AGUAJE - This Palm Fruit is Very Tasty but Very Complicated - Weird Fruit Explorer
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- Опубліковано 2 лип 2022
- Episode 629: Aguaje
Species: Mauritia flexuosa
Location: San Isidro de El General, Costa Rica
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Check out this video on the Babassu, another cheesy palm fruit that I found in The Amazon Jungle: ua-cam.com/video/Pud2CFUzl-M/v-deo.html
Its always weird to eat CHEESY fruit. You kinda expect fruit to taste at least sweet.
i thought it was zalacca, or salak in indonesia. but the fruit meat reminds me of avocado and cassava
Hello, would you happen to have a sight where I could find and buy this fruit to be shipped to the us ?
Man, Don Carlos is really the MVP
he is!
He is really MVP
According to Carlos Casteñeda old gentelmen named Don Carlos should not be undersetimated.
I'm a fruit collector in the midwest US, and I grow everything in containers due to my local climate. In fact, your videos inspired my collection years ago. I would pay for the fresh seeds of the fruits you encounter. Id love to ask for seeds, but im certain many others already have asked this of you. Im proposing something better. You should start some sort of raffle where people can toss in $1-$5 depending upon how many seeds are available, or upon rarity. That way, all of us fellow fruit needs will get a chance to acquire seeds, and you'll be funded for your next fruit adventure. Just a thought. Keep on keeping on, my man. Love your videos, and I saw you on TV long ago putting a nail in your head through the nostril. Just letting you know that some of us remember. lol
I think the seeds already mostly go to the people on the patreon, so it’s kinda already like what you’re proposing? There’s your chance if you wanna get some seeds, you can support the patreon!
I live in Mexico I’m a fruit collector myself, I could send you some seeds if you’d like. There is a risk of it never making it to you though because of customs regulations
Ha nice to know putting a nail in my nose made an impression 😅 And yeah I sometimes put seeds up on patreon, these days it's just ones I get ahold of in the US. I just don't have the time to do all the customs paperwork when I travel.
@@WeirdExplorer I was wondering if you had issues taking seeds across the border. I guess that's a yes.
@@WeirdExplorer hey buddy i make trips to peru to collect cactus and cactus seeds and well i found a nice loophole around bringing back seeds. The laws state that you can bring DRIED seeds/fruit on a plane if you consider them food. Yes i know most of the seeds you encounter will not be edible or atleast not practically but still you can always bring dried fruit and or seeds on the plane with you in your carry on if asked just say it is your food and they are dried goods they cant really argue with you.
You should make a top 10 list of fatty fruits. I for one love fatty plant stuff, like coconut products, avocado, etc. and every time you review a fruit with those sorts of qualities it just makes my mouth water. And I highly highly doubt there is already a comprehensive list of such fruits in existence.
Great idea!!!
These are quite common in Brazil… here we call it Buriti, and it’s mostly used for juice and some kinds of “candy-like” deserts…
Vinho de buriti
pvt eu nunca vi essa fruta fiquei curioso
Cresci comendo doces de buriti! Infância boa
@@rodrigohag muito bom, né??? Eu só comi duas vezes na vida, mas gostei muito!!!
The world is lucky the portuguese didn't destroy them all to extinction like most things in South America. Wonder If jesus had tried Corn, Potatoes, Tomatoes, or cacao, if he would have liked the people who created those things instead of sending his followers to eradicate them.
Apple pie with cheese, the favorite of everyone's Midwestern grandparents. Best served with Cab Calloway playing on a Bakelite radio in the front parlor.
Glad you're still at it. It's great to experience your adventures vicariously through you.
Very comom palm between central to northeast Brazil , is Known as 'Burití' , they make a marmalade out of it, it is easy to find in Teresina the capital of Piauí State.
Buritizada is delicious!
Caraca!! Bom saber! Sou do Sul então muitas frutas tropicais não chegam aqui :/
Minha família é do Maranhão, ali essa fruta é encontrada em praticamente todo o estado. E eles fazem de tudo com a fruta: doce, din-din, sorvete, suco, óleo. Ela é extremamente energética.
Nunca imaginei que tivesse buritis na costa rica....achava que só tinha no cerrado
@@thealexprime Provavelmente vieram do Brasil, é de um colecionador da Costa Rica.
Fruit version of a 3 in 1 instant food. Awesome intro to the fruit.
Been eating this since kid here in Brazil (We call it Buriti). Tastes amazing if you blend it with milk and a little sugar !!
I feel like palm fruits are the pinnacle of what you can grow. Immense diversity, very easy to grow, trees hardy to pretty much everything other than cold, and of course a wide variety of complex flavours. Plus they always look so easy to harvest as well. If I were in a tropical climate I'd definitely give these a go lol
Good luck climbing up for harvest
This must be that weird combination where people eat cheddar cheese with their apple pie, but swear it works. Don Carlos is the hero of this trip!
If you know, you know
awesome to see the old style content again. No fancy camera editing or special effects. Just a nostalgic style video.
Im from Manaus - Amazonas, in Brasil! This fruit is called "BURITI". I like the Buriti's wine! Its strong, sour and very creamy!
Qué interesante que hagan una bebida fermentada! Del lado peruano de la Amazonía no he sabido de algo así. Si he sabido que se elabora una bebida fermentada del fruto que en Perú llamamos Pijuayo y en el Brasil Pupunha. La bebida se denomina "masato", el cual comúnmente se elabora con Yuca.
Crazy how it looks just like Snake Fruit but is completely different.
_Daemonorops draco_ would be interesting to find, the Asian dragon's blood rattan palm. Similar scales but looks very different. The red resin used in traditional Chinese medicine comes from under the scales but the fruit is also edible. Spines so long, dense and tangled that they serve as ant homes.
@@pattheplanter Wow!
Convergent evolution.
Sounds perfect for people who like cheese on apple pie!
baked brie apple pie is excellent
This fruit is from a palm tree come from brazil(endemic, not amazon) the name is "buriti"
I love your videos as much as I am jealous about the fact I will never taste most of what you review.
I saw a video about a farmer in India who is exchanging fruit around world with others. You have to make it to that farm. A bunch of fruit you haven't covered!
Es conocido como Buriti en el Brasil. El fruto del Aguaje es remojado y luego raspado y pasado por un colador. Se hacen refrescos, helados, actualmente se deshidrata para hacer harina y preparar batidos o smoothies. Muy rico en fitoestrogenos, por ello se recomienda para los damas mas no así para los varones.
I like how the old guy pronounces it for you, you repeat what he says and say it correctly, and then when you switch frames, you all of the sudden forget how it's pronounced.
Of all the people I knew as a young man you’ve definitely followed the most interesting path. Cheers on yet another fruit I’ve never heard of!
Thanks John!
The way you describe it makes it sound so good
Awesome, love to try that. Don Carlos is the Man.
I love this channel it really brings joy! Keep it up your a legend.
What an amazing tasting fruit 👏🏼 Palm tree fruits are varied, and very useful, but this aguaje sounds like its the most delicious.
I'm in Colombia right now and I have a bag of aguaje I just bought thinking it was snakefruit. Love the videos as always!!
I ate these a lot in Peru, until the locals told me that you shouldn’t eat much unless you’re a woman. I doubt there is much fact behind that, but I did lower my consumption of it lol
Why not? Did they explain why it's okay for women but not men?
@@SY-ok2dq it's said that has female hormons, although the quantity is so irrelevant that it's nothing for a man to be worried.
peruvian here, its supposed to be an aphrodisiac fruit
It gives you curves
Another winner Jared 🏆
may I question how you posted this comment 3 days before the video was uploaded?
Wtf. This was posted 30 minutes ago.
@@theuniversalbean9352 UA-cam member or patreon most likely
@@dragonsbeyond5550 he/she is most likely patreon/ UA-cam member.
@Nitron Neutron
Oh ok then. Cool
wow, that fruit is so interesting! It looked really good and rich ❤.
Thank you for this video! 😀🌹
My favorite way to eat that fruit is like a dessert we call "suquinho" (it has other names in other regions of Brazil), a thick juice frozen in little bags to be eaten almost like a popsicle.
cheers to Don Carlos, very nice guy
Getting it with wine, cheese, crackers and grapes sounds like an awfully good idea.
No lo creo, como smoothie con leche de coco, miel de abeja y un toque de vainilla es muy agradable. Pero su consumo regular no es recomendable para nosotros los varones, por los fitoestrogenos que contiene.
@@andresamplonius315 emmm, que rayos, los fitoestrogenos a no ser que tengas problemas hormonales no te afectarían en nada, segundo desconozco de la veracidad de esa información, tercero no hay diferencia en nada con la forma de consumo que tu mencionas y finalmente, quien rayos come todos los días aperitivos de toma de vino???
Pd: Por que hablaste en español si lo mas seguro es que ni lo hablase?
@@nicolasvillarroel4613
Cuestión previa: "lo más seguro es que no hablase" (castellano, no "español")... A ver:
1. Acá puedes postear en el idioma que mejor te parezca, que para eso está la opción de traducción al inglés.
2. Me gusta mi idioma y aunque bien podría postear en inglés sin demasiados problemas, a mi parecer estoy reivindicandolo de ésta forma. El que no lo entienda y se interese en leerme nada más tiene que hacer click en la opción "traducir al inglés".
3. Por tu nombre castellano te di el beneficio de la duda de que no serías uno de aquellos latinos alienados que por vivir en la Yanquilandia bárbara se averguenzan de su identidad y ni siquiera se molestan en aprender el idioma de sus padres.
Sobre el asunto de los fitoestrogenos del fruto del Aguaje has de saber que muchos expertos recomiendan a los varones ser precavidos con los productos a base de soya, no solamente por los antinutrientes que contienen (salvo por los fermentados), sino también por los fitoestrogenos. En fin, aunque el aguaje es agradable, por ejemplo en la preparación que mencioné, personalmente sigo el principio de precaución. Además que por el momento resido en la capital de Perú y no en la Amazonía donde se encuentra naturalmente el fruto en cuestión.
@@andresamplonius315 Deberías de consumir grandes cantidades de fito estrogenos para verte afectado, esa precaución es màs relevante en vegetarianos y veganos.
Siendo que esta comunidad en su mayoría es anglosajona el ingles prevale y ademas el ingles es el idioma universal actualmente por el cual ves a todas las divisiones extranjeras del canal comunicarse, y ciertamente mi punto va dirigido a que un comentario en otro idioma suele ser ignorado o mal traducido.
Finalmente recuerda que hay decenas de miles de descendientes latinos que ya ni sus abuelos hablan el idioma pero mantienen los nombres, se nota especialmente en EEUU.
I love this fruit in the Amazon jungle they call it acho eaten by the natives called shuar and achuar which are named after the fruit acho - shuar
We call it "buriti" in Brazil. We usually have it in paste form, jam, wine or juice (sometimes, ice cream) 🥰
Very interesting fruit! I'd love to give it a try
Mannn aguaje wine would be fire. Apple pie witha dash a cinnamon. I like a spicy and sweet wine. Complex flavors are the best man. I love how you described the stages too that helped me perfectly visual the idea of these flavors.
Cool different fruits around the globe.
That looks amazing!
Hey dude a little off topice but along the same lines. I got given a rather interesting chili plant recently that I found to be the most interesting flavoured chili I've come across. It's called a Rumba chili and it also has layers. The 1st thing you taste when eating this small little fruit is sugar the 2nd is fruity notes followed quickly by a fast heat that is a little intense for only a few minutes before returning to normal. I would compare the heat to a Thai birds eye and the size is about the same. They have an interesting colour starting as green the going to an aubergine purple finally finishing on a very deep red. Anyways if ya interested in them I would love to see a video on them I think you'd be surprised at the complexity for a chili species
I'm interested! Now I'm going to be Rumba chili seed hunting.
Now I really wanna try it!!
Wow! Totally interesting
Dude i detest palm trees, but you're gonna make me bite the bullet and search out some just for the food aspect.
Both of those sound yummy 😅
This sounds fantastic
Sounds delectable!
“ Violet ! You’re turning violet , Violet !”
Sounds amazing
Its called Buriti in Northern Brazil. They made juice and cook it with sugar. Its actually very Good
im from the peruvian amazon. i miss aguaje, specially the juice we make with it called aguajina. we also make ice cream and liquor. the ice cream is amazing.
You have now made me want to try this fruit lol time to book a vacation i guess
Watching your videos always fills me with a mix of admiration and envy. I can't help thinking you could carry an entire tv series, if tv was still a thing, just sharing your love of weird fruits with various celebrities. Think about it. ps how's your cat?
Thanks! Vostok is doing well. She was very happy when I got back to NYC :)
Big fan here,
I thought of you not long ago ,
I was in Perú, the Amazon park pacaya Samiria (south part of the park) , here I tasted a fruit that is sold locally only or by some of the guides affiliated to the park protection. I swear it was one of the creamiest and tastiest fruit I ever tried . I didn't see the tree itself , it's a guide on another canoe that shared 3 of the fruits with us . it had a soft skin and the texture of peanut butter out of a fridge , and the same color. If you plan on going in the area , feel free to answer to the message.
I’m from Costa Rica and I’ve never heard of this.
The way you describe this fruit make it sound like a exquisite pie fruit
Weird flexuosa but okay ;P
Great video bro
Thanks Don Carlos
sounds tasty!
Hello, this fruit you showed in the video is a common fruit in northern Brazil, it is known here as Buriti. very good for making juices and ice creams.
soon when I saw the cover of your video I could already imagine that it was this fruit.😁😃🇧🇷👋🏼👋🏼👋🏼
Never tried it, would like to, pura vida!
you should try date plum /lotus plum and its available in dried form but you should try ripped one too
super cool!
sounds good for cooking
there are quite a few varieties of snakeskin fruit around south Asia, tastes are quite different too, most of them are sour
Snake fruit 😁
We called it "Salak" here and there are tons of varieties too locally so its not always tasted sour.
No inner husk? That's cool.
That funny u said it like the gum from Willie Wonka because I was thinking that about another one of ur fruit videos whole u were giving a description of celery carrots potatoes and a couple other things but I don't remember which fruit it was.
Great!♡
Cool!
Apple pie with cheese on top is awesome, so that sounds like a great fruit.
My mom wants to know how big your hands are.
She said no really she wants to know so she can figure out how big the fruit is.
El Aguaje es del tamaño de un huevo de gallina.
interesting fruit!
It is!
sounds yummy
"People make a wine out it (of course they do)" 👍😆😆😆😆
You are the Indiana Jones of the tastebuds man.
Jajaja nice catch
water is not to keep it fresh but to make it easy to peel it
it's like a dessert avocado, I want
thats a weird fruit buddy. glad to see your channel doing so crazy well. seems like just a year or 2 ago you were like 1/10 as popular. ive been trying to catch back up. Name change didnt hurt ya any.
just wondering if you've tried "cheese avacado" fruit from East Malaysia?
cool looking fruit kinda looks like the dragon eggs from The Game of Thrones show.
Is the oil made out of the large seed?
Both of those fruits look like they came from the tree of knowledge Good and Evil.
Do the “scales” deter animals from eating them? That would be such a cool display of evolutionary mimicry
nah brah the seed is inside the fruit meat, it will just fall and rot
its not mimicry, it probably has more to do with mathematical efficency, ive eaten another type of this fruit, its weird and not that super tasty and clean as the one in this video. it wasnt scaly it was round, but looked the same inside.
Wow
A quick bit of Wikipedia research suggests that while aguaje and snake fruit aren't in the same genus or same tribe, they are in the same subfamily,(Calamoidaeae) within the palm family. According to Wikipedia, scaled fruits are characteristic of that subfamily. Obviously take anything on Wikipedia with a grain of salt as far as fruit goes, but interesting.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calamoideae
*"The flavour of this is really interesting"* That's what I say every time I try Durian again, usually I say it just before I start to retch.
In our country here in the Philiphines theres an a fruit that looks alike of that kind of fruit but the leaves are verry
thorny the fruiting rattan Vines its sweet soury flavor and theres a 3 seeds per fruit sometimes they made those as a rattan wine Here in Bayombong Nueva Vizcaya Philiphines
I've got a rattan video in the archive. weirdexplorer.com
these aren't related to them, but interestingly have the same kind of snakeskin
OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOH. I never knew what those little things were on the palm trees I would see when I was younger. THIS IS WHAT THEY WERE!!!! I finally know like 25 years later. LMAO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Try golden currents
I had never seen any of these, show me more show me more
It looks like Salak / snakefruit from my country Indonesia. Salak can be found in many Southeast Asian countries.
I thought this was only grown in Peru and Brazil . Had no idea it grew in Costa Rica
where i come from it's called "moriche" we make ice cream with it, cream, of course, and natural sweetener, it has an unique taste and people love it. a pain to collect the fruit tho would not recommend
I wonder if it tastes something like Peach Palm fruit / Chontaduro...
what did it taste like
I wonder what coevolved to eat these?
Hmm, I want to tell you go to my parents country, but be weary they'll scam you with tourist prices. Try cuqrit and awara palm fruit they have. Guyana also has something called marmee, a giant peach like fruit the size of my head. Sorry for butchering the spelling. Be wary, they also have three different kinds of thyme.
I meant be wary going there, but you'll be safe if you research as most countries in SA.
No Brasil se chama Buriti