Interesting Fruit For Sale in PORTUGAL (Cherimoya & Loquat) - Weird Fruit Explorer
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- Episode 671: Cherimoya and Loquat
Species: Annona cherimola & Eriobotrya japonica
Location: Lisbon, Portugal
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Costa Rica was amazing, but it's time to move on to another country. This is the first of several episodes that I shot in Portugal!
If you didn't see all the Costa Rica Episodes, check out this playlist: th-cam.com/play/PLvGFkMrO1ZxIP-hu1UXherEdrnVJnSXDx.html
Oh wow you are in my birth town, ask for why do they call us born in Lisbon "Alfacinhas" 😁 👋
@@mariadamedecoeur little lettuces 🤣, good to know there are also other alfacinhas watching the channel. Cheers!
@@joaoreismota1967 cool heh? Byebye João, Bom Ano 😊🍀🙏💙
Correcting you there, those Cherimoya are grown locally, ppl literally have them on their backyards
and we call them Anonas
The loquat likely got there from Japan in the 1600s
Loquats are more popular in California b/c of the weather. My neighbor in Cali had one. As a kid I would just sit up in the tree b/c it was a giant tree, and eat fruit all day. To me they tasted like Apricot texture with Pear, Grape combo taste. Always two seeds that were perfect for slingshot ammo.
Also the seeds have cyanide in them
We got em all over in Florida.
Visiting my family in California and eat ‘‘em every time I’m home. Also eat cherimoya a bunch even in Denver.
@@Youdontknowmeson1324 that’s cherimoya not loquat I think. Maybe both but that’d be a bit of a coincidence
@@XMooseManX loquat seeds have cyanide, just like an apple. (They're related)
We had loquats growing outside our house in Portugal. It took me about 10 years to realise it was edible, first ‘exotic’ fruit I ever tried!
Loquats are moderately common around the Mediterranean and Iberian peninsular. I remember picking good ones from trees along paths and roads in Italy for example. They're also one of the more common uncommon fruits (does that make sense?) in London where I live. Really nice fruit. I think of them as like a sort of mix between an apricot and a plum.
Thanks for covering all these fruit over the years. As a lawn care owner in the south, I am regularly grazing on my customers ornamentals (jelly palm, muscadine, silver thorn, feijoa, dogwood, nopales, mulberry the list goes on & on)
The loquat flowers have an exquisite perfume, smelling quite like mimosa. November is a good time to smell it. One of my favourite fruit in Spain. Usually only found around May. Glad you had a good variety.
Anybody who has watched All The Fruit (another fruit review channel) or has spent time shopping around for exotics knows that Iberia is *fantastic* for exotic fruits. Particularly the Canary islands, Madeira, and perhaps even the Azores, but the mainland too. Try to find some figs because almost across the board the best fig varieties seem to come from Iberia and the south of France, with only a little competition from southern Italy and some chance Californian seedlings.
I am not from Portugal, but as you said, I'm from Spain and it is close enough to expect similar fruits. And yeah, these are suuuper common fruits here! Not really regularly eaten, like you would apples, but you do see them everywhere!
Thank goodness
Isn't it crazy what we take for granted in our own backyards?
Really excited to see you at my country! Now might not be the best time to find the amount of fruit varieties and species grown here because that number peaks during late spring/summer, but there are a lot. At this time, you might find persimmons, different citrus fruits, or even guavas! Come summer, and you'll have all sorts of Prunus fruits, mangoes, prickly pears, and who knows what! People love to collect different fruit bearing trees, and it's always fun to roam small villages and check what people have and if they can give you some or sell it. I do hope you enjoy your fruit hunting and do come back during a warmer season to have an even greater experience!
From experience mailing my own fruits for him to video, his most recent uploads are around 3 months in the past. So maybe he was there in the fall
Probably too late for this comment to get noticed but still. The loquat is called "níspero" in spanish (an nêspera in portuguese, please correct me if I am wrong) and both in Spain and Portugal they are pretty popular and pretty delicious. The tree is also pretty popular in gardens and orchards as it grows very well in the Iberian Peninsula.
Funny thing is that the name "níspero" originally referred to the European medlar (Mespilus germanica) but after the arrival of the loquat we started calling it "níspero del japon" (japanese medlar) and it replaced the original European medlar, which is now very hard to find (I planted one last year). I think it is still used in the Basque Country to make some kind of traditional chieftain batons there (any basque people could correct me here) but otherways is very rare.
because "original" is weird. needs to be super soft to loose its bitter taste. if we mean the same tree
Loquat are my absolute favorite fruit, like an intense apricot/plum hybrid. I'm a little outside their fruiting range, but I'm scheming to find a way to keep a tree warm during the bloom period (which is during winter here, so usually no fruit set) exclusively because I love the fruit so much. I'm deeply jealous of anyone with regular loquat access, lol.
Loquats (Japanese Plums) are very common in zone 9 of the U.S. I grow them in Zone 8a but haven't had any luck with fruit just yet. They are in bloom right now and I'm hoping the flowers don't freeze again this year. I'm also surprised that you don't mention that people should not eat cherimoya seeds since they are toxic.
They're way to big and tough to eat. One would have to crack or grind them before they can physically be consumed. If you accidentally swallowed one it'll just pass through and I'd be more worried about choking than poison.
When I went to Madeira they actually had some good variety of fruit that's rare in Europe. Cherimoya, several different types of passion fruit (one I remember they called banana passion fruit, and you ate it by cutting off the top then sucking the seeds out), and a few others you wouldn't expect on a fairly small remote island.
As kids we visited a place that had orange trees and one loquat tree in the yard. To be honest I can't recall the flavor, but I remember that fresh squeezed orange juice with a loquat blended in is delicious.
We had several loquat trees growing in Southern Louisiana. Birds, squirrels, raccoons, opossums love them.
Same. I’m in central Louisiana and they do so well.
There are a lot of loquat trees here in Southern California.
Did you get to eat any of them or did the wildlife eat them all? 👀
@@thestrangegreenman Haha yep. We were able to eat them. Pretty tasty little guys. A lot of work though. And like another comment said, seeds are great sling shot ammo!
Hi there! I live in Loxley, Alabama and there are loquat trees everywhere here, but I don't think many people realize the fruits are edible and the trees are usually grown as ornamentals. When I found out the fruits were edible and tried one I was hooked immediately and made jelly soon after, which disappeared very quickly. And thanks to your video, I now know there's a larger variety that I know I must find! Thank you!!!!! The ones I have are a little over an inch long. 😆
Also, the trees are much more cold hardy (15 F or so) than the developing fruit (usually damaged at 25F), so loquats would not be commercially reliable as a fruit crop even on the Gulf Coast (Mobile area, also in the Florida panhandle) which typically gets short, sharp frosts potentially as low as 20F a few nights each year, let alone inland. (In Florida at least, loquats bloom in late fall and most ripen in early spring, so fruit development is during the cold season.) The trees do fine however.
@@erikjohnson9223Louisiana too. Have them in our yard.
Loquat is a popular unusual landscaping tree in many parts of Europe as the tree itself is hardy but not favourable for fruiting. In the UK they're fairly common to spot and I spotted a healthy one in flower in Ireland this year. I've got a young one in my garden and it's optimistic to hope it'll fruit where I am in NW Ireland but there have been reports of fruiting in Dublin and in parts of the UK in favourable years so I have my fingers crossed!
if it gets pollinated (it blooms in very late autumn) and there are no major frosts you can expect fruit. not sure how ripe it will get.
Loquats are actually quite common in the mediterranean countries. In my country, Cyprus, they are all over the place and I love them. However, you can only find them around the spring season, and they are very perishable.
We have tons of Loquat trees growing in the Tampa FL area. I think most people have them as ornamental trees but don't realize that you can eat the fruit
I am actually really fond of this video because the first video that I watched of his was his Cherimoya review, and since then, I've been checking out his content frequently. I don't watch every video, but I'm glad that I watched this one, and I have the honor of having been watching his channel since "like a million years ago!" 😆❤
Hey Explorer! You should come to Chile, there's plenty of weird fruits here, like Maqui, lúcuma, coiles, murta and a lot more
I had a couple cherimoyas that were huge and very high quality that were very sweet and milky and tasted like chocolate covered strawberries. Absolutely amazing. I have had a few rare ones that also tasted like milky bubblegum, these are my second favorite, then there are all the others that are some combo of coconut jackfruit and pear, many of these have been good but they are not the best. I haven’t found a way to distinguish them easily without tasting them unfortunately but as long as they are ripe they are always good. It vary from just good to best thing I ever put in my mouth
When I was a child growing up in Brisbane Australia in the 60’s and 70’s. We had a bullock’s heart custard apple tree. The fruit was Hugh (dinner plate size. I found the fruit closest to the skin a little grainy and preferred the fruit around the seeds, more succulent. Fun fact. We also had 2 Loquat trees. The fruit was smaller than yours. But I learnt to shoot the seeds ( with some accuracy) by squeezing the seed between my thumb and pointer finger. The seed was the right size and shape with just the correct amount of slipperyness to shoot out between finger when pressure was applied. Also loquat we’re one of my favourite home grown fruits.
Loquats are my absolutely favorite fruit. We had a tree in every neighborhood I lived in growing up, sometimes in our yard. I grew up in Oakland, CA bay area.
Now I don't see often, but when we do, my sister and I have been known to pull over and pick them.
I've eaten myself sick many times
I planted a loquat tree in my garden in Egypt. It is still too small to bear fruit, but it is a reminder of my childhood in Liguria (Genoa), where we had many growing all over the place.
Loquat is pretty common in the Mediterranean, it even grows wild in Algeria and they are major producers/exporter alongside Egypt, turkey......
Since Loquat originates from China and Portugal for a long time had the papal exclusive right on trade with that region they are probably responsible for introducing it in Portugal and Brazil at least
Loquat grows all around the Mediterranean. It has a lot of unique, regional names: akadinya, nespole, nispera, medlar. An excellent, very satisfying fruit, peeled or skin on. The large grouped seeds have a hidden bonus, for kids and the delightfully immature they look humorously like shiny brown bums, and they also are decent slingshot ammunition.
We had a loquat tree in my childhood home in Cupertino. It only produced like 10 fruits per year, but I always ate them.
I've seen loquats like that growing on trees in the Sacramento CA area all my life. First one I ever saw was at a grade school, then I saw more of the same type of tree downtown. I still see those trees around Sacramento either deliberately planted or "volunteers" just growing randomly somewhere. Most people here don't even know they are edible though. From seed to full size fruit tree takes about 10-12 years.
If u want the best fruit of Portugal, you gotta go to madeira island! Also, my invitation stands for you to come the daleys fruit tree nursery in kyogle In Australia, happy to look after you
In traditional Chinese medicine, loquat (Pei Pa, in Chinese) leaves are considered a medicine ingredient can relieve coughing or sore throat , usually be made into Pei Pa Koa cough syrup.
Some people even use Pei Pa Koa in cocktail.
It's a popular fruit here in Algeria that is known as M'chimcha, it comes in various sizes, colors, and levels of sweetness. It ripens between March and May and can be found in every marketplace and vegetable store across the country during this period.
In southern Portugal and Spain the plantations of tropical fruit trees are growing a lot in the recent years, mango and avocado specially but also many other species
what are the most famous endemic fruits of 🇪🇦🇵🇹?
@@flamah10n well they grow bananas in spain so....
@@julian281198 yes in the Canary islands where I live
@@julian281198 XD oh ok
When I was in SE Asia we stumbled upon a banana tree- but the flavor was crazy! The inside of the fruit was kind of pink, and had a wonderful citrus flavor. It looked like a banana, peeled like a banana, but tasted more like an orange. I imagine I’ll never get to experience that flavor again, but I’m so thankful I got to try it!
very nice getting more knowledge on variants of fruits and their flavor profiles very fascinating and enjoyable to learn much more too.
Near Tampa, Florida, we had a Loquat tree that bore well. The fruit was small but squirrels would ruin the crop by biting almost all of them. They wouldn't eat the Loquats, just bite them. So we harvested very few.
You should visit fog desert or a highland desert and try the native edible fruits there.
Why well yummy 😋
Loquat is one of my favorite fruits!!!
For some reason there's Lots of Loquat Trees growing wild in the Northern San Fernando Valley in Los Angeles.
I'll take a walk a pick a few where their growing.
Loquat trees are pretty common in people's yards where I live (in the San Francisco Bay Area). I've seen it in markets here, but for some reason the ones you get in stores here haven't been much good (possibly because they don't let them ripen on the tree).
lol loquat! i didnt even know it had a name in english. In Greece we call it mousmoulo and you can find the tree randomly in people's yards. We like to eat it but for some reason we dont sell it in the supermarkets. It's a bit underated, although really tasty
Cheramoya is my favorite tropical fruit that I can find at Wegmans. They do a decent job getting ones riped properly
I've been to Portugal twice and can't believe I've missed the Cherimoyas😭😭😭
Not that I'm sad about having to go there a third time now😋Portugal is gorgeous aaand the fruits there were always delicious
Loquat are my favorite fruit, hands down. I use to have a Loquat tree in my back yard in Florida when I lived there.
Really glad we have Costa Tropical in the very south of Spain; the only part of mainland Europe with a climate for tropical fruit but…….The Canary Islands and Madeira perhaps the biggest supplier s of fruit all year around;)
I'm from Argentina, they're called níspero here and in my home we had several loquat trees and we always ate them and made jam with them in the summer. they're very common as a front yard tree too.
i loved getting in the pool during summer nighs, all the lights off and hearing fruit bats having a feast on our loquat trees.
Lots and lots of loquats in Florida. We even have a festival for it! A lot of people use them as a decorative tree here, but in February to March I will be picking gallons of it. 😋
Hi Jared.
I love them Cherimoyas and all Annonas like Sugar Apples and such.
Also love Loquats.
There are 3 of them growing in pots on my window sill, Hahaha.
You rarely get them in regular Supermarkets here in Germany.
Tom 😎
Oh wow!
Cherimoyas are absolutely amazing. Planning on planting a small orchard of them at my house this year 😘
I love loquats but I've never seen them for sale, at least not here in Central Florida. They are however a popular ornamental and landscaping plant so it's rather easy to find fruit when they're in season.
I love loquats. I've never seen them in stores only growing as ornamentals. There is tree next to a bike path in town and the owners said can I have all I want.
I've sometimes heard of the flavor profile of the Cherimoya being similar to Froot Loops
So *that's* why people are so crazy for it! Sounds absolutely fantastic, and one I have certainly planned to try if I ever end up in a warmer climate. Hopefully pawpaws are close enough to that flavor, some varieties are said to be quite fruity and a handful are even said to be vaguely Cherimoya flavored.
There was someone at the edge of my neighborhood growing up that had a huge loquat tree. Any time I've been back, I'm always so tempted to snag one, but I've never had one. Cool to see the review! Also, to get the contrast from that clip to see how much more fresh-faced you looked back then
Nice episode! loquats are also super common in itay.. anotherone that is actually of asian origin and very common is different kinds of persimmons/kaki fruit (a veeery lovely fruit).. they also startet growing avocados, mangos and papayas in sicily.. tried them and the mangoes were comparable to the ones i used to find in thailand
I'm so happy that the Spanish Cherimoyas are starting to show up in supermarkets around Germany.
Only starting to show up? We have them in Romania for years now, including Lidl or Kaufland, which are German retailers.
Loquats are my absolute favorite fruit! They’re so delicious. I used to sneak out of my house and walk over to my neighbor’s IN THE MIDDLE OF THE NIGHT WITH A STEP STOOL to pilfer the low hanging fruit that came over the boarder of their fence… He had five heavily fruiting trees, I don’t know why I felt the need to sneak... I’m sure he would have just let me pick some. Maybe it was the thrill. 😅 Anyway, I live in Oklahoma now and loquats are nowhere to be found.. Enjoy them a little extra for me! 🥹
Loquats are pretty common yard trees in perth australia, my dad has one. they are really sweet and delicious. I would describe them as more a peach or nectarine flavour than apple.
Loquots grow here in New Zealand. There's actually a tree rather happily growing next to the back entrance of my old high school. I would pick them in the summer for a little snack on the way home sometimes. Definitely a different variety to these ones (ours are much smaller, with 3-4 moderate sized seeds in the middle). I love them.
Loquats are amazing! Lovem! When I lived in Texas, everyone had at least one loquat tree, but nobody would ever eat them. I never understood it.
Fascinating presentation,as usual.
I have been eating lots of loquats lately.
I live near a beach in southern Tasmania and there is a loquat tree on one of my walking paths.
I sure wish that we had chermoyas here though .
Popular in spain and canary islands too.
Move to San Diego, CA and you can grow BOTH. I think the cherimoya need special care to ensure fruit set, but they show up at all the farmers markets there, and in stores sometimes. Also, I have seen fruiting loquats in Corpus Christi, TX, so heat is not a problem for them. I even tried to grow one here in TX, kept it alive for a few years (until I failed to water it one time :( whaa! lol )
It's has to be much warmer there than here in frozen Winnipeg!
You find loquat in Portugal for the same reason loquat trees are common in California: They grow well in subtropical regions. It seems that Portuguese appreciate loquats as fruit more than Californians, because most loquat trees in CA are grown for their ornamental foliage and the fruit is eaten by animals.
We have a lot of loquats in South Texas. Live in San Antonio and in the inner city they are all over. We would get full of them when we were kids but we called them chinese plums.
Wow Jared! Another video!?
You're just too good!
Loquat is popular in gardens in Uruguay and parts of Brazil. Very tasty fruit.
Have u had a maypop? We used to eat those as a kid. I don’t see them anymore. Sadly….and they aren’t sold in grocery stores. I want to say they had big purple flowers.
HMart in baltimore carried cherimoyas and they are pretty good
Loquats are very popular in the Mediterranean; both my parents and my parents-in-law have loquat trees, for instance, and they live across the country.
Loquats can be found in certain regions of the US. I saw one used as a landscaping tree here once
Loquats are found around the south, I've seen them in SC and I'm growing some in NC
i live in northern portugal, i grow annona, mangos, white sapote, lychee and a hole bunch of subtropical fruit.
Loquats are all over Texas. I grew up eating them but they are much smaller. I would pick them off trees all the time. Mmmm, so good.
loquats used to be pretty common ornamental trees in suburban florida. Got in trouble many a times picking our neighbors' loquats when i was young. There were at least 5 trees in various peoples yards in my neighborhood growing up. Still my favorite sweet fruit hands down.
1:41 Loquat trees are actually _extremely_ common here in SoCal. The first time I saw a loquat was in Ojai, and since then, I've been able to spot them all over here.
Loquats are all over in Houston, used in landscaping. Most folks don’t understand the fruit is edible and, if the plant is taken care of, quite delicious. One of my old apartment complexes had a great landscaping team, and the loquats were not quite as large as the one you tried. I’ve heard the fruit makes great jam, but I like them straight from the tree, ripe and delicious. ✌️🙂
I have lived in Spain most of my life and have never had a chirimoya. Next time I see one I am definitely going to buy one!
I need to remind myself to try the cherimoya, it sounds like something I’d love.
I was lucky enough to grow up in Southern California next to Filipino neighbors who grew tons of fruit trees, they had (and still have) excellent loquats.
We have alot of intresting herloom varieties of common fruits in Portugal. you should have tried the oranges and local plums which grow wild.☺ maderia is full with even more fruits though. 😋
You should try the moon torch pitaya and the wild honey banana
I’m follow your videos for a long time, and I’m happy to have you at my country!
You need to try:
Banana da Madeira, they Small bananas sold in groups of 3 or 4 in every supermarkets with a blue tape around.
Ananás dos Açores, they are small gold looking pineapples super juicy and sweet, more difficult to find and expensive.
Pera Rocha, popular hard pear similar in texture like a aple.
all of those are coming soon :)
These grow everywhere in Tallahassee and has some popularity across most of Florida.
Growing up in FL, there was a loquat bush on an empty property near my house. We all used to eat them right off the bush not knowing what they were. Wasn't til I was in my 20s I found out about loquats.
yup loquats are all over Southern California. I have eaten them for the past 66 years here. there all over the place.
I don't find starfruit to be like grape at all. Getting a good one has been hit or miss, but, in my experience, the good ones have been super succulent and have kind of a musky-floral, perfumey flavor.
I grew up with loquat trees in my backyard and they grow all over New Orleans. Although, no one calls them loquats. Depending on who you ask, they are either "japanicas", "Japanese plums", "Chinese plums", "Spanish plums", "misbelieves", "mishbalish", probably others.
In Romania we call them japanese dates 😂
misbalishs hahahaha cool, but why the name "misbelieves"?
@@flamah10n Not entirely sure but one plausible-sounding hypothesis I've heard is that, originally loquats were classified as a species in the mespilus genus. Over time, like a game of telephone, "mespilus" became misbelieve. Perhaps in a similar vein, I grew up calling them "japanicas" which is not far from their current species name.
@@kooyawn00 In Spain they are called Níspero de Japón, Japanese medlar. Medlar being a Mespilus. So that seems quite likely.
@@kooyawn00 oooooooooh that is totally plausible! it might be it, cuz in Portuguese it is known as nespera, in Spanish Nispilo etc... misbelieves , now I got it XD
I grew up in San Diego County, and I love loquats. It wasn’t very hard to find, people grew them.
Loquats are everywhere, around the Mediterranean, all over Asia and Egypt.
In Israel we use the Lebanon name for it, shesek
Bem vindo a Portugal! Im very excited to see you in my country and i hope you have/had a nice stay! :)
When you say that about Europe.. you need to try Swedish Apple markets, in the late summer/early fall!! They are so delicious.
So funny store about loquates. Apparently they do set fruit often just one town south of me. But not in mine...
Loquats are grown in Texas too. My cousin had it at her house.
Aaaah Loquat or Pipa, but more known in Brazil as "Nespêra and ameixa-amarela" my mouth goes dripping when I ser u eating eat! I enjoyed the season of Loquat, now it is gone.
I should have watched this a day earlier. I was trying to explain the taste of loquats to a coworker yesterday.
Loquat trees are everywhere here in Italy too.
They were traditionally eaten by children, but today children don't care for them that much, but the trees are kept only for ornamental purpose.
That's a shame because loquats can be very sweet when allowed to ripen much.
Loquats are common in the USA, best known type Big Jim is sold at Home Depot and Lowes
I love Cherimoya, if you smash it up and add molasses and water make it into an Agua Fresca type thing it is one of the best drinks.
Sounds great!
i brought the seeds of these two fruits over to my place from my vacation on the Canaries and am trying to grow them for fun!
I love this fruity content