Yellow, Red and White Dragonfruit Comparison - Weird Fruit Explorer Ep. 46
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White Dragonfruit (Hylocereus undatus)
Yellow Dragonfruit (Hylocereus megalanthus)
Red Dragonfruit (Hylocereus costaricensis)
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How did you get dragon fruit at this time yesterday
Lilith Izaguir
Just ordered some excited to try!
8:56 you got a long tung
that suprized me
I found dragonfruit in a farmers market in South Florida and the cashier told me to put the white ones in the freezer and then eat them like icecream out of there skin like a bowl, The freezing amplifies their flavor, I recommend trying it that way if you havent.
I've heard that recently but haven't tried it yet
I know this comment is old but I also heard drizzling honey on it after freezing is really good! Havent tried it yet but sounds nice.
I always cut mine in cubes and put them in the freezer, they make the best ice cubes for juices or smoothies!
I spent 3 days at a dragon fruit festival in Southern California and I learned so much about dragonfruit. I tasted close to 30 different varieties of dragonfruit. I tasted Some new varieties that were hybridized by a man named Edgar Valdevia and they had so much flavor as well as sweetness. For example some had flavors or cinnamon,floral hints,citrus flavor. I didnt even know it was possible to achieve those flavors with a dragonfruit. Aslo the yellow variety does very poorly here and takes 6-7 months to ripen as opposed to about 40 days on the red,white and pink fleshed varieties so that is why they do not grow it commercially too often. However there are some hybrids of yellow and reds that have been bred that ripen in much less time about 2 months and I would say have a superior flavor. I could go on and on about this fruit lol
Mark me jealous. I'll have to take a trip out to South CA sometime and see whats there. Thats interesting about the yellow dragon fruit and makes sense. I saw them for sale extensively in Hong Kong, but they were sold as a luxury gift giving fruit and very expensive.
Donovan Vasta I live in SoCal too, where is this festival??
@@cookiesrawesomee 😂🤣 hmmm
ate yellow one just ones but the taste was just.like the red white one so it.tasted like.nothing.
Is the red red better? Never had it.
Or is the yellow better?
Had I had just bad luck with that one?
So are you dragonfuitborn?
Yellow Dragonfruit has weak root system, sensitive to over water root rot and all kind of pest. Very hard to grow in commercial scale . that is why they are rare.
Ah! It all makes sense now. Thanks!
And they cost a fortune! $8 n up
But yellow is most delicious ...
The yellow dragon fruit cost 10.00 and the red and white cost 5 dollars each it's worth the price they have many benefits you are what you eat ❤️❤️❤️
by the way they are not prohibitively hard to grow.If you can grow Dragonfruit ,you can grow the yellow one too. Since home gardener can spent more time care for each tree.It only become impractical in commercial scale.Some youtube channel grow it.
Yellow dragon fruit is the best tasting thing ever
Very true.
the sweetest, however, the ones I eat are the same size as the red and white flesh ones
looks can be so deceiving. ive had the yellow ones numerous times and they are sweet and delicious. i thought the red ones with the white insides would be just as good if not better but i was wrong.
I’ve only ever had the white kind :(
The red variety is like a muscular guy fighting a boxer in a boxing match ang getting ko'd in the 1st rd
Yellow dragon fruit have so much more flavour and are very satiating.
Just tried one for the first time, absolutely delightful fruit
Who else is eating dragonfruit while watching this
Just me ok
haha
I ate one just before this
Salem Franklin me lol
Salem Franklin me too haha
Me
So, my child and I just had a red dragon fruit and have decided to describe the taste as ... very bland beet and EVER so slightly berryish. I find the seeds to be sweeter. Fun to eat. We do enjoy the feel of the soft flesh. It's REALLY satisfying to separate. The outside is just SO nice to feel.
Thanks for your review! When we purchased it,we thought the inside would be white. Decided to search the internet to check if it was ripe enough/over ripe or perhaps there were different kinds.
Your video was very informative, thank you!
Try a yellow if you ever have the chance
whenever I eat the red dragon fruit, be prepared for red toilet bowl the next day. it literally looks like I defecate blood
whooa now im scared to eat it
Input = output 😊
Happened to me. I was horrified until I remembered eating the dragon fruit earlier.
I know right
Beets will do the same...
i ate the white and it tasted like NOTHING
I put a twist of lime on it, pretty tasty that way
Literally tastes like nothing!
Weird Explorer i’ll try it out
Actually it has a mild taste of fruit. Almost nothing at all lol
Ciang Vung the one i ate literally tasted like nothing and all i felt was the consistency of the seeds and it was just really gross lol
Me and my son had the red dragon fruit tonight for the first time and to us...it had a faint smell of pumpkin but the consistency of kiwi. It was good not overly sweet but very refreshing.
The yellow is far superior. The first time I tried one was insane. Instantly became my favorite fruit. Very juicy and amazingly sweet and the seeds are fun to eat, like tiny airy Rice Krispies. Not sure what I could compare the flavor to. Maybe it has hints of honey dew melon. There’s way more going on than that though, almost like it’s not fruit but some kind of amazing candy with a cool gel like quality.
definitely the best!
these are so cool. I'm so happy to have discovered this channel, thanks for all these uploads - so entertaining!
8:54 dude, you have a huge tongue XD
just had a red dragon fruit the other day and i loved it... i'm definitely gonna try to find a yellow one.. thanks!
How’d it taste? Would you rather yellow dragon fruit or red?
@@patrick4002 haven't had a yellow one yet! lol
@@porculizador it's way sweeter. It's taste resembles that of honey!
You are seriously good at describing tastes!! :) I have only tasted the white variety and just like you said, it's tasteless. But i love it! I don't know why :P Haha alternative to lipstick, should be handy for me. A snack and a cosmetic :P
I buy yellow, red and white ones at Stop and Shop in Massachusetts. Always sweet and delicious.
Also a lot of Asian stores in Massachusetts carry them as well.
Bro finally got the yellow dragon stems and planted. Now it's around 4feet, few more months and waiting to taste what u felt. Thanks from Tamil Nadu, India.
good luck!
Dragonபழம் தமிழ் மொழியில் சொல்வது எப்படி?
Is there an update???
i've only seen white dragon fruits back home, they are very common here but it's so hard to pick them bc sometimes they dont taste like anything
Great info man! Thanks!!!🥳
I just found the red,yellow and white dragon fruit at my local Asian market. Thank you for this video it really helped.
I have also heard that they taste like a combo between and apple and a grape. Although I find them in most Asian markets in and about Arlington, Tx, I have never actually tasted one for myself. They have some really big ones though in the markets about Dallas, but the ones I saw in Wichita Falls, Tx. were smaller in size.
My stores in Georgia label it all “dragon fruit” how can I tell if I am purchasing white flesh or red fleshed fruit. The circle vs oblong is a helpful tip, hoping for others
i watched this video a long time ago and yesterday i found the yellow dragon fruit....thats cool i never thought i would see one casually !!
Just as an experiment idea only, I saw that someone once froze individual grapes to add like ice cubes to their drinks. I am just wondering if cubing some of these and freezing may work to add them into a drink where you didn't want a lot of flavoring added to the taste?
I ate a Yellow Dragon Fruit yesterday and the seeds came out today! Wish I would have gotten a heads up about what these seeds can do.
Man, how did I end up here? Your channel is so much random That I will follow it right way!!!
Thank you for your video, i only tried the white one today for the first time. Still would like to try the others.
I've had the red and white. Think I prefer the white, but I want to try the yellow.
The dragon fruits are native to Mexico, Guatemala, Costa Rica and other central American nations. But mainly Mexico hence why these fruits derive from forms of cacti native to the Americas. The original name for these fruits are called Pitaya a native word in Mexico and Guatemala. But I have noticed these fruits have spread world wide. These dragon fruits are actually related and quite similar to tuna from the cactus. Also mentioning leychees, I love them. They're similar to Rambutan and they're native to Asia i believe.
the red one tastes like eating beets mild flavored beets
Hmm.. I never thought of that.
agreed
It made my poo purple and dyed the toilet water purple.
I agree, tried it for the first time today.
I agree, tried it for the first time today.
I got some giant yellow dragon fruits from Costco last year and they were one of the most delicious fruits I have ever eaten. Almost like a vanilla pudding.
Hi, I had my first dragon fruit yesterday. It was the red one and I loved it.
man this fruit looks cool but i never had one that was too write home about..... GREAT vid!!
Yeah the white ones are a bit boring, I like them with some lime juice squeezed on top. Red and yellow ones are far tastier.
Just picked up 2 yellows from Costco! Very excited to try em!
It's such a refreshing fruit to eat.
I just got a red dragon fruit, as I've never tried them before, and it has no flavor to it. I picked it up at a whole foods market. Is that normal? And any ideas on what to use it with? Thanks.
WeeklySpore They don't have much flavor in general, but are refreshing. I like putting a little lime juice on it. Whole foods has really stepped up their fruits lately, I've been seeing a lot of interesting stuff there. I've seen white dragon fruit, but never red... good find!
Thank you! I'll have to get some juice later. Again, thanks!
I put lemon juice and sprinkle a little ground ginger on mine
wow' you've eat the three varieties, especially the yellow one, thanks for sharing sir' that's so yummy & delicious :)
I saw this video a while ago. I'm so happy the yellows are now available on the east coast of the us! I'm eating one now.
We just had the red one, but the stains were not coming off of our hands after washing with water. Is that normal?
I fell in love with yellow dragonfruit (pitahaya) in Colombia and Ecuador. I was eating a bunch every day. Careful, though, it's also a laxative.
how do you know what the inside color is going to be?? I bought one expecting it to be white and it was red and i did not like it.
Found yellow dragon fruit at a Chinese supermarket that's a five minute drive from my house, feeling good
Posted a pic on Instagram of your title screen and my 1st Red Dragonfruit!!!! Thanks for the color warning at the END of the video! hahahaha I am eating it in a weird place with just a knife, but I didn't think to make cute lil slices like you did, I just plunged teeth into the half... I'm still laffin! Well, off to your yellow kiwi vid..... PEACE
I love dragon fruit but I’ve never tried the yellow one and I’m planning on eating the white one soon
Dragon fruit are amazing plant and fruit! The red are the best tasting!
7:30 I saw yellow dragon fruit at a new supermarket for $5. You have predicted the future Jared
Yeah! these are getting really easy to find now.
Sentence of the day “ it also can turn your pee and your poop... red “ that was so funny!
I just ate a pretty huge yellow variety of Dragon Fruit. It was fairly expenses. I'm in the South Eastern part of Pennsylvania and they are sold at a Syrian family owned and operated fruit and vegetable market
They sell all kinds of exotic or harder to find fruits. I actually went on a recent exotic fruit trek if you will, lol. I purchased the dragon fruit, along with star fruit rambutans, quenepas from Puerto Rico, some rather unusual plums that were pretty sweet, also, pomegranates. The yellow dragon fruit was on the sweet side and was juicy with all this soft edible pits in them. This was the first time I've ever eaten this fruit and although it was good, for me it wasn't tasty enough for me to go out my way and look for them. I guess that's how I would describe it. Good but not worth the nearly $6.00 a pound.
Cool that you were able to find one!
I'm excited to try yellow dragonfruit! Luckily, they are more common now, I think? I just bought one for $3.49/lb at a Super King market in California. Hopefully, it's the same kind!
My personal favorite is the white variety. they can be rather inconsistent in flavor, but they can be delicious. I think it might have to do with where the fruit is grown and how healthy the cactus is
"If you pee or poop red you might think youre dieing. Um, you might not be." Lmfao
your so awesome! i'm a mostly raw vegan and I love learning about all the fruits of the world thanks for sharing :)
Thanks Emily!
You make me want to collect seeds from around the world and plant fruit trees in my backyard, lol
I know this is an old video, but where I live in Florida I see yellow and red (white fleshed) dragon fruit on a very regular basis at a grocery store called Publix. Yellow dragon fruit usually cost $4.99 and the red $3.99. They also sell passion fruits at certain times of the year. I would highly recommend people trying the yellow dragon fruit if they can, it's delicious. The passion fruit has a very strong flavor, I love it and buy it when I can. But I don't think your average person would care for it.
Love your videos btw 😁
My local place in Forest Hills had the White and the Yellow variety yesterday, the yellow was surprisingly delicious.
so much better than the white. glad you found it.
Enjoyed your commentary on the flavors, I now live in a country where these are plentiful. You should have cautioned anyone eating these that they are a form of diuretic, (good for weight loss and diabetics) I ate 2 yellow dragon fruits in one setting and had to spend the next 2 days close to my bathroom. I know eat them 1/2 a fruit at a time (1 was still too much) this is not unusual.
+Pauline Tyree Oh really? What country are you in? I never had any problem eating dragon fruit. I eat them all the time. Could be that some people are more sensitive to it than others.
Watching this in 2022, and you were ahead of your time. The yellow ones are available everywhere now (grocery stores, Costco, etc.)
For some reason, White Dragonfruit has always reminded me a little bit of Cucumber and Jicama.
Haha, a few months ago i was in florida, and i got to try my first ever Pitaya, and it was the white one. And, yeah it was really flavorless, but still good.
How can we tell the difference between the white and red without cutting them?
Reds are a little rounder
Growing white and red here... your hands are beautiful btw
I only tried the white one and it tastes like Jicama to me but a lot softer.
THANK YOU! That is EXACTLY what it tastes like, with maybe a hint of Cucumber.
I could not quite put my finger on it, but you hit the nail on the head.
I bought to of the yellow dragon fruits from an Asian market close to where I live. I saw some at Whole Foods too.
It's cool to see videos like this from back in the day. It's May 2023 and these yellow dragon fruit are now in Costco, marketed as "Honey Dragons". And you're accurate that the yellows ones are sweeter.
The music in the beginning is from the movie "cannibal holocaust". I like it.
Perfect travel music
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I just tried the red dragon fruit i really wanna try the white next.
we had some over here in the netherlands we got importers from everywhere so sometimes we have rare fruit (i work at a fruit vendor)"the yellow pitahaya reminds me of a sweet kiwi without tartness"
Cool video. They sell yellow dragon fruit at public here in Ga. I've never tried one bc they are 4 bucks a piece. But now I think I'll try one. I thought they kind of like a kiwi melon. Just to look cool on the table and pretty terrible to eat. Thanks 4 the review
I was in the middle of watching this video. I literally paused it, went to the asian market (near Bay Pkwy in Brooklyn) and got a white and yellow Dragon fruit. The most amazing part--I got them in a $1 bag!! mmm now eating.
I've had a very large range of sweetness from the dragonfruit / pitayas that I've tried. I've only had a few in the US that were 'decent', but none that were great here.
In Central America (Guatemala, Nicaragua, Honduras) they were much, much sweeter, larger and much cheaper. Even the white ones were sweet there, and their red and pink ones were awesome. From memory, some were almost a purple or purple-red color too. Almost all of the white ones I've had in the US have had maybe 1/10th the taste and flavor that they did in Central America. I have had some in Mexico (Yucatan) that were pretty good too, but the best were from Guatemala, Nicaraua, and Honduras. Besides breed variation, it might be something like allowing them to ripen more on the vine if they don't have to export them that makes them so much better there. (The bananas taste so much better and sweeter there too, for that reason).
I've never tried or seen a yellow dragon fruit though.
Definitely put it on your list if you visit the area. It's an entirely different experience. Plus, at least in the late 90's and early 2000's they cost something like 30 cents each there, vs $5 each here in the US.
I found red and white, growing both at the moment but the yellow has still eluded me.
Very interesting varieties. What good peace of advice would you give someone in Florida who wants to grow dragon fruit?
I'm not experienced growing these unfortunately. Check out tropicalfruitforum.com lots of good advice on there
I found two stands in China Town in New York selling yellow dragon fruit in October. I bought one and it was delicious! I was surprised to see them in New York. I didn’t know they were in the area.
I've been noticing them too, I've never seen them before this year
Weird Explorer thank you for loving!
Dr Spectre77 that is weird because to my knowlege these fruits are native to the americas.
I buy mine in Flushing
If you ever plan on visiting Missouri, you should head to global foods market in Brentwood, they have yellow dragon fruit in the produce section and I got one for $5.75 (there was an old global foods market that got turned into a whole foods, but they didn't take down the word market so don't let it throw you off, the one that's still a global foods is a bit further down the road)
I'm really lucky that a major grocery store chain down here in Texas pretty regularly sells yellow dragonfruit of a decent size.
I heard of Dragon fruit on a TH-cam video that showed “most exotic fruits” and the one that was cool to me was the egg fruit and dragon fruit. Turns out where I live, they sold dragon fruit and I tried it and when I did my body was literally like “WOAH THIS IS GOOD!” So now I eat it when I can and I am trying to find egg fruit to try that out as well.
I just tried the yellow dragon fruit and it was awesome!
I had something in Colombia last year that looked just like the yellow dragonfruit, and that my friend called a dragonfruit, and I really liked it, but I remember the inside being more like passionfruit pulp. Maybe I'm confusing it for a different fruit? Or maybe just misremembering?
hmm... I'm not sure. they do have yellow dragon fruit in colombia. it could have also been a mountain papaya or a yellow passionfruit variety maybe?
I'm probably merging the yellow dragonfruit with the granadilla in my head.
Comment below says the yellow one is not rare in Columbia
I tried a yellow pitaya today. Maybe it’s a different type, since it was quite hefty. It tastes like if you crossed banana and the white dragonfruit. Pretty tasty
This is so weird I just found a bunch of yellow dragon fruit at Whole Foods, I live in Illinois and it’s the middle of winter! I originally went there looking for a cherimoya, because I got one that tasted like bubblegum at Mariano’s, but I found these instead. They were so delicious and I’m really glad I got to try them especially cause they’re so rare!
I got mine from costco... they must be getting less rare
@@rainbowrotcod ya i got one at Walmart
Had the yellow one in Florida from Publix! so good
Here in Costa Rica where they are native, there is a yellow type exactly the same as the white and red types you showed, no spines, even so, very rare to find to purchase somehow, I only eat them when my plant produces them
you can also find them in texas in grandprie in walmart and also irving tx
Everybody thinks there is a dragon
In dragonfruit
The yellow ones showed up at my co-op this week. Already gone. I snagged 3 of em, I couldn't help it. They were so sweet and delicious.
I love red and white dragon fruit. They are both good in different ways. Never have tried a yellow one.
LOL me too. I heard that the yellow one is the sweetest of them all.
The red dragonfruit can be pretty sweet. My mom used to have two plants at home and they were super sweet and super good. I've tried the white ones like twice and to me they don't taste like anything at all, they're mostly just fragrant but they don't taste like much. Never tried a yellow one though
White Dragon fruit has plenty enough of layer flavour,light and refreshing,not laden down with sweetness-i believe he meant to say.This is one of my faves.
terra kingsley I agree
I found the yellow at my local Asian market and it is so good. I got them for about $4 each. Worth it
Wait, the intro music on your other video is A Serbian Film and this intro is from Cannibal Hollocaust. Im sensing a theme here, so cool!!!
Weird Explorer: *shows pink lips*
Me: *blushes*
Weird Explorer: *shows abnormally long tongue*
Me: *profuse sweating*
Weird Explorer: "bugger"
Me, an English person: *faints*
I just had my first dragon fruit and it's the white one, it was like a honeydew melon mixed with a watermelon with the texture of a kiwi.
very interesting
At my local grocery store in Milwaukee, yellow dragonfruit is quite common. I've had it a few times.
I've been anxious to see this episode as I recently found your channel...I tried a white dragonfruit from my local grocery as that's my only option really...it tasted like gritty nothing and was thus unpleasant and I look forward to seeing if this is normal or I got a boogies one as I've seen people say they love them
OK yep not worth my time will probably never eat again
I like them with a little lime squeezed on it. looks cooler than it tastes.
I Found some at my store and asked my mom if I could have one. She said sure. I tried it with my cousins and it was the pink one It was just like a bland kiwi. A ghostly flavor. I am going back to the store to get more!
Music?
I heard the commercially grown ones are not as tasty because they are harvested before they're very ripe, but the ones from your own backyard would be sweeter. I bought a white dragonfruit from the supermarket once, it was super expensive but it tasted like a kiwi without the sweetness. I planted the seeds and I learnt it will be about 3 years before I get any fruit 🤷🏽♀️
Love the yellow dragon fruit, having one right now, delicious and sweet!
I had yellow it's just like a kiwi but without sourness I wanna try red but the store I found it at before was put of stock when we could finally buy it.