thanks for highlighting my comment your the best. by the way dried pickled ume is a Japanese candy it is also traditional. it is sweeter and chewy you can get it from most Japanese or Japanese candy shops
Ume actually i will put it as 2nd favorite fruit,because i like them,and in taiwan people loved to eat them and I ate them often. and tastes better when pickled to me
After having to eat papaya seeds for the reason, I completely understand the vomit taste, as I put payapaya in a smoothie and nearly puked it up. Vile, and only traditional modern hardcore f****** medicines that cost Pennies on the dollar overseas will fix this problem. I do sincerely hope that none of you know what I'm talking about, but if you do I'm soooooooooooooooooo sorry and just take the medicine. It will kill them.
His descriptions are the absolute best! Between "it tastes like something you would use to curse someone" and "if someone ate cheddar cheese and vomited it on a lemon" i dont think ive ever heard a more obscure and detailed description of something in my life!!!
Lmao, several years ago, I nearly accused my aunt of smelling bad only to find out there was a Noni fruit ripening on the table next to her. That was my first encounter with the fruit. They don't smell when green but when it starts to ripen omg smells like shit sweat. One love from Jamaica
When I visited Guyana in 1993, my host suggested I try a fruit called "awara". It was _not_ nice lol. Incidentally, in Barbados we call noni fruit "dog dumplings". So, there might be something to the dog poop reference. ha ha
Awara is great. Maybe you had a thin skin one. Choosing a fruit to get the best experience is important. Noni is prolific in Guyana as well. Guyana has some amazing fruits but unless you go to the villages in Berbice , Demerara and Essiquibo, you won't get many good ones in the city.
Your comments about cempedak remind me of why some people like my dad hate papaya- there's this overlaying vomit-like smell/taste they just can't deal with.
in asia some people squeeze lemon or lime juice on papaya. i personally cant stand the smell of it until lemon juice and a small sprinkle of salt is added on it.
There are two types of wood apple, the one you had is en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Limonia_acidissima, and we mix the pulp of this fruit with salt and pepper, also very popular with kids, make sure you don't eat the too ripe ones. There is another kind of wood apple, and it is called Bael Fruit, en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aegle_marmelos, this one you are suppose to eat it ripe, nobody eats it as it is, we strain the pulp, mix it with wather, ice, and sugar, a very refreshing drink on a hot summer day, and it is suppose to be very good for your stomach. In thailand they dry the bael fruit and make herbal tea with it.
The second one is the fruit used to make marmelade. I don't recall eating it but i've seen them because some people actually make their own marmelade over here.
You made me laugh a lot with number one! My father used to eat it raw. I had one bite and it was disgusting, like stinky vomit. I had to spit it immediately.
If you want to eat ume and like it, buy a umeshu (plum liquor) bottle that comes with a ume plum inside and eat it. Pickled ume (umeboshi) like you had are, like natto, well known for not being to the taste of foreigners in Japan and at the same time, it's usually more commonly eaten with rice to add the salty flavor. I didn't particularly liked it in an onigiri i ate but at least the umeshu and the plum inside were really tasty. As for the regular fruit, maybe it is in fact that japanese plums don't mature as much as european plums but that looked exactly like a very very unripe plum too early in its development to taste anything other than awful. If i took an european plum at the stage that they look exactly like that one and ate it, i'd have the same reaction. But it does seem the japanese variety unlike other plums don't mature fully and instead stop at a point that the only way they found to consume it was to pickle them. Much like the cherry trees which are so ubiquitous in Japan but its fruits are even worse than the ume, so much that there's not a single cherry fruit eaten in Japan that doesn't come from western species. They're awesome to look at and have a beer under them, though.
I tried dried betel nut Tasted fine/weird to me, just chewed on it for a while, then my tongue went tingly and slightly numb, and after like two minutes I couldn’t breathe and I felt like I was going to have a heart attack, I spat it out and then felt like I had heartburn for the next half hour. Gross, scary, and harmful. Then again, so is tobacco the first time you try it. Addiction to betel nut starts the same way as tobacco addiction: deciding to do something stupid more than once.
We prepare it with a few other things to give it that texture. I would not recommend eating that thing overripe. The plant creates alcohol internally, using yeast that survived from pollination.
this is the second video I've watched from this channel and I have to say you have an odd appeal, in a good way. Unpretentious, interesting content, genuine reaction, etc. Keep up the good work!
Even before watching the video, I knew the infamous noni would be the top 3. And it's hilarious to see your facial reaction to that witch doctor fruit, you r brave man lol
I love umeboshi plums but it's usually spread out over a bowl of rice it's put in the sentence and you've got a lot of rice to eat a little bit of it with.
I was given umeboshi to eat on its own by a Japanese teacher and had to swallow it down to be polite. I wish it had been sliced in a dish - that would have been much better! Too salty!!!
There’s nothing funnier to me than to watch someone taste something so vile then watch their facial expression! Congratulations, you win that award! I was laughing well after the vid ended. Tyfs!
I don't know how I get to your video. You did an awesome job on describing each fruit. Your face expression cracked me and my co-worker up so hard to the point our tear come out :).
LOL .. I knew #1 was gonna be what it was as soon as I saw where Durian and Cempedek rated on here! I remembered the reactions the first time I saw them, and I still can't stop laughing as I see them again. Thanks for the stroll back down memory lane!
Haha, your Gac experience sounds exactly like mine with Dragonfruit. This shit looked just unreal with it's vivid pink-purple skin and bright green top, I could see how it would resemble a dragon's egg in people's mind. Even upon cutting it open it looked interesting with pure white pulp and jet black seeds buried in it. Took a big scoop of a bite and....nothing. Tasted like absolutely nothing. 'watery pulp' was all I could use to describe it, it was so bland. (sigh) Bigger disappointment then coconut water, which tasted like a chunk of cardboard had been left in water until it dissolved, and drinking that. At least there are still delicious fruit surprises out there for us like custard apple and durian. But even the latter is controversial, thus your #10 pick.
@@Ninjaananas Hahahah, sorry to contradict you Fam, but 'very mild' is a MASSIVE understatement! Can you honestly find the name of a fruit you think it even vaguely tastes close to? (not bagging on you, this is a legit question.)
@@exidy-yt Coconut and pomelo also have similarily mild tastes. And some cultivars of pears. Then there are also a bunch of vegetables with mild flavors.
@@Ninjaananas I agree with those statements (except that pomelo and coconut taste similar. The only word I could use to describe the taste of pomelo is 'insipid'.) but I don't agree that the dragonfruit has any taste at all. Prove me otherwise.
Wood apple can be really nasty especally when it is rotten, and this is quite often! Mould on the outside is normal, but not on the inside. Once i ate one wood apple and on the other side of the pulp mass i found two worms! You must eat a number of them to be able to understand if it is good or not. The inside must be light brown. It has a strange taste of breeded fruit. I enjoy it best with added sugar.
You've got a whole blooper reel in just these fruits that you didn't like! I have been laughing out loud and I'm all alone in the house. It would make a real funny ass blooper reel! The way that one just fell out of your mouth it was so bad!
I have a book on superfoods and noni is in there somewhere, it's like the new trend like acai was. the only other edible like superfoods were coconut, hemp, cacao, bee products, and some species of fungi.
wood apple you can't take it without preparation, make it with little bit salt, sugar, green chilli, little bit mustard sauce, little bit oil, some coriander leaves then taste it and always use good ripe one not rotten one.
Lol great channel!! 🥭 the worst fruit I ever tried was Kiwano...To me it tasted like when you empty the vacuum cleaner dust bag cuz it’s full, and you get a dust cloud puff up, and that smell of that dust, was what Kiwano tasted like! Lol Musty dust and moth balls! Had to throw it in trash, gross! 😂🤷🏼♀️🤮. My favourite No1 in whole world is Feijoa!!! Omg I could eat like 100 sliced Feijoa in one day! Lol 💚 They are like heaven to my taste buds! Tangy sour...Tastes like sour gummies, fizzy sour candy! ! They make my gut feel good too! My dream home would have a Feijoa tree in back yard, an endless free supply!! 😂💚👌🏽
That woodapple is totally not the proper texture or flavor. It looks incredibly dry. In Sri Lanka this year I had woodapple plain and woodapple nectar. I found that they smelled quite bad, but they tasted nothing like the smell. Kind of like mango nectar with lemon, but not super sour. It has the texture of jam. You really need to give it another try.
love your videos man, really interested in growing some of the fruits you have reviewed. Can't wait for next weeks vid. P.s. I know of a few rare/intersting fruits that you have not reviewed yet, not sure if I should mention them or if you just prefer finding out about new fruits and reviewing them yourself?
+justinlukenelson Always good to know of fruits to look out for. If there is anything in particular you'd like me to review let me know! I live in the USA, next trips will be Japan and Borneo.
+Jared Rydelek got a pen handy? here is a list of stuff to try if you can get your hands on them... Cassabanana, Bitter Melon (momordica charantia), Changunga (byrsonima cassifolia), Biriba (rollinia deliciosa), (monstera deliciosa), Galia Melon (cucumis melo var. reticulatus), Feijoa (acca sellowiana), Gold kiwifruit, Kiwiberry (actinidia arguta), Kiwano (cucumis metuliferus), Icecream Bean (inga edulis), Imbe (garcinia livingstonia), Australian Finger Lime, Lilly Pilly/Riberry, Peanut Butter Fruit (bunchosia argentea). Good luck in trying these fruits and all the best :)
+justinlukenelson I have reviews for Monstera, Feijoa and Kiwano already filmed and I will be posting them in the upcoming weeks. I have sources for a couple others on your list and will keep an eye out for the ones I don't.Thanks for taking the time to make that list (especially with the scientific names)! Lots of very interesting ones to look out for. :)
Thats great! Hope the monstera didn't cause you any grief lol. And no worries, it can be hard to research fruits without the accompanying scientific name so thought it might help to add them
+The Awesome Tropical Germinator Hmm... not a bad idea. they are very different fruits. But it would be interesting to have an episode dedicated to cactus fruits.
Ever tried cahoon nuts they are kinda nice but kinda flavorless like a coconut but... Weirder, it is hard to explain if you had bet tried it but if you have not, head over to Belize :P
Hi there, enjoy your vids. I've got a bucketlist of fruits I'd like to try, so thanks for adding a few and warning me against a few others! :) The worst fruit I ever tried was a paddy melon. They're an introduced weed that grow wild in the Australian desert. They look like miniature watermelons, about the size of a softball, and grow on a ground vine. I was a curious teen, so I sliced one open. It smelled like a watermelon, so I put the very tip of my tongue on it for half a second... OMG! The explosion of alkaloid, bitter astringency that filled my mouth is nothing like I've ever experienced. That could be taken another way, but that's exactly what it was. :) I ran around spitting for five minutes, no amount of water would wash away the bitterness, and the taste lasted for _hours_... I later found out they're poison. But you can prepare them to be edible. Dunno why you'd want to. :)
Yep sometimes fruit tastes bad for a reason. Its kind of comforting to know our bodies have such an adverse reaction to the flavor of poisonous plants... sometimes.
Exactly, right? Even lychees can be deadly poison to children if too many are consumed on an empty stomach. Or a few cherry pips, or even apple seeds! That's why the most important sense when trying new foods is common sense. Find out from the locals. :)
You should do fruits that are not sweet, Tomatos, olives, peppers, squash, cumcumbers, and all that kind of stuff. How do you eat this stuff. I had a friend from Chile, and she had this fruit that tasted rank, but she let ripen, and ground it up with milk. Damn, that stuff tasted like the best Butterscotch I've ever eaten. I knew this other guy who was on beach in Maylaysia. This expat had these vines growing behind his house with these Blackberry type fruit on it. The fruit only grew once a year, and they were so strong in you used only one in food you were making. The guy ate a bowl of them. His girl friend made him sleep out side he smelled so strong.
the noni comment had me dying..lol.. when i was growing up, we use to call it Duppy breadfruit! (DUPPY= GHOST) Then suddenly one bright day, this hated, scorned fruit that people was afraid to even touch with their bare hands, was supposed to be the almighty anti-cancerous cure all. you could see me carting bucket loads of this vile fruits for my mom, who, would ferment them and collect the juice to add to her daley diet and pretending like, "oh! it's not that bad, as long as you get past the taste!" AS LONG AS YOU GET PAST THE TASTE?? what were we thinking? lol!
I think you can list them like that based on pleasant flavors a raw fruit has. A few of these plants are of high medicinal value like Noni. You just don't eat like that. I pluck a few fruits that are slightly yellowish not too ripe straight from tree, cut them, juice them then mix with other fruit juice. I love the taste. The terrible rancid oil smell is from very ripe noni. The Nipah palm is also not eaten like that it is used to make Gula Apong (brown sugar) that makes cake or desserts smell so good. Gag fruit is also a nature's gem. They are all precious to me. Thanks for the review. The nature is full of goodness.
Herro! Just discovered your show - awesome stuff! I was surprised about the ume being one of the worst fruits. Raw, I'd say definitely! But have you ever tried the honey-soaked ones? It's kind of like sweet and sour candy. I eat pickled ume in tiny bites, with spicy asian foods. Kind of like a palate cleanser. The honey ones might change your mind! Also, have you tried ground cherries / cape gooseberries (Physalis spp.)? They grow in paper lanterns, and have this amazing tropical flavor like a pineapple with the texture of a tomato. The grocery store ones taste very bland but during late Aug / Sept you can find them at farmers markets in Michigan / Ohio. They are my favorite local seasonal fruit, and they are only around a very short time. Def worth a try if you haven't! Keep up the awesome work on your show! ^_^
Heh, I'm surprised that Trifoliate Oranges didn't make it on this list, with how sour & bitter they are... Also, I actually like Pickled Ume, particularly if they're in Umeshu (Apricot wine), which is my favorite adult beverage. ;)
Jarad, you are the cutest thing ever. I don't travel, and don't know much of anything about exotic fruit, but I'm learning from you and you make it fun - love your video's. I discovered you looking for info on my strawberry trees, I had no idea those berries were edible. Good to know, thanks. I may try to make some jam out of them.
I've had noni juice (out of curiosity), and it tasted pretty good. Though it was probably mostly sugar. The noni fruit trees smell terrible though, and I was not tempted at all to taste the fruit directly.
Hey man. First I have to say that I love your videos. I have been a subscriber for a while now and I really enjoy your channel. I think if you invest in a good camera, lighting and a nice mic it would make your video much more attractive and people will have an easier time following your channel. Just a thought. Keep up the good videos coming brother :)
Imagine having a fruit so bad that you'd want to suppress the memory of consuming it. This isn't a channel known for comedy but goddamn the descriptions are funny 😭💀✨
Ume is an acquired taste, usually it is used as seasoning for white rice. Similar to black licorice for me on the level of how much I disliked it at first, to how much I seek it out now that I have grown accustomed to the flavor.
We have an woodapple tree, the woodapples are orange inside. Mom makes woodapple juice which she likes. I don't like woodapple but I can still consume it, it's fine, I can drink a glass of the juice. Unlike bitter melon of which I can eat just few small pieces.
that gooseberry is delicious when cooked with sugar i think. my grandmother's sister has a large tree of that fruit in her garden and would cook them for long time, hours and hours(don't know the recipe) and it's to die for, sweet and sour flavor. one of the best cooked fruit you'll ever taste in your life.
Weird that you didn't like Cempadek. I have pretty middle-of-the-road taste preferences for fruit and the one I tried in Costa Rica was phenomenal. Tasted like durian without the onion with the texture of marshmallow. Can I add Coco De Mer to your list to try?
Coco de mer is on the list :). I'm planning on going to the Seychelles to try and find it, but the problem is that they are endangered and there is a strict control over the processing of the fruit... so its a difficult one.
Dude I legit broke down laughing during the wood apple. I'm thinking oh my god nobody should eat that thing what the hell is that, burn it with fire. I'm over here freaking out over this dirt looking fruit and then you start talking about the primal I shouldn't be doing this reaction. Yea I totally had that same reaction.
I remember in one of your videos you said you don't vomit. So has any fruit made you almost got sick? And has any fruit made you feel sick like poison or food poison for a day or two?
I remember my grandmother having a Noni tree at one point and she used to make facial masks out of the fruits it gave. The smell was absolutely horrible I never ate it though, mostly cause I thought it was poisonous to ingest like bleach or something XD
+Jared Rydelek No, I haven't made it through 100 episodes. Just found this channel last night. Watched like 10. No gold star yet. 😉Trying to watching the ones I could buy and try. Mamoncillo that's the fruit I'm gonna buy tonight.