I have a hackberry tree, they almost have a little bit of a ginger bread flavor to me, with maybe molasses and dates well. I like to eat the nut , the texture of chewing the shell feels like chewing glass, but in a good way some how. It easily completely disintegrates, satisfying and unique to me anyway.
I find it inspiring that your videos are constantly being updated with new information found in the comment section from viewers. This is what UA-cam is all about.
Had a giant hackberry tree that produced TONS of seeds. All those years living at my old house and never knew that they were edible. I remember seeing squirrels eating the seeds making me wonder if they were edible. I remember trying to identify it back then but never could. Until now. The tree is still standing to this day too.
Selenium ~164% DV / 100g seems possibly prone for Selenium Toxicity if you aren’t careful. Though not as high concentration as Brazil nuts, just would be good to be aware of Selenium intake via all of one’s daily food. Mentioning this hoping others may be aware
RDA or DV is the minimum to keep you alive, NOT the amount to keep you healthy. A map of areas with low Selenium in the soil matches a map higher heart attack rates.
Based on my calculations, hackberries have approximately 1/18th the level of selenium as Brazil nuts. You can eat approximately two Brazil nuts a day without overdosing on Selenium. Assuming that hackberries are approximately the same density as Brazil nuts, that's a rather large volume of hackberries per day, perhaps a double handful. So long as you don't go crazy for hackberries, you should be fine. The level of selenium in hackberries probably varies according to where they are grown.
@@gewgulkansuhckitt9086you'd hit it if you were using them to sustain yourself, the "never go hungry" part. Cooking removes and destroys some of it though. Not that many other mono-diets of foraged things weren't problematic of course.
Thanks; now they'll become the next "superfood" trend and they'll sell them for $25 per 10oz ziploc mini-pack. With all the plastic covered in post-consumer fibre, of course, so it looks sustainable. It is even called "hackberry", so the magazine articles about it being a "diet hack" are built right in.
Here in Phoenix I've had the orange desert hackberry before (Celtis pallida) it has a crunchy small seed and is very tasty kinda like a combo of fig and apricot and is relatively high in beta carotene, really wanna try the other variety of hackberry at some point soon too 👍
I once knew an old rancher in South Texas. I asked him what kind of tree he was having cut down in one of his pastures. He said it was a hackberry. I asked him why cut it down? He said it was a water hog & was worthless for anything except firewood. I told him that I heard that the berries were edible. He said that they were & that they tasted pretty good, but that they weren't worth the effort to gather them. I asked why he didn’t keep it for the cattle to browse on & rest in the tree's shade. He said it again: that tree is a water hog, almost as bad as cedars... In Texas, what they call cedars are actually junipers, mostly Ashe's junipers. Most ranchers try to eradicate all junipers because they compete with other plants for water in areas that have frequent droughts.
UUUGGGHHH. I have a tree right off my deck that I HATE. I’ve been begging my husband to let me cut it down for years because it makes a horrible mess and stepping on its berries when barefoot is like stepping on a Lego. It’s a hackberry 🤦🏻♀️😩 Now if have to keep it. Thanks 🤨😂
❤ Now that the tree has purpose, that you can use it, it has been redeemed, become an asset instead of an annoyance. The many critters that depend on it won't go hungry when there's nothing left. All of the little snow birds say thank you.
Kids in Turkey like to eat them. My neighbor in Istanbul was an archaeologist and in the very old settlement she was excavating they found tons of hackberry seeds.
I've had both purple colored ones and some orangish red ones growing in the same place and I personally prefer the red ones. I've heard of desert hackberries being orange but I found those in Kansas and Kansas isn't a desert...
👍🏆👍 i remember Hackberry & eating them in the 1960s as a kid! I think they fell out of fashion = commercial processed food & TV ads! As others forgotten about!
We have the sugarberry variety. Literally everywhere around us (North TX), especially near streams & drainage areas. Thanks for the harvesting & food prep tips. P.S. your wife is a genius!
We have something called hardhack. Never heard of hackberry described in the local indigenous lore -WA state here. According to the USDA site its native range in the US is the upper NE Midwest. Btw pretty sure antartica lacks hackberry...
🤣 I recently saw a video with the title,"why there's no dirt in Antartica".As much as I hate the cold, I didn't even watch it.I can't imagine living on ice.I have friends in Alaska always inviting me. I won't dare,even in summer. You should hear the stories,how hard to get there,the insane prices of food, outhouses because pipes freeze no matter what.Especially my friend in Barrow,talking about polar bear attacks. What a horrific place to live. or visit.
@@pattiannepascual lots of people visit Alaska and say it’s beautiful I’ve never been but it does depend on what part of Alaska it is I wouldn’t want to live there but I’d love to visit and some stories are exaggerated most of them actually. But still I’d never go in the winter that would be awful!
PS not related to this topic But! Too get the hulls off of Walnuts! Try a old fashioned hand crank corn sheller! Just adjust the setting! Way easier & faster!
Pretty contentious topic these days erectus, denisedons/ potato ‘patato’ …nutrition for all right? now if we’re talking a lemur maybe I’ll raise an eyebrow 🤨
😂 in what way these are primate bones there is not one primate bone in the human body and there’s not one human bone in a primate body. How are we connected to these monkeys? We are a created species. That’s why our DNA has spices in it. The modern human is too weak and frail to have ever survived in the world thousands of years ago. The average amount of fractures found throughout the bones of a Neanderthal is something like 600 and Neanderthals do have primate bones. They had bigger brains. They were bigger faster and smarter than us. If I had to guess I would say there was numerous species of Homo sapiens on this planet prior to the last Ice Age and we did not prosper as a species until those other ones had died off.
This is the second time one of your videos has appeared on my home page. I have watched them both, so I have subscribed. Is it just me, or do you have a very slight Baltic (?) accent?
I feel a bit deprived when it comes to hackberry - having grown up in PA and OH, but never tasting one till I found a thicket of Celtis ehrenbergiana down in AZ on vacation. They were quite good, the seed was hard but not impossible to chew and was also enjoyable.
There is no such thing as cavemen and never were. People never lived in caves aside from some extremely hot regions where cold caves were a benefit. It makes especially little sense in context of northern cultures.
@2:55, @FeralForaging, you are mispronouncing Celtis. It is pronounced with a K sound. Only ignorant Brits mispronounce Celtic, Celts, Celtoi, Celtis, etc., with the S sound.
I have no interest in prolonging my experience in this hell, so it was real nice finding out there's another food I'll have never tried. Thanks for bringing it to my attention though.
I have a hackberry tree, they almost have a little bit of a ginger bread flavor to me, with maybe molasses and dates well. I like to eat the nut , the texture of chewing the shell feels like chewing glass, but in a good way some how. It easily completely disintegrates, satisfying and unique to me anyway.
I find it inspiring that your videos are constantly being updated with new information found in the comment section from viewers. This is what UA-cam is all about.
Had a giant hackberry tree that produced TONS of seeds. All those years living at my old house and never knew that they were edible. I remember seeing squirrels eating the seeds making me wonder if they were edible. I remember trying to identify it back then but never could. Until now. The tree is still standing to this day too.
They grow almost literally everywhere in the U.S.
@@mrspogadaeus funny enough both versions he mentions dont grow in my area. to be fair it is a very wet area.
Selenium ~164% DV / 100g seems possibly prone for Selenium Toxicity if you aren’t careful. Though not as high concentration as Brazil nuts, just would be good to be aware of Selenium intake via all of one’s daily food. Mentioning this hoping others may be aware
RDA or DV is the minimum to keep you alive, NOT the amount to keep you healthy. A map of areas with low Selenium in the soil matches a map higher heart attack rates.
Based on my calculations, hackberries have approximately 1/18th the level of selenium as Brazil nuts. You can eat approximately two Brazil nuts a day without overdosing on Selenium. Assuming that hackberries are approximately the same density as Brazil nuts, that's a rather large volume of hackberries per day, perhaps a double handful. So long as you don't go crazy for hackberries, you should be fine. The level of selenium in hackberries probably varies according to where they are grown.
@@gewgulkansuhckitt9086you'd hit it if you were using them to sustain yourself, the "never go hungry" part.
Cooking removes and destroys some of it though.
Not that many other mono-diets of foraged things weren't problematic of course.
Thanks; now they'll become the next "superfood" trend and they'll sell them for $25 per 10oz ziploc mini-pack. With all the plastic covered in post-consumer fibre, of course, so it looks sustainable. It is even called "hackberry", so the magazine articles about it being a "diet hack" are built right in.
Here in Phoenix I've had the orange desert hackberry before (Celtis pallida) it has a crunchy small seed and is very tasty kinda like a combo of fig and apricot and is relatively high in beta carotene, really wanna try the other variety of hackberry at some point soon too 👍
Have these in the back yard. The outer “meat” tastes abit like sweet tea 🫡
I once knew an old rancher in South Texas. I asked him what kind of tree he was having cut down in one of his pastures. He said it was a hackberry. I asked him why cut it down? He said it was a water hog & was worthless for anything except firewood. I told him that I heard that the berries were edible. He said that they were & that they tasted pretty good, but that they weren't worth the effort to gather them. I asked why he didn’t keep it for the cattle to browse on & rest in the tree's shade. He said it again: that tree is a water hog, almost as bad as cedars... In Texas, what they call cedars are actually junipers, mostly Ashe's junipers. Most ranchers try to eradicate all junipers because they compete with other plants for water in areas that have frequent droughts.
UUUGGGHHH. I have a tree right off my deck that I HATE. I’ve been begging my husband to let me cut it down for years because it makes a horrible mess and stepping on its berries when barefoot is like stepping on a Lego. It’s a hackberry 🤦🏻♀️😩
Now if have to keep it. Thanks 🤨😂
😄 😅 👍
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Now that the tree has purpose, that you can use it, it has been redeemed, become an asset instead of an annoyance.
The many critters that depend on it won't go hungry when there's nothing left.
All of the little snow birds say thank you.
Replant a cutting or 2 somewhere else in the yard, then after 2 years when you know they are established, cut down the big one for free firewood
Kids in Turkey like to eat them. My neighbor in Istanbul was an archaeologist and in the very old settlement she was excavating they found tons of hackberry seeds.
I've had both purple colored ones and some orangish red ones growing in the same place and I personally prefer the red ones. I've heard of desert hackberries being orange but I found those in Kansas and Kansas isn't a desert...
Perfect video with incredible detail,all your heart into it thanks 👍
I like your attitude, you've got a good go-getter attitude and you're bound and determined to make use of this food.
👍🏆👍 i remember Hackberry & eating them in the 1960s as a kid! I think they fell out of fashion = commercial processed food & TV ads! As others forgotten about!
Love the super concentration of red on the map in North Texas. They are everywhere in Dallas
I’m in central Texas and they spread like weeds. Haven’t noticed a water problem but they fall over a lot. Dangerous.
We love hackberry. They're a snack when working out in the garden and a nice, thorny trees.
i've been eating them for six or seven weeks now. haven't got sick once
You made me smile! Thank you! Peace Courage Wisdom
What is an hackberry and what plant zones does it grow in?
My daughter kept bringing me these back in the fall! Never figured out where in our yard she was getting them. Now I'm gonna have to go on a hunt lol
We have the sugarberry variety. Literally everywhere around us (North TX), especially near streams & drainage areas. Thanks for the harvesting & food prep tips. P.S. your wife is a genius!
Excellent, descriptive and well researched content, Jessie!
I've seen quite a few hackberry trees in Wisconsin. I didn't realize those were the fruits that were crunching beneath my boots 😂
Nice video, I wonder if you could make pemmican with the fruit part of the berries?
Your awesome man please keep teaching us about all these things.
We have something called hardhack. Never heard of hackberry described in the local indigenous lore -WA state here. According to the USDA site its native range in the US is the upper NE Midwest.
Btw pretty sure antartica lacks hackberry...
You never know - there might be some seeds underneath the ice from the last time Antarctica actually had vegetation. Haha
They grow on every continent in the world
Antarctica:
🤣 I recently saw a video with the title,"why there's no dirt in Antartica".As much as I hate the cold, I didn't even watch it.I can't imagine living on ice.I have friends in Alaska always inviting me. I won't dare,even in summer. You should hear the stories,how hard to get there,the insane prices of food, outhouses because pipes freeze no matter what.Especially my friend in Barrow,talking about polar bear attacks. What a horrific place to live. or visit.
@@pattiannepascual lots of people visit Alaska and say it’s beautiful I’ve never been but it does depend on what part of Alaska it is I wouldn’t want to live there but I’d love to visit and some stories are exaggerated most of them actually. But still I’d never go in the winter that would be awful!
I felt like a 13 year old when you started on about twigs and berries😂
Thanks for sharing. Going to keep an eye out for these teees near me
these are actually in the hemp family (under agp III classification, previously under elm)
I bet they'd be good mixed up with persimmons.
Great video! I’m excited to see if I can source these
PS not related to this topic But!
Too get the hulls off of Walnuts! Try a old fashioned hand crank corn sheller!
Just adjust the setting! Way easier & faster!
I had never heard of hackberry. Very interesting, thanks.
I wonder if they can be bred to have bigger fruit?
How about a shop vac
😅
Wartmore tree
To clarify the evidence was so ancient these aren’t technically human remains but a common ancestor to humans
Pretty contentious topic these days erectus, denisedons/ potato ‘patato’ …nutrition for all right? now if we’re talking a lemur maybe I’ll raise an eyebrow 🤨
@@jjjames6894how is this contentious? Unless you’ve been reading to much MAGA creationism bullshit on Facebook?
Common ancestor? Adam.
😂 in what way these are primate bones there is not one primate bone in the human body and there’s not one human bone in a primate body. How are we connected to these monkeys?
We are a created species. That’s why our DNA has spices in it. The modern human is too weak and frail to have ever survived in the world thousands of years ago. The average amount of fractures found throughout the bones of a Neanderthal is something like 600 and Neanderthals do have primate bones. They had bigger brains. They were bigger faster and smarter than us. If I had to guess I would say there was numerous species of Homo sapiens on this planet prior to the last Ice Age and we did not prosper as a species until those other ones had died off.
@@ericarnaud7983 Adam and Steve
Would make good lumber for furniture? Possibly??
He made Naruto Ninja Food Pills!
Which species is being shown at 4:51? That looks like a halfway point between the previous examples
they make the same kind of roller but a lot finer for picking up firearm brass, it may still not be fine enough for these though
I have a hackberry tree, but its fruits stay green and are very astringent.
You really are helping me look at my world outside with new eyes 🙂
Dark Chocolate is a super food also!!!! Great addition.
Great video 👍
Wow. Thank you. Never tried hackberry before. I learned a lot from this.
I used to munch on them like crazy when i was a kid... always makes you want to eat more due to having such small amount of meat on the fruit.
This is the second time one of your videos has appeared on my home page. I have watched them both, so I have subscribed. Is it just me, or do you have a very slight Baltic (?) accent?
I feel a bit deprived when it comes to hackberry - having grown up in PA and OH, but never tasting one till I found a thicket of Celtis ehrenbergiana down in AZ on vacation. They were quite good, the seed was hard but not impossible to chew and was also enjoyable.
I've always wanted to try these! They don't grow anywhere near me, though. Boo.
Are you sure? Did you see the map he showed?
Awesome video and resource. Thank you.
Number 3 benefit, crap easier?
If I was a hacker, I'd change all the names of the berries in games to "hack berries".
Wow they grown in zones 2-9 thats cool
That mineral list shows Pb = lead can you explain why you used that list? Does the berry also have Lead, Bromine, Selenium…?
Beautiful ty so much
Checked to see if there are dried berries for tea making but only showed hawthorn berries!😢
My Dad had a hackberry tree.
Can you eat false pepper tree seeds?
How well do they grow in the Southwest?
neato, hope I still can spot some even though it’s been snowing here
can the bad ones be chicken and duck feed?
They grow on every continent in the world? Where are the Hackberry trees in Antarctica?
Well obviously under the ice! Lol no really I thought the same thing.
cAvEmEn AtE tHeSe BeRrIeS!1!
They look bitter but sweet and citrusy.
maybe use cordless vacuum ?
Does anyone know if we have Hackberry trees in the U.K.?
Dang unfortunately they are NOT in my area. Would have to travel yo find. 😢😢
I just planted one of these trees!
IF I had them berries I would make,, LICKER out of them 💯👍👌
What's licker
I don't drink but I bet you can make a lot of money selling the very unique Hackberry Brandy.❤
Licker?! I hardly know 'er!!
I’m sorry, did I see lead (Pb) in that list of ingredients?
It said .07 +- .03 mg/100 g dw
hmm just my "luck" living in Sweden and the European version is in southern Europe it seems. Still interesting video.
I don't associate with "gatherers".. but Nice berries Nancy
There is no such thing as cavemen and never were. People never lived in caves aside from some extremely hot regions where cold caves were a benefit. It makes especially little sense in context of northern cultures.
@2:55, @FeralForaging, you are mispronouncing Celtis. It is pronounced with a K sound. Only ignorant Brits mispronounce Celtic, Celts, Celtoi, Celtis, etc., with the S sound.
I can find no word for it in my language (Norwegian)
That a big fruit tree
You better have good teeth!!
directions unclear..
I ate rocks and sticks... No berries...
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😮😮😮 I'm going into the woods in NE philly and eat all the berries I find no matter what they are. 😂😂😂
Sorry God created Adam and Eve,
You are about Neanderthals? Right?
Why cavemen lived in caves, and you should too. GMAFB
Did you watch the video?
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No such thing as freaking caveman !!!
Pick up a bible and read it !!!
I have no interest in prolonging my experience in this hell, so it was real nice finding out there's another food I'll have never tried. Thanks for bringing it to my attention though.