AKEBIA - Tasting One of the World's Weirdest Fruits! (Chocolate Vine) - Review & How to Use it!
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Episode 581: AKEBIA (Chocolate Vine)
Scientific Name: Akebia quinata
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Why don't you make a dancing video montage with all the fruits you have ever tried? xD I don't know, i got this weird image in my mind by listening to the video music xD
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Have you ever had a serious allergic reaction or possible poisoning from a fruit adventure?
Bump
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bumpety bump (thinking about that one cannonball fruit)
Bump bump bump.
Burp
That thing looks like a prop from an alien horror movie. Serious Audrey 2 vibes.
Haha 100%
Yeah there is no reason to fabricate alien fruit, real fruit is weirder looking
When you need a monster for your low budget horror film.
Ah gawd! Yes! 😆
It would make an amazing stop-motion creature
@@mckinleymorton Totally!
The fruit looked like if Jared got a drop of blood inside, the fruit would say, "Feed me Seymour."
😂 little shop of horrors was my fav movie as a kid, I used to say I wanted to be a motorcycle dentist when I grew up, lol
@@colourfulsouls: I bet your mother was proud of you.
furit
Beat me to it
@@colourfulsouls omg but he was the abusive bad guy! Lmao
If you want an Akebia quinata for growing fruit, you need to buy 2 individual plants to cross-pollinate.
One plant, without another being in the neighbourhood, won't set fruit - as I discovered when I used to prune one of these plants at work. It never fruited, despite its age... Needed a special friend.
Do you know if it just needs to be another seed grown seedling and not clone from mother plant or does it need to be a relative like the 3 leaf to pollinate the 5 leaf?
It's amazing how you've been doing this for so many years and still find crazy stuff like this to try
So you were one of the paste eaters. You seem to have refined your palate a bit since then.
I'm pretty sure that's why you can't buy school paste anymore... much too delicious.
@@sdfkjgh elmer's school paste, the one he showed in the video
@@Edigor100: Well, I know that _now,_ but when I made the comment, I had yet to watch the vid. I read (and reply to, if the fancy takes me) comments first (down to the first load break), then watch.
@@sdfkjgh well that's kinda on you though, before asking questions about the video it makes sense to watch the video first
H.R. Giger really out here designing fruit now
He's switched from "Brain-Salad surgery" to "fruit-salad surgery"
@@nferraro222 omg another elp fan in the wild?? the odds of this encounter lol
best ‘interactive’ vinyl cover of all time i’ll die on that hill
@@Jamzamurai Collector's edition - interview at the end talking about Giger - funniest sh*t ever.
Hahaha! I love how you’re all like “this peel and leaf may not be edible raw, but, eh...whatever! I’m gonna try them raw, anyway!” There isn’t a soul on this planet who can say you’re not adventurous! 🤣
I watched this video twice because I fell asleep the first time.
Not because the video is boring, I was just really tired.
I foraged one of these from some public landscaping last year (after being inspired by a 'Weird Explorer' video). I was pretty sure about the identification. Pulp was mildly tasty. But yeah, those seeds, they were _terrible._ Bitter, chemical, and major cotton mouth effect with a kind of a hoarse feeling in my throat afterwards. Thought maybe I poisoned myself. Would not eat the seeds! It's a shame the pulp is so difficult to separate from the seeds.
Japanese method, according to the internet, is to spit the seeds out
Do you know how to eat custurd apple fruit, then it will be easy to eat akebi fruit also
Então dá alergia, como quando eu comi a casca da manga, só por estar bem vermelhinha. Deu uma coceira tremenda na garganta . Nunca mais!
Refreshing paste. Sounds delicious.
Please always keep Benadryl (or it’s generic form) in your house. Just in case you have any kind of allergic reaction like an itchy throat. I heard honey in warm water can also soothe an irritated throat.
YES- great advice!! Moments after I was stung by a scorpion, I had a weird, crawly, closing feeling start to rise in my throat. I had the presence of mind to slam some Benadryl and head to the hospital. I don’t know for certain if I would have made it there in time had I not immediately taken some Benadryl.
I managed to grow 3 of these fruits last year. My son, who eats almost any fruit, did not enjoy it because of the seeds.
If seeds taste like nothing, I eat them (watermelon, pomegranate). If they taste unpleasant, I don't. Like grape seeds are absolutely edible, but, in my opinion, they are nasty. I don't care if they are good for you, they have an unpleasant taste and texture.
My big akebia vine has ripe fruit on it now. You're totally right about the comparison to a persimmon. I wouldn't have thought of it, but that's a very good reference! I guess that's why I like the akebia fruit. It's pretty good!
When one of those little green fictional aliens poop, this is what comes out.
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yesss you finally tried this! i was always wondering how they taste like. regardless, it's a very pretty fruit. violet and light blue is a very nice color combination
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I used to have one of these really cool plants in my backyard, but it went out of control and I had to cut it down.
I have one of them but I don’t have another one of a different species so they did not make fruits.
I should probably add to my comment, it took 1 year for it to start to grow ( I got the plant in fall so it didn’t grow much) the second year something was eating the vine it so it didn’t grow and this year I relished that I need a second plant. ( and the flowers do not smell like chocolate it smells more like a vanilla if you explained what it smells like to a alien and they tried to remake it.
@@andrewcuzzolino8277 One species is supposed to have a vanilla scent - another like chocolate.
You don't need two different species, most plants are clones - these plants are self incompatible.
@@garrett1847 you have good points but, for some reason my plant is not self fertilizing. They had flowers on it and then they did for no reason. They did not all die at one but the oldest first and youngest last. They also has small little fruits but those did too.
“Refreshing paste” I have my Colgate who needs this fruit
Could be a substitute for calamari strips, maybe soaking it in Spirulina powder juice or vegan fish spice , crumb and deep-fry ... Great vid as usual J!
Wow great idea!
For just a moment I was thrown off by the lack of an 'itadakimasu' before the tasting. Thank you for daring to eat a color of food I didn't know appeared in nature.
Watching too much emmymade? 😅
@@kareny5438 No such thing!
@@sentath when he hesitated before eating I waiting for the itadakimasu too. 😄 Frooty Frooty Frooty fruits!
12:35 slimy foods are appreciated in Japanese cuisine, where they're called neba neba foods. So I guess it could be valued for its texture. Though I'm not sure how commonly eaten it is in Japan.
I will try cooking up some akebia one of these days, as it's growing in my yard now. Thanks for the cool content, keep up the good work!
Well, the reaction from my grandma and a couple of her neighbors was "do you young people actually waste your money on that?" So judging by that it was probably more of a food you make do with when you find it growing in the forest than a valued traditional food.
Gotta say, you really are making content that is truly unique.
I spend allot of time in my kitchen improving my cooking skills, and what I'm extremly sure of is: you should have fried the stuff much much longer.
you should try to remove the liquids from that stuff and get it more crispy before adding the sauce.
I've always felt that persimmons taste like a really sweet carrot.
Jared, when you read that seeds are edible, sometimes it actually means you can just swallow them whole along with the pulp...
Or just because you can, doesn't mean you should. Lol.
Or it's edible, meaning it won't kill you, it's just not very nutritious.
In every vid I've seen of people harvesting these in China, they swallow the seeds!
Also in every vid I've seen of people harvesting them, they eat them when they look white and fluffy like a banana on the inside! I've never seen them clear looking like in this vid!
There's a large Akebia quinaria vine growing in Prospect park. Can't remember exactly where it was located, but it was growing on a chain link fence near an overpass tunnel somewhere in the northern half of the park.
The Akebia plant is a vine with five-lobed leaves, like miniature Virginia creeper leaflets, but the leaves tips are round unlike Virginia creeper leaves that are pointed. The leaves are also similar to smallish umbrella plant leaves (Schefflera ssp.) with its five leaflets.
I wish I can found some of these in Hong Kong but sadly we only have several species of Stauntonia (from same family) in the countryside. And more tragically, we can seldom reach those fruit for taste review.
It looks like fruit you’d see in a sci fi movie 😵💫
(🤔Yeah!…)
I was thinking that! They look like some kinda weird alien eggs to me!
@@ravenestrella2310 My wife thought it looked like a dead kidney, but I thought it looked like Audrey II.
I was thinking it looks like the meat of squid or octopus. I wonder how it would stack up.
It looked like the flesh would taste like watery plum and the seeds like some weird watery cucumber-papaya mix.
Love the cat
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The texture of the rind reminds me of raw squid, that's very interesting! The color of the rind is also ridiculous, such a saturated purple!
For a fruit he was waiting to try since so long, dumping it's pulp into the sink tells me all I wanna know about it's flavor..Ryan the ice cooler guy wud be gutted 🤣
Oh wow! You finally had a chance to review the fruit from that fertility sculpture you showed previously. I never would have guessed that pod was also edible.
I've been waiting for you to try this one!!
Hope you like it!
i’ve been watching for over 2 years and still loving the videos
I appreciate these videos more than you could ever know. I can never afford to taste these exotic flavors, eventually I'll start reaching out and making far-flung friends and we can exchange treats but for now I truly thank you for your informative content.
I love your channel you are so effortlessly funny and a great teacher
Wow, kind of surprised you haven't reviewed this until now. Great episode!
boy! that fruit really is something, and it was nice of Ryan to go through all that to get it to ya! the texture of that pod, all jiggly and gelatinous, was givin me the heebie jeebies though, gotta say. hey, good luck on the house hunt! moving is miserable, and I can't fathom how wild it is in a big city, so I hope it goes well!!
I think the akebi white flesh tastes like lychee. I spit out the seeds which is a developed skill. I go picking in mid October from the hundreds of wild akebi trees here in the hills in Nagano Japan.
THANK GOD YOU FINALLY REVIEWED THISSS
Always enjoy your videos. This fruit looks more like a pasiflora. Kinda like passion fruit. Very interesting. I love foraging for wild edibles so this channel is right up my alley. Much love and hope your channel grows even more. Be blessed and stay safe ❤️
Just wanted to say all your content is great sir..making random fruit interesting is a gift lol
What an interesting fruit! And a really entertaining video as well, I laughed a couple of times with your reactions.
I hadn't had okra until recently. The only way we liked it (actually loved it) was in a vegetable soup. It gave an interesting texture... kinda 'squeaky', and the slightest bitterness.
I wonder if akebia would work in a soup the same way. I'd imagine it would compliment a sweet and sour stir fry.
I love it's sliminess! On a side note, trader Joe's has some fried okras and they are really good if you ever want to try
I'll have to check that out! Thanks so much!
Give fried Okra a try sometime, not exactly healthy but should taste good
I know we haven't met. But you sir, are my favorite New Yorker. Love the videos and I always learn something. Appreciate your hard work.
Ahahaha I love the realism on the sponsor ad. Like you won't be flying out of your window turning heads like an axr ad but ur morning will be just slightly less uninteresting.
2:38 Wow it turns up the saturation and gives you cofee! 😮
Living up to the channel name today 👍👍👍
Great editing
It added much to your humor
Thanks for another fruity video
Glad you enjoyed it!
Awesome, glad you finally got your fingers on one.
I'm super bummed, I had 2 Akebia plants that reached maturity and should have fruited this year, but in January it was unusually warm here which caused the plants to wake up early and then a sudden cold snap with -20°C killed them. So annoying!
But maaaaan, your channel makes me want to travel and try ALL of the fruits (and collect their seeds).
I like that your kitchen looks genuinely lived in and used.
Such a weird fruit! Thanks for reviewing it for us.
I've been waiting for this one
Never ever heard of this. Thank you for this video. I have zero chance of finding things like this by myself.
Thank you for this video ! 😊💐
Man, I was just trying to figure put what this was, saw it in a youtube short. Of course you have a video on it!
You done did it man!
i have 3 varieties growing outside, taking over a pear tree. slimy and sweet , not much flavor. didn't know the leaves were edible, i will give them a try.
These are apparently considered invasive in the US.
I wonder where.. I've yet to see them in the US.
I've never seen one either, but Wikipedia says everywhere from Georgia to Michigan.
I have seen plants offered in some seed catalogues.
@@WeirdExplorer in Europe it is planted as an ornanental vine in gardens - though the fruits it gets there are not nearly half the size as in the video.
@@WeirdExplorer We have them in East Rock Park in New Haven, CT. The vines smother everything.
Wow!!!! Now THAT is one weird looking fruit, man! I instantly thought of the dead-man's finger fruit when I saw the thumbnail.
looove how thorough this is. just took the fruit and dissected and tested everything about it. exactly what we need when we come across a new weird fruit. and yeah that "school paste" flavor I think is the same as the one I taste in persimmons that haven't ripened perfectly, if I understood this right. it's the tannins in the fruit that give it this "chalky" texture, almost like glue, and an uncomfortable sort of astringent bitterness. is that what the akebi rind has? maybe, given the similarity to persimmons.
It reminded me of a curuba (banana passion fruit). Also, any video with Vostok in it is an awesome video. And that Space Ghost T-shirt!
I love your videos so much
thank you!
Awesome, i was planning to plant akebia in my garden to replace Wisteria.
I love your reaction!
I was fascinated when i first saw this fruit. I didn't know what to expect when i first watch your video but i must say. I'm impressed.
You described everything well and i watch a video from MeiMei and yes the pod is used with pork belly. so now i picture it a bit like some onion or cucumber
Oh, man! We had one of these growing out in the wild near our house in Japan. Weird fruit, but I really liked it
I worry it would eat me instead...
With how those seeds tasted, It felt like it was..
I discovered this video after watching Pom Poko and wondering what the hell those were, and now I’m back at a channel I’ve been subscribed to for years! This guy is gooood
Discovered this after watching anime about Ninjas
See this fruit on anime and live action Japanese dramas, they spit out the seeds, like eating watermelons, ejecting them like machine gun bullets. 😊 I keep checking various high-end fruit vendors in my country but haven't yet sampled some, although I've had icecream bean 😋.
Are te seeds edible 🤔
@@presidentiallsuite edible but super bitter
Akebia rind, perfect edible substitute for kids who like to eat glue!
You have the cutest cat ever!! 🥺🥺😍
Awwww, your kitty is so cute! At 2:40 He/she is saying, "you sir, stop everything you're doing, put the phone down and pet me!" Mine is currently up on my pillow and digging in my hair, because she wants to be fed. Lol, such a cute and demanding little pest that she's is.
Akebia is my nemesis. It was planted along a wooden double-fence line. I have never gotten fruit from it but I do get sprawling vines that both root deep and climb.
this looks like Seymour's mouth from Little Shop of Horror but his lips are chapped
So cool! Are there any interesting fruits in Panama you know of? I'm heading there this week :)
Gonna order scions of this to plant out next year.
wow youre so lucky what a great find
In the thumbnail I thought you were holding a sick baby Feed Me Seymore plant from Little Shop of Horrors.
"it is edible, so i am going to eat it" is the sentiment i come here for
this channel makes me realize how modified the fruits we find at the store are because a lot of these weird fruits have huge seeds surrounded by slimy edible membranes and theres so many seeds i dont think i could texturally handle it
I paused on your ads articles and it really is crazy how polar opposite people are... like to me the heroes in the story skeeve me out for the exact reasons that make them the heroes... like how does one reconcile that dichotomy🤣
Thanks for sharing your videos. I stumbled on a Akebia video online and was really wondering about it and you put my mind at ease. I wonder what the Oxalate level is on that fruit, maybe why you got a icy throat so fast. Oxalates are poisons that plant put off to keep from being eaten some plants have more than others...
It could be! I don't know the relation offhand but from the appearance it may very well be related to other high oxalate fruits like monstera deliciosa
No need to censor public events, it's shown in the news every year.
Can never tell with youtube though... figured I should play it safe.
yeah TH-cams algos could pick up the wrong context
@@WeirdExplorer *Exactly!* Ditto with Facebook. Recently, FB deleted a comment of mine, made 5 years ago, because it went against their community standards. Then I got another notification apologizing for the deletion and they restored the comment. One can never be sure about what social media entities will do to user content
YT is a little... weird... about some things.
dude. that was a fantastic opening song. I forgot the name or which composer it was, but I took piano lessons as a teenager and child, and this composition was, like, a milestone in the “ladder” of songs to learn, per se. But ungortunately I was quite undisciplined in my practice, and never learned it. hahaha ohhh for those memories. Also, great video as usual!
Sounds like Mozart, but not sure, nice tho!
I would bet this is Mozart, maybe one of his piano sonatas.
I was interested in these before your vid but had no idea you could eat the flesh!! Sounds great for vegan-friendly sushi, will have to try growing it!
Great job w the commercial, have you ever auditioned for TV ones ? Seems like you'd be good for an "Everyman, but slightly weird" character.
akebia is a freggie fruit vegetable mixbut would love to grow it too for the flowers definetely and to have a medicinal tea which would come in handy one day.
You should consider trying the fruits of Boquila trifoliolata. Also from the Lardizabalaceae, except it can essentially shape-shift its leaves to match surrounding plants (still unknown how it can even achieve this), and the fruit is a cute little berry. And best part... its temperate! Always awesome for us folks in temperate climates to find a super strange plant or fruit like that.
Very interesting plant, I have been trying to acquire plants / seeds. The only website I have found that offers it is out of stock.
Other plants can mimic leaves, this species can be almost identical - leaf density - color - size - shape.
Scientists have grown these in pots as tests, still mimics surrounding plants - probably not related to soil microbes.
Some scientists thought that it copied chemical compounds in the host's leaves. Until a scientist used a plastic plant, which Boquila trifoliolata mimicked.
I believe that the species is hardy to zone 7 - which is pretty hardy. I could see it becoming invasive in the future due to it's traits.
@@garrett1847 Eh, its probably too specialized for temperate rainforest environments to become much of a nuisance. I've seen far reaches farm have it in stock occasionally, I'll probably get some next time its back in stock lol. I think it could be a great case study for "plant intelligence," however rudimentary it may be. Very impressive plant, nothing not to like about it!
This has got to be yet another case of "edible, but not worth eating." I guess that's why its niche, good to know.
I found out there's a akebia plant near my house, so I hope to try it someday
Just from the looks of it, it's reminding me of Calamari, at least the way you did it. So maybe it would be like an alternative to that, and why it may have some popularity in Japan.
I find it funny that you've reviewed the rarer members of this family before you got a hold of what is probably the best known and most common (especially on the east coast). Come to think of it, you've done this same sort of thing a few times now... eating the most common member of a group last or at least later.
What is the most common member of this group? Is it grown commercially, or is it something grown in parks and gardens, for eating or landscaping?
@@SY-ok2dq Apparently there are actually small commercial operations of Akebia in Asia. Its probably the best known simply because other members of the Lardizabalaceae are so damn rare and obscure, while this one is actually invasive in parts of the world and seems to be at least moderately well known.
@@StuffandThings_ So you mean this one is the brst known/most common one? I looked it up online and the one reviewed here is apparently native to East Asia, and grows wild in the mountains. I've never seen it for sale in Japan, Korea, or China. In fact, this is the first time I've seen the fruit or heard of it. It's probably a niche, medicinal/old timey fruit that you have to look for.
@@SY-ok2dq Its not particularly common, but all the other members are just _so_ obscure that it is probably the most common of the family. The others are really only known to extreme plant nerds or locals.