The Most Delicious Strawberries (Mara des Bois) - Weird Fruit Explorer Ep. 263
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- Опубліковано 10 кві 2018
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"019 Ffuge No Five" by Miranda taylor and Mike Hunchback
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Hello. I planted Mara Des Bois 15 years ago. I imported the plant from Marionnet France, and as a strawberry expert, it is by far the most delicious strawberry ever. But the importance of Mara Des bois is not only the taste of the fruits, but the smell. Just hold the fruit through the stem with your teeth for few minutes, and you will feel complete relaxation through your body. It is an organoleptic fruit that affects the human sensory system. Amazing effect on stressed and nervous times.
thank you for sharing Rodolph. As a strawberry expert are there any interesting varieties you suggest that I try?
Unideally ripened strawberries that you get from the super market just taste like a sour vegetables with a touch of strawberry. Home grown or as you found them, fully ripened and carefully packaged strawberries are some of the best fruits you can get outside of the tropics IMO.
I used to go picking wild strawberries back in the day. They were 1000x times better than normal strawberries. This seems like something I would like to try too!
I 100% agree nothing like them. I think because they are just out in the wild and had to struggle gives them their character.
Heck no - for me. I hate this taste. You know why? They smell (and supposedly taste) exactly like some fungicides and pesticides I use at work as a gardener in the greenhouse.
@@Hortifox_the_gardener I want to taste your greenhouse's pesticides. JK, I don't know where you found these strawberries, but that is not how they are supposed to taste. It should be akin to candy.
"What is old is new again" They look like the older version prior to cross breeding. Smaller, spoil quicker but taste better
yeah the best sraberries are very soft, small and red
I've been picking up these in the wild in the south west of france since I'm a kid. Mine are quite a bit smaller but I'm always amazed at how a fruit not bigger than a blueberry contains more taste than a normal strawberry.
That's the size of the original strawberry in the 50's and 60's. Those had an intense flavor and a nice amount of sweetness.Then in the 70's they started to come out with a larger strawberry, but less flavor. Now we have huge strawberries without the intense flavor, ... sadness!
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Have you ever tried Fragaria moschata, the musk strawberry? I tried an ancient cultivated variety in Italy, and it's one of the most amazing fruits you can imagine. Wonderfully fragrant, but unfortunately it has got just a pretty short fruitening season, in late spring to early summer. They're like a larger and very enhanced version of wild strawberries. The one I tried was "Profumata di Tortona".
sounds amazing. i've never tried it
Thank you for this comment. I am npw going to grow this species of strawberry. I sincerly wish you all the best in life my friend, a healthy life full of peace, prosperity and happiness. Love
I don't know if you recall a while back I suggested that you buy some Dobson NC strawberries if you are going through VA or NC. They are exactly like what you are suggesting only they are extremely sweet! Also we sell them for under $2 for the same dry pint that you paid $8 for! So, if you're coming through Southwest VA or on I-77 South going through Dobson NC in the next month, stop and try theirs!!! Love the video!
Actually just started getting these strawberries in! $1.99 a dry pint, $21 for an entire flat (12 dry pints overfilled)!
Strawberries are my absolute favourite fruit, but only for a couple of weeks in late June and early July, when I can get locally grown Ontario berries from the farmers' market. Otherwise, especially way out of season, they taste more like a photo of a strawberry.
Have you tried strawberries with some freshly cracked black pepper? Delicious!
That sounds good!
I tell you something ostara.Try to try this strawberry variety a lot more finer than mara.
Yes, they look good.
Doubtless as a hybrid strawberry (though a small one), it is more productive and practical than a tiny wild strawberry (alpine strawberries, Fragaria vesca, have runnerless, day neutral forms; musk strawberries supposedly have a more unique flavor). I will try growing some Mara des Bois this year. However I am still curious how it compares to the Alpines (especially since "yellow" [white/cream] ones are less likely to be stolen by birds or men, who assume red=ripe; there are no "yellow" hybrid strawberries that I know of--lose the benefit of anthocyanins [pigments] but still have something to eat, and vitamin C to boot). Keep your eyes open for Alpine and/or musk strawberries, please.
I haven't tried these but I just got one from the garden shop and planted it in my garden. I think I'll have to go back and buy some more plants
I've noticed that with strawberries, most of the best ones are the smaller ones, what a shame !
sadly that's a rule for most fruit - the plant only has so much sugar to use, so bigger fruits have the same total sugar as smaller one's but spread over a larger area
Japan learned how to make super big and super sweet strawberries.
@@dmanzawsome they cost like 20 bucks per strawberry though
We grew both the Mara de Bois, and the Seascape. My son would eat the Mara de Bois when they were still green..
i would buy those and enjoy a real strawberry! The wild ones here (Utah) grow on the mountain, in meadows. They are the size of small chickpeas. The flavor is incomparable. But they are hard to find because the critters get them first. Would like to see cultivars like Mara de Bois become more popular!
I knew I would find a review of the strawberries on here! So much great content to watch!
Most fruits that are not available at the supper market is usually the best tasting fruits because it's to fragile for shipping and handling.
Your videos are amazing. I think I have watched all your videos and many I have watched multiple times. I am a flavor enthusiast
oooooo look at fancy Jared !
Looks "Delicious"!! 😋😋🍓
Each variety of berry has its own unique flavors. The problem with anything "store bought" is the lack of nutrition within the fruit due to depleted soils or soiless cultivation. The depth of the flavor comes from the vitamins, minerals, macro and micro nutrients that the fruit absorbs from the soil. All commercial farm land in this country is exhausted of all of these. All most are growing on is a petroleum derived diet of NPK. Pick a variety you enjoy the flavor of but most importantly grow in a healthy soil. You will not be disappointed with your efforts. I have grown three varieties of June bearers, my favorite being the Sequoia. I am planting a plot of these this coming Spring.
Awesome totally awesome! Nice vid!!!
You should try Fragaria Vesca. That wild strawberry is so intense and creamy.
it's "mara des bois" as in mara of the forest
pronounced "dè boas
In france you can find wild strawberries the size of a nickel that taste awsome
Found you from reddit. You are very good at reviewing, could probably listen to you reviewing carpets and find it intresting. Have you ever tried sea buckthorns? They are everywhere where i live and we make jam, vodka, juice and all kinds of things from it.
Greetings from Sweden.
Haha thanks Adam! I have tried seabuckthorn, there's a video somewhere on my channel. I liked it!
You've tried everything on the planet and only now you get to strawberries :) These used to be the "normal" ones you buy on the farmers market here.
Thank you!! Hope I can find some baby plants!
Harry’s Berries 😍😂
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They look like wild strawberries crossed with an old variety.
'de bois' (de-BWA) means 'from the forest'
That there is a fun fact
LOL yes except I'm pretty sure strawberries don't grow in forests!
Wild strawberries do grow in forests.
@@YelDohan Sorry, but the origin of strawberries is wild forests
@@AlexGargilisChannel It means from the woods - woodland strawberry.
Very controversial title Jared lol. Too many varietals out there. My fave hands down are wild ones very hard to find before critters get to them.
Haha yeah, it's just my opinion based on what I've had so far.
The best strawberry is "Mieze Schindler"! The berries are dark and on the smaller side. Sadly, they are way to fragile to sell and I wonder if you can find them outside of Germany.
I'd love to try those!
I have them growing in my garden here in Ireland. They also go by the name of 'framberry'
Have you tried woodland strawberries, they used to be the most commonly cultivated species of strawberry before the modern new world hybrid was popularized the scientific name is Fragaria vesca.
@Jamie W I was able find a patch and have a hand full myself, and you are most certainly right, they taste so gosh darn good!
cool. I grow fraises des bois strawbewrries. They are a lot smaller and white - very intense flavour though
If you grow strawberries they will be red all the way through and much better tasting if you add calcium to the soil. Sprinkling crushed egg shell on the soil will do the trick. Added calcium also prevents blossom end rot in tomatoes.
At first, I thought you kept saying very berry. "They sell out very berry quickly".
But do they taste even better than the wild strawberries (f. vesca)?
I live in the north of Sweden and here we have a belief that strawberries taste sweeter due to the constant sunlight and relatively cool summers. Something about the berries gets packed with fructose to withstand a random frost night. Don't know if this is true or just a myth, though I have to say I have yet to taste any strawberries as sweet as the ones I get from the north... even southern swedish berries aren't up to par.
Try wild mulberries.
Also Bignay (Philippine grape trees).
Or he Fart-fart fruit (utot-utot or Passiflora Foetida)
But have you tried woodland strawberry? (Fragaria Vesca)
I don't believe so
Every variety of store bought strawberry I have tried has very little, if any, flavor. Just watery and tasteless. I grow several varieties of "wild" natural (not crossbred or hybrid) strawberries and they are awesome. Yes, they are smaller than the hybrids from the store, but they are packed with flavor.
in almost every variaety , smallest and latest strawberries are the most delicious
MARA DES BOIS DE PAYS
It's Mara DES Bois (means Mara of the wood) ;)
There aren't my fav because their flavour is amazing (like Tagada strawberries) but I find them not sweet enough. There are tons of Mara in France :)
That means you have to try Albion instead if you prefer sweetness
Framberries are much sweeter than Mara de Bois. Framberry is a new variety of strawberry. You should get them as well.
Whats the name of the japanese strawberry ? greetings
too bad I'm allergic
they good 🅱️ois
If these words are french then pronounce "Mara de Boa(fast)"
Mara day bwah