The Internet Does NOT Know What BERGAMOT Is (The Fascinating Reason Why) - Weird Fruit Explorer
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- Опубліковано 26 сер 2024
- Ep 565. The Internet Does NOT Know What BERGAMOT Is - The Fascinating Reason Why
Binomial Name: Citrus Bergamia
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This was a very different episode than usual but I felt this misinformation spreading around needed to be cleared up.
Would you like more episodes like this in the future? If so, what are some other topics you'd like me to explore?
This was awesome 👌 you're like a fruity Sherlock Holmes 😀 😄 you should make this into a new series called weird investigator
Yes, please always clear up such misinformation! It benefits everyone who needs the correct information! Thank you for your valuable work!
This was actually a great episode. I bought a bergamot years ago when I saw them in a market, though I never figured out what to do with it (I basically knew -- and know -- it as an ingredient in Earl Grey tea and perfumery). Then, a year or two later, I bought some Stash Earl Grey Tea and the fruit on the label was clearly entirely different. And I never knew what to make of the discrepency. Thanks so much for clearing this up!
What a great surprise! I loved the deep dive
real vs "fake" cinnamon
To be fair, Dr. Oz really shouldn't be anyones main source of information.
I'd go a step further and say "If Dr. Oz says it, that's reasonably strong evidence that it's false."
I've seen too much misinformation on his show that i wouldn't take anything that he promots. Its just sensationalism. All they care about are the ratings.
@@cat3crazy Correction: All he cares about is the $$$$
This wouldn't be the first time dr.Oz contradicts himself. It's honestly kind of a low tier meme.
Or secondary, or tertiary, or...
Someone needs to crossbreed the bergamot and the makrut lime just to really cause chaos.
Crossbreeding plants can lead to wacky results. I saw a vis somewhere of a dude that mixed many plants into one stem, resulting in a tree that gave like 5 different fruits
@@KlavierMenn that's amazing
@@KlavierMenn I need to see that
@@KlavierMenn i also want to see that.
@@adamsoldier9898 I was slightly mistaken. its not 5. its _40_
You’re not overreacting even remotely. Public figures spreading misinformation needs to be addressed every time it happens.
Amen
my favorite brand of fish sauce is called "squid brand" and has a huge squid on the label, but theres no squid in fish sauce. Although to be fair it does say on the label "contains no squid" lol. thailand marketing strategies at it best.
Chinese families all eat their panda sauce.. definitely no pandas. (it's a really yummy brand of oyster flavor sauce...which ALSO has no oysters...lol)
Jars of baby food with a picture of a baby on the label. Yum yum!
I have the same bottle of fish sauce LOL.
@@toomanymarys7355 oyster sauce usually have oysters
@@toomanymarys7355 There is a popular dessert in China called Wife cake and there is not wife in it, although luckily there is no one put a wife on the package as well
I like how Jared was surprised to find someone who correctly identified bergamot but then disappointedly realized it was one of his videos
I think he knew it was his video immediately
Naomi got it right
Noami did
You're not the hero bergamot asked for, but you are the hero it needs
That's not BERGAMONT, but this is the best comment.
LOL
Very funny. Well played Sir
Dumb internet... 😡
"That photo right there is... crooked" about killed me.
My first reaction when you showed that green wrinkly citrus fruit was "That's not a bergamot, it's a kefir lime!" Thank you educating me about the name change, I didn’t know about the negative association of the old name.
Liar
The name is definitely offensive, and not good to use today, but there are some confusing false etymologies for it. This one is slightly more of a mixed bag of offensive etymology compared to some of the other examples. And that's not fully explained in the video. You'd have to Google it.
Interesting if you're a historian and actually want to bring up the etymology, but kinda a moot point considering good localizations should try not to include words that are easily recognized to be highly offensive to the population there. A subset of the people moving from South Africa to the United States probably really don't want to see that word, so there's no need to perpetuate it when the word makrut is right there. Sometimes this kind of change can be seen as misguided sensitivity or a lot of work over very little remaining material offense, but in this particular case there's very little reason not to make that change. It's pretty low effort.
i'm italian, it's strange to see all youtube confused on something that here it's so common. sometimes you forget how big the world really is
I've never seen it in my area.
And I am an Italian living in Thailand. So I well know both fruits. Completely different in taste and shape even if related
As a Brazilian
Bergamot
Tangerine
That lime on the video
Mandarin
Are all the same fruit over here.
But we also have names for it.
So bergamot is Italian tangerine etc
same, here in brazil its the most popular fruit ever
@@seemysight as frutas são diferentes mas pertencem a mesma espécie...igual aos cães eu acho.
that "not bergamot" word gonna hunts my dream, just everyone i know standing menacingly saying "not bergamot" many times.
Imagine your sleep paralysis demon just chanting “not bergamot, not bergamot, not bergamot, not bergamot, not bergamot, not bergamot, not bergamo-“ 1 million times.
@@TotesAnon while I was forced to make earl gray tea with one hand.
@@feningancrit4279 no, instead of making tea you would be trying not to poop your pants while desperately trying to fall asleep.
@@feningancrit4279 because instead of imagining my sleep paralysis demon saying not bergamot I imagined that one among us character with lips saying not bergamot.
@@TotesAnon well shit
Now every time I'm sourcing my bergamot products and find a fake, I'm going to hear "not bergamot" in your voice. 😂
Thank you teach. Very informative!
Lol
For anybody genuinely that curious, Brazil nuts used to be and sometimes, in some circles, still is called an "n-word toe" just with the actual word, instead of n-word. Very problematic, to say the least. It was common in the south and southern midwest.
The fuck does the toe have to do with the brazil nut
Racism can be fun between consenting adults
It's said up north, too, as far as Pennsylvania. My grandpa calls it that.
Said in chicago by people born in yr 1901.
What on earth is "n-word toe"? What is n-word? What is k-word? Why they don't teach you THIS english in school? I'm Not a native English speaker....
I love how you speak of Christian Dior as if it was like a UA-cam influencer and not a fashion brand founded in the 40s
Christian Dior is a pre-UA-cam influencer.
@@capturedflame not all plants are herbs😉
@@capturedflame people that rat on about definitions are annoying. Shane’s statement had nothing to do with what you’re talking about, and I bet they were trying to use the botanical definition for “herb” too lmao
@@oceanusprocellarum6853 What do you mean 'had nothing to do with'? Daniel was the only one that mentioned anything related to the word 'herb' prior to Shane's comment. I think Shane just didn't understand what Daniel said.
@@OEDODRAGON This is an unnecessarily long comment for something that doesn't really matter so forgive me.
I tend to say something has "nothing to do with" a conversation because it doesn't matter to the conversation. Sure, if you're a computer you'd think that Shane was on-topic because the word "herb" was mentioned previously, but humans understand context and flow of conversation and the meanings of sentences, and you can clearly see that it doesn't matter that not all plants are herbs. Herbalists still misidentified Bergamot, a plant that is an herb. We're not talking about other plants; just Bergamot. I hope you see what I mean. I was just annoyed by the smug emoji paired with the non-sequitur comment lol
What the internet doesn't know could fill the internet.
thousands of times over
It's trying. Oh boy, is it trying lol
To add to the confusion the worst is that there is three kinds of bergamot one is a pear (since bergamot originally means lord's pear), wild bergamot a flower, and the most popular one the bergamot citrus. So it's in total 2 citruses (thai and citrus bergamia), the flower, and a pear. 🤯Most confusions at the same place.
My favorite example of something like this is that when I was living in Spain and learned that both blueberries and cranberries have the same name (arándano) sometimes red arándano is used to specify cranberry juice but I've also seen bags of dried cranberries sold with pictures of plump blueberries 🫐 on it. Since neither is common in Spain i think most people haven't seen the ripe version of the fruit.
Wow, at least makrut and bergamot are both citrus fruits, they both smell good, and they're both sour. Cranberries can't even be eaten raw but I had blueberries 10 minutes ago raw in my yogurt.
Love how a tea video became a crusade against non fact-checking health gurus XD
and he never made the tea...
subscribe for part 2!
I mean, if someone purporting to have alternative health knowledge can't identify a fruit, its probably a good red flag to avoid their advice/products lol
This isn't a tea video... That's like calling a car video where they talk about one of the wheels for a few seconds a "wheel video". How did yyou even have the thought that this is a tea video? And then somehow not realize how dumb that is.
@@MuscarV2 because he wanted to make earl grey tea with the bergamot, my dude
This started as a video about making tea.
It became a video spilling tea.
Still tea.
This is why Latin names are so important! Wild Bergamot/Bee Balm (Monarda fistulosa) is a plant that smells very similar to Bergamot Orange (Citrus bergamia), and you can get essential oils of both with the word "Bergamot" on them, but if you don't double check the latin name, you may be end up making a VERY different Earl Grey tea...
hehe fistulosa, latin names are great.
latin is not the native (functional) way to identify indigenous life. Native Folks do not need latin indoctrination and its about time you johnny come latelys accept that and stop causing worldwide confusion
@@Shivaware he brought fistulosa, what is your counter? We will accept any species name in the aromatic citrus family, must be vividly descriptive or hilarious.
@@maebandy hehe NATIVE NAMES are GR8 🐯
@@Shivaware I thought the girl that trained me behind the bar at my first club job was native bc the kitchen crew used to call her the fire jackal. Upon closer translation I figured out they meant hyena and she had given one of them the clap even after he discovered her bonus bits. Native names are bitchen, derogatory closeted nicknames masquerading as native names blow hard. Pun intended. I just wish I understood what they had been saying the first time so I didn't playfully woot out 'aeeeooooh fire jackal' when she was doing a spit flame trick in the middle of a fri night rush. She almost choked on the ethanol, man I still feel that hurt. Anyways, cheer me up with a good one, any kingdom, phylum or class. Just no Savannah or prairie canines, por favor.
Omg at my grandparents when I was young they always had a bowl of nuts with a nutcracker. I had never seen a Brazilian nut and ask my grandpa what it was and he told me the super not good name for them. I told my mom later and she was like yeah no that’s not what it’s called and please don’t call it that again.
Omg! i just search the name wtf lmao! People are freaking stupid for using that term on food wtf im laughing cause how utterly stupid it is. Makes you think how people think back then like just disgusting asf.
@@cheesymarshmellows seriously ridiculous 🤦♀️
@@cheesymarshmellows as soon as he said racial slur I said to myself “it definitely has the n word in it”
I just searched online for it! Terrible! I'd never heard them called that before!
My mom called them that and I cringed every time she did.
Fun Fact: Bergamont Essential Oil is fantastic, but ALL Essential Oils that derive from Citrus Fruits are "phototoxic" and should not be worn on the skin in direct sunlight. If you've ever tried lemon juice in your hair in the summer, you know this. OTHER NOTE: Always purchase your essential oils from a reputable supplier, who is open about their products/farming practices/supply chain.
What does citrus oil turn into, when exposed to sunlight?
@@shumeister1059 Bergamot (citrus aurantium bergamia) contains furocoumarins (bergapten and oxypeucedanin) which in UV light release free radicals and singlet oxygen that damages cellular matter. The furocoumarins form cross-links to skin cell DNA making it susceptible to UV light. Exposure to UV light up to 72 hours later may cause second degree burns in some condition. Many of the citrus oils containing limonene, gamma-terpene and beta-pinene like Bergamot will also create formaldehyde and other damaging particulates when exposed to ozone. I don't use many citrus cleaning products as I have equipment that produces ozone.
@@theradioweyr Wow, thanks for enlightening me! I appreciate it!
What happens with lemon juice on hair?
@@seronymus makes it more blonde i guess?
12:30 Ironically, by admitting that you have no medical training, and are not qualified to give that kind of information, you're automatically _more_ qualified to give that kind of information than dr. oz, who _does_ have some medical training, and therefore should know better than to spread such falshoods.
But the talk of some guy who promotes snake oil while flashing his Degree sure seems to be though lol
He is a great cardiologist though and he should stick to that.
All the dislikes are from the fruit health bloggers.
Reminds me of how I often see Helichrysum italicum, sometimes listed as H. angustifolium sold as Curry Plant in the herb sections of garden centres when it is actually inedible, and it is actually Murraya koenigii or the curry-leaf tree that is used in Asian cooking for flavour.
Welcome to the problems faced by nurseries. "I want to buy a Mock Orange." "Okay, which one of the four completely different plants with that name would you like?" People get annoyed with us for using Latin names, and think its pretentious, but it is the only way to know we're both talking about the same thing.
Tell me about it! I wanted a silver maple and ended up with a silver leaf maple.
So true!
...Then you get the problem of little documented species, or the species name is still changing, and no one knows what on earth you're meant to call it. I've seen it happen a few times in the fish community where people most certainly didn't use the right scientific notation, which is. Annoying.
People who can't deal with the proper Latin names or even get annoyed by others using them are destined to stay simpletons for their entire lives.
Heck, most of the time you don't even need to know the species, just the genus. Much more helpful still than trivial names.
Mock-orange is also the common name of a flower bush, isnt it
Only americans hate using latin names afaik. In Europe (where we started this ages ago, since with all the different languages and dialects floating around we needed to do *something* to stop the confusion) it is not a big deal. Of couse we have local names, but if you want a specific plant (or animal) you use the latin one, it is their "real" name, after all, not their local nickname.
broooo my guy weird fruit explorer just dropped the hottest diss track on Dr Oz broooo 🔥🔥🔥
Roasted🔥
🤣🤣🤣🤣
Dr Oz is a hack and will take money from any old company trying to push their product lol
Dr. Oz is a dipsh*t.
@@TheLmack8 i heard he id a jew
@@dac518 that does not play into dipsh*t levels.... At all
That lumpy lime could also be called "seed lime" because is had a butt-ton of seeds in it.
This was easily the most entertaining video of yours I've seen. More of this please.
You should make T-shirts that say 'Not Bergamot' with the picture of the Makrut lime
I would definitely get one of those!
💯💯💯🍋🍋🍋
There's a flower native to large portions of North America that is also called Bergamot. It's a part of Lamiacea, the Mint Family and is also used to flavor teas. It's the flower you briefly flashed at the beginning of your video.
I think bee balm is the more common name for that flower
@@XoroksComment you're right, it is. Bee Balm and Horse Mint are more common names depending on where you're at.
I hate how common names cause so much confusion.
I've heard all three names used equally by different people. Different species of that plant are also native to Europe & it was the Greeks & Romans who used to call it Bergamot.
I was going to share exactly this.
“That ugly lemon. I need that seggzy green thing!”
Glad you covered DoctorOZ really well, I have found him promoting multiple bullshit remedies on national television!
Here before the Oz false copyright strike
Yep.. I'm braced for it. But its clearly fair use, so I'll fight it if it gets taken down.
@@WeirdExplorer Good! Never give up the fight!
Dr. Oz is a right-wing conspiracy theorist that attacked Dr. Fauci (A renowned doctor on contagious diseases) and spread lies about the Coronvirus that put the lives of millions of people at risk in order to cover up the lies made by his shady friend --- Crooked Trump! So, don't expect that charlatan (Dr. Oz) to be truthful and knowledgable about anything! He makes good money spreading lies and selling snake oil medicines that are made by companies that bribe him to push their stuff to gullible people!
@@grandwonder5858 Thanks. What this really needed was an injection of toxic, low-information politics.
@@stumbling just like Dr Oz then
Kinda glad they're not the same ones because Makrut lime scent is so strong people here use them as mothballs lmao
Yeah a little bit can be good with other strong flavors, but I wouldn't want it as a tea
I have actually had this discussion, (I work in the horticulture field) and it's not easy winning an argument when the internet gets it wrong! Great video.
"This stuff makes me crazy!"
I never knew these naming mix-ups were occurring, but now this is making me crazy too.
Him saying "Not bergamot" has been added to my soundboard.
Yup that's gonna be in my head all day 😂🙏
Lol like no pomegranates
@@rustyteel-blurangeredge NO POMEGRANATESSSS
The word bergamot lost all meaning niw
@@madeline569 NINOOOO
The flower you saw on MiGardeners channel was actually called Bergamot or Bee Balm. It's only called Bergamot as well because it tastes just like the Bergamot citrus
Love MIGardener
Normally called Wild Bergamot though, not just Bergamot
@@Dzakku He calls it “wild bergamot” in the title of the video. It’s also not a new term for it.
I lived by a old English Woman in Chicago who grew her own tea and for her Bagamot tea she used the flowers and it tasted just like English tea brands so maybe they don't use the fruit maybe that's a Italian thing.
When you first said "this is not bergamot" I immediately thought "isn't Calabrian bergamot different from Thai bergamot?" and hey presto that's exactly what's going on. :D
Idky this showed up in my recommended videos, but I just spent a surprisingly enjoyable 20 minutes listening to a man go on a rant about citrus fruit. Very interesting and well put together.
I am Thai and I confirm your data 👍. We have a lot of confusion here as well when we're referring to bergamot in perfumery.
มะกรูด ก็คือมะกรูด มะกรูดในวีดีโอ คืออันที่ใช้ทำน้ำหอมได้ดีมากๆ
That's why you only listen to Thai people when you're looking for advice on spicy food. Just kidding.
So clearly you now need to do an episode in which you make (pseudo) Earl Grey tea flavored with makrut lime oil.
Ooh.. that wouldn't be good. Makrut lime rind in a small amount are good in thai curry, but too much and it tastes like soap.
Honestly that might actually taste good. Not Early Grey, but something else that's still cool.
I like that idea!
@@WeirdExplorer
Hey, can you review a “clem-tri-clem” ?
Look on the Hardy Citrus blog for this one, it’s a clementine crossed with a poncirus crossed again with a clementine and it looks fantastic - bright orange outside and a deep green inside.
@@WeirdExplorer The leaf oil might be better if you can use little enough of it - a strange intense liquorice-aniseed that is not either.
That Strawberry Tree Fruit looks just like a Lychee to me
Doesn't taste like one
Doctor Oz is the kind of upstanding health professional who would flog urushiol as an all-natural organic exfoliant.
Ah, yes. Urushiol. My favorite natural chemical to get on my skin. Everyone loves brushing up against plants containing it. I mean, deer eat it all the time! How bad could it be?
Mehmet Oz: "Pay no attention to that man behind the curtain!"
Mehmet?
@@jeil5676 His other first name besides "Doctor."
The special Emerald City bergamot is, of course, green and fake.
@@pattheplanter Liars and shysters and boors, oh my!
dr oz DEFINITELY doesnt know what he's talkin bout, we know that even without the bergamot episode
thank you for this great video! I’m married to a Brit and we drink tea 2-3 times per day. Earl Grey is my “ride or die” , so this was awesome information. It goes to show that everything you see on TV or Google is NOT the truth! We should stop letting the media decide what’s true. For example, the news constantly “shows the wrong photo while talking about something else”. But many regard it as the end all be all of factual information. Makes me insane! Thanks for doing your own homework on this!
This is the most delightfully pedantic video I have ever come by on the Internet.
Now I want a gif of Jared going "Bad! Bad Doctor Oz!" with the rolled up paper. Awesome.
You are the perfect person to dispell this sort of misinformation. Thank you. We live in a world with so much disinformation that it is important to have people dispell that misinformation while also clearly rationalizing why and how with clear facts that also gives all parties the benefit of the doubt. Very well done.
Thanks for schooling us! Makrut lime leaf is used in Thai soup and curry paste.
I love how he is just becoming a teacher the further he goes in
Like almost the whole class got a problem wrong and he's just disappointed with the result.
It's lucky I consider you an authority on weird fruit and wouldn't even consider going elsewhere!
Facts.
Same.
I'd personally like to see more episodes in which you don't try various fruits but instead proceed to spend 20 minutes yelling at Dr. Oz.
I would sub to a channel that just hates on Dr. Oz
defiantly, this is the content I want hehe
I am in for this.
Yess
a channel aimed at calling out all the companies and tactics that use the psychological inclinations of elderly people to sell quack medicine, finance scams, moneyorder theft, moats for houses and generally pit younger generations against the old for profit is one I would subscribe all my elderly family and friends to when I have to go fix their "web-puter" issues.
We've noticed this also!! We grow lots of specialty citrus, including makrut lime, bergamots, sevilles, citrons, buddha-hand citrons . . . sometimes people ask us for fruit for photographic purposes, and apparently someone got them mixed up. When noticed, we alerted the company immediately. They even use the makrut lime pics where the leaves are shown, which is a dead giveaway (double lobed leaves). The internet is crazy . . . I just alerted another candle company that they got it wrong.
This is the part of the internet I come to in order to learn stuff. Well done!
I am LIVING for fruit-related drama and call-outs
In italy "Bergamotto" is quite popular, and the majority of the global production of essential oil (pure, not conterfait) is made in Calabria region.
And Bergamotto is exactley like that you had in your hand.
I'm Russian and I have never heard of the citrus bergamot before but I have heard of the herb that supposedly is used to make earl gray tea I have foraged for it before and it makes great tea that tastes like earl gray and I believe the citrus is actually used to make a tea called lady gray that has a strong citrus taste and yes has a real close relation to earl gray
edit here is a link to the Britannica page describing the plant bergamot www.britannica.com/plant/bergamot.
@@thecraftycreeper3167 I don't know about this herb, honestly i didn't know about the teas with bergamot oil either. But the fruite in his hand was just like a "Bergamotto" selled all around italy, even tho you find this, in store, much more unripe.
Plus, in the video there was a lot of talking about essential oil, and i know for a fact that the principal use of this fruite is for essential oil production.
@@thecraftycreeper3167 That is not a correct guess of where the confusion lies. Earl Grey tea most definitely uses the citrus bergamot. I am very familiar with the herb as it grows wild everywhere around me. It is a mint and I do not think it tastes much like the bergamot in Earl Grey. It goes much better as a replacement for oregano or basil in things like pasta sauce, although it also will make a good minty tisane. Lady Grey was created by Twinings in the 90s and is mostly just Earl Grey with less bergamot oil because some people don't like how strong it is in Earl Grey.
Are they easy to grow? I have family in Italy, I wonder if they can send seeds or something.
@@thecraftycreeper3167 if an earl grey tea is made from a herb, it is not earl grey. Earl grey tea should be made with a mix of black tea and the extract of the rind of the bergamot citrus fruit. The herbaceous plant you are referring to is also called bergamot but it is properly called Monarda and is a part of the mint family (I have grown a few plants from seed). There is numerous common names for it including bee balm and hose balm etc in English.
มะกรูด pronounced ma-gkroot not with a hard K sound.Every one who doesn’t speak Thai will be fooled by the official romanisation of the first letter of the Thai alphabet,myself included.The Thai will translate ก as K in most words,for example Ko Samui but Thais do not say Ko Samui it is closer to Go Samui as the go in gossamer!This is a very easy way to pick someone who has never studied the Thai language.Magkroot is not Bergamot.Bergamot is grown in Calabria southern Italy where my father comes from and is a regional symbol.
man you absolutely destroyed that doctors show. lmao
the roasting just kept going. this is just awesome
"why is there a fish on the bottle??" is a legendary quote
And: “Not bergamot, 𝗇𝗈𝗍 𝖻𝖾𝗋𝗀𝖺𝗆𝗈𝗍, 𝗻𝗼𝘁 𝗯𝘂𝗿𝗴𝗮𝗺𝗼𝘁, 𝘯𝘰𝘵 𝘣𝘶𝘳𝘨𝘢𝘮𝘰𝘵, 𝙣𝙤𝙩 𝙗𝙪𝙧𝙜𝙖𝙢𝙤𝙩, 𝐍𝐎𝐓 𝐁𝐔𝐑𝐆𝐀𝐌𝐎𝐓, ክ ዐ ፕ ጌ ሁ ዪ ኗ ል ጠ ዐ ፕ !”
@@TotesAnon: You keep using Amharic characters. I do not think they mean what you think they mean.
@@sdfkjgh What do they actually mean then?
Reminded me of Twin Peaks: "There was a _fish_ in the percolator!"
😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
In certain regions of Brazil we use the term "bergamota" to name tangerines, but as far as I know it's only a cultural thing
depois a gente fala da pokan e margot
"Why is there a fish on the bottle?!?!?!?!" Was waaaay funnier to me than it should have been
Just to be clear, Wild Burgamot as the American flower was named after Burgamot fruit because the leaves/flowers were used as substitutes to make Earl Grey tea once upon a time.
Wild Bergamot’s botanical name is Monarda Fistulosa just to avoid confusion.
Okay, so I watched this video the other day and today while I was at the pharmacy, I happened to see bergamot essential oils (I did not buy it, just happened to notice it on the shelf) and immediately noticed the picture on the box was of a makrut lime. I definitely learn things watching your videos!
in brazil there's the word "bergamota" where in some places is literally just another nome for tangerine
I was surprised/confused when he showed the fruit and it wasn't a tangerine
Just recently I learned that tangerine and clementine are different fruits, I knew them as mandarinas
It's also known as 'mexerica' or 'ponkan'. Ponkan (Citrus Reticulata) is BIG, SWEET and ORANGE. I love em
Love the dedication to finding the truth. I'm glad you are so passionate about this mislabeling/misrepresenting issue. Who knows but I hope you can make a dent in all the confusion. Keep up the great work love the channel!
A great follow-up to this video would be one about the flowers often used alongside vanilla beans for "vanilla" packaging.
I feel the Dr. Oz article thing is partly his giant team of lawyers watching the show and being like "oh shit we're gonna get sued" so they legalese some language on the site for safety.
The fake influencers on the internet want to use the weirdest fruit picture for the clickbait
"DOCTORS HATE HIM. FIND OUT HOW HE CURED CANCER WITH THIS WEIRD GRAPE FRUIT"
**it's a pineapple**
“UNKNOWN FRUIT, DISCOVERED BY A MOM HAS EVERYONE TALKING”
Work at home mother discovers the secret to eternal shilling.
Ironic coming from you
@Aquatic Typhoon The guy was universally insufferable back in the day. Racist. Cheated in competitive pokemon while trying to be an authority on the game's competitive community. Did the same for like, three other games. Just generally really obnoxious and by extension very disliked by a lot of people.
You may call yourself a "geek," but accuracy in meaning is important.
My favorite smell in THE WORLD! Bergamot is the smell of cool, clean, sleepy, sunny bliss. It's impossible to feel depressed when surrounded by the magic of bergamot. 🥰
(and I'm not into essential oils - I discovered this effect traveling in Italy)
UA-cam army assemble for we have a great task ahead! It is our duty to search for every bergamot video and spam "NOT BERGAMOT" in the comment section.
Locked and loaded
Huhu challenge day
Note To Self: Don’t take medical advice from TV doctors...
...especially from the Dr. Oz show. He's only interested in the $$$$.
Your passion shows so much in this video and it's giving me inspiration 🙏🙏
I have been collecting and growing citrus plants in the Vancouver area. My first crop of bergamot will be ripe this fall and have been harvesting my first makrut lime leaves this summer. Thank you for being one of the inspirers for this project. Keep up the great work!
Properly drying and grating the rind into smaller flakes should intensify the flavor in a tea a lot.
It has to be slow dried over a month or so tho so the fruit can properly dry and not develop some unwanted yucky flavors when fast drying.
Petition for 'Fish Tylenol' to be available as merch for the channel. Id pay extra if it turned out to be strawberry fruit flavoured 😆
Wow just found you and will be a regular watcher, very informative and educational.
welcome!
FYI, bergamot is also the name of various herbs in genus Monarda. At least some of the flowers you were claiming were not bergamot appeared to be bergamot.
So I’m a fragrance enthusiast and in fragcom we always talk about bergamot being a prevalant note. I wonder how often were talking about citrus bergamia vs a makrut lime.
I think the ones used in fragrances is either wild bergamot (monarda fistulosa) or Bergamot (citrus bergamia.)
they have distinctly different smells so i would be surprised if they were misrepresented by the purveyors themselves. no wait no i wouldn't there are several stages of idiocy between formulation and retail.
At least for more reputable/artisanal parfumeurs, I’ve typically seen some sort of the sourcing or species detail for ingredients too. For bergamot, I see the Italian kind quite often as a top note.
I’m a fragrance person as well. Makrut lime (which is a bitch to try to grow in Arizona, as I’m Thai and have tried several times lol) is significantly less-common than Italian bergamot in perfumery. There’s a few niche perfumers that have utilized it, check out the fragrantica link: www.fragrantica.com/notes/Kaffir-Lime-958.html - Prissana and Dusita are fanatic Thai independent perfume houses, btw
it's usually Italian bergamot that is used in fragrances. and usually houses will label ingredients "Italian bergamot" or "Citron" or "yuzu"
perfumers are equally passionate about proper ingredients
it already didnt sound like a word but it sounded even less like a word after hearing him say it 500 billion times in a row
It somehow got me laughing; like Peter (Family Guy) rolling around holding his knee... but saying Not Bergamot, not bergamot, Not Bergamot...
@@tetsuoZshima in that it went on for way too long? lol
I got semantic satiation hard from that.
@@burpeemetaldrumguy is this english
Not bergamot
Watching this while drinking bergamot iced tea
I appreciated this episode and you finding out the facts. Thank you for going down the misinformation rabbit hole for us.
Just to clarify, the lime leaf was not named after the racial slur in South Africa. Both words share the same arabic root meaning "foreigner" or "infidel". As a South African I have seen the word used here on imported goods using the lime as a milk substitute.
But it really is the worst slur here.
It also means something like "heretic" in some South Asian countries, where the lime is native to. This lime is NOT native to South Africa.
He mentioned that, and the fact that they have different etymologies even if the root was the same.
In the US it just means a yogurt drink.
I'm confused, he explained that the slur is against black Africans, but they are the actual natives there, how come white immigrants call them foreigners? Makes no sense
@@Volzotran It was colonized by Europeans. South Africa in particular has issues with apartheid and other forms of institutionalized racism and white supremacy, despite the fact that it was in Africa, because it was governed by predominantly white settlers during most of the 20th century.
Not using chad loose, whole-leaf tea. I have never been more disappointed.
Also, now you need a shirt that simply says "Not Bergamot"
Not bergamot 🍋
Not bergamot 🍈
THIS ONE.
Why did the other one get so many likes?
i would like that shirt
Healthy information, I am so blessed that I love to research before I purchase or eat.
This was the video that finally made me subscribe to your channel.
Thanks for joining. There will be more like it :)
So the main mistake was expecting Dr. Oz to be honest and truthful
Pay no attention to the man behind the curtain...
5:00: “Don’t even ask me what Brazil nuts used to be called in North America”
Me: *googles*
Me: oh no
Oh no. It’s so much worse than I was expecting.
I concur. Now I have to delete my history.
Unfortunately, I already know the answer to that question.
From the way he phrased that I assumed the N word, but the 'toes' was a surprise...
Oh, if you want to keep your search history clean just start with the Wikipedia entry, it usually talks about these kind of things (same with the K lime)
@@Hugh.Manatee that's an awesome tip. Thank you.
Well Done! Learning new stuff all the time, I love it ❤️!
You are hilarious, yet, right!! Haha. I love your sense of humor and you probably don't even realize how funny you are!!
This was one of your best episodes so far because of how solid you cut in. Similarly, bergamot almost surely originated from South East Asia, like most citrus, rather than Italy even though it is widely cultivated in Calabria. "Bergamotto" in Italian even comes from the Ottoman Turkish "Beg Armudu" (lord's pear), and this further supports that it was brought to rather than crossed in Italy because if it was originally crossed there Southern Italian languages would lend the word outward with other languages having later attestations rather than what we see.
It's tempting to find someone from Thailand to see how the word "makrut" is used there and how it might be used in different regions there. I wonder if we could have a "lima" vs "limon" like we see in the Spanish speaking world situation in regards to various citrus called makrut across Thailand or other Thai speaking regions like in Northern Malaysia. The Makrut you hold up in the video you referenced I earnestly thought was a papeda on first glance. It's not our fault citrus fruits are more crossed an interbred than old European royalty I guess!
I didn't know that as a Turkish person. A little research reveals old sources about the etymology of the word. It's interesting how the usage changed from a pear to a citrus fruit. Another less credited theory associates it with the Italian city Pergamo. Oddly we call it bergamut in modern Turkish.
@@ibec69 the Italian city you refer to is spelled Bergamo (with a B not a P). However it is situated in the far North of Italy, while the.citrus plants are cultivated in the far South. HTH
@@gnomoblu8015 oops, thank you. That would make it even a less likely candidate then.
@@ibec69 not necessarily, come to think of it - if Bergamo was the place where the dried rinds or raw extracts from thenSouth got refined and turned into precious essences, then the essence may have become popular abroad under the name of the city, which later might have been associated with the plant as well. Just thinking aloud. Worth researching though.
You are by far the best/only fruit channel I watch.
As someone who loves thai cooking but has never actually sourced makrut limes, I cannot tell you how cool it was to actually KNOW what it was you were talking about as soon as you said it's name. I had no idea makrut limes looked liked that but I will not forget.
This video has made a difference! When I search bergamot on UA-cam now there are very few pics of makrut lime. Yay!
Bergamot Lesson learned: I was rushing, accidentally grabbed the wrong bottle, put pure bergamot oil on my neck, and then went outside in 95 degree Fahrenheit sunny weather. Talk about BURN!
O U C H
Quick sun tan put it on go outside for a few seconds then run and wash it all off before you catch fire.
This goes for citrus oils in general, not a good idea for skin!
@@DZrache It’s fine for the skin. Just not pure concentrated essential oils or extracts. I grabbed the wrong bottle because I was rushing.😂 I learned to slooooow down.
Just curious, what type of oil do you normally apply to your neck on hot summer afternoons?
Wondering why Dr. Oz's show doesn't seem to have worthwhile fact-checkers is like asking why they don't offer math lessons in casino lobbies.
Ha!
Well said.
You should definitely make more of these. I hate the confusion. Good to know someone has my back ;)
Great research, brilliant explanation! Thank you! I just came across the same problem a few weeks ago, the more the wrong fruit is shown the more people will believe green bumpy Citrus hystrix is identical with bergamot. And then there is Monarda didyma, also called bergamot... and also Monarda fistulosa ... (I have an Arbutus unedo in my garden here in Ireland!)