Hello! Warm regards from India! Absolutely love your videos! Being Indian(a place where wood apple isn't a difficult thing to find), I can almost surely say what you had was rotten or at least ripen beyond a stage where you don't consume it anymore. It's supposed to have between a light cream and deep orange colour depending on the specie but definitely not the colour you had! Although personally I don't like the fruit, it's nothing that you'd hate eating at all. Keep eating fruits! Stay safe! 😁
@@1195rony I’m Indian but never been able to get the right fruit. Can u pls tell me how to choose one in supermarkets . I got thrice.. first time same as shown in this video mouldy, second time green on outside never ripened when opened it was yellow but bitter. Today’s is dark brown inside n sour kind of fresh tamarind . Can I consume it
That one is also Rotten sorry, we eat these all time...very hard to get a riped one. When it’s ripe, it’s beautifully sweet and succulent. The taste is chocolatey and fruity at the same time. Also has a dense feel in the mouth very hearty.
@@WeirdExplorer from the west of India. My grandmother even planted wood apple, figs, starfruits etc. Tropical fruit paradise. I guess you'd have loved it. 😊
wood apple is also called elephant apple. we call it velaga pandu in telugu language . I have never eaten it (very astringent) but we often serve it to Lord Ganesh in Puja on Ganesh Chaturthi. the Bael fruit is called Maaredu. it is considered auspicious for Worshiping Shiva(only Leaves). A bought and drank a bottle of Squash made from the Bael fruit . tasted ok. we have a saying regarding wood apple that elephants swallow it whole , digest it and poop out the outershell intact(fun fact). the core is completely hollow. we equate it with hollow things, claims,corruption in projects( it looks normal on the outside but is empty inside).Hope I am making sense
Hey Jared, I'm sure you know already but you've been given some non-typical specimens. I.E. Rotten. When you crack it open it should be syrupy with gelatinous seeds. Many people mix it with copious amounts of sugar and shaved ice. It looks disgusting but the flavour is quite unique and kinda tasty when done right. When you get your fruit, it's best to get it right off the tree or in the presence of a local. Some produce at the market can be questionable at times.
Hello , love from India. I Loved your videos buddy, I can tell you by the look the wood apple is rotten. I have a wood apple tree in my home so I am sure its rotten. The riped wood apples looks kind of orange colour inside. And I can guarantee you will love it.
plus. it has to be eaten by making either wood apple drink (with milk or ice cream) or wood apple Jam. You can find videos on how to make those. Just saying cuz it's pretty delicious that way. BTW I don't like bale fruit though.
Greetings from Indonesia In Indonesia, wood apple is also called "Buah Kawista". That fruit is usually processed with java sugar to make "syrup kawista" because it taste good and will smells like bubble gum. You can go to Lasem, Jawa Tengah, Indonesia to try it.
Elephants swallow the entire wood apple, when they poop the whole wood apple out,it would be a hollow one as the insides of the wood apple gets digested in the stomach.
This Bael fruit is a traditional fruit for our Ugadi festival here in India , we never eat this by itself , we add Jaggery to this and scoop the pulp out mix it with jaggery and powdered cardamom . Its amazing for us as kids . I am not sure of this but my granfather would tell me that the bael fruit would come out of a elephant's gut as a complete fruit but would have nothing in it ..:D dont know how true .. but yeah .. thanks for the comparison ..
Woodapple is very famous in Sri lanka also it is very common fruit. We eat ripen wod apple with sugar..or we make a drink by blending with sugar water salt milk powder... by unripen woodapple we make a pickle after scraping the inside part.. Mixing with chilie powder..salt..little pepper powder and sugar...
When on a 10month round-the-world cruise on Windjammer Bare Foot Cruises "Yankee Trader" in 1978 I was principally obsessed with visiting the fruit markets at every port of call we visited, all tropical, save for Cape Town, when we had to go round the Cape of Good Hope, so I saw a lot of weird stuff, including once the Wood Apple in Trincamalee, Sri Lanka. I instantly declared this the world's worst fruit -- BTW I've never even dared try the Noni. I and another shipmate once lay on some grass somewhere in Sri Lanka laughing our gutts out for hours about "punishing" some obnoxious fellow, suffering from malaria, who had beaten up his wife, subsequently tossed off the ship, but meanwhile we joked about a FAR worse punishment and that was confining the tortured soul to his cabin and forcing him to subsist on a diet of wood apples and water, Hahahahahahah. It STILL gets me going off laughing. Poor Malaria Jim, as we called him. Poor Malaria Jim and his freaking Wood Apples!!!! LMFAO!!! BTW, I recall reading about what might be a candidate for another of your worst ten fruits in the world list, something called the "Slime Apple" which I never encountered, never regretting that I haven't. Some Funky fruits on Sri Lanka, that's for sure. And the champedak, Yikes!!!!
Wood Apple is great tasting when it is crushed with salt, pepper and sugar. Never have the fruit if it is makes a sound when u shake it or if it is black since it will most likely be dry or rotten.
The correct way of eating is to mix jaggery (half the amount of fruits quantity) to it and let it marinade in jaggery for an hour, then the jaggery would have melted and it gives you a sweet, sour and astringent (called as Thuvarpu, the sixth taste of Tamil food) aftertaste. It actually has the property of cure any stomach related issues.
Hello, you should be able to tell a nicely ripe wood apple by smelling it. It would have this weird fruity smell, a bit like a pineapple smell. I’ve tried a wood apple drink in Colombo (srilanka) where they mixed wood apple pulp with ice cold water, coconut milk, sugar and a pinch of salt. They then strained the mixture, final product looked a bit like a thick smoothie. It was delicious!
9 Years later after you posted. I see this now and still appreciate you taking one for the team. I love your videos. I love trying new fruit and you give me new species to look out for.
In my place it is called as velagakaya the wood apple. Actually it tastes very good if its is ripe. or it will taste very sour when it is not ripe. the outer shell is not that hard to break and the colour of the inner stuff varies from white - esh green to light wooden brown color. depends on the ripe factor. the stuff inside actually taste sour-sweet and will be like semi solid with seed like structure. the texture will be like big siders skin when the shell is broken.
Bael fruit texture has nectar in it and in Tamil it is called Vilvam pallam. The fruit you showed we called it l as Villaam pallam and usually it is darker color without nectar. You need to mix it with jaggery and eat it.
@Weird Explorer love your videos.......There is 2 way to determine whether Wood Apple is ripe or not without cracking it.... 1. The smell (ripe Wood Apple smells a lot, when it is ripe the whole room will smell of it, its not bad smelling, the smell will be very fruity).... 2. When the Wood Apple is ripe the pulp inside will separate completely from the woody encloser, basically the pulp will shrink n separate, so when u shake it it will rattle, its an easy giveaway).....Apart from that the ripe Wood Apple will fall off the tree (thats a clear indication)
Wood apple common as dirt in India..they make lovely chutneys,ketchup and raw as along with jaggery( brown sugar) Flesh of fresh Bael fruit is pinkish and cool drinks and sherbets are made of it. Nice presentation!
it is calld Velakkaya in Telugu and very widely used for Ganesha festival. The pulp is take out and mixed with Jaggery( brown sugar or whitel sugar) little elaichi and dry ginger and mixed into paste and eaten.
Hi bro. I really like yours videos. Your wood Apple is perfectly ripen and very good condition for eating but you have to know how to eat it. Just add some suger, salt and lemon leaf with some green chilli then you have to crush it with your hand. Then eat it. After that it's test like a creamy sour texture .
So there is another woody-outside/pulpy-inside fruit known as monkey orange, Strychnos spinosa. I found some growing in a neighborhood of Orlando, FL at an abandoned house. Had them identified by the state botanist and then tried a few. They were very good, [spoiler alert] with orange, seedy pulp tasting like strawberry banana yogurt.
This video is pretty ancient, but the indian store here in Milwaukee sells jars of woodapple jam, and it's GREAT. Sort of tastes like fig, apple, tamarind, and a hint of funk. The funk reminds me alittle bit of funkier beer with wild yeast or a litlte hint of blue cheese or fermented tofu. It's gross if you have a huge mouthful, but a regular amount on bread or whatever is great. I bet it'd be really good with certain cheeses.
I live in the UK so I've had woodapple once, and the one I had was very fibrous yellowy brown with edible flesh clinging on to the fibres. It was pleasant, a bit like sweet tamarind but when tamarind is cheaper and less hassle. What the bengalies would do is, strain the flesh and use it in a pickle.
I'm from Sri Lanka, wood apple inside should be light brown in colour u can smell ripen wood apple out side the shell , best way to eat it , add 1 teaspoon sugar into the shell and mix well, thn eat
The other one bael you get the pulp out of the shell and you have to soak it for couple of hours in water and then you add sugar and kinda make like a smoothie
Wood Apple is better after you mix salt and chilli powder with it. And your one looks over ripen to the point it is spoilt. The edible ones are supposed to be white or a little darker but not this dark.
You have to add here Couroupita Guianensis (cannonball fruit) it looks like the wood apple from outside but it's even worse. It has double shell and inside it looks like sheep brain soft and slimy and on top of that smells like fermented sheep brain
You had a rotten bel. I personally don't like the flavour of bel. But can eat it. I like it's sorbet you have to put it in a mug of water (the pulp) and then after a day or less discard the pulp mix sugar in the water and it's ready.
One Indian recipe is to add chilies, mustard oil and salt to it and make a paste..then eat it. u will know by the smell that its ripe or not. This variety tastes great when ripe.
Hahahahahah cracks me up! Wood apple is called kawis or kawista in Indonesia. Well the ones I ate when I was little were much larger than the one you have there. As I remember they taste like tamarind, sweet sour with earthy tone. I actually enjoyed eating them. Some people make juice out of wood apple.
Its called Kawath in the area of India where I live, and it tastes sour-sweet. It is NOT the color you have. Its light brown, somewhat similar to 1/2 ripened tamarind. The taste is also somewhat similar but more acerbic.
I love that fruit, you usually make juice out of it. You usually add coconut milk to it and is usually served with vanilla ice cream on top. That's one of the most refreshing drinks i've ever drunk!
Let's create the most putrid fruit salad: Wood apple, durian, noni.... What else to add? Noni alone is awful but imagine combining it with all of these other nasties.
Your Fruit is definitely rotten, we eat this fruit a lot here in Tamil Nadu. the pulp is most of the time mixed with Jaggery ( processed sugarcane before its made into sugar) it can also be mixed with salt and chilly powder and eaten. the fruit on its own is sour, cannot be enjoyed without mixing it with jaggery or salt and chilly powder.
It's not rotten, just a bit more ripe than the stage at which it's consumed in Tamil Nadu. It's consumed at this stage of ripeness in Bengal. However, again with salt, sugar/jaggery and chilli.
Jared Rydelek It's not common anywhere in Malaysia now, used to be common decades ago, I was told. I guess today's generations of Malaysians don't like this fruit that much, they don't know how to eat it. The fruit has strange smell, texture and looks, so people don't like it, so nobody cultivate the tree and sell the fruit
People in these comments are funny, put: chili, lime, salt,sugar, jaggery, a slice of cake on top...if you have to do all that is probably tastes nasty. Enough said.
the fruit you got is over ripen. it should be light medium to medium brown in color and should be sour in taste. you should have this with some sugar and salt.
Hello , sorry to say ,but your woodapple is ofcourse a rotten one ,the fresh ones r cream to light orange in colour . It is sour ofcourse ,but I pickle it and have it ,it is tasty,.love from India.
I just managed to find some wood apple nectar in a local Indian store! Taste was weird, there's totally a fake butter flavour that almost reminds me of puke, might be buteric acid.
You are so funny!! Cracked Me up .. more than the Bel. Bel is different from woodapple which that i didnt know myself..! I M FROM TAMIL NADU 🤣.. ITS USED DURING GANESHA FESTIVAL .AND ITS DELICIOUS.. THESE DAYS YOU DON'T FIND IT ANYWHERE.. IN TN.. BEL MARRIAGE IS THE 1ST TIME I M HEARING!!! LOL IT MAY BE A CUSTOM IN A VILLAGE OR SOME ANCIENT PRACTICE.. (LIKE Day Saint movement, the temple garment PRACTICE 😋🤣)
Hehehe man at least u should know what is fresh n what is rotten, weather u know that fruit or not, come to North India in summers see. Fresh fruit has mild peachy taste. N sunset colour. Shell cracks easily, with couple hard hit on floor
+Jared Rydelek That definately doesn't looks like its good to eat. A bael fruit has a orange-ish pulp and a amazing aroma. I 've never seen a bael fruit with a brown pulp in my entire life. The one you ate was probably rotten. :( You can get an idea looking at other video's of the fruit on yt
Ha haha your expressions are priceless like you are forced. Yes the first wood apple, it's rotten buddy. You must eat it fresh when in India. we used to mix with honey or jaggery and eat it. Or best mix it with dried fruits.
When I was in Ghana some years ago, I used to get something we called a custard apple. It had multiple seeds inside each seed surrounded by soft apple like fruit. It tasted like stewed apples and custard strange but delicious fruit. Have you come across this fruit?
Thanks for your quick reply. They were really delicious. Is that the correct name custard apple? I have not seen any in UK. Your knowledge is admirable.
"Awww. Don't force yourself! Awww. Don't force yourself". BTW, ever tried Pu-Erh tea? It's camellia sinensis tea that's been allowed to partially turn to dirt. It sounds awful, but it becomes this tasty tea that you can steep to death without any bitterness.
I'm seeing alot of amendments to this fruit saying it tastes good if you add x,y and z. To me, that doesnt really sell the fruit on it's own. Making all that additions to make it taste good, makes it seem like alot of work to eat a fruit.
make it with some green chillies, pinch of salt and sugar, one cube butter or oil, mustard sauce, two or three lemon leaves, some coriander leaves and feel heaven.
okay but then are the tree variants, limonia acidissima and aegle marmelos smtg. can you pls tell on that, cuz one of those are holy to Indians.....so I am confused which to plant and I heard the bigger one is definitely SWEET.
Hello! Warm regards from India! Absolutely love your videos! Being Indian(a place where wood apple isn't a difficult thing to find), I can almost surely say what you had was rotten or at least ripen beyond a stage where you don't consume it anymore. It's supposed to have between a light cream and deep orange colour depending on the specie but definitely not the colour you had! Although personally I don't like the fruit, it's nothing that you'd hate eating at all. Keep eating fruits! Stay safe! 😁
I'm from India and this is the first time I've heard of it. 😄 Thanks for the video.
@@TobleroneABS it's called Vilām pazham in tamil, if that helps
Thanks for letting us know! I would love to see him give the fruit another chance, trying a ripe one this time!
@@ravenestrella2310 I would too! Can't believe it's been 2 years since then😬
@@1195rony I’m Indian but never been able to get the right fruit. Can u pls tell me how to choose one in supermarkets . I got thrice.. first time same as shown in this video mouldy, second time green on outside never ripened when opened it was yellow but bitter. Today’s is dark brown inside n sour kind of fresh tamarind . Can I consume it
That one is also Rotten sorry, we eat these all time...very hard to get a riped one. When it’s ripe, it’s beautifully sweet and succulent. The taste is chocolatey and fruity at the same time. Also has a dense feel in the mouth very hearty.
Then why do I see people eating fruit that looks like this in street food videos from india?
That's a rotten wood apple. We make a sour dip from it where I'm from. If the colors anywhere from reddish ochre to light brown it's good to eat.
INteresting, where are you from?
@@WeirdExplorer from the west of India. My grandmother even planted wood apple, figs, starfruits etc. Tropical fruit paradise. I guess you'd have loved it. 😊
wood apple is also called elephant apple. we call it velaga pandu in telugu language . I have never eaten it (very astringent) but we often serve it to Lord Ganesh in Puja on Ganesh Chaturthi. the Bael fruit is called Maaredu. it is considered auspicious for Worshiping Shiva(only Leaves). A bought and drank a bottle of Squash made from the Bael fruit . tasted ok. we have a saying regarding wood apple that elephants swallow it whole , digest it and poop out the outershell intact(fun fact). the core is completely hollow. we equate it with hollow things, claims,corruption in projects( it looks normal on the outside but is empty inside).Hope I am making sense
Elephant apples are a different fruit. Elephant apples are the size of coconuts and are not perfectly round. It can be cooked into a vegetable dish.
Hey Jared, I'm sure you know already but you've been given some non-typical specimens. I.E. Rotten. When you crack it open it should be syrupy with gelatinous seeds. Many people mix it with copious amounts of sugar and shaved ice. It looks disgusting but the flavour is quite unique and kinda tasty when done right.
When you get your fruit, it's best to get it right off the tree or in the presence of a local. Some produce at the market can be questionable at times.
Hello , love from India. I Loved your videos buddy, I can tell you by the look the wood apple is rotten. I have a wood apple tree in my home so I am sure its rotten. The riped wood apples looks kind of orange colour inside. And I can guarantee you will love it.
That’s bael fruit
Then why do I see people eating fruit that looks like this in street food videos from india?
Elephants eat it (digest it) and dump it as it is. no different from the outside. but inside becomes empty. I'm from SriLanka btw
plus. it has to be eaten by making either wood apple drink (with milk or ice cream) or wood apple Jam. You can find videos on how to make those. Just saying cuz it's pretty delicious that way. BTW I don't like bale fruit though.
Your courage calls for the President's Bravery medal,and your expression an Oscar!!
Greetings from Indonesia
In Indonesia, wood apple is also called "Buah Kawista". That fruit is usually processed with java sugar to make "syrup kawista" because it taste good and will smells like bubble gum. You can go to Lasem, Jawa Tengah, Indonesia to try it.
Good to know, thanks
Elephants swallow the entire wood apple, when they poop the whole wood apple out,it would be a hollow one as the insides of the wood apple gets digested in the stomach.
Ew what a waste! 😂😂
This Bael fruit is a traditional fruit for our Ugadi festival here in India , we never eat this by itself , we add Jaggery to this and scoop the pulp out mix it with jaggery and powdered cardamom . Its amazing for us as kids . I am not sure of this but my granfather would tell me that the bael fruit would come out of a elephant's gut as a complete fruit but would have nothing in it ..:D dont know how true .. but yeah .. thanks for the comparison ..
Woodapple is very famous in Sri lanka also it is very common fruit.
We eat ripen wod apple with sugar..or we make a drink by blending with sugar water salt milk powder... by unripen woodapple we make a pickle after scraping the inside part.. Mixing with chilie powder..salt..little pepper powder and sugar...
Very popular in Bangladesh
We Eat with salt, chilli Power, and sugar
When on a 10month round-the-world cruise on Windjammer Bare Foot Cruises "Yankee Trader" in 1978 I was principally obsessed with visiting the fruit markets at every port of call we visited, all tropical, save for Cape Town, when we had to go round the Cape of Good Hope, so I saw a lot of weird stuff, including once the Wood Apple in Trincamalee, Sri Lanka. I instantly declared this the world's worst fruit -- BTW I've never even dared try the Noni. I and another shipmate once lay on some grass somewhere in Sri Lanka laughing our gutts out for hours about "punishing" some obnoxious fellow, suffering from malaria, who had beaten up his wife, subsequently tossed off the ship, but meanwhile we joked about a FAR worse punishment and that was confining the tortured soul to his cabin and forcing him to subsist on a diet of wood apples and water, Hahahahahahah. It STILL gets me going off laughing. Poor Malaria Jim, as we called him. Poor Malaria Jim and his freaking Wood Apples!!!! LMFAO!!! BTW, I recall reading about what might be a candidate for another of your worst ten fruits in the world list, something called the "Slime Apple" which I never encountered, never regretting that I haven't. Some Funky fruits on Sri Lanka, that's for sure. And the champedak, Yikes!!!!
That is rotten.
Taste of properly ripened fruit is tangy.
You taste ones you never forget.
Very very tasty.
I know right?!?!
@Still DIRGLOO 6 BILLI You Can’t Stop This sorry
Wood Apple is great tasting when it is crushed with salt, pepper and sugar. Never have the fruit if it is makes a sound when u shake it or if it is black since it will most likely be dry or rotten.
The correct way of eating is to mix jaggery (half the amount of fruits quantity) to it and let it marinade in jaggery for an hour, then the jaggery would have melted and it gives you a sweet, sour and astringent (called as Thuvarpu, the sixth taste of Tamil food) aftertaste. It actually has the property of cure any stomach related issues.
Hello, you should be able to tell a nicely ripe wood apple by smelling it. It would have this weird fruity smell, a bit like a pineapple smell. I’ve tried a wood apple drink in Colombo (srilanka) where they mixed wood apple pulp with ice cold water, coconut milk, sugar and a pinch of salt. They then strained the mixture, final product looked a bit like a thick smoothie. It was delicious!
Pavan, I've had it twice and both times it was at a conservatory where they ensured me it was ripe. I'll try it again next time I see it for sale.
thats call kotu in west india you can mix with solt and dry chill powder
you can make jally
+kalpesh patel thanks for the info
Weird Explorer you must come to India for the wood apple I hated it as a child but now I will eat any fruit😀
Weird Explorer I have more wild fruit that you can test i can travel with you on my expense on West India I
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9 Years later after you posted. I see this now and still appreciate you taking one for the team. I love your videos. I love trying new fruit and you give me new species to look out for.
Thank you! I am happy to report that I've found better quality wood apples and they taste a lot better than this one!
Bael and wood apple are related (the are both in the rutaceae)
In my place it is called as velagakaya the wood apple. Actually it tastes very good if its is ripe. or it will taste very sour when it is not ripe. the outer shell is not that hard to break and the colour of the inner stuff varies from white - esh green to light wooden brown color. depends on the ripe factor. the stuff inside actually taste sour-sweet and will be like semi solid with seed like structure. the texture will be like big siders skin when the shell is broken.
Bael fruit texture has nectar in it and in Tamil it is called Vilvam pallam. The fruit you showed we called it l as Villaam pallam and usually it is darker color without nectar. You need to mix it with jaggery and eat it.
I love how you specified the buttery flavor as “movie flavor butter”, very helpful 🤣
You don't eat that fruit just out of the shell. You have to add green chillies, sugar and salt and make kind of like a chutney.
@Weird Explorer love your videos.......There is 2 way to determine whether Wood Apple is ripe or not without cracking it.... 1. The smell (ripe Wood Apple smells a lot, when it is ripe the whole room will smell of it, its not bad smelling, the smell will be very fruity).... 2. When the Wood Apple is ripe the pulp inside will separate completely from the woody encloser, basically the pulp will shrink n separate, so when u shake it it will rattle, its an easy giveaway).....Apart from that the ripe Wood Apple will fall off the tree (thats a clear indication)
Wood apple common as dirt in India..they make lovely chutneys,ketchup and raw as along with jaggery( brown sugar)
Flesh of fresh Bael fruit is pinkish and cool drinks and sherbets are made of it.
Nice presentation!
In my language, we divide their name clearly. Fresh one, we call Kvit and the dry one, we call P’nuov.
To add to the confusion, the european crab apple is called wood apple in German.
It tastes really good when you mix it with pepper, salt, etc. Yours was definitely rotten. Better luck next time!
it is calld Velakkaya in Telugu and very widely used for Ganesha festival.
The pulp is take out and mixed with Jaggery( brown sugar or whitel sugar) little elaichi and dry ginger and mixed into paste and eaten.
I watched this with my 5 year-old and he kept asking me questions about the vocabulary you were using. "Mommy, what does repulsive mean?" LOL!
Haha, well if you want to teach your kids new ways to say they don't like something, these videos are a valuable tool. :P
I agree. :)
My daughter asked if he was depressed.
“...unless it breaks, and then you’re kind of screwed.” 😂
Hi bro. I really like yours videos. Your wood Apple is perfectly ripen and very good condition for eating but you have to know how to eat it. Just add some suger, salt and lemon leaf with some green chilli then you have to crush it with your hand. Then eat it. After that it's test like a creamy sour texture .
So there is another woody-outside/pulpy-inside fruit known as monkey orange, Strychnos spinosa. I found some growing in a neighborhood of Orlando, FL at an abandoned house. Had them identified by the state botanist and then tried a few. They were very good, [spoiler alert] with orange, seedy pulp tasting like strawberry banana yogurt.
John Zale that sounds amazing! I might bug you for some gps coordinates next time I'm out that way :)
This video is pretty ancient, but the indian store here in Milwaukee sells jars of woodapple jam, and it's GREAT. Sort of tastes like fig, apple, tamarind, and a hint of funk. The funk reminds me alittle bit of funkier beer with wild yeast or a litlte hint of blue cheese or fermented tofu. It's gross if you have a huge mouthful, but a regular amount on bread or whatever is great. I bet it'd be really good with certain cheeses.
I respect you for eating so much of the wood apple even though you didn’t like it to give us the whole flavor profile.
Mix it properly with jaggery and eat it. It tastes awesome. That's how we eat this in India
I live in the UK so I've had woodapple once, and the one I had was very fibrous yellowy brown with edible flesh clinging on to the fibres. It was pleasant, a bit like sweet tamarind but when tamarind is cheaper and less hassle. What the bengalies would do is, strain the flesh and use it in a pickle.
Bael fruit juice is very tasty & sometimes we eat bael after barbecuing it. But seeds are kinda nasty.
Add some salt,chilly powder,,,and mix well..then it will be amazing in taste...
North east india . We put dry bael as spice in meat dishes . The fruit is very sour with little fruit so we dont eat it .
interesting!
Its a delight to eat the ripe pulp, mixed with jaggery. The seeds give a soft crunch, which tastes heavenly. Better luck next time
I'm from Sri Lanka, wood apple inside should be light brown in colour u can smell ripen wood apple out side the shell , best way to eat it , add 1 teaspoon sugar into the shell and mix well, thn eat
The other one bael you get the pulp out of the shell and you have to soak it for couple of hours in water and then you add sugar and kinda make like a smoothie
Wood Apple is better after you mix salt and chilli powder with it.
And your one looks over ripen to the point it is spoilt. The edible ones are supposed to be white or a little darker but not this dark.
You have to add here Couroupita Guianensis (cannonball fruit) it looks like the wood apple from outside but it's even worse. It has double shell and inside it looks like sheep brain soft and slimy and on top of that smells like fermented sheep brain
I actually would really love to try it but I haven't found it yet.
Wood apple pulp should be mixed with jaggery and eaten like a pudding. Just try, it tastes good 😋, but with ripen one
Jared: ''I don't wanna''
Viewers: *EAT IT*
Noni flashback
Wood apple tastes good. I was shocked at how this guy is acting. ... Dumb reaction.
Just have a fresh wood apple with salt. It's good 👍
I love how he always look mildly disgusted
When you opened it I immediately thought of a pile of ear wax.
blegh.. accurate though
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This fruit name is velaga Pandu in Andra Pradesh ,(india) its test laik tamred it's very heathy
You had a rotten bel. I personally don't like the flavour of bel. But can eat it. I like it's sorbet you have to put it in a mug of water (the pulp) and then after a day or less discard the pulp mix sugar in the water and it's ready.
In India we make chaat of wood apple and its delicious. In bengali we call it - Kadbael.....
One Indian recipe is to add chilies, mustard oil and salt to it and make a paste..then eat it. u will know by the smell that its ripe or not. This variety tastes great when ripe.
Thanks for the tips!
Hahahahahah cracks me up! Wood apple is called kawis or kawista in Indonesia. Well the ones I ate when I was little were much larger than the one you have there. As I remember they taste like tamarind, sweet sour with earthy tone. I actually enjoyed eating them. Some people make juice out of wood apple.
Dwi Purwanti teringin nak rasa..
Its called Kawath in the area of India where I live, and it tastes sour-sweet. It is NOT the color you have. Its light brown, somewhat similar to 1/2 ripened tamarind. The taste is also somewhat similar but more acerbic.
I'll be revisiting this fruit in an upcoming episode. The one I had was indeed overripe.
The one you had was a robot sent out by the government.
This review has not made me want a wood apple. The comments have restored my faith in it.
I like it with salt & red chili pepper .
Twot types are found in varanasi banares India one is seeded other one is seamless it's the best thing for heatstroke. And in really hot weather
I love that fruit, you usually make juice out of it. You usually add coconut milk to it and is usually served with vanilla ice cream on top. That's one of the most refreshing drinks i've ever drunk!
With coconut and icecream I can see this tasting okay.. on its own however... no thanks.
LOL that's sorta true :P
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It reminds me of being below the cannonball tree
Let's create the most putrid fruit salad: Wood apple, durian, noni.... What else to add? Noni alone is awful but imagine combining it with all of these other nasties.
nooooooo
you forgot soapberry
Don't forget Glueberry for the texture.
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Noni as far as I know is only used medicinally that stuff is beyond awfull.
It’s like one of those things that cure the thing they look like. So it looks like poop and is marketed as a laxative... 🤷♀️
in my town that fruit is called kawista. some people eat it with sugar, or you can make syrup from it (better taste :D)
I think you should try fruits in the way locals try it. That might change perspective and know the right way to eat it.
Your Fruit is definitely rotten, we eat this fruit a lot here in Tamil Nadu. the pulp is most of the time mixed with Jaggery ( processed sugarcane before its made into sugar) it can also be mixed with salt and chilly powder and eaten. the fruit on its own is sour, cannot be enjoyed without mixing it with jaggery or salt and chilly powder.
Dev Kumar Thanks for sharing, will try this again and see.
It's not rotten, just a bit more ripe than the stage at which it's consumed in Tamil Nadu. It's consumed at this stage of ripeness in Bengal. However, again with salt, sugar/jaggery and chilli.
Hahaha i cant believe he ate the rotten one 😂
Called 'belinggai' in Malay in Malaysia. Flesh sticky but sweet, mixed with coconut milk, brown sugar and a little salt, tasty..
that i would like to try!
Jared Rydelek You can substitute coconut milk with milk, tastes just as good. Difficult to find this fruit in Malaysia now.
I've never seen it in kl, only at the tropical fruit farm in penang and at markets in Bangkok. is this more common in east Malaysia?
Jared Rydelek It's not common anywhere in Malaysia now, used to be common decades ago, I was told. I guess today's generations of Malaysians don't like this fruit that much, they don't know how to eat it. The fruit has strange smell, texture and looks, so people don't like it, so nobody cultivate the tree and sell the fruit
Xpenah tahu pun kat malaysia ada buah nie.
Buttery eggnog with cheese
in india we eat it with sugar
People in these comments are funny, put: chili, lime, salt,sugar, jaggery, a slice of cake on top...if you have to do all that is probably tastes nasty. Enough said.
@PTBB Just because a person has a different opinion than you doesn't make a whole group of people idiots in general
It's called rujak here.
I’ve never eaten that from the shell, I was taught to make it into a juice, and it taste really good!
Many parts of the plant of bael(Aegle marmelos) is used in hindu rituals....The bael plant is the plant of the Sun deity Surya.
the fruit you got is over ripen. it should be light medium to medium brown in color and should be sour in taste. you should have this with some sugar and salt.
It looks like a rotten fruit in the inside or a clump of dirt inside hard ball-shape case.. I haven't had one
Hello , sorry to say ,but your woodapple is ofcourse a rotten one ,the fresh ones r cream to light orange in colour . It is sour ofcourse ,but I pickle it and have it ,it is tasty,.love from India.
What is the opening music? There's another similar one you use for other videos, possibly the same artist.
Thelma Itinuli Coloring Book by Blockhead. He credits all music at the very end of the videos. ☺
Cool, thanks. I didn't think of the credits at the end.
This name is Kawista in Indonesia sir
For those who fancy coloring books, lots of people do. Here's a new one for you
I see there is a confusion between Wood Apple and Stone Apple
Stone Apple : Bael
Wood Apple : Kaitha/Kavath
Then there is Elephant Apple too
When a mad street vender fills a coconut shell with his poop+dirt and sells it to a tourist :)
I woulda laughed so hard if your cracked your tile floor
I just managed to find some wood apple nectar in a local Indian store! Taste was weird, there's totally a fake butter flavour that almost reminds me of puke, might be buteric acid.
You are so funny!! Cracked Me up .. more than the Bel.
Bel is different from woodapple which that i didnt know myself..!
I M FROM TAMIL NADU 🤣.. ITS USED DURING GANESHA FESTIVAL .AND ITS DELICIOUS..
THESE DAYS YOU DON'T FIND IT ANYWHERE.. IN TN..
BEL MARRIAGE IS THE 1ST TIME I M HEARING!!! LOL
IT MAY BE A CUSTOM IN A VILLAGE OR SOME ANCIENT PRACTICE..
(LIKE Day Saint movement, the temple garment PRACTICE 😋🤣)
Hehehe man at least u should know what is fresh n what is rotten, weather u know that fruit or not, come to North India in summers see. Fresh fruit has mild peachy taste. N sunset colour. Shell cracks easily, with couple hard hit on floor
That looks like a giant booger you just ate! LOL!
***** It tastes far worse than a booger. :/
+Jared Rydelek That definately doesn't looks like its good to eat. A bael fruit has a orange-ish pulp and a amazing aroma. I 've never seen a bael fruit with a brown pulp in my entire life. The one you ate was probably rotten. :(
You can get an idea looking at other video's of the fruit on yt
I am strangely interested in the wood apple. Also know as CURD FRUIT, according to Wikipedia. Seems appropriate.
It is really an interesting fruit! Even though I think it tastes awful there really there is nothing like it.
Ha haha your expressions are priceless like you are forced.
Yes the first wood apple, it's rotten buddy. You must eat it fresh when in India. we used to mix with honey or jaggery and eat it. Or best mix it with dried fruits.
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Weird Explorer ha ha even I disliked it as a child. But now I don't mind the taste of any food as an adult.
Alternate title: "Man eats shit found in rock"
When I was in Ghana some years ago, I used to get something we called a custard apple. It had multiple seeds inside each seed surrounded by soft apple like fruit. It tasted like stewed apples and custard strange but delicious fruit. Have you come across this fruit?
Custard apple usually refers to fruits in the Anona genus. I'm not sure which one you had, but all the ones I've tried have been very tasty!
Thanks for your quick reply. They were really delicious. Is that the correct name custard apple? I have not seen any in UK. Your knowledge is admirable.
"Awww. Don't force yourself! Awww. Don't force yourself". BTW, ever tried Pu-Erh tea? It's camellia sinensis tea that's been allowed to partially turn to dirt. It sounds awful, but it becomes this tasty tea that you can steep to death without any bitterness.
It Only grows on tropical weather right?
I want to try that eheheh you should try some fruits here in Philippine's..
I'm seeing alot of amendments to this fruit saying it tastes good if you add x,y and z.
To me, that doesnt really sell the fruit on it's own. Making all that additions to make it taste good, makes it seem like alot of work to eat a fruit.
make it with some green chillies, pinch of salt and sugar, one cube butter or oil, mustard sauce, two or three lemon leaves, some coriander leaves and feel heaven.
it call chocolate fruit.without chocolate taste.
Is this common in Malaysia? I only found it at the rare fruit farm in penang, never at markets.
@@WeirdExplorer not common.
okay but then are the tree variants, limonia acidissima and aegle marmelos smtg. can you pls tell on that, cuz one of those are holy to Indians.....so I am confused which to plant and I heard the bigger one is definitely SWEET.
Moral of the story. If it looks like dirt, tastes like dirt, it's probably part of dirt now. 😅 Sorry u went though that.