I'd add a note about this fruit's smell, because last time I was in Brazil, I learned that ripe cupuaçú can leave a room smelling like a gardenia/magnolia bomb went off. Like Durian, but filled with really sweet perfume instead of a bankrupt funeral home's sewage tank. Cupuaçú mousse is total food of the gods, though.
Usually we don’t eat the fresh fruit like that, we make smoothies, jam, ice cream... to extract the pulp my mum was taught to cut them with scissors. It used to grow at my backyard when I lived in Rondônia, and interesting fact is that you know it’s ripe when they fall off the tree, which is very tall, hence why the hard shell!
Your tunnel analogy reminded me a lot of the way Douglas Adams described the Pan Galactic Gargle Blaster in The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, "like having your brains smashed in by a slice of lemon wrapped round a large gold brick".
My family immigrated from Bolivia to the US when I was 4 and we haven't visited, so I haven't tasted any of the amazing fruits she talks about. My heart lit up at this one, it's one of my mom's favorites and one I must try when I return.
If you visit a big city in the US, try and find some frozen pulps! It's not quite the same as the fresh stuff, but it's still delicious! They have cupuacu at a portuguese market here in Canada, so no doubt some latin markets in the US probably have it too!
That was one of my favorite videos of yours. So descriptive. It was like being drug backwards through a tunnel and being hit with all these different descriptions.
I appreciate you can taste such fruits and deal with the shock, in this case the sourness and continue with a very solid description. This fruit description for this particular fruit was hilarious, kind of reminded me of Willy Wonka 3-course meal description. Thank you. I like your videos a lot
We got cupaucu here in phillipines...but its super sweet and juicy.....yellow pulp,and creamy..maybe its depend how to harvest, here in phillipines we wait to harvest until its fall down from the tree that is means its ready to get ripe ...
Everything is sweeter in Brazil! ;) I miss those small, white, sweet pineapples, the ones that almost melt into your mouth as they are so soft and sweet! Almost no tartness! And let's not even talk about the cafezinhos! xD Would you like some coffee with your sugar?! lol
Weird Explorer I didn't even know it existed until I was ordering seeds. I've heard that the fruits are tiny and very seedy, but they taste good. So, more of a novelty thing. On another note, I was able to order some Cupui cacao seeds (Theobroma subincanum). Wonder how it tastes compares to the amazing amount of other cacao varieties. I've actually never tried raw cacao...
"Swiss chocolate company Barry Callebaut has used ruby cocoa beans that grow in the Ivory Coast, Ecuador, and Brazil and created an entirely natural pink chocolate" Is there such a plant called ruby cacao seed ? Couldnt find it in any search about plants or seeds ,
PumpkinsnBlackcats The commercial pink chocolate product has citric acid in it. It tastes kinda fruity. If you’ve ever eaten chocolate that you’ve frozen in a raspberry slurpee? Like that.
I believe the Ruby chocolate is created from non specific beans, but uses a patented process that incorporates a portion of the material surrounding the cacao bean in the production of ruby.Although, I may have misunderstood the process.
We have those here it’s really good! It tastes like kinda like white chocolate with red berries, but it’s not gross as white chocolate. It’s very fruity. From my understanding they use the same cocoa plant, but they process it differently.
i live in Manaus and i used to climb Cupuaçu trees when i was little, my grandma used to have lots of those in the backyard so i was used to having Cupuaçu juice everyday (she would ask me to separate the flesh from the seeds manually using a scissor), i've never seen anyone eat it like that before though, that must be very sour indeed, to balance this acidic taste it is common to mix the pulp with milk to make desserts or drinks
When I was in Manaus, Santarem and Belem, I used to have it every morning too! It gave me energy enough to skip those godawful cafezinhos! Every person I visited there made their coffee with sugar already in it, and by that I mean they added a little coffee to their sugar, hahaha. Not judging, it's a personal taste thing, but I like my coffee sem açucar, amargo, so it was a bit of a culture shock. xD
There are. You just have to know where to buy and how to recognise good ones. E.g soursop and genip doesn't travel well whereas mangosteen, logan berries, durian and rambutan found in many vegetable shops- Tamil/Caribbean and Chinese, do.
Hey Jared, I wonder how Cupuacu would taste after eating a miracle fruit? Just curious. I have some miracle fruits now but not many sour fruits ripening. Love your work. Chris
Looks like baobab, maybe because they're somewhat related, but in reality just because a plant is in the same family doesn't mean they share too many similarities. Take apples, peaches, raspberries and roses for example. Also, Cacao isn't actually known for the caffeine content, despite popular belief, but rather the theobromine content. It does have caffeine, for sure, but not as high as theobromine. They're both structurally similar and known as xanthines. Theobromine provides a much more level and long lasting energy. I remember reading something that suggested xanthines came down from space, which is cool to think about.
Great video! Cupuaçu alone is very strong but the juice is my favorite ever! Such an unique flavor and you described it very well, loved the tunnel thing haha
It seems you've been not very lucky with this fruit. The Cupuacu I've had in the Colombian Amazon area haven't been near as sour as you say this one was. If you ever get the chance you should try to get the small wild Cupuacu that they call Mountain Cupuacu in the area around Leticia (Colombia). It is far smaller, has yellow flesh and a far more complex taste spectrum. I liked it a lot better than the big Cupuacu, it's just amazing. More complex, more intense and more pleasant in my opinion. And if you make it to that area, you should try to get your hands on some Garcinia madruno as well.
Well and if not for the markets, I can recommend it for the incredible nature tours. If you get a good guide, you might even have the opportunity to sample some wild fruits directly from the forest. Most of the ones I had, had a very big seed and only a tiny amount of flesh under their skin, but most of them tasted delicious.
I just tried cupuaçu chocolate today. It was actually really tasty, but different to the cocoa variety. It was sharper in taste (somewhat like pine). The texture was buttery and velvety, which along with the softness of the bar is the main difference. The flavour is complex with lots of subtly, with a bitter chocolatety aftertaste. I wouldn't say it is inferior to chocolate but it should be sold as its own thing, because it is different.
I love how whenever you try a fruit, you always manages to take the biggest bite you can take, completely filling your cheeks. Lol. This fruit looks tasty though.
To me the closest flavor I can think of is if passion fruit and sweet pineapples had a baby, and that baby had a baby with cocoa pulp. xD I live in Canada, so we don't have access to the fresh fruit much, but they do sell the pulp at a portuguese market I found in my city, all sorts of frozen fruit pulps from Brazil, including acai and cupuaçu! It comes in little pouches you can mix with water to make a pitcher of juice, but my favorite way to use cupuaçu pulp, since I don't know how to make ice cream, is to mix in a sangria! ;)
i live in a tropical country and cacao is one of my faves. there's different kinds of cacao. the one u tried looks disappointing. most of thr cacao i eat have more pulp to seed ratio. some cacao taste like mild chocolate, some are more tropical, and so sweet:)
i use this butter as part of my whipped body butter base.. it smells so good in raw butter form. it smells sweet, kinda tart and slightly chocolaty, i love the smell it emits !! can't get enough!. This particular butter adds a creaminess note to the finished scent of my butters. it is sooooo good for the skin. attracts about 240% more water, helping to completely hydrate, thirsty and dry skin. it is literally a MUST in my blends. if making skin care products with this butter, please remember, your finished product will have this smell in it.
People in Brazil do chocolate out of it. It is not as popular as regular chocolate but I think it should. It taste pretty similar and also texture wise is similar. I like it a lot.
Well I'm very happy to say that banana passion fruit, lulo, yellow tree tomato, badea, and a close relative to babaco will be getting posted over the next couple months. Guajilote I reviewed already. :)
Try Carob; also try Maca root (carob has a very good flavor and undernotes of fig and raisin; I’ve heard very good things about Maca root; haven’t been able to try Maca root yet)
I live in Brazil, in the southwest region, in which Cupuaçu does not grow naturaly. I have tasted for the first time yesterday, to me it tastes like Banana+Jackfruit+Graviola+Alcoholic-ish flavour+fish oil. XD
So I imagine that this one is pretty memorable, both because of the taste & because of its relation to its chocolate making cousin. But I've been wondering... Do you ever forget some of the fruits you've eaten? Like have you ever gotten excited about a "new" fruit you've found, and started reviewing it, only to find that you had already made a video on it years ago? I've been watching all your videos and I'm already finding it hard to keep track. Granted, it's probably easier to remember when you've actually eaten them but still... You've eaten a lot of fruit lol.
It has happened where I reviewed the same fruit twice by accident, no often though. The only one I can think of is the areca boi. I had it at the penang fruit farm and then again at the tenom park. They called it different things so I thought they were two different fruits. ha.
Hi Jared - What was the town / market location this was found and was smoothie from there too? Handy if any of us ever got there oneday - some people are growing this in Cairns I think - Thanks
A couple of weeks ago, I tried a cupuaçu smoothie, and it was disgusting. I could taste a bit of the chocolate in it, but everything else was a totally unique flavor. It wasn't sour for me, possibly because it was just in a drink, but it was bitter and tart. I hated the drink so much, I couldn't finish it. I tried a second exotic fruit smoothie, and I loved it. It was made with guanabana, which I think is related to soursop. It's my new favorite fruit.
I've found the flavor of Copoacu to be like a mix of apple and pear flavor, but sour and perfumey, though I havent eaten it pure, I drank juice made of it and made juice out of it myself when I went to the Amazon
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I'd add a note about this fruit's smell, because last time I was in Brazil, I learned that ripe cupuaçú can leave a room smelling like a gardenia/magnolia bomb went off. Like Durian, but filled with really sweet perfume instead of a bankrupt funeral home's sewage tank. Cupuaçú mousse is total food of the gods, though.
I'm totally stealing your description for the smell of durian.
Ew, gross. Magnolia.
Haha I laugh at the durian smell
Usually we don’t eat the fresh fruit like that, we make smoothies, jam, ice cream... to extract the pulp my mum was taught to cut them with scissors. It used to grow at my backyard when I lived in Rondônia, and interesting fact is that you know it’s ripe when they fall off the tree, which is very tall, hence why the hard shell!
Jam? I never saw cupuaçu jam, maybe is the state idk
top 10 most powerful fruit
absolutely in the top ten.
Next time I hear a loud bang from upstairs I'm going to assume someone is smashing a cupuacu against the floor to crack it open.
it's the logical explanation
@@WeirdExplorer haha
Cupuaçu ice cream is one of the best things in this planet
Deep underground?
I never tried it
Sounds Good.
I love to eat cupuaçu with açaí 😋
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Your tunnel analogy reminded me a lot of the way Douglas Adams described the Pan Galactic Gargle Blaster in The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, "like having your brains smashed in by a slice of lemon wrapped round a large gold brick".
I've read all 5 books of the trilogy, even the sixth one.
MEDIUM large gold brick
"Be kind cupuacu, be kind." You made me actually laugh out loud, begging a piece of fruit to be kind to you. 😄
Cupuaçu juice is the best. Fragant zesty floral tangy tropical funk in liquid form.
hell yeah!
My family immigrated from Bolivia to the US when I was 4 and we haven't visited, so I haven't tasted any of the amazing fruits she talks about. My heart lit up at this one, it's one of my mom's favorites and one I must try when I return.
You're in for a treat! The fruit alone is very strong, but the juice is delicious
If you visit a big city in the US, try and find some frozen pulps! It's not quite the same as the fresh stuff, but it's still delicious! They have cupuacu at a portuguese market here in Canada, so no doubt some latin markets in the US probably have it too!
They use this as a filling for chocolate candies in Brazil, and it is one of my favorites!
That sounds delicious.
Is the chocolate’s taste like generally chocolate?
That was one of my favorite videos of yours. So descriptive. It was like being drug backwards through a tunnel and being hit with all these different descriptions.
I appreciate you can taste such fruits and deal with the shock, in this case the sourness and continue with a very solid description.
This fruit description for this particular fruit was hilarious, kind of reminded me of Willy Wonka 3-course meal description.
Thank you. I like your videos a lot
Wow, thank you
Que bom que você experimentou essa fruta! ela é melhor no suco e no sorvete, mas comer cru também é gostoso!
“Mmmmm, sour”...loved the face you made 3:39! 😣
“Be kind cupuacu, be kind.” Priceless! 🤣
Now I need a Cupuacu to do battle with in the tunnel of violent fruit!
Love this channel. I don't know why I'm fascinated by fruits that I've never seen or heard of.
I fell in love with this channel, is really really interesting
Thanks!
Weird Explorer: opens up a cacao pod.
Me: OMG! It's a giant pupa! Aaaaaah!!!
You can dry, roast and grind the seeds to make a coffe-like beverage, too. And its very stimulating since it has theobromine.
Sad vibes today. Thanks for these videos, they are a nice way to kill anxiety and enjoy life.
Cupuaçu Juice and Cupuaçu ice cream are two of the most delicious things in this planet
Verdade!
Loving the content man! Glad we are all able to come on these adventures with you through your channel
Thanks!
I want to try this fruit so badly now.
4:32 Do you mean "like having your brains smashed out by a slice of lemon, wrapped 'round a large gold brick."? :D
I was certainly channeling my inner Adams with my description :D
At 3:33 when he eats it, it looks like he is sufferring
This my husband favourite fruit from Brazil 🇧🇷 he says it's more sweeter there! We can't wait to go back home to have our tropical 🌴 fruit
I hope to visit there sometime soon, tons of fruit left to explore
We got cupaucu here in phillipines...but its super sweet and juicy.....yellow pulp,and creamy..maybe its depend how to harvest, here in phillipines we wait to harvest until its fall down from the tree that is means its ready to get ripe ...
Everything is sweeter in Brazil! ;) I miss those small, white, sweet pineapples, the ones that almost melt into your mouth as they are so soft and sweet! Almost no tartness! And let's not even talk about the cafezinhos! xD Would you like some coffee with your sugar?! lol
Maybe it'd be better sprinkled with some sugar?
You should try a fruit called the Blackberry Jam fruit. Supposedly tastes just like blackberry jam! I'm getting some seeds soon.
I'd love to try it, but haven't found it yet!
Weird Explorer I didn't even know it existed until I was ordering seeds. I've heard that the fruits are tiny and very seedy, but they taste good. So, more of a novelty thing.
On another note, I was able to order some Cupui cacao seeds (Theobroma subincanum). Wonder how it tastes compares to the amazing amount of other cacao varieties. I've actually never tried raw cacao...
You mean a black berry ?
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2:30 breaking dinosaur egg😱!!!
"Swiss chocolate company Barry Callebaut has used ruby cocoa beans that grow in the Ivory Coast, Ecuador, and Brazil and created an entirely natural pink chocolate"
Is there such a plant called ruby cacao seed ? Couldnt find it in any search about plants or seeds ,
I want some!
PumpkinsnBlackcats The commercial pink chocolate product has citric acid in it. It tastes kinda fruity. If you’ve ever eaten chocolate that you’ve frozen in a raspberry slurpee? Like that.
I believe the Ruby chocolate is created from non specific beans, but uses a patented process that incorporates a portion of the material surrounding the cacao bean in the production of ruby.Although, I may have misunderstood the process.
To my understanding they ferment common cocoa beans for a shorter time than usual.
We have those here it’s really good! It tastes like kinda like white chocolate with red berries, but it’s not gross as white chocolate. It’s very fruity. From my understanding they use the same cocoa plant, but they process it differently.
i live in Manaus and i used to climb Cupuaçu trees when i was little, my grandma used to have lots of those in the backyard so i was used to having Cupuaçu juice everyday (she would ask me to separate the flesh from the seeds manually using a scissor), i've never seen anyone eat it like that before though, that must be very sour indeed, to balance this acidic taste it is common to mix the pulp with milk to make desserts or drinks
When I was in Manaus, Santarem and Belem, I used to have it every morning too! It gave me energy enough to skip those godawful cafezinhos! Every person I visited there made their coffee with sugar already in it, and by that I mean they added a little coffee to their sugar, hahaha. Not judging, it's a personal taste thing, but I like my coffee sem açucar, amargo, so it was a bit of a culture shock. xD
Sounds like a delicious tropical fruit punch. Wish the UK got more exotic tropical stuffs.
There are. You just have to know where to buy and how to recognise good ones. E.g soursop and genip doesn't travel well whereas mangosteen, logan berries, durian and rambutan found in many vegetable shops- Tamil/Caribbean and Chinese, do.
Hey Jared, I wonder how Cupuacu would taste after eating a miracle fruit? Just curious. I have some miracle fruits now but not many sour fruits ripening. Love your work. Chris
Before it is cracked, it looks like old rusted metal. The inside looks like a big cocoon when intact. Very cool.
Looks like baobab, maybe because they're somewhat related, but in reality just because a plant is in the same family doesn't mean they share too many similarities. Take apples, peaches, raspberries and roses for example.
Also, Cacao isn't actually known for the caffeine content, despite popular belief, but rather the theobromine content. It does have caffeine, for sure, but not as high as theobromine. They're both structurally similar and known as xanthines. Theobromine provides a much more level and long lasting energy. I remember reading something that suggested xanthines came down from space, which is cool to think about.
Would like to grow one of those. Small Cacao pod though, they are usually much larger than that
Great video! Cupuaçu alone is very strong but the juice is my favorite ever! Such an unique flavor and you described it very well, loved the tunnel thing haha
When u opened it, the rich white arils looked so tantalizing!
Yes! Much more inviting than regular cacao
It seems you've been not very lucky with this fruit. The Cupuacu I've had in the Colombian Amazon area haven't been near as sour as you say this one was. If you ever get the chance you should try to get the small wild Cupuacu that they call Mountain Cupuacu in the area around Leticia (Colombia). It is far smaller, has yellow flesh and a far more complex taste spectrum. I liked it a lot better than the big Cupuacu, it's just amazing. More complex, more intense and more pleasant in my opinion. And if you make it to that area, you should try to get your hands on some Garcinia madruno as well.
Oh wow, I looked up Leticia and the markets around there look amazing! Adding it to the list :)
Well and if not for the markets, I can recommend it for the incredible nature tours. If you get a good guide, you might even have the opportunity to sample some wild fruits directly from the forest. Most of the ones I had, had a very big seed and only a tiny amount of flesh under their skin, but most of them tasted delicious.
sounds like a wonderful experience, thanks for the tip!
I live in Brazil, currently, I love cupuaçu!! I love the juice and sorbet of this fruit!
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Bahaha your description.. it's like being dragged backwards thru a tunnel getting smacked in the back of the head🤣
“Sorry downstairs neighbors “ 😂
I've been missing so many of your videos. Clicking the bell from now on!
awesome! Yeah I've started putting out two a week, so that bell is more useful now than ever
what a good description. I am deadly curious to go out and taste this now.
I just tried cupuaçu chocolate today. It was actually really tasty, but different to the cocoa variety. It was sharper in taste (somewhat like pine). The texture was buttery and velvety, which along with the softness of the bar is the main difference. The flavour is complex with lots of subtly, with a bitter chocolatety aftertaste. I wouldn't say it is inferior to chocolate but it should be sold as its own thing, because it is different.
you look like a doctor c:
😀😀
I love how whenever you try a fruit, you always manages to take the biggest bite you can take, completely filling your cheeks. Lol.
This fruit looks tasty though.
Hitting all the taste buds in one go :)
We call those death bringers... Because when one falls from a tree, and hits you in the head, you usually die.
PS... Just kidding, I made that up! Lol
yeah because the tree is not big
+Weird Explorer You make fruit seem so delicious, especially when you scarf down huge pieces.
Watching you eat this is making my mouth water 😂
Dude, thank you for this. We just bought a cupuacu tree. Totally subscribing
thanks! good luck with it!
Hi Sikye
I need some seed for cupuacu to bring in Africa please 😊
To me the closest flavor I can think of is if passion fruit and sweet pineapples had a baby, and that baby had a baby with cocoa pulp. xD I live in Canada, so we don't have access to the fresh fruit much, but they do sell the pulp at a portuguese market I found in my city, all sorts of frozen fruit pulps from Brazil, including acai and cupuaçu! It comes in little pouches you can mix with water to make a pitcher of juice, but my favorite way to use cupuaçu pulp, since I don't know how to make ice cream, is to mix in a sangria! ;)
i live in a tropical country and cacao is one of my faves. there's different kinds of cacao. the one u tried looks disappointing. most of thr cacao i eat have more pulp to seed ratio. some cacao taste like mild chocolate, some are more tropical, and so sweet:)
Luv your channel, the reaction to this fruit was my favorite for the "smacked in the back of the head!" Lol☆☆☆☆☆
Such a great find!! Awesome!!
Very interesting sir. I never knew 3/4 of the foods you review even existed. Cool.
i use this butter as part of my whipped body butter base.. it smells so good in raw butter form. it smells sweet, kinda tart and slightly chocolaty, i love the smell it emits !! can't get enough!. This particular butter adds a creaminess note to the finished scent of my butters. it is sooooo good for the skin. attracts about 240% more water, helping to completely hydrate, thirsty and dry skin. it is literally a MUST in my blends. if making skin care products with this butter, please remember, your finished product will have this smell in it.
The best sour face I have ever seen
I love your channel so much. It’s so fascinating
You convinced me to get a smoothie from this fruit at a Brazilian restaurant. It is really different. Very rich and creamy does remind me of durian.
I had a chocolate covered cupuaçu pulp / jam ball a while ago. It tasted like apricot jam with hints of bitter orange and banana.
I've finally figured out what my upstairs neighbors have been doing....
I clicked the bell lol 🔔
thanks!
everytime i hear this into music, i my heart warms ^_^
It's a good fruit and very apreciated here in Brazil.
People in Brazil do chocolate out of it. It is not as popular as regular chocolate but I think it should. It taste pretty similar and also texture wise is similar. I like it a lot.
I've been wanting to try that but I haven't been able to find a company that ships to the US
I’ve tasted the cacao pod and it taste a little sweet but hard to describe
Love the description!!!
I'd only eat this fruit raw on its own after eating a miracle berry :D
its the perfect fruit for a miracle berry
I don't know about cupuacu, but the fresh cacao pod I eat everything, pulp and bean together, they complement each other very well.
I've never tried that! Next time I'll do that :)
Provided that you like dark chocolate...
You should explore the banana passion fruit,babaco,lulo,Yellow tree tomato,badea,guajilote and lots more
Well I'm very happy to say that banana passion fruit, lulo, yellow tree tomato, badea, and a close relative to babaco will be getting posted over the next couple months. Guajilote I reviewed already. :)
2:21 this made me laugh for some reason
Wow, I just came back from Salvador, Brazil, where I tried Cupuacu.
I HAD to check if you had a video on it! =D
Thanks! Great video! :)
Try Carob; also try Maca root (carob has a very good flavor and undernotes of fig and raisin; I’ve heard very good things about Maca root; haven’t been able to try Maca root yet)
first time I've seen a whole anything go in all at once... you normally do a little sparrow bite first even with tiny berries... I was shocked xD
There's some cupuacu product in my skin lotion, and it smells so nice!
Me: takes a small bite of a new fruit
You: stuffs both cheeks with a single bite
I love the taste of the original cacao i am sure it has the taste , I really wanted to try some🤟👍👍👍
I live in Brazil, in the southwest region, in which Cupuaçu does not grow naturaly. I have tasted for the first time yesterday, to me it tastes like Banana+Jackfruit+Graviola+Alcoholic-ish flavour+fish oil. XD
It's really a wonder that someone thought of grinding the seeds of the cacoa to make delicious chocolate, who ever did it thank you lol
I just tried chocolate and ice-cream from this fruit in Peru and it's really something special
"Be kind cupuacu, be kind"
That was awesome! Terrific description. I wonder how it would taste with miracle fruit?
Thanks Michael! I think it would go really well with miracle berries. Next time :)
Cool. I have been growing it for years and am waiting for fruit.
Thank you for this video! My mom bought some powder and she made me eat it every day so I was wondering what I was putting in my mouth lol
Sorry downstairs neighbors... hhahahahaa
So I imagine that this one is pretty memorable, both because of the taste & because of its relation to its chocolate making cousin. But I've been wondering... Do you ever forget some of the fruits you've eaten? Like have you ever gotten excited about a "new" fruit you've found, and started reviewing it, only to find that you had already made a video on it years ago? I've been watching all your videos and I'm already finding it hard to keep track. Granted, it's probably easier to remember when you've actually eaten them but still... You've eaten a lot of fruit lol.
It has happened where I reviewed the same fruit twice by accident, no often though. The only one I can think of is the areca boi. I had it at the penang fruit farm and then again at the tenom park. They called it different things so I thought they were two different fruits. ha.
Hi Jared - What was the town / market location this was found and was smoothie from there too? Handy if any of us ever got there oneday - some people are growing this in Cairns I think - Thanks
I got it at the main market in Riberalta Bolivia. the cupuacu I got at a juice place in the same town.
Looks more like baobab fruit
They are in the same family I believe.
A couple of weeks ago, I tried a cupuaçu smoothie, and it was disgusting. I could taste a bit of the chocolate in it, but everything else was a totally unique flavor. It wasn't sour for me, possibly because it was just in a drink, but it was bitter and tart. I hated the drink so much, I couldn't finish it. I tried a second exotic fruit smoothie, and I loved it. It was made with guanabana, which I think is related to soursop. It's my new favorite fruit.
Isabella Whittemore Guanabana IS soursop.
chigimonky Woops. Thanks for the clarification!
Still cool that you had a chance to try it, I've never seen it anywhere else. Shame you didn't like it though :/.
I've found the flavor of Copoacu to be like a mix of apple and pear flavor, but sour and perfumey, though I havent eaten it pure, I drank juice made of it and made juice out of it myself when I went to the Amazon
Hmmm... I can' help but wonder if these seeds can be roasted like an alternative coffee. I like cacao fruit dried, it is a lot like banana yep.
I found you because I was researching ingredients on Lush and wanted to know how to pronounce cupuacu
You should Try Digong Nut Fruit. Taste the Best Dead Sweet and Sour.
the flesh reminds me of durian flesh as well. Durian is in the same family as okra and chocolate, malvacaea.
Have you tryed the Australian bush lemon? It’s the best!
I don't believe so. I'll look for it when i'm in australia :)
Weird Explorer ok awesome 😊. If you do I hope you enjoy. Have a great day
Now you have to try Capuacu chocolate :D
We actually do make chocolate from cupuaçu seeds in Brazil now.
I've seen pictures of it and have been wanting to try it but can't get it in the US.
They make sorbet out of it in Brazil which is really good.