HALA FRUIT REVIEW (Pandanus / Screwpine) - Weird Fruit Explorer in The Seychelles
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- Опубліковано 4 жов 2024
- Episode 412: Pandanus
Finally getting to try the much requested Pandanus fruit!
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Most pandanus fruits have pretty high levels of isoamyl acetate, which is frequently used in "artificial" banana flavoring. This is probably why you think it tastes like that.
That's it! How fascinating
I actually adore that smell, I love the smell of Acetone and Petrol too. It was my only craving during pregnancy, ironically my son is equally enamoured of that smell too!
Wow great info. Plz tell me more avoute this isoamyl acetate. In what form does it come? Can it be bought by the average cosumer? In what form does it come?is it etable can i incorporated it into my deserts? Be awesome for buiscuits , pies, ice cream. If u have a link that answers this id be quite grareful to u
@@jaimedelgado7529 Yes, you can buy it, search for "banana oil" or "artificial banana extract or flavoring" You don't want ACTUAL banana extract, if this is what you are looking for, although that does have some isoamyl acetate in it as well, it isn't primarily that. Most companies don't list the isoamyl acetate on the bottle, instead it usually just says "natural and artificial flavors", or something similar. Or, I assume you could buy isoamyl acetate from a chemical vendor as well
If you like that "banana oil" flavor, try NEPTUNE grape. It's almost a pure isoamyl acetate flavor, but rounded off with enough normal grape flavors to be quite a nice experience. Neptune is seedless with good texture; it's really a nice set-up to deliver a solid hit of that isoamyl acetate flavor.
I've been watching this handsome person eat fruit for weeks and I'm like completely smitten
You don’t look so bad yourself. I hope you have a nice end to your week.
@@AceWolf456 you to simp
Damn, I've always wanted to try pandanus. It looks like the reactor core of a spaceship.
Great description for it!
Pandan form Malay word, Pandan, Coconut, Banana was Austronesian food, we used them to made nasi lemak and other food..
THE ONE PIECE IS REA-
'Careful, there's a spider'. Always my number one concern, too- forget the possibility of a fruit falling on my head or getting run over.
Same. I absolutely hate spiders.
@@thomashollingshead015I like them, but have a phobia. They’re fascinating but terrifying
They grow everywhere in Australia and nobody eats it so I decided to bring a whole one home today
Bro how was it there's a tree near my Coles and I'm curious whether you're kicking or not to see if I should give it a whack
@@synastick3985 make sure u get a ripe one but theyre not bad
I never new they were edible, I knew some guys who would use it as a make-shift fishing float.
The Solomon islands have very interesting fruit
It looks like a ball of lava or something... It looks like it's burning hot inside like an ember!
That’s a badass looking fruit
happiness is when i wake up on a Sunday morning and there is a new fruit review from u. Keep it up 💕
Pandanus is basically a fruit that’s meant for chewing. So when you try to take a bite you’ll have a lot of strands of it in ur teeth
They actually use it as floss in some countries.
Is it like sugarcane in that aspect?
Wish I had your videos when I was teaching culinary arts. Seeing the fruit in there native habitat is just plain cool.
So wholesome how excited you are about this fruit
Taro also has oxalate crystals if raw. Maybe that’s the one you were thinking of?
I wonder if the Hawaiian variety (from which the name ”hala” is derived) is less tasty. Traditionally we only ate it in times of famine. I’ll have to give it a try sometime...
Also, jumping off of Steven’s comment on “tourist pineapple,” the Hawaiian term for pineapple is “hala kahiki” which means “foreign hala.”
Interesting! so pineapples are tourist Hala and hala is tourist pineapple. haha
Monstera Deliciosa also has the same crystal oxilates as taro when its not ripe. Most people dont even know you can eat the fruit on the monstera but you have to let the 'shell' fall off on its own.
I have a Pandanus plant in my yard. And they have a lot of those fruits 😮 Always think that this was not edible. OMG LOL. 😂
in India I think they make an essence out of this similar to rose water called 'kerawa' extract that they use to flavour curries
Had them on an island I used to live on. We didn't bother with the fruit part. We used to eat the internal seeds towards the other end of the segment.
That dude with you is super knowledgeable I can see why you go together. Plus in an emergency you have enough water to last you a few days just by suckling on his hair and shirt!
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OMG OMG OMG I have been wanting this episode for so long thank you so much for making this
Hey, this is great as someone who has always wanted to try fruits like that. I grew up in New Zealand where my favourite fruit was the feijoa during the Autumn. I’m new to this channel so I don’t know if you’ve tried it, but I highly recommend!
It would give you the runs but it would be a glorious juice.
🤣😂😃😂🤣👍🏼👍🏼
This was incredibly comedic
The tourist tortoise pineapple mistranslation thing got me
Keep it up! We love your videos
Wow a variegated pandanus! Looks amazing, and even hooked it up with free fruit lol!
OMG you finally tried this fruit!!! I have been waiting for ages. You promised and you delivered! :D
U gotta start carrying a terpine testing kit around.
Absolutely love artificial banana taste. Know exactly what u mean
in my place there are many hala trees, but no one eats the fruit.I will eat hala fruit
Ive seen pandanus growing at kew gardens and in tenerife and really want to try the fruit! The taste sounds amazing! I love jackfruit so this sounds lovely
Kew Gardens?
@Domerciful oh, there's one in Queens too. I was hopeful
Luna lmfao thats what i thought too for a split second being a NYer, then remembered that its in the UK😂
We have those trees in Florida. Glad to know I can eat the fruit when its ripe.
I bought a pandanus flavor extract at the Asian grocery store and use it in place vanilla. Makes amazing cakes, crepes and shakes,,, flavor is somewhere between almond, vanilla, rice, and an ambiguous green fruit..
Thnx for the video. I found Hala fruit in St. Martin island in Bangladesh but didn't knew how to eat them.
That's a cool looking fruit!
Wow those roots remind me of Nausicaa of the valley of the wind. (Watch if you haven't)
Very interesting
Sucks that I can't eat it, but the smell of pandan is amazing. Thanks for the awesome review.
Another awesome episode. I'm glad you were able to find a good one for free.
It's a very pretty plant. I've seen a lot of these where I'm originally from. Didn't know they were edible.
I love artificial banana flavor!
Yes! Finally!
I expected the fruit to end up tasting like the flower. The extract tastes a bit like a mix of hazelnut and coconut. It goes really well in coffee, cocoa, custard, and ice cream...but also oddly pairs well with floral flavors (I say oddly because even though it's a flower, it doesn't taste floral)...most notably rose as is the case in the subcontinental beverage Rooh-afza (which also contains other ingredients, and is delicious...especially if made with carbonated water).
Australia has a few species within this group that are valued as bush tucker, so I've been curious about this plant for some time now. Glad to see you giving a review of it at last. :D
man you're living the life
You guys and gal Rock ! Got one in the yard ! South Florida
Nice! do you use the fruit?
Sand is good for you. Lots of minerals. Good for digestion.
Bad for teeth though!
I remember my great grandma would prepare this snack and the way she does it is she would hit the orange part until it’s all soft and all you had to do was suck the sweet juice out of the fibers. Very refreshing.
When I was a kid there were trees like this downtown Honolulu. People called the pineapple trees/paintbrush trees.
Nobody:
Every tOp TeN wEiRd FrUiT list ever:
*P A N D A N U S*
pretty much haha
Pandanus is commonly planted in St. Pete Fl. I’ve always been curious about the fruit.
There's another similar looking fruit in Bermuda. The locals also called it screw pine. But instead of falling off in a clump of maybe 10, the individual fingers come off by itself. The edible part looks like that of a durian.
This is odd but very inspiring because. It's like, you can travel and do things that don't really cost a lot to do. Like try exotic fruit or just spend time on an island.
Been waiting for this one
Oxalic acid is found most commonly in things like spinach and wood sorrel (All the Oxalis species, really, including Carambola, which is sorta up for debate as to the botanical family it should be placed in)
Oxalic acid is deemed an antinutrient, as it binds and chelates to minerals in the plant as well as maybe the body. One of the more notable interactions is when it binds to calcium, it tightly binds existing calcium in the plant, and to a lesser extent the calcium in your teeth (If you've ever eaten spinach and noticed your teeth feel weird after, that's because of oxalate.) It forms calcium oxalate and can build up in the kidneys causing kidney stones. Be careful eating too much spinach, chard, carambola or sorrel species too often, or else you will be in the worst pain for a while. Drink lots of water.
Spinach is not the best source of calcium because of this fact.
I love the flavor of wood sorrel, lemony and refreshing, but man you can tell the oxalate levels are high just by how your teeth feel afterwards.
A disclaimer about what I posted: Part of this is something of a theory, I reckon if the plant doesn't have enough minerals in it as opposed to oxalic acid, the free oxalic acid would bind to stuff in your body. This could be false. At the very least the antinutrient properties of Ox is known. Typically it already comes binded to the metal cations in the food you eat.
Harrison Mac Wow i didnt really think of it this way until u explained this. Im wondering how adversely it would affect the body in certain quantities and what role general health and nutrition of the specific body plays in the event of excess🤔 Thank you for giving me somethjng to research👌🏽🙏🏽
Ohh i saw this when i was in the Seychelles!! Had no idea you could eat it!!!
2:50 I'd say it looks like a miniature ZPM from Stargate Atlantis.
6:41 nice ASMR right there
Seriously lol
Taking notes 📝
Here in tago surigao del Sur have lots of pandanus fruit
In the Caribbean screw pine is woven made into bags and mats.
This fuit looks cool
its a nifty one
Pandan are great for cooking! Theyre used widely in Vietnam
*leaves
Wasn't the pandan that's used in cooking a different kind of pandan? Those are sea pandans, I don't know whether the leaves of this species is aromatic
@@bagsbugs3024 well maybee, but I've already tasted that same variety in the Caribbean coast of my country, and those leaves seemed incredibly aromatic
Different type of pandanus :)
Pandan flavoring is made from the leaves of a different, smaller species called Pandanus amaryllifolius. :)
Looks like candy corn
but it taste more like candy carrot
The Death star of fruits
I live in Australia and I see these when I go to the beach, sadly the ones near me are never ripe so I haven't tried any yet and I'm not sure if I'm allowed to so it's good you made this video so I know what it tastes like. Maybe one day I'll find one to try.
Also just like you I found a spider near mine and tones of wasps too!
Our Pandanus does NOT have varigated leaves; however it's huge, 30ft tall and bears similar fruit. Any idea what specie it is? Cape Coral, FL. Has grown from 4ft to 30ft in 9 years, also about 25ft across. Many roots coming down. Thanks
Ive been living in seychelles all my life ive never ate that thing before...
it looks like buah mengkuang laut/pandan laut. saw that during a trip to monkey beach and I thought it is some kind of palm tree because it looks like palm old fruit.
You should try pandanus next
God there are so many Pandanus trees and fruits on Yogyakarta's shoreline and for many years i went there i always saw the fruit. But i never tasted them before because i always thought that this fruit isn't edible at all. Thanks for this video, I'll try them soon!
To me it looks like a giant candy corn. In the northern islands of Batanes in the Philippines, the locals don't eat these as I've been told. The leaves are more valuable than the fruit. But they use the fruit to fatten the coconut crabs and spiny lobsters which are delicacies in the islands.
I have this Hala fruit .
When you're in a tropical area, you know you better be careful when people say "Watch out, there's a spider"
They grow like weeds where I live in Qld
You gotta boil that my friend. Hehe
we have these plants on our area but I never thought it is edible nobody in our area even knows about it, it just grows anywhere wildly.
I think the 1st one is Pandanus Tectorius 'Variegata'
Thanks for the ID.
Finally that fruit in this channel! i've seen it everywhere but here
Oh good ! I'm a jogger that needs alot of motivation.. How many u need to eat to get the runs ?
Where can I get some? I'd love to try it one day.
BTW, there's two "weird" pandanus out there. One you probably already know, fragrant pandan (leaves are used as a sort of vanilla-ish flavouring in southeast asia). But the other is only found in New Guinea - "Red Fruit" (pandanus conoideus). The fruit look like gigantic red ears of corn. It's used to make a blood-red cooking oil. It's supposedly relatively flavourless, but has insane amounts of carotinoids in it. Definitely give it a try if you ever get to New Guinea and let us know how it tastes! :)
Also if you ever make it to Papua (I'm drifting offtopic here... ;) )... while it's not great in the edibility category, you could try to find Musa ingens - the largest banana-plant species in the world. They grow to the size of a large tree!
Karen Pease I’ve seen photos of the Papuan pandanus and been really curious how they taste
So it is like a pineapple jackfruit
Candy corn fruit
It looks like it's from an alien world tbh, like with how it grows and everything
apparently kidney stones are made up of calcium oxalate. I'm assuming then, that if you ate too much of these and had a calcium rich diet, you'd get mad kidney stones.
Weird Explorer when are you leaving the Seychelles on your weird fruit explorer episodes
nearing the end. should be wrapped up by December
You should try it in its liquid form! Really good!
omg I never knew these were edible, they were everywhere in Florida when I was growing up
After getting to the part where you talked about artificial banana flavoring and Gros Mischel banana varieties, I couldn't help but be reminded that the entire variety of Gros Mischel bananas have been wiped into extinction. Now we just have the less flavorful Cavendish bananas =[
Gros Michels still exist! Just not on a wide scale anymore. ua-cam.com/video/NqLNNgyiJdY/v-deo.html
This guy loves eating pokemon berries
Is the Adan fruit the same as hala fruit? I think I have seen Adan fruit in Iriomote and it looks very similar to hala fruit but it says it is not edible.
Have you tried sugarloaf pineapple from Hawaii? Im thinking about biting the bullit for 2 fruits shipped to my house in florida for 90$... but in Hawaii they are 30$ if you ever find your self there.
Reminds me of the core of a ripen pineapple.
I've seen these several times before. Never knew they were edible.
Pandanus is super common in australia I wonder if you can eat our varieties
You can
Is it the same plant that pandan leaf is from? Or do these names have nothing in common?
Same genus I believe
they look like giant tropical candy corn 😂
I worked for a guy who was sensitive to the acid in tomatoes. I wonder if the acid in this fruit, is similar to the acid in tomatoes?
THE ONE PEICE IS REA-
Wait they’re edible. That’s wild I always thought that they were only good as make shift fishing floaters
Is the ripe hala fruit safe for pregnancy! I will i will meet someone who has consumed it while pregnant and it was safe. Not much info online!
I had always heard that the artificial banana flavor was based off a banana that is now extinct.
Have you tried American spice bush?