I just looked this up online, and for those of you who live near Santa Barbara Riviera, there is apparently a mature tree that grows by the side of Moreno Road, at the edge of upper Orpet Park. So if you're nearby when the tree happens to be in fruit, you can give the fruit a try.
@@jasonsutor6788 Is Raindance Seeds located in California? The website doesn't indicate anything about where they are located. I think I read that these trees can alsp be found cultivated in gardens in Florida - which would make sense considering where the plants originate from.
The tree that produces this fruit is very cold-hardy. If you're interested, it's not a bad idea to try sprouting directly from seed. It can withstand temperatures of -7 degrees.
@@xilith117Sadly, not Rankine or Kelvin (yes, I know those can't be negative...very poor, nerd joke, sorry), which is what my sliver of midwestern Ultima Thule feels like from mid December until March.
Please try sweet cup. It is a type of passionfruit (passiflora maliformis). It is very aromatic and has a very hard shell that has to be opened with a hammer.
You should consider getting a dehydrator. It can be useful for fruits like these which aren't good for much other than eating out of hand but don't keep for very long. We had a loquat tree which produced more fruit than you could deal with and the fruit didn't keep well, so I ended up making a bunch of fruit leather in the dehydrator and it turned out well.
It is close to the so called 'Uvaia' fruits, this one is know as Ubajaí or Uvaião (big uvaia). Uba × Jaí are local native ancient words, where Ubá means 'fruit' and Jaí means 'Twisted'. Uvaias usully have a very distinct flavor, difficult to describe, and this one have a touch of garlic or onion to it. From the Uvaias fruit there are variations, with different leafs, size of the tree, and sometimes flavor, to name a few: Ubajaí, Uvaia doce (sweet), Uvaia azeda (sour), Uvaia do Visconde (the best one, different flavor ), Uvaia Maracujá(passionfruit flavor), Ocorocillo (from Bolivia) , Pitomba da Bahía, Araçá Boi, Araçá Piranga, Uvaia Caju (Eugenia Delicata).
@@blackbwayif Jamaica is tropical 🍹 🐠 or subtropical yes they definitely will grow well ! The rest is just take care specially when they're young 🌱 trees like watering and fertilizer!
@@robsonwilianwinchester9726 i want to get my hands on some when I get home. I want to make the most spectacular fruit forest with an abundance of tropical fruits from all over the world.
I grew up in the northwestern part of São Paulo state, and we used to eat a lot of Uvaia, and made juices, ice cream and mousse from it. I'm not sure of the exact kind, but the fruits were bright yellow and small, about 3-5cm in diameter, and almost always had a worm or two, but we didn't mind as children.
I bet those would be good thrown into a stir fry at the last minute and serves with some nice sticky rice. I might be tempted to use them in vegan sushi maybe with some cooked purple sweet potato and a drizzle of hoisin sauce. I wish I had one to try.
Are you interested in people sending you fruit who aren't fruit farmers? Because we're a family of farmers, though not for fruit, and we live in a very strange part of France that is deep and high in the mountains while tending towards the Mediterranean. And in our mountain, there are a bunch of fruits that don't really grow elsewhere in France and you definitely can't find in supermarkets or even farmer's markets. We are a very closeknit community so throughout the generations, people here have found many ways of eating whatever grows wild in the mountain so they didn't have to walk or ride for days to the closest village or town. It's super traditional here so I was taught all this stuff, and if it's something you're interested in, I would love to send you a couple of fruits as well as some of the traditional ways we prepare them so they last very long.
After i saw the video you did about the bananas in fiji i remembered that in Tajikistan they have 70 varieties of watermelon if you're intresed. Anyways love your videos, keep it up ❤
Thank you for all the great content! You are so good at describing the flavors that I find myself being able to accurately guess the sweetness/tartness scales right before you say it. I can practically taste the fruit from here.
I wonder if you could make a galette? Galettes can be sweet or savory as the crust is pretty plain, and you wouldn't have to add anything to the fruit as the topping. Wonder how the flavor changes when cooked.
Cannabis also has some gasoline smelling terpenes. I find that strange gasoline smell is nice when there’s a pine hint to it. This fruit is so interesting. Brazil always has the interesting stuff. This sounds like something that’d be interesting to cook with. I wonder if the garlic or horseradish sort of profile will enhance? Sounds like something that’d go good in a chicken wing sauce.
Itching so hard for a new ketchup episode that I legit just sat here for the last two minutes trying not to yell "PLAY THE DAMN JINGLE" loud enough for the neighbors to hear.
For a member of the Eugenia genus, these are surprisingly cold hardy, to about zone 8b. On the East Coast you could probably grow it from Virginia Beach southwards.
The more resonance or pining tasting fruit like what you can find with some mangoes doesn’t really put me off, but I know exactly what smell you’re talking about with the whole gasoline smell thing you’re describing Anne for some reason it instantly puts me off. Thanks again for sharing another amazing fruit with us, Jared. I hope everyone is well and having a great day.
A Eugenia fruit with that kind of mild sweetness and funkiness, while being so delightfully globular? That's a winner in my book! Also, I think I speak for many when I say the "Does Vostok care for it" test is highly scientific and should be included in the episode more often
They get very pungent after a few days. I'd collected ~30 pounds of these and let them sit for a day before i got to processing them and they'd basically turned into a very strong smelling juice.
Jams made with those are delicious, and the texture is unique betwen other jams. Ubajay jam is a bit like in the middle between a jam and a gelatin, is very uniform and extremelly dense, more like a dessert than a jam
Just a query about the shirts... Any thoughts about using flaxseed linen blended with cotton (75% Linen 25% Cotton {hopefully} ) because I find 100% cotton doesn't do well with the amount of sweat I have to deal with...it just gets soggy, and in warm weather it never dries fast enough to compensate for the humidity, but linen does dry out despite the sweating levels of warm weather, stays pretty warm in cooler weather, and is actually more environmentally friendly than cotton. It requires no pesticides or fertilizer, and the quantity of material per plant is near 100% use of the plant, instead of the relatively small yield for the amount of plant, and it's technically better than hemp since it needs less steps to go from plant to usable fiber. Using cotton helps make it a bit more stretchy than pure linen is... And less wrinkly. 😅
Describing its flavors and properties sounds like it would make a good pie filling. Add some nutmeg and maybe lime juice with brownsugar. I prefer handpies but even the filling alone is probably good.b
Could I suggest you make a salad with it. Arugula, avocado, a strong cheese like feta or blue cheese, nuts like toasted almonds or macadamia's, honey mustard dressing, and sliced Ubajay, i bet it would taste great.
Hey Jared, I’ve got 4 trees of this in my collection but they are not fruiting yet. Do you think I should plant a full row of them? They are weird flavored but I’m not sure that the public would be interested in them?
I think some good marketing on how to use the funky flavors would interest people to try experimenting with it it. But it's an odd flavor so it's more of a one time buy.
@@benwalter4842 i agree,but in a video he said it wouldn't be possible.I like pushing zones and growing weird exotic fruits but it is really hard to get seeds here in Romania
I forget what it's called, but there's a type of gooseberry from India that they make all kinds of candies and drinks out of. I think it might just be called a gooseberry, but there's also an Indian name for it that I don't remember. I tried some fruit leather that was made from it, that I got at an Indian supermarket and it was so disgusting I couldn't even finish it. It taste like motor oil. But I could see how you could say it taste like gas, so I'm wondering if the fruit in this video actually has that same taste. It just taste like what an automotive garage smells like, to me. I could see how someone could possibly like it or at least develop a taste for it, if they'd never been around cars or gas stations, but for me I can't get that association out of my mind, even though I know on an intellectual level that's not what the flavor is from. It taste like poison to me and makes me want to gag.
@@WeirdExplorer Amla - That's what it is! I couldn't remember the name. I've never had a fresh one. I've only had candies and juice that was made from them, so maybe that taste different. Actually I think the fruit leather taste more like motor oil or car exhaust, than gas. But I could see how someone could experience that flavor as more garlicy or herbal, and therefor not disgusting, if they've never smelled motor oil before and didn't have that mental association. I also had a juice with amla, lemon and salt, that wasn't as bad. I mean, I probably wouldn't buy it again, but it wasn't so horrible that I couldn't drink it. But that was mainly because of the saltiness and the lack of sugar, more than the alma flavor. It was some kind of aieorvidic Indian health drink that I got at the Indian store. You should do a video about the Alma and some of the Indian health products that are made with it, if you haven't already. I'm sure you could easily find it at an Indian supermarket in the city.
Eugenia Piryformis, called Uvaia, is way better than this fruit, sadly it is so soft that you need to eat right after you pick it. Has kinda of peach mixed with lemon flavor.
The "I just got juice all over my leg" comment after prying open a fruit like that with your fingers is.. something 😆 Excuse the accidental thirst comment, great video as always though, never heard of this fruit before!
Just a query about the shirts... Any thoughts about using flaxseed linen blended with cotton (75% Linen 25% Cotton {hopefully} ) because I find 100% cotton doesn't do well with the amount of sweat I have to deal with...it just gets soggy, and in warm weather it never dries fast enough to compensate for the humidity, but linen does dry out despite the sweating levels of warm weather, stays pretty warm in cooler weather, and is actually more environmentally friendly than cotton. It requires no pesticides or fertilizer, and the quantity of material per plant is near 100% use of the plant, instead of the relatively small yield for the amount of plant, and it's technically better than hemp since it needs less steps to go from plant to usable fiber. Using cotton helps make it a bit more stretchy than pure linen is... And less wrinkly. 😅
But... will it ketchup? 😅
garlic and peaches sounds like a perfect base for a sweet-savory sauce
Exactly what I was thinking. Will it, that is THE question. 😊
Do eet!
My thoughts exactly!
That fruit is demanding to ketchup.
I just looked this up online, and for those of you who live near Santa Barbara Riviera, there is apparently a mature tree that grows by the side of Moreno Road, at the edge of upper Orpet Park. So if you're nearby when the tree happens to be in fruit, you can give the fruit a try.
Thank you for the tip!
I'm 99% sure that's where these fruit came from
@@jasonsutor6788 Is Raindance Seeds located in California? The website doesn't indicate anything about where they are located.
I think I read that these trees can alsp be found cultivated in gardens in Florida - which would make sense considering where the plants originate from.
@@SY-ok2dq He's in Escondido.
Adding "cool with funky flavors" to my dating profiles.
The tree that produces this fruit is very cold-hardy.
If you're interested, it's not a bad idea to try sprouting directly from seed.
It can withstand temperatures of -7 degrees.
Fahrenheit or Celsius?
@@xilith117Sadly, not Rankine or Kelvin (yes, I know those can't be negative...very poor, nerd joke, sorry), which is what my sliver of midwestern Ultima Thule feels like from mid December until March.
@@xilith117 The temperature unit is Celsius.
The plant itself is very strong.
Unfortunately he lives in New York, the northeastern u.s. gets below that -7 celsius for a substantial amount of the winter.
It’s always exciting when fruits have complex flavors like that. Your cat also looks adorable next to it!
Please try sweet cup. It is a type of passionfruit (passiflora maliformis). It is very aromatic and has a very hard shell that has to be opened with a hammer.
Passiflora are very cool you should try passiflora trifosiata and passiflora foetida are cool.
@@Youdontknowmeson1324he has tried passiflora foetida before. Thats how i found his channel
@@Youdontknowmeson1324very cool indeed! And delicious 😋
@@katamine11 not all species are most are passiflora lutea is probably one the worst passiflora.
you say it wouldn't work as a jam or syrup, but honestly, I am curious if it will ketchup.
Will It Hollandaise?
Likely but you’ll need a lot
@@Youdontknowmeson1324 Jared said the fruit has a laxative effect so you'd have to go VERY easy on the ketchup!
I'm sure it would - but you'd have to be very sparing with the ketchup since the fruit has a laxative effect if you eat enough of it.
@@SY-ok2dq grind up some things that cause constipation should be fine put it on bread like jam or something.
You should consider getting a dehydrator. It can be useful for fruits like these which aren't good for much other than eating out of hand but don't keep for very long.
We had a loquat tree which produced more fruit than you could deal with and the fruit didn't keep well, so I ended up making a bunch of fruit leather in the dehydrator and it turned out well.
Peaches and garlic flavours sounds like it could be good as some sort of almost savoury cooking sauce
That's what I was thinking. Maybe with bourbon, over pork, would be good. Or chicken, with or without the bourbon, if you don't eat pork.
I wonder if I can make hot sauce with these as a flavor
It is close to the so called 'Uvaia' fruits, this one is know as Ubajaí or Uvaião (big uvaia).
Uba × Jaí are local native ancient words, where Ubá means 'fruit' and Jaí means 'Twisted'.
Uvaias usully have a very distinct flavor, difficult to describe, and this one have a touch of garlic or onion to it.
From the Uvaias fruit there are variations, with different leafs, size of the tree, and sometimes flavor, to name a few: Ubajaí, Uvaia doce (sweet), Uvaia azeda (sour), Uvaia do Visconde (the best one, different flavor ), Uvaia Maracujá(passionfruit flavor), Ocorocillo (from Bolivia) , Pitomba da Bahía, Araçá Boi, Araçá Piranga, Uvaia Caju (Eugenia Delicata).
Wow! Quite a lot of information there.
I wonder if any of these plants can grow and produce fruits in Jamaica?
@@blackbway Yes, All of them probably can grow in Jamaica.
@@blackbwayif Jamaica is tropical 🍹 🐠 or subtropical yes they definitely will grow well ! The rest is just take care specially when they're young 🌱 trees like watering and fertilizer!
@@robsonwilianwinchester9726 i want to get my hands on some when I get home.
I want to make the most spectacular fruit forest with an abundance of tropical fruits from all over the world.
I grew up in the northwestern part of São Paulo state, and we used to eat a lot of Uvaia, and made juices, ice cream and mousse from it. I'm not sure of the exact kind, but the fruits were bright yellow and small, about 3-5cm in diameter, and almost always had a worm or two, but we didn't mind as children.
I bet those would be good thrown into a stir fry at the last minute and serves with some nice sticky rice. I might be tempted to use them in vegan sushi maybe with some cooked purple sweet potato and a drizzle of hoisin sauce. I wish I had one to try.
he mentioned a website. maybe you could buy some there?
It gets better and better with the Cat representation.
And these fruits might be a good base for a Chutney or Ketchup.
You are the best fruit reviewer I've ever seen.
I've loved you videos for years. Thank you for making us such fun videos!
Are you interested in people sending you fruit who aren't fruit farmers? Because we're a family of farmers, though not for fruit, and we live in a very strange part of France that is deep and high in the mountains while tending towards the Mediterranean. And in our mountain, there are a bunch of fruits that don't really grow elsewhere in France and you definitely can't find in supermarkets or even farmer's markets. We are a very closeknit community so throughout the generations, people here have found many ways of eating whatever grows wild in the mountain so they didn't have to walk or ride for days to the closest village or town. It's super traditional here so I was taught all this stuff, and if it's something you're interested in, I would love to send you a couple of fruits as well as some of the traditional ways we prepare them so they last very long.
Where is possible to read about these fruits and your region? Sounds intetesting :) Greetings from Netherlands
I really hope he says yes!
❤ Yes 👍 I'm also want to know this fruits from France 🇨🇵!
Thanks for the work you do. Expanding our horizons. ❤
Mmmm garlicky fruit… reminds me of when cutting fruit and using the same knife as you did for cooking and the fruit is a savory sweet surprise lol
After i saw the video you did about the bananas in fiji i remembered that in Tajikistan they have 70 varieties of watermelon if you're intresed. Anyways love your videos, keep it up ❤
Wow! I’m off to do some research now 😅 that is so cool!
why so much variation? that's insane!!!
Thank you for all the great content! You are so good at describing the flavors that I find myself being able to accurately guess the sweetness/tartness scales right before you say it. I can practically taste the fruit from here.
Peaches and Garlic was my romantic ballad duo back in the '60s.
I wonder if you could make a galette? Galettes can be sweet or savory as the crust is pretty plain, and you wouldn't have to add anything to the fruit as the topping. Wonder how the flavor changes when cooked.
Cannabis also has some gasoline smelling terpenes. I find that strange gasoline smell is nice when there’s a pine hint to it. This fruit is so interesting. Brazil always has the interesting stuff. This sounds like something that’d be interesting to cook with. I wonder if the garlic or horseradish sort of profile will enhance? Sounds like something that’d go good in a chicken wing sauce.
Eugenia fruits are so diverse, wow
Itching so hard for a new ketchup episode that I legit just sat here for the last two minutes trying not to yell "PLAY THE DAMN JINGLE" loud enough for the neighbors to hear.
For a member of the Eugenia genus, these are surprisingly cold hardy, to about zone 8b. On the East Coast you could probably grow it from Virginia Beach southwards.
The flavour description makes it sound like it will go well with with cheese! Perhaps on a cheddar cheese board?
that would work!
The more resonance or pining tasting fruit like what you can find with some mangoes doesn’t really put me off, but I know exactly what smell you’re talking about with the whole gasoline smell thing you’re describing Anne for some reason it instantly puts me off. Thanks again for sharing another amazing fruit with us, Jared. I hope everyone is well and having a great day.
Now this has to be the best fruit ever.
Come on it's not just brazilian! hehe
There are literally towns named after this tree here in Argentina
Oooooh. This is one for my bucket list.
Maybe work as a substitute for garlic? Worth a shot to see how it works out
A Eugenia fruit with that kind of mild sweetness and funkiness, while being so delightfully globular? That's a winner in my book!
Also, I think I speak for many when I say the "Does Vostok care for it" test is highly scientific and should be included in the episode more often
True. At the end of the day what she thinks is the most important.
do a bitterness scale with a picture!
Shoe polish and turpentine? My favorite flavors
They get very pungent after a few days.
I'd collected ~30 pounds of these and let them sit for a day before i got to processing them and they'd basically turned into a very strong smelling juice.
wow, interesting fruit, the eugenias are very interesting indeed....
You should try cordia myxa (Assyrian plum) from Iraq it has a really cool texture
It’s called بمبر “bimbar” in Iraq
Love the channel bro, everytime I see a drop of juice escape from a fruit you cut into Im like nooooo the juiiice!!!
Jams made with those are delicious, and the texture is unique betwen other jams. Ubajay jam is a bit like in the middle between a jam and a gelatin, is very uniform and extremelly dense, more like a dessert than a jam
those grow naturally in may area, eastern Argentina. There are some diferences in taste in the wild trees. Nobody really eats them around here
So a capsicum, loquat, nashi pear, garlic, gasoline combination, nice
Just a query about the shirts... Any thoughts about using flaxseed linen blended with cotton (75% Linen 25% Cotton {hopefully} ) because I find 100% cotton doesn't do well with the amount of sweat I have to deal with...it just gets soggy, and in warm weather it never dries fast enough to compensate for the humidity, but linen does dry out despite the sweating levels of warm weather, stays pretty warm in cooler weather, and is actually more environmentally friendly than cotton. It requires no pesticides or fertilizer, and the quantity of material per plant is near 100% use of the plant, instead of the relatively small yield for the amount of plant, and it's technically better than hemp since it needs less steps to go from plant to usable fiber. Using cotton helps make it a bit more stretchy than pure linen is... And less wrinkly. 😅
Agreed that it might not jam well, but it sounds perfect for a salsa.
Describing its flavors and properties sounds like it would make a good pie filling. Add some nutmeg and maybe lime juice with brownsugar.
I prefer handpies but even the filling alone is probably good.b
Thank you
Sounds like a fruit perfect for Chutneys and currys :D
Hah! I can do that at home! *proceeds to cut a peach on a tray where I cut garlic beforehand*
I play Farmville 2 and I often have to grow fruits like this I have never heard of.
Could I suggest you make a salad with it. Arugula, avocado, a strong cheese like feta or blue cheese, nuts like toasted almonds or macadamia's, honey mustard dressing, and sliced Ubajay, i bet it would taste great.
An intriguing fruit.
When will you go foraging?
will it catsup?
Hey Jared, I’ve got 4 trees of this in my collection but they are not fruiting yet. Do you think I should plant a full row of them? They are weird flavored but I’m not sure that the public would be interested in them?
I think some good marketing on how to use the funky flavors would interest people to try experimenting with it it. But it's an odd flavor so it's more of a one time buy.
Can you sell the seeds of the fruits you review or someting?
Or he grow them inside his apartment as houseplants or in a greenhouse (both if possible of course).
@@benwalter4842 i agree,but in a video he said it wouldn't be possible.I like pushing zones and growing weird exotic fruits but it is really hard to get seeds here in Romania
This might be good with chicken barbecue.
I forget what it's called, but there's a type of gooseberry from India that they make all kinds of candies and drinks out of. I think it might just be called a gooseberry, but there's also an Indian name for it that I don't remember. I tried some fruit leather that was made from it, that I got at an Indian supermarket and it was so disgusting I couldn't even finish it. It taste like motor oil. But I could see how you could say it taste like gas, so I'm wondering if the fruit in this video actually has that same taste. It just taste like what an automotive garage smells like, to me. I could see how someone could possibly like it or at least develop a taste for it, if they'd never been around cars or gas stations, but for me I can't get that association out of my mind, even though I know on an intellectual level that's not what the flavor is from. It taste like poison to me and makes me want to gag.
that's amla! I've never had one with a gasoline taste though. it's like a super sour green apple when they are fresh.
@@WeirdExplorer Amla - That's what it is! I couldn't remember the name. I've never had a fresh one. I've only had candies and juice that was made from them, so maybe that taste different. Actually I think the fruit leather taste more like motor oil or car exhaust, than gas. But I could see how someone could experience that flavor as more garlicy or herbal, and therefor not disgusting, if they've never smelled motor oil before and didn't have that mental association. I also had a juice with amla, lemon and salt, that wasn't as bad. I mean, I probably wouldn't buy it again, but it wasn't so horrible that I couldn't drink it. But that was mainly because of the saltiness and the lack of sugar, more than the alma flavor. It was some kind of aieorvidic Indian health drink that I got at the Indian store. You should do a video about the Alma and some of the Indian health products that are made with it, if you haven't already. I'm sure you could easily find it at an Indian supermarket in the city.
I like garlic!
I like peaches!
But together, I don't know...
I think this would be a good base for a salsa. 🤔
great idea!
Will it ketchup?
What? not going to make ketchup, they sound like they'd be perfect for it!
Have you tried a medlar yet? )
yes! check the archive at weirdexplorer.com
Yea….. but will it ketchup?
just like sweet-n-farty in jack-fruit?
Ubayayketchup!!!!
Actually Jared is ubajay! Jay us pronuncied ja! So is Ubajá!
But it like uncooked garlic flavor?
If someone made an ice cream out of it or used its juice & pulp in cooking (sweet or savory)...
Make chutney!
interesting
I feel like this would make an interesting ketchup
Seems like it might be good in a salad
You could make a chutney out of them 🤷♂️
It’s so hard to describe flavors and smells. I still don’t know how you manage to describe things so well.
i was thinking ketchup instead of jam/juice
It looks a lot like Araza / Araca-boi (Eugenia stipiata)
it does! similar taste too... besides the garlic taste
What is "Asian pear flavor?" I taste water chestnuts: sweet and crunchy, but no aroma.
Can you cook with it
Fruit salsa?
good idea!
Pet your kitty for me 👌
kitty!
Eugenia Piryformis, called Uvaia, is way better than this fruit, sadly it is so soft that you need to eat right after you pick it. Has kinda of peach mixed with lemon flavor.
The "I just got juice all over my leg" comment after prying open a fruit like that with your fingers is.. something 😆
Excuse the accidental thirst comment, great video as always though, never heard of this fruit before!
Artificial strawberry and artificial pineapple don't taste anything alike to me, that must be one strange tasting fruit.
vostok has the right idea, fuzzy fruit = no thanks. 😸
Funky 🤔
sausage a fy them
Lol looks exactly like a apricot after cutting open "incase you thought is was a apricot before clearly not a apricot "
More & paler seeds, but otherwise I agree.
@@Erewhon2024 the camera angle well he said it made it look like one pit
they look lovely, but i will pass not into funk
Pickle it or make it drunken. 😅
Nah.
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Just a query about the shirts... Any thoughts about using flaxseed linen blended with cotton (75% Linen 25% Cotton {hopefully} ) because I find 100% cotton doesn't do well with the amount of sweat I have to deal with...it just gets soggy, and in warm weather it never dries fast enough to compensate for the humidity, but linen does dry out despite the sweating levels of warm weather, stays pretty warm in cooler weather, and is actually more environmentally friendly than cotton. It requires no pesticides or fertilizer, and the quantity of material per plant is near 100% use of the plant, instead of the relatively small yield for the amount of plant, and it's technically better than hemp since it needs less steps to go from plant to usable fiber. Using cotton helps make it a bit more stretchy than pure linen is... And less wrinkly. 😅