How Fig Seeds Can Be Turned Into "Jell-O"! (Creeping Fig & Ai Yu Jelly) - Weird Fruit Explorer
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- How Fig Seeds Can Be turned into "Jell-O"! (Creeping Fig & Ai Yu Jelly) - Weird Fruit Explorer
Episode 593: Creeping Fig
Scientific Name: Ficus pumila
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I'm still not sure about what went wrong with those figs I foraged. Any ideas on how I could have turned them into jello too?
they looked like they have no seeds at all, maybe that vine where you picked them was a male.
Were the seeds the little white clusters when you cut open the fig, are you supposed to only use that part? The white bits looked more like what was in the bag in second half of the vid.
You didn't boil them hard enough. Look into how people make jelly/jam from Apple, the pectin needs hard boiling. Add pectin if you need
@@jewiesnew3786 male plants don't produce fruit
@@onedaynoreason2572 Apples have their pectin in the cell walls and it needs a lot of work to get it out. This one is a coat on the seeds and is simply rinsed and rubbed at room temperature.
My granddaughter who's 10 and I have been watching you for years. I am a retired chef. You are the reason we search out new fruits when we are shopping. I believe it was about age 5 she found a cherimoya in the store and got so excited and asked if we could try it. She loved it. Every sense then we try to get a new fruit every couple of months and try to see what we like. After watching about bananas we found various ones and she even wanted to try them in different stages of ripeness. Over ripe Burro bananas are her favorites! You have encouraged her to try things she never would have. And has given her confidence to try it even if she won't like it.
Thank you for this channel and the great videos. I am sure we aren't the only family that enjoys you and your adventures.
Thanks so much
Jeannette and Lily (10)
So glad to hear it! Happy hunting to you and lily 😁
We had a multicultural grocery store open in our city when my daughter was small. We did the same thing, go searching out new fruits and vegetables to try, some of which I had to research on Google; we just did it in the grocery store instead of out in the world. She learnt to be excited about trying new foods, it was an adventure to see if we liked them or not and she expanded her palette. She also brought things she liked to school and shared with her friends so they got to experience new things too. It also fostered in her a future love of cooking because suddenly there was a wealth of new fresh fruit and veg to cook with. So many positives. When I found this channel, I instantly "got it."
How sweet is this! Glad your granddaughter is exploring different foods 🥰
@@applegal3058 she is a very ambitious eater. She's been cooking with me sense she was 3. And at 7 made her first Thanksgiving dinner with help. The last 2yrs she makes a full Thanksgiving dinner by herself I just take the turkey out of the oven lol. She makes everything from scratch. Even her pie crusts.
I am extremely proud of her.
@@desertkatt3762 I bet you are very proud! That's awesome she's learning from you! 💕 I'm sure she's a very accomplished cook. Take care of yourself 😊
Actually, I didn't see any seeds in the foraged creeping figs. If the gelling agent is from the seeds and not from the synconium "pod" (?--skin/flesh), perhaps this didn't work because New Orleans (& the USA in general) is outside of the native range of Ficus pumila and therefore almost certainly lacks the associated species of fig wasp, so any "fruits" produced are seedless and inactive. Taiwanese creeping figs might even be the same species, but were pollinated and therefore seedy. If it is the seeds rather than the rest of the fruit that generate the jelly, you need seedy figs (& therefore fig wasps).
You could always pollinate them with a little paintbrush
@@eastindiaV No no silly.... IT NEEDS THE WASPS.
@@eastindiaV the flowers grow inside the fig fruit, you can't fertilize them with a paintbrush, they need the wasps (which are microscopic and have a way into the fruit)
@@platedlizard huh I didn't know that
There is a little hole on the end of the figs, I bet you could just pollinate them with a safety pin... They're not microscopic they're like the size of ants... but yeah if you just stuck a pin inside to the flower or maybe even cut a few open and put the pollen in a syringe of water, you could probably just inject the pollen yourself.
I had no idea your cat has heterochromia, it’s so pretty!!
Someone accidently sent me pictures to my email. I said, "You have the wrong address, and you have to be careful. I'm deleting you photos." She asked me what I thought, and what did I think of her heterochromia. I told her, her photos nice, but I had to look up Heterochromia. I told her, "No, I hadn't noticed. I was distracted by other things in the photo (nudity), but it's believed that people with two colored eye can see things others can't, like ghost, and fairys. She told me, "That might explain her dog, who had two colored eyes, and barked at things she couldn't see. She asked, If I could send her back the photos, because she had deleted her copies. I told her, I couldn't because I deleted them. She then told me she was testing me, to see if I had deleted them. She didn't care, because, she was an artist, but she sold them. Some of them needed to be darker, and said that. I had taken few photography class. She actually a photo journalist, and she sends copies of those photos. She talented. Then I told her the trick on how to see ghost. I know the trick, but never seen any, because I don't go looking for them. The problem with seeing ghost, is once they know you can see them, they don't leave you alone. She thanked me for telling the trick, but she didn't believe in ghost, and wanted to keep it that way. She did tell other people the trick, but things went bad for them. Sometimes not knowing, is the best.
@@Kikilang60 What
@@Kikilang60 Cool....
For sure! Couldn’t have said it better myself. Such a beautiful kitty〜
@@Kikilang60 it be like that sometimes
In Monteverde, Costa Rica there is a natural bridge made out of a fig tree. Worth checking out. Not a creeping fig, but a species of tropical fig. Just goes to show how cool the growth pattern for this genus of plants is though.
Cool! I'll have to check that out some time. I saw living root bridges in India years ago, it was fascinating
Sounds like the strangler fig. Interesting plant, that one.
@@ericv00 yeah, definitely a strangler.
The best crab apple jelly I have ever had I made like maple syrup. I boiled the apples until mush, strained the liquid and boiled it down, all day, to between 1/10th to 1/8th of it's original volume. I added about 20% by volume of honey near the end, basically sweetening to taste. All of the tannins floated to the top during boiling and could be skimmed out. Every gallon (Canadian) of apples made one cup of jelly and it could be sliced like cheese at room temperature.
Did you leave the seeds in? I have like 10 crabapple trees, all covered in fruit, and I’ve been wanting to try out jelly.
in russia they make that its called apple cheese
@@Woahitsaturtlegynecologist Yes, I left the apples whole and potato mashed them while cooking.
try adding mint near the end! 😋 used to make it on the wood stove in small batches--needed to keep the humidity up somehow, lolz
@@hoperules8874 Mint belongs almost nowhere, including apple jelly.
“You need minerals in the water ...”
No problem. The tap water here is pretty much liquid rock.
@Pepre It’s more dissolved limestone, but you get the general idea.
Getting stoned by taking a shower...
"We don't drink from the aquafir, we drink the aquafir"
Weird Explorer: How the fig seeds can be turned into jello!
Me with a 100 page assignment which I have to complete and submit tomorrow: Interesting!
ikr?
same
So canned ai yu jelly is basically like marshmallows, "inspired by actual events" but none of the namesake in there.
Chin Chin better watch out for strawberry Pop-Tarts lawsuit lady. . .
Well the funny part about the wasps is that the fig actually digests it chemically so by the time you have the final product there are no wasp parts! At least that's what I choose to believe.
For the people that are concerned about insects in the fig, no need to because we do get insect's parts also in the wheat flour, chocolate bars, etc.. because insects manage to get into them making the product just with an extra protein content :)
Fiji water is slightly alkaline. That’s probably why they suggest it.
We used to oven dry figs and the juice would come out and set into jelly on the tray around the dried figs. Best dried figs ever too.
Nice to see this one featured. I used to live in Taiwan as an English Teacher, and one of the things I miss is getting lemonade with aiyu jelly in it at the night market. Maybe I should try ordering it too; I didn't know that was a possibility.
Ficus is an absolutely wild genus. Ficus vaccinioides even grows like a groundcover! Plus, I'm pretty sure they're the only genus with that sort of "inside out" fruit that is the synconium. I spent hours searching for another and the best I could find was some obscure tropical genus in the moraceae but it didn't really look like a synconium to me. And of course the Borneo ground figs are pretty wacky too, basically a tree that produces fruit, well, under the ground (or under leaf litter at least). All the Fruit seems to have a very good list of Ficus species reviews.
Really, if you aren't growing figs you're missing out. Ficus carica is temperate (should be fine all the way to the bottom of zone 8a with minimal to no dieback if you're careful with your variety selection) and is probably one of the tastiest species anyways. And the number of varieties to chose from is off the charts. Seriously do yourself a favour and try out some figs!
That's wild
Another important thing to consider is that the matter of figs containing wasps is a critical part of both organism's life cycles (unless it is self pollinating). In fact, I had read that (some) fig trees digest the female wasp once she has laid her eggs and is trapped, presumably using the nutrients to produce the fig.
@@MultipleObjectSelector that's somewhat a myth. New cultivars do not need a wasp for pollination and wasp pollination occurred in the OG fig thousands of years ago.
@@Youngstomata As you will notice I specifically excepted self-polinating Ficus. I imagine that it is quite likely that at least one wild fig species tried on this channel is wasp polinated, this species included. In fact, if this is Ficus pumila, it is polinated (likely) exclusively by Wiebesia (fmr. Blastophaga) pumilae (Chen, et. al, 2016 - DOI 10.1016/j.chnaes.2016.06.008). Whether F. pumila traps and digests the wasps, I do not know - as this trait is not necessarily present in all wasp-polinated fig varieties.
@@MultipleObjectSelector Yes I see. Interestingly there are no fig wasp species in in the US other than California. Fig wasps are endemic to the Mediterranean. The seeds in common fig females only contain seeds that are basically hollow endocarps. I imagine his africa video contained the fig pollinated by the fig wasp
I had a thought that may be more successful. Put the creeping figs with about enough water to cover in a blender and nearly puree them, and then separate the pulp with cheese cloth.
This is interesting. Had no idea Ai Yu is fig. Blows my mind. To make Ai Yu jelly, you need about 1:50 "mineral" water (it needs Ca/Mg ion to react, RO water is a no go). Also, Ai Yu is delicate and starts to decay soon after formed. The structure is unstable to hold water for long, a quarter of the jelly turns into yellowish water in a day in the fridge. That is why you don't get real Ai Yu in cans. You also can't create flavored Ai Yu by adding juice or sugar into the mineral water making the jelly, it will not form. I guess the heating up process you did with the figs might actually ruins it. What if you mimic the Ai Yu making process, cut the fig in half and sun dry it, then soak the seeds? It seems the magic all happens on something coating the seeds.
I saved your response. Bob, how do you think I can confirm with my local municipality if our water contains the right chemical/ wrong chemical makeup?
@@user-jn5zo3cz7g The jelly forming thingy in Ai Yu needs some impurities in water to form. Tab water should be fine. Hard water contains more minerals, and should work better. I used filtered water (Everpure), no problem at all. Bottled mineral water is guaranteed to work. Don't use distilled water or RO that contains almost no minerals.
I believe you can just call them or look online. You could also get a water test kit from an aquarium supply store and that might work
I remember my neighbors having a creeping plant which I thought was ivy, but it had these weird fruits that looked like figs.. Many, many years later I've discovered (thanks to you) a new fact about life.
That shout out to green dean made me sooo happy!
Here in Edmonton we have a theater that's all glass and metal in the big atrium type foyer. There's a garden in that foyer, and creeping fig used to coat the walls in places and crawl across the open ceiling and hang down in places.
Oh gee, I saw that empy fridge, and thought your were starving. Glad to find out it wasn't your home fridge. Thanks for the video.
I never realized you could use ficus pumila for anything other than decor. I’ve seen mature plants fruit in my own yard, might have to check this out
let me know if you have better luck than me :)
@@WeirdExplorer there's a few videos that show how to use the fresh figs to make it if you want I can find a link to one of them.
I never knew Ai Yu Jelly is a specialty of Taiwan until now. Thanks for sharing.
Jered! Yes! These were growing all over and KILLING our trees in New Orleans. Impossible to get rid of. My yard was littered with these things and I had no idea they were edible. Thanks again for the lesson.
Was super excited to see this as that vine covers the walls of the place I live in. Too bad it didn't work out. The no-aiyu "Aiyu Jelly" reminds me of the "tamarind" snacks actually made with mexican hawthorn fruit and artificial flavorings.
Ficus pumila fruit to me always looks like a ball bag. From my landscaping days in Australia I had quite a few in my care. Revolting overripe purple ball bags hanging everywhere... The fruit you tried at the start looked unripe to me and devoid of seeds perhaps. I love your vids Jared. Always looking forward to knowing ALL the fruits! Hi from Oz
I love your channel and watch everything you post. I just want to make a point about Fiji Water. It's probably the worst thing you could possibly consume from an ecological or social standpoint. The water is taken from an island which is one of the most remote places on Earth. It is then processed in a country where 12% of the residents don't have access to safe drinking water. The water is put into plastic bottles that had to be shipped to island. The full bottles are then shipped around the world consuming even more fossil fuels. All of this so you can consume water that has the highest amount of arsenic (yes the poison arsenic) in any commercially bottled water.
The Wonderful Company, run by two Californian billionaires, shut down the plant and fired Fiji workers when the government tried to make them pay for the natural resource they were exploiting. They also have done nothing to resolve the country's drinking water problem.
Chlorine is the chemical that will stop your jelly from setting. Mine works just fine with local tap water. If you have high levels of Chlorine in your water, you can boil it to remove Chlorine quickly, or just leave it set out for a day and it will evaporate on it's own.
Classy. Yeah I don't dig bottled water in general. Unless you're somewhere with tap water that is unsafe to drink, it is such a waste.
Some of these people who exploit to become rich forget that our lives are not indefinite and the only thing we leave is a legacy.
@@fokkerd3red618 The rich don't care. The motto "I got mine Fk you" is what they live and die by.
Oh man, your reaction when something doesn't taste very good never gets old XD
You know what I've become curious about recently? The pumpkins used for carving. I've grown them a few times and given them faces on plenty of occasions, I just never thought to try eating one...
"we gonna get that jelly!" Ha ha love your videos man. I had no idea you could do that!
I was given this every day for a "treat" at chinese school. Brings backs some good and bad memories, lol
Super cool video I had no idea figs grew on vines, nor that you could make jelly from the seeds! Sick!
@Weird Explorer If you have the mood to eat Jell-O again, using agar agar powder or sticks is a good vegan substitute for gelatin.
You had me laughing at "that's what bugs like to do" 🤣 I don't know why that's funny but it is just a perfect statement
I think eating the occasional bug goes without saying with any diet. Besides, containing wasp parts is the result of the fig life cycle.
Bugs are why peanut butter can not be considered vegan.
@@garmancathotmailcom huh
@@garmancathotmailcom ??? If you really want to know. All grown food has a bug list. You wil be surprised how many bug parts your state accepts. In just normal food.
@@shabtisis very true.. Check out the acceptable limit for ketchup as an example
And how much rat urine in milk or cockroaches in chocolate is permitted legally. Animal bones are used in refining sugar and fish bladders to filter sediment out of wine. So those foods may lack true vegan status.
As far as Taiwan goes, they love to use brown sugar syrup as an additive to a lot of cold desserts, instead of white sugar. Also basil seed drinks are super common as well and might be worth trying in the future!
Brown palm sugar...
This was absolutely fascinating. Thank you.
i adore your channel and watching your videos to learn about the world's fruits. but when you let the aiyu jelly fall out of the can and then placed the can open side down onto the counter i just about screamed and had to pause and minimize the window to take a breath. lol!
I love the way you talk to your cat
I always learn new things watching your videos. I missed you as haven't seen any for a while. You're one of the few videos I watch often. Thank you for your hard work. Side notes- you're always putting things in your mouth 😀. Whenever I watch tour video , it always bring back memories of my grandma shouting at us for eating weird plants 😂. Her yard was abundant with plants which most were edible but I did not know until I visited Brooklyn Botanical Gardens, one note mentioning is Job' s beads and a type of grass used in Ethiopia as flour. That knowledge would have been useful as the govt.had banned foods form entering the country and many of my friends had scurvy and suffered from malnutrition.( Somehow the ground won't produce any foods that were grown.) Knowing the land can save your life.
Thank you for this video ! 🌺
So one idea about why your foraged figs failed: Did you also use Fiji water to do that extraction? Because if it won't gel with regular tap water with the pure dried seeds, I doubt it'll gel any better with the whole fruit.
You may want to try another similar food: Grass jelly (仙草)
I remember seeing a creeping fig plant once when I was going to a student's house to teach.
Intresting looking fig wished it was easy to find fresh one's where I'm from doubt they can grow here , also thi nk they have to be rippen b4 using them
LOLZ! I love your face when you taste the nasty stuff! I just cut down a huge pile of branches in my yard today, and was sad when I saw all the fruit in it, which turned out to be creeping fig fruit. After waching your video, I don't feel so bad anymore. Thanks for being the guinea pig! 🤣🤣🤣
Wow! The plants themselves are beautiful!
Heck yeah another upload!
Everytime i see a weird fruit i try to see if you've had it before. I guess I'll try this one now since there's one growing near me haha.
Just ordered myself a plant! going to see if I can grow some and make it myself!
You have once again outdone yourself, Jared.
Love your videos
Hey Jared! Thinking of reviewing different pumpkin varieties this year? Maybe a pumpkin ketchup if possible 👀
Yeah! ficus genus has tones of interesting growing habits. Strangler figs are my favorite for how they make a tree over a host tree it starts out as an epiphyte on top of.
My Childhood favorite from Taiwan! The figs we used came from trees not vines.
Awesome video thank you 🙂. I was laughing so hard when you tried to get liquid from those dry fruits 😅. Not a fig variety I've ever seen or heard of. Pretty interesting! Sounds like more effort than it's worth but fun none the less. You should do more fruits that get used as veg. There are so many but fruit is fruit! Be blessed and stay safe 🙏 P.S not sure if you've covered this fruit (Cape sour fig AKA Hotnotsvy) makes a delicious jam and you get the fruits dried online.
I'll check it out! thanks
The figs I've eaten in Europe were bigger, circular and really juicy.
Also those already had a jelly like consistency.
@@WeirdExplorer pleasure
@@MrDownRater This was probably Ficus pumila, grown as an ornamental (in the style of Hedera helix [ivy] or Parthenocissus [Virginia creeper, Boston ivy] in colder climes) to cover masonry walls. (The Taiwanese plant may be another species, not very familiar to me.). Figs of commerce are almost always Ficus carica, of the Mediterranean. (Locally, other species might be used. Perhaps in the Nile or low elevations [tropical winter] of the Jordan River valleys, the sycamore fig might still be grown and sold as it was in Biblical times. Ai Yu comes from a Ficus vine from tropical East Asia.). We don't expect a Bradford ("flowering") pear to taste like a Bartlett = Williams or Bosc, since they are different species.
Expert: "That's impossible!"
Armature: "Yes, this jar here contains impossible..."
Oooooh I have always liked the “less rubbery” brand of Grass Jelly in a can and know that there was a green “version” and a yellow “version” but never knew the origin of the Ai Yu Jelly until now. Never gave it much thought beyond “oh, look it comes in different colors” lol would be interested in seeing more origins of canned products 😉
Hey dude I enjoyed it and would love to try it..I love sour lime lemon also...I would like to know if you are running out of new exotic fruit?
Love your channel. I hope it continues to succeed. IDK if you've considered it, but maybe you should source exotic produce and retail it online....
On another note, I'm glad that you brought up that figs have bugs in them. It's funny how many vegans often don't realize that they eat a ton of bugs. I eat kosher, so I check produce for bugs and don't eat infested items (such as broccoli) unless they're strictly supervised and packaged using methods that ensure them to be bug free. Strawberries are also infested. Figs are infested year round too lol
I got the impression from Wikipedia that adding sugar before the liquid sets prevents gelling. Maybe flavorings are okay?
i laughed every time you cut to wobbling the jelly can
I like when you include clips of the jiggly jello
Neat. I wonder if it gets stronger/thicker with higher concentration (probably), and how well it interacts with other gel substances, such as agar agar.
i laughed everytime you had a clip of you tapping that canned ai yu jelly lol
this is the thing i would actually like to make myself, hope ill do it one day :)
Can you try germinating some of the seeds to see if it is legit?
If it is then like mentioned already the reason US fruit wouldn't work may be because there isn't the native fig wasp species needed to pollinate the fig and produce mature fruit and seeds.
I’m here for you making that jelly jiggle lol
Awesome video.
Did you suggest bel / bael fruit as potential flavoring? Looked fresh so wondering where you're buying them?
Most boba tea places in NYC don't have aiyu jelly but the chain Chun Yang Tea does feature it prominently. Maybe you can try it out and let me know if it's authentic aiyu or not (if it's distinguishable at all).
The best thing here is saying "Creeping Fig Jello" and then people wonder if it's jello made from creeping figs, or Fig-Jello that creeps.
3:08 i found when i cut open a pomegranate about a week ago that i got a really strong green bean smell from the membrane, and it was partially in the arils themselves which made it slightly unappetizing. i'm assuming it's a sign of something being unripe, as we all know how stores can do the whole 'ripen off the vine' style of processing. does it generally indicate unripeness?
O! Hope someone answers. Saw some at a chain store and wondered same thing.
@Weird Explorer , Hunt's Juicy Jells, found in the refrigerated snack section of the store, are entirely Vegan, and come in multiple fruit flavours. My favourite is strawberry, but the cherry and orange are okay as well. No grape, nor any other flavours that I know of, but still.
i've seen creeping fig growing all around New Orleans, but i had no idea that it actually made a fruit! it's usually kept neat and maybe it needs to grow more wildly as you found by the ferry?
It has to mature near the tops of trees. By that time though, it's begun to kill the tree it grows on. I struggle to keep my mother's vines on the house and out of the yard.
Whoa, the seeds are expensive. Someone also selling the creeping fig variety that produces aiyu seeds, almost the same price of the seeds. Both are in my shopping cart.
Well I do live in Colorado but tap water works fine. Touch of citrus works nice.
You could try using Kool-aid powder to flavor it. Unsweetened Kool-aid is really sour too, if that's something you want. OH! what if your flavoring was in power form but instead of adding it before it gels, you put it on "after". That would give it such an interesting texture too. Kinda dry, powdery or crusty on the outside, with that gelatin on the inside. That might be neat. I don't know first hand how the gel tastes, but maybe a powdered pecan or something would work. You can just use the Kool-aid powder as a topping as well. Like I mentioned the Unsweetened powder is really sour, and when I was little we used to use suckers and Kool-aid as like a poverty-tier "fun-dip". If you wanted to try something more savory with it, you could use a ramen packet. I also used to do thing where I'd use honey and a chili ramen on popcorn. The chili powder with the turmeric and everything pairs really nicely with some drizzles of clover honey. Especially if you make the popcorn with coconut oil. But that's an aside. With how subtle the gel probably is, you might be able to do all kinds of stuff with it.
A potato ricer is great for squeezing juice out of a lot of different things. Just use the plate with the smallest holes. I don't think even a ricer would have gotten anything out of those dry figs
The jelly boop edit 😂
0:57 Are the sails on that picture to your right made of many strings? it looks like it. Looks Cool.
Have never had a vine fig. We did have two fig trees on the family property though, planted in the 70s. I grew up eating them and the hundreds of leftovers would be made into a jelly or preserves. Unfortunately the trees died during hurricane Harvey.
That's interesting the creeping fig was on a railroad sound wall--because near me there's a railroad sound wall covered in creeping fig. Wonder if it's a US railroad thing?
I didn't know that creeping figs were edible.
If you would like to do another "seed-turned-jelly" series, Nicandra physalodes will do this too!
I would use agar-agar and a healthy alternative for the sugar, might as well add some berries for flavouring
Also works with basil seeds.
You should try making cheese with unripe fig rennet, I have heard that is a thing.
Man..figs are really interesting.. I'll have to try that
@@WeirdExplorer apparently the latex sap that comes out of unripe figs has an enzyme that curdles milk just like calf rennet.
Oh, I wanted you to taste the faux UI jelly from the can too. Maybe it had so many chemicals in it that you didn't want to try it.
(second comment sorry) I observed one day the juice leaked from ripe peel of the pawpaw and formed a jelly which I tasted. It was delicious and I even considered sharing this observation. I know green papaw peel is used to tenderise meat so 🤷🏽♂️🤷🏽 there may be something worth investigating. ( My mum would say the seeds are edible. Later on, I learnt it was toxic 😀 but apparently in all amounts prevent parasites🤷🏽♂️🤷🏽🤦 sorry just old wives tales from my family. None of us got sick though).
Is that papaya, orange fruit with lots of shiny, round black seeds inside? Papaya fruits apparently have an enzyme called papain, which breaks down proteins and that's why it is used in meat tenderizers and marinades (rather like the enzyme bromelain in pineapples).
@@SY-ok2dq oh wow. Thanks for the info. ♥️🌹.
Yes it is papaya. We call it both names. I can't stand the smell but had to eat it when mum gave it. ♥️🤦😂
If you blend the first type of figs in a Vitamix there's a chance the solids will float to the top in the fridge and you would get more of what creates the gelatin in the liquid. You could then remove the solid with a spoon and be left with the jello at the bottom.
Damn your cat is super cuuuuuuute 😍🥰❤️❣️ btw i love your videos ❣️
Were the seeds you used the same as seeds sold for planting? Did you use the seeds leftover after soaking for anything? Seems like they could be put in cookies or bread.
this channel is gonna explode
You do need some kind of mineral for the AiYu to gel. Some people use bananas for its potasium.
I wonder if you can flavor the liquid that the seeds soak in instead of flavoring the set jelly with syrup.
I had no idea this is how they make grass jelly. Jared, do you know how to make nata de coco jelly? It's a lot firmer than grass jelly, almost like tapioca.
I don't know why, but the thumbnail image for the video totally reminds me of the "look at this photograph" nickelback meme 😄
Wow, I really want to try this but the amazon product you linked shows that the product is unavailable :(. I'm not sure if that means it's sold out or it's geoblocked. Do you happen to know where else I can get my hands on the seeds? Or can you tell me what the exact species name for this creeping fig variety is?
hm still works for me. search for "ai yu jelly seeds". the exact variety is: ficus pumila var. awkeotsang
@@WeirdExplorer Hmm does your Amazon say the seeds are still in stock? Because mine says it's Currently Unavailable. Maybe Amazon is not permitted to sell seeds where I live because all other Aiyu seeds I found on Amazon said that they were currently unavailable or unable to deliver. No worries, though. I found an Etsy channel that sells the seeds. :) Thanks for the help!
i feel like you can make jelly out of so many different things
I wonder if you can do the same with basil seeds. They also have a layer of mucus around them that swells up when the seeds get wet. You can probably find bags of basil seeds and it might have a good taste
They absolutely use them in drinks in Taiwan, just like aiyu.
Some subspecies of ficus and possible ficus pumilia?? are psychoactive and potentially dangerous as well. Theres one in my yard I've done chemistry with. It and the thick vine associated bleeds a white sap which is psychoactive, much like a sedative / GABAergic feeling? It was some sort of calycanthus species. As you can see I utilized this sap very often after I realized I won't die from it. Very weird and I am still unsure of the exact species in my yard, but I think it was a stressed ficus pumilia growing on my really old oak tree out front.
SUPER weird seeing him use this because they do look exactly like ficus pumilia (The ones I have in my yard)