth a try!

@erikjohnson9223 Год назад

Puerto Ricans candy sweet potato, but I don't know if big brands like Goya get into this, or just leave it to mom and pop bakers. Seems like the Goya products sold here (upper Midwest, admittedly probably a low demand area) are either non-perishable or frozen.

@mojanke 6 месяцев назад

the way you cut that thing open really makes me baffled that you a) got all your fingers left and b) didnt get a stab wound to the torso xD

@meisteremm Год назад

The way you described this fruit as crisp, spongy and tasteless except for a mild chestnut taste made me immediately think of jicama. Is the taste comparable to that?

@MephistoRolling Год назад

Looks like the texture of Coconut kernel. The spongey part that grows inside the nut when it shoots.

@stephaniewyrembelski3007 Год назад

It's funny how it looks exactly like a milkweed pod, fruit,seeds and all.I wonder if they are related in some distant way

@b.rileyjowett6925 Год назад

Though this fruit is in the dogbane family it’s actually much more closely related to milkweed than it is to most things that we associate as dogbanes. If you open up an unripe milkweed pod it looks incredibly similar to the inside of this fruit.

@erikjohnson9223 Год назад

Modern taxonomy has moved the milkweeds to be a subfamily within the dogbane family. I don't like that either, because I thought the pollinia of milkweeds to be very distinctive, but supposedly if it hadn't been done, the other dogbanes would be paraphyletic. Molecular phylogeny uber alles.

@owa8609 Год назад

It also could be called "little hen" because when you took out the insides it kind of looks like you are defeathering a chicken. It almost reminds me of a giant milk weed pod, which are poisonous, but edible when cooked.

@lynth Год назад

"Let me tell you about this fruit... it's tasteless... so, anyway, let's make some cinnamon-flavoured caramel!"

@chr0mosomeso0p98 Год назад

Hey man I’ve watched your vids for a while it’s crazy how long it’s been I’m getting older now but yea I like fruit bro

@patricialavery8270 Год назад

It looks like a chicken hunkered down sleeping with it's head tucked in.I see why they named it that.Guess you could make Mock Apple Pie with it.

@garmancathotmailcom Год назад

The sounds it made when cutting it open may lend to its name, lol. I thought you were adding chicken sound effects at first.

@elissajaguar Год назад

Oh Jared, sometimes I worry about you and that knife!

@747tbar Год назад

Wonder if it's used like or even related to chayote (Militon Squash). Different seed type but similar in use. No matter what you cook it with, it takes in the spices and flavors of the dish, almost like a filler to help make the meal feed more without compromising the flavors of the dish because it in itself has no real discerning flavor...

@Captain_Sosuke_Aizen Год назад

Instead of cinnamon try putting cardamom ,or if possible saffron in sugar syrup.

@mraa4950 Год назад

Removing seeds is fun for sure

@jakilahmoulien9070 3 месяца назад

You should try making sweets with unripe mangoes!

@rzrx1337 Год назад

You described the sweet like a natural baklava. Sounds interesting.

@youtube.commentator Год назад

Thanks Jared

@WeirdExplorer Год назад

you are welcome

@slarbiter Год назад

I think adding salt and chilies to the sugar would be pretty great

@SeeNyuOG Год назад

Cutting or biting it sounds like peeling pomelo (rind / pith). Also got an idea that you could tell us more about texture by cutting fruits close to camera/microphone.

@CreamAle Год назад

you gotta get a contact in brazil and try their stuff. ive tried so many different foods during the times we went on tour there or to visit my mate's wife's family. a contact is kinda needed given the danger in the country, but having a handler helps a ton to steer you out of bad spots.

@WeirdExplorer Год назад

Its high on my list of places to visit :)

@CreamAle Год назад

@@WeirdExplorer they had this tiny round dark berry that grew on the bark of the tree. cant remember the name but it's good. it's cheap to visit as the conversion ratio is so absurd, but the issue is getting a contact. i got lucky as a band mate ended up getting married with someone he met/worked with in rock in rio, so that facilitates things bit.

@joshconeby Год назад

@@CreamAle Jabuticaba might be the fruit you're thinking of.

@CreamAle Год назад

@@joshconeby yeah that was it. some good stuff but the mouth feel isn't great.

@GolosinasArgentinas Год назад

Amazing fruit!

@tracycoyne2920 Год назад

It looks like a giant milkweed seed pod.

@cat441 Год назад

kind of like a vegan tofu, would be interesting to cook it up and use some sauce like teriaki to see if it absorbs that taste, cool

@markward6076 Год назад

Those fruits grow wild here in ohio, but they are a lot smaller, they have a milky sap. We thought they were a form of milk weed and poisonous.

@annalisette5897 Год назад

I have a crate full of styrofoam packing peanuts. Now I know what to do with them.... Finally, styrofoam can be recycled! LOL! ;-)

@bosnakedisniksic Год назад

It's like a milkweed pod, just giant and edible

@garrettsgardenplants9818 10 месяцев назад

Like a cinnamon roll maybe? Those are usually somewhat gooey and have cinnamon tastes. This fruit seems cool either way.

@stevenmurray3238 Год назад

I want to be like you when I grow up, another great video like always. I haven’t even heard of this one

@stevenmurray3238 Год назад

So it’s basically a giant milkweed pod

@WeirdExplorer Год назад

🤣

@beatnik6806 Год назад

I wonder if you could use those as a sponge for like cleaning table ect. surfaces. Probably would go bad but what if it was dried first? 🤔

@EnemyBikeCo Год назад

This reminds me of a milkweed seed pod. I'm guessing these are related to milkweed because they are related to dogbane.

@maggot1111666 Год назад

i wonder if it would get softer/sweeter if it stayed on the tree longer to ripe, or was left to ripen off the tree, kinda like a plantain or breadfruit

@1.4142 Год назад

Grapefruit and orange peels candy just as well

@darkjanic6668 Год назад

There are relatives of this species that are rarer than cuayote like angelpod (gonolobus suberosus) and cahuayote (gonolobus chloranthus) which looks similar to the one you have.