BABACO - Trying a Rare Ecuadorian Fruit Related to Papaya - Weird Fruit Explorer
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Ep 579 Babaco
Binomial Name: Vasconcellea × heilbornii
Location: New York City, USA - Grown In California
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Wonderful video ❣️
Spanish tip: to pronounce dulce, there is no "ch" sound. The C sounds like an S. That recipe basically calls for sweetening the fruit with sugar which is why the recipe is called dulce de babaco. Anyways thank you for coming to my Ted talk.
You mean the cartoon charachter from the 90's right Keepo
Was that a Ren and Stimpy reference ?
Duel-say is how you pronounce that word. It means candy, yes.
"I have some criticism for this fruit". Love that line lol. I can picture the Babaco listening to see how it can improve its flavor in the future.
Haha 😆
lovely humorous comment, well done! 🤗
lol I was gigglingas well :D
The babaco I have had were a different flavour from one end to the other. They ripen from one end and the flavour changes dramatically as they ripen. The ones I had from the supermarket were not as ripe as the one you tried here. The texture was like a juicy small strawberry, except in a one kilo fruit. So juicy, so many flavours from a tropical fruit salad. One of my favourites. Unfortunately, the supermarket does not get them anymore.
That sounds like a fun experience. Just get a spoon and go at it, enjoy the whole culinary journey.
Wow that sounds amazing and delicious
what supermarket is the one you go to? The ones near me would never have a babaco, only maybe occasionally a papaya if we're lucky...
@@-jank-willson I think that was Tesco, but a long time ago. Not much in the way of new fruit now.
@@pattheplanter Oh, you must be from the UK. No Tesco in US. Maybe other types of fruit are more common in the UK than US
I like how he explains the taste of a fruit i will never eat with the taste of another fruit i will probably never eat. Its still up to my imagination now
I usually cheat on a drug test by writing the answers on my forearm and wearing a long sleeve shirt to hide it.
Last time I was scheduled for a drug test, I asked the tech if I could pace myself and test no more than four on the first day. She said the test was for all drugs and had to be done with one little needle. Sounded a bit careless to me...how the hell was I going to give a reliable review if I can't tell the colors from the sounds? 💉💊⚰🔮
What an interesting fruit! It looks like a papaya had a baby with a cacoa pod
I was thinking starfruit and papaya baby
I guess we'll have to performe a DNA test to find who the parents are. Ooh yeah, and you better contact dr. Phill.
It's amazing how many fruits and vegetables exist that the average person hasn't ever heard of.
Thank you for sharing these! It sort of expands our world.
And how the the selected fruits for mass production, touted as an excellent sources of health- tend to be suboptimal for the prescribed excellence. Ex. Oranges are a good source of vitamin C, but so are several veggies, or Acerola cherry has like 9x more vitamin C. Almonds are the mass produced nut, but hazelnuts have (on avg) a 12x better nutritional profile and without cyanide.
For the Missing flavor try something with Tannin. Cranberry, Tamarind, Pomegranate. or strongly brewed black tea
Regarding papain enzymes: I was incredibly lucky to have a stay at a relative's house in Hawaii. We bought papaya every morning for breakfast. I was peeling and preparing it everyday and within three days my hands were also peeling. The skin comes off like sunburn if you have too much papine exposure on your hands.
Same thing with pineapples, they contain bromelaine that also digests proteines. Can also be used as meat tenderizer.
Wow interesting.. I just ate my first babaco and my lips are on fire, very tasty fruit but damn feels like I've dipped my lips in acid 🤣😅😬
Creepy Crawlers weren't edible, but there was a related product called Dr. Dreadful that WAS... and I had it, and it was ALL AMAZING... literally some of the most delicious and addicting candy I've ever had, all presented in the form of lovely stuff like frankenstein snot and skeleton brains. Now I'm having a nostalgia trip and badly wanting something similar to any of that stuff lmao
Creepy Crawlers had a sister product called the Incredible Edible toy in 1968. I used to love those two toys. The Incredible Edible toy candy tasted like Swedish Fish candy. I bet the candy goop was highly nutritious and it tasted so very delicious 🤣🤣🤣
I remember that shit. There was like the spider eggs and stuff tooo
@@peewhocantbeaimed6954 don't know if children should be having edibles (:
@@peewhocantbeaimed6954 I have been wondering what those tasted like for more than 50 years. Thank you! Made my day. =D
Lol they still make dr.dreadful. It’s call zombie lab had to look it up.
I was so ready for it to be a genius discovery moment 😂😂😂
Hahahaha, same 🤣
You've been sitting on this Mr. Scorpion joke since you started this channel. Admit it.
How did that Simpsons reference ever find a way to get practical use in the real world?
What are you refering to?
@@rugvedkulkarni1593 "They're juicy and full of papain. Makes you strong like Popeye. Popeye, papain. Popeye, papain. See? Same thing. Same- Uh, forget it. How are you? I'm Hank Scorpio" - "You Only Move Twice" the second episode of The Simpsons' eighth season
I knew I’d heard this before…
"Popeye... Papain... Popeye... Papain... Popeye... Papain... " 😁
I always knew that Popeye is a cheater with those muscular biceps, now I know why. :)))
I am gonna tell you about some kind of pumpkin/watermelon like, this fruit is native fron the andes region it is the "Sambo" with that fruit you can do "dulce de Sambo", soups, with the seeds you can toast them and do delicious sauces.
to be fair, your palate is much more diversified than most. 7:30
That looks like a starfruit-sugar daddy.
Quick, somebody get a hold of Hank Scorpio
I love babaco. When we lived in Ecuador, the only way it was used where we lived was for making juice. Pulp, water, and a little sugar in a blender. It ends up really creamy with a fantastic flavor. One of my favorite juices. It won’t grow well here in Florida unless it’s grafted onto papaya rootstock, due to nematodes.
Try adding beneficial nematodes to your soil to combat the bad ones
Thanks for answering the question I was wondering about.
Everything tropical grows in Florida
"Stinking up my room with good things" I can't- 😭
will it ketchup tho ?
So excited for this episode!! Never got to try the babaco while I was in Ecuador as the one I bought got all mushy in my pack. Thank you Jared & Nate!
Just a little bit of sugar, you know, just 20% by volume.
🤣ikr? Such a tiny glass!
Sugar isnt bad for you unless you are diabetic or have a genetic history of diabetes. Diabetes is primarily caused by obesity and not simply eating "too much sugar".
Sugar has about the same calories as any other carbohydrate, but is released quicker, so can make you eat more than you normally would, but thats about it.
Of course drinking sugar is probably a bad idea simply due to the calories in it, again same as stuff like coca cola where its very easy to get too many calories.
@@OsirusHandle You are so wrong it hurts.
@@OsirusHandle big false
@@Chris_Garman How so? You do know that 100% of all carbs you consume are converted directly into sugar right? Are you saying the human body cant digest carbohydrates?
It needs to be ketchupfied
Will It Hollandaise?
@@sdfkjgh Wouldn't that just be a fruit curd?
@@chnhakk: I have no idea, will it? I've never made Hollandaise sauce or fruit curd, so I have no idea. I just wanna see what happens. I also wanna continue the meme.
Most fruits do!
Ecuadorian here, can confirm on the meat tenderizing properties of papain. Some grandmas used to rub meat with a piece of babaco before cooking, often for barbecues.
Nah mate, it's pa paeen, it's probounced pa-PAIN BROTHER!!!!
Strange, we Ecuadorians call it Papa'in.
@sprock So
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Thanks for the tip about the drug test.
It never worked for most drugs and has been known to analysts for over 15 years. They will not be fooled by putting meat tenderiser in your sample. The best way to fool a drug test is to not take any drugs or get a job somewhere that does not require them.
@@pattheplanter while true. I thought the idea was eating a lot of the papain?
You didn't hear it from him.
@@StonedtotheBones13 When eaten papain would only affect the substances with it in the gut. It is not absorbed and will not affect any other organs.
@@pattheplanter neat, TIL
Your knife skills still need a little work, but it's nice to see it sharp for once!
I’ve grown babaco here in Melbourne, Australia for many years (not commercially) and I’ve never seen any trace of seeds inside. I’m guessing that the grower has papaya growing nearby and these seeds are a result of a bit of cross pollination : Babaco don’t exist in the wild as they are seedless. -propagation is by cuttings and is easy to do. I’ve read that in Ecuador, they are a common backyard tree and are usually juiced with oranges for flavour balance.
Oh interesting about the seeds!
@@WeirdExplorer I don’t entirely understand how it works but, some supposedly seedless citrus may also develop seeds of grown with other citrus
Yeah, it’s super rare for them to have seeds. It almost never happens, any of those seedlings would be a completely different fruit from babaco and be something different depending on the parent. Nate has a big papaya collection and maybe Julie mountain papaya crossed with it or a different species. They would be random crossing over events between a 3 species cross and it’s should be super heterozygous, with lots of mixed traíts from the different parents. Oak leaf papaya or papaya berry could be a parent too, that’s a good one to try. Often interspecies crosses have an odd number chromosomes and it makes them unable to produce offspring with either parent.
Ahh yes my aunty grew these in Tauranga New Zealand back in the 90's and we had them sliced and dipped in sugar, very refreshing in summer. Very hard to find plants now and not sold in supermarkets or anywhere as they dont store well if not kept in the fridge.
Send me your email or facebook link I have one potted up, Waiuku area
Just bought a house in Papamoa and we have one growing in the garden here. Got a few fruit on the tree, the fruit is still a very dark green colour, hopefully they eventually ripen 🤷😅
We peel ours and slice across. With a bit of ice cream yum! And yes smaller and not hollow.
I had 3 nicely riped babaco last year. They had heavenly Amazing fragrant that I could rub my face in, BUT they had the most horrible Taste I've had with Fruits. They were a little sour, noticeably savory and Taste like soap!
I was shocked to find out there are lots of babaco lovers and the posivitives you gave in your tasting part.
I live in Ecuador and I love this fruit! I recommend to make juice out of it, be sure you use the ripe end of the babaco because it will taste more sour if it's not ripe.
Also, I didn't know babaco was an hybrid :0 thanks for the info, your channel is amazing.
Babaco, papaya and lime?
The variety of babaco we have in Nz is full of juicy fruit flesh not hollow ☺️thats probably the missing flavour 😊
You know it’s a banger when weird explorer uploads B)
I've had a normal papaya, and I couldn't wat much because it hurt my tongue too much, and it was a little bland. I had a sunrise papaya, and that tasted really good and didn't hurt me. I think this would hurt me too much.
Good that you know you are sensitive to these fruit enzymes!
"They're juicy and full of papain. Makes you strong like Popeye. Popeye, papain. Popeye, papain. See? Same thing. Same- Uh, forget it. How are you? I'm Hank Scorpio" - "You Only Move Twice" the second episode of The Simpsons' eighth season
I like my drug tests positive, that way everyone can ooh and aaaah at my levels, and need a second test to verify the first. Like there's no way this guy ate ten milligrams of LSD... and yet there is a blood test somewhere that confirms that.
It turned my nail beds reddish pink. People at the hospital were pretty freaked out about it.
Moral of the story: don't eat random shit off your floor... although I'd do it again given the opportunity. I wouldn't know all this crap I know without that having happened.
I did learn how to make the chemical and had it outsourced to a 3rd party. Hopefully I can expand access to medical researchers, private civilian researchers, and the military via the U.S. Army Chemical Corps.
Sometimes papaya tastes different completely sometimes sweet sometimes bitter sometimes nasty. Despite the same brand.
Yes there are many variety of papaya and many of them taste different I once tried wild golden papaya it's very pretty but it's taste tasteless but the other golden papaya taste amazingly sweet
I've always found there to be a bit of a musky flavour that I just can't stand. The dried stuff seems to not have it, and is quite delicious. I wonder if there are any varieties without the musk.
@@StuffandThings_ I also think dried papaya is way nicer than fresh. Fresh tastes kinda sickly to me.
might have been more palatable if you hadn't called it snot 🤢
Sweet gumbo.
Not first! But here! YAYYYY for insomnia and Weird Fruit Explorer! 🤩
weird explorer's videos are like the only good thing abt having insomnia
Oof. Had those days. Hope you get some sleep fam
@@somethinginthewalls388 word lmao
@@StonedtotheBones13 thank u, i appreciate it. i hope so too :’)
Your jazzy organ music reminds me of chowder.
oh my god, you are chalk full of Simpsons references and I love it. Love the reference to hank scorpio from the Simpson episode "you only move twice" at 1:10
The flesh looks like honey melon kinda, and has the juicy ness as a honey melon.
Popeye. Papain. Popeye. Papain.- fruit guy in NYC, 2021.
Just curious for understanding your taste perceptions, do you think cilantro tastes like soap? Evidently some people do so genetically.
My aunt managed to grow these in Texas, and my parents were ecstatic to eat some. I think it's one of the fruits they miss the most from Ecuador.
Just something to take out of context
"I'm not wild about the texture of the snot"
Papain, (Like bromelain-pineapple and actinidin-kiwi) is a terrible meat tenderizer. Yes they are effective proteases, however the proteins they work on are the wrong category so you end up with a mushy textured end result that is really not pleasant to eat.
There are categories of proteases?
@@fashiharz8584 Yes, they are specific to certain types of protein bonds. Easier for me to explain different classes of carbohydrate enzymes(for breaking polymers of sugars), alpha-amylases break bonds mid chain so mostly making a big polymer into two medium polymers, while beta-amylases breaks only one or two monomers off of the free ends of the polymers which is much more slow but a more complete breakdown and both only operate on starch bonds not cellulose bonds. There also limits of each regarding proximity to a branch in the polymer chain. (Cellulose has the same sugar monomers as starch but a different type of bond. There are also pectic enzymes, pectins are very large complex branched chain polysaccharides, like a cross between a super starch and cellulose. Agar-agar is another. Pectin and agar are both used with water to make firm gels.)
1:15 seconds, simpsons reference- "you only move twice"
Jared: I have a little criticism for this fruit...
God: How you dare?!
LOL
Well to be fair this is a hybrid, so it'd be more like criticizing the folks (Amerindians, I'm guessing by the location) who selectively bred it.
Sounds exactly like when you buy strawberries at the store. They almost always needs to have sugar sprinkled on them to actually taste strawberries. If you grow them yourself in a quite cold climate, they usually don't need it though. Damn... your videos make me want to taste (almost) everything you review! It's so sad that you can't get 95% of it in northern Sweden. But we have loads of cloudberries and arctic brambles at least :D
wow dude thanks, i can finally drunk drive!
id like to try babaco papaya and orange juiced together
okay, speaking of feijoa, i recently tried one and i wanna know if anybody else thinks they taste like a urinal cake smells
EDIT: not like, in a bad way, just in the weird artificial fruit smell way
To me that flavor you are detecting is spearmint. Fejoa is very unique floral taste and the ones from my very old large tree get real creamy and nice. You might have got a bad variety. I’ve tasted many that I find planted as ornamental hedges planted around Northern California. Also I forgot to mention they taste best when fallen to the ground
@@JJBoudreau makes sense lol, the one i got was from safeway and i highly doubt they just let them drop. have a friend with an ornamental tree in their yard, i hope to try those ones too
They are best when fallen to the ground, as well as in cooler climates. Which is a bit paradoxical for a subtropical fruit, but I think they are a bit underrated in their cold hardiness as I'm growing two very happy feijoa plants in Washington state, zone 8a with pretty much no cold damage. You also need to be careful about cultivar, from what I've read feijoa are *extremely* variable in character cultivar to cultivar, and especially the seedlings can be pretty bad. Also the flowers are absolutely delicious if you can time them right on the... would it be "ripeness?"
Hank Scorpio really missed an opportunity to provide some papaya in his welcome basket to the Simpsons.
Feijoa is a favourite of mine. I'd love to try this one.
When you describe the taste of one exotic fruit by comparing it to other exotic fruits, I have to say that I'm even more lost. Pineapple and creepy crawlers makes much more sense. :D
Didn't you do an episode on babaco a long time ago as one of your OG episodes?
Excellent Simpsons reference. One of my favorite episodes.
I bet that fruit would be amazing as a smoothie if you just add a bit of sugar.
congrats on 250k!!!! also, had my first tamarillo the other day, it was DELICIOUS, I am going to attempt to grow the seeds
They are frost-tender
Good luck! Let me know how they turn out
Wow, seeds are fairly rare. Usually they don’t have any seeds.
Makes sense, since hybrids are almost always sterile!
I neved had papaya and this video really made me want to try it
I just cut off the brown part and then just toss the whole thing into my blender
I had to look away when you sampled the "snot" I'm still laughing! Thanks for your videos!
Popeye called, he only does spinach
Huh, I always thought that was star fruit xDD I ate one when it wasn’t ripe yet and it was like eating too much pineapple. TuT My mouth hated it
To be fair babaco just sounds like someone horrifically mispronouncing papaya
Do you think that you will ever eat every known or at least common fruits in the world?
no chance. there are way too many. that's not a bad thing though:)
Ooo I'm actually early
The babcao pass the test
4:10
Thank me later.
Every papaya I have ever tried has tasted like absolute shit.
I was like you until I visited Cuba. There I finally had a good one. Also, it took me a while, but I found one that didn't taste like sweaty trash here last year.
i've had plenty of good papayas in thailand (with a mild, fresh, fruity taste) but the papaya i got in india just tasted like vomit.
Too musky for me. But the dried stuff and the chunks in syrup are good. So maybe they're just bad ones I've had? It sounds like papaya are just another one of those extremely variable fruits.
You need to smell papaya to get a decent one if they don't smell like papaya they aren't ripe and were picked too green. They can be ripened in a paper bag but if they aren't ripe enough they just rot.
I don't know how you can remember all the fruit you've tried plus how they taste. I know I wouldn't be able to do it. I do like your videos and appreciate your knowledge about fruit.
That's a beautiful fruit
It has funny name
Should do the try it ripe & green. I much prefer this one green, made in a green papaya salad style (mint, basil, chilli, soya sauce & a squeeze of lime).
🙀never had an actual "sour" soursop! It was ridiculously sweet, like cotton candy, both times. Also, much stickier than cotton candy.
Me too I find souraop is not really sour, but if you compare to sugarsop or sugarapple /swet cheeimoya it's a little bit sour but just a little bit, so yeah ripe soursop acty has low sourness and it's one of my favorite fruit ☺️
My daughter had to go on an elimination diet for 8 months. Come to find out she is mostly allergic to tomatoes, mangoes, pineapples and milk. Maybe Papayas too, but she didn't try it yet.
Congratulations, It's an excelent content. You should taste taxo which is so delicious. It's an exotic fruit that you can mix with milk and little sugar. You can find it here in Ecuador in highlands clould forest. Most of the time is consumed in the breakfast with a peace of toast bread.
7:49 It's pronounced fey-ZHWAH, with a sound like measure or de jour.
So i normally don’t want to recommend different fruits and all that, but have you heard of the kukui nut? It’s a very important nut that is a part of hawaii’s history and i thought you should know that it is in fact a fruit and it tastes incredible! I would love to see an episode of you exploring not just the fruit but also the different properties it has because i see lots of posts on the internet talking about how the nut is used alot as well as the actual plant, but never about the fruit itself.
“Not wild about the texture of that snot.”.
At least that is what I think he said. My favorite line so far.
At least it is what I heard. I really enjoy this show.
*the broth*
mmm babaco, yum. so good on a hot summer's day, so refreshing. I don't like papaya but I do like babaco. not that it's very common in NZ, I think I had it in my childhood because someone grew them in their garden, definitely not available in the supermarkets here unfortunately.
im ecuadorian and is great that other people try our fruids, also i will add that we mostly do babaco candy and also juice, because is acid and not much sweet. we hardly ever eat it alone.
Sumac is in season right now. It would be an easy video and quite accessible to your viewers
I've also heard them called champagne fruit because the flesh can taste 'fizzy'. I managed to grow a babaco here in the UK and I must admit it did seem to be fizzy. Certainly was extremely juicy
I wonder if that’s because it’s gone slightly fermented. I’ve had fruit be slightly fizzy tasting because that exact thing has started to happen. Not intentionally though, and it wasn’t great.
You should do a video ranking the most sour fruit you've ever tried.
They tried to market it in the uk from Guernsey I think; one of the nicest fruits I have ever tried but it never took off and not seen it in 30+ years, ho hum. It wasn't slimey snotty and hollow in the middle either but then it was still slightly green ; it would slice through like butter and absolutely wouldn't need sugar added at all (above 2) The Babaco on screen looks wet and over ripe to my taste and yet isn't very sweet which is odd
It seems to me that, as obvious as it was, the sponsorship wasn't properly disclaimed? or have I missed the disclaimer?
Sure it is, again, quite obvious, but I still think it should be disclosed clearly for transparency sake.
I've got geographic tongue. Pineapple destroys my tongue. I dont think I could eat this lol
i though Popeye was strong because of spinach :) ! Great video mate !
Ive never been a fan of papaya. I cant remember the taste off hand, since its been years since Ive last had it. But I remember really not enjoying it when I tried it last. But you with lime, huh? Might be worth revisiting.
Have you ever ate anything that made you, you know, violently shit yourself?
grown here in new zealand, northland, bay of plenty, nelson/tasman areas.
fruit use to be in supermarkets, But is now mainly exported.
Lol when you said putting the two together didn't do anything, It sounded like you said pudding for a second. Maybe that's what it's missing ... Make it into a pudding.
Omg lmao creepy crawlers 😂 I forgot about those 7:31
That’s so cool! I’d never even heard of these.