How to Eat a Spanish Lime (aka Quenepa/Mamoncillo)
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- Опубліковано 4 жов 2024
- In this video I teach you how to eat a Spanish lime. Welcome to my channel, Our Tropical soil, where you can learn more about growing food in the tropics!
Like most fruits there are multiple names for them. So in Spanish the Spanish lime is called "mamoncillo" or "quenepa." I don't have experience growing Spanish lime myself, but in South Florida they are commonly seen when they are in season.
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It's been 28 years since I had a quenepa. In Puerto Rico we had a quenepa tree, bananas, guava and caña in the back, and a coconut tree in the front yard. That home was my best childhood memory... Now here in Oklahoma our house has 2 peach trees, 2 apples, a fig and 2 plum trees, 4 pecan and 4 walnut trees. I hope my children can enjoy our home now as much as i enjoyed my home growing up in PR.
I agree every home should have edible fruit!
I tried almost every fruit and this is one of the most addicting and best tasting. best texture as well
I miss these so much. Tried to get my aunt to smuggle them up to the mainland when she visit from Puerto Rico. She said the take them at the airport.
Yes, customs and security at the airport don't let any produce go through customs. They do this to prevent any pests or diseases from coming into the U.S. and vice versa. Your best bet is to order them online.
they sell them in the states
@@princenyc9271 Yes they do! They can be hard to find though. I have never seen them sold in stores in Miami. I have only seen them sold by street vendors.
Try publix
@@OurTropicalSoil I’ve bought them at a few bravo supermarkets.
It's only sour because you need to wait until the outer shell get some dark brown patches (looking like it went bad). They are very sweet when ripe.
Thanks for the tip! I haven't tried that.
@@OurTropicalSoil You are very welcome :)
Thanks, I'm looking for one of those to buy. Will they grow and fruit well in containers? Thanks again
@@lorenbush8876 I am not an expert, but I think they only grow in tropical environments where this is a lot of sun and rain.
@@PE4Doers I'm in Oklahoma and we get a lot of sun especially through the summer and a lot of rain until summer kicks in but it's usually dry most of the summer at least until August is over. The reason for the containers is so I can move plants/trees indoors that can't handle the freezing weather. Thanks
I had these as a military dependent in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. One of the non-English speaking men (could have been Cuban, Filipino, Jamaican-I can’t remember) gave me some and showed me how to eat them. It was so sweet of him. I just found out the name of them after 25 years.
Aw that is a lovely story! My parents are Cuban and they call them mamoncillo. Spanish lime is how I have heard them called in Florida.
@@OurTropicalSoil I live in Florida and in certain places there would be a man selling them. He would walk around the roads and such
@@OurTropicalSoil yes we call it mamoncillo. Its amazing, you can get a bunch of them and add sugar and mix it and it taste amazing
These are called Quenepas in Puerto Rico I freakin love themmmm💕
these are really popular in jamaica 🇯🇲
What do you call them there?
Our Tropical Soil, we call them ginup! Usually we eat them during the summer time. that’s the best time to eat them.
Awesome :) There must be an abundance of tropical fruit in the Caribbean!
@@sherbz447 guinep*
@@OurTropicalSoil we call them guinep
One of my favorite fruits! Best explanation “it’s a mild sour head” lmfao!
I love them too. I have learned to like them more and more, but I prefer lychees over these any day.
@@OurTropicalSoil Where are you from?
South Florida
some are not sour
@@OurTropicalSoiloh me too!!
In Jamaica, we call it guinep, and they can be very sweet
I lived in south Florida for most of my life and I would freak out when I saw the lemoncillo settlers by the Swap Shop selling bushels in the street. Always my favorite time of year. I love these things and love trying to describe them to people. It's like a citrusy lychee with a huge seed!
They also call them quenep, Quenepa, Quenepas, Kinnep, or Skinep in some parts of the caribbean
Wow! Thanks for all the different names.
they call it ackee in barbados
@@tacmon29 And in Surinam we call it Knippa. Really miss these yummy fruits 💚
Lived in P.R. when I was a boy, 1960's ... we called then Quenepa.
I'm from Puerto Rico and raised in Vieques and there's a tree infront of my dad's house, they just taste better fresh out of the tree, and the quenepa (that's how Puerto Rico say Mamoncillo) the seed is really small but it has a lot of flesh and they're like too perfect.
Sounds delicious fresh off the tree!
I know what you mean. I remember there was more flesh and the color of the flesh was not so yellow but more clear white and the seeds were smaller and also I'm confused because they are so sweet not at all sour. Maybe it's different varieties. I miss being in PR.
We call these “Skin Up” in Grenada. They're sometimes sweet or sour.
Im eating that now
andrea mejia Awesome! I hope you enjoyed it.
Eh-eh! all along I have known them as guineps (ghee-neps). 😁Dwl! I love how well you describe as well as inform. Thank you.
Omg I miss those we call them kenep in Haiti 🇭🇹
Cool! So many people have commented on what they are called in their country. So many names for the same thing :)
Saint Martin 🇲🇫 we call it kenep too
Quenepas are the best; hadn't had them for 30 years but stumbled across a vendor selling them in Jamaica a few months back and was so excited to share with my wife and kids. Gotta get them back to my mom's side of the family's home in PR soon.
We call it Kenep in Ayiti (Haiti)!
In Trinidad we call them chennette & in Guyana they are called guinep
Aww 🥰. Thank you so much Queen! 💚👆🏾… It looks so delicious as well…
MY PUERTO RICAN FRIENDS IN PROVIDENCE RI PUT ME ON TO THESE.....MY FAVE
Someone brought a bag of these into the office today and no one knew what they were. When I opened one, I thought it was a lychee - it looked like one, but it didn't taste like one. Only slightly sour, and sweet at the same time. You have to just suck on the pit for a while to get the meat off. Pretty tasty and got me thinking about trying this in my water instead of a very sour lime. It probably has a lot of Vitamin C. Thanks for this video!
Haha that is funny! They are good. I think it would work very well in water.
My absolute favourite. I'm in Barbados right now just stuffing my face.
Sounds delicious!
These things are the essence of lime. Delicious.
in Puerto Rico they call it Quenepas
Frances Delgado Cool! It’s so interesting how every culture comes up with their own name for fruits.
Same at jamaica
Interesting!
i know, its very interesting , i never knew there were so many names for that fruit
It happens with all kinds of fruits. Fruit names are so inconsistent from place to place. That is why it's good to know the scientific name for species. There is barley any confusion with scientific names.
One of my favorite fruits!
Interesting fruit...I think I will give it a go. Sounds a little bit like santol which is a common fruit of the Philippines. Thanks for sharing.
Cool! I haven't tried santol. I just looked it up and it looks like it's related to the mangosteen. I haven't been able to try a good mangosteen either! Mamoncillo is related to lychees, longans, and rambutans.
Here in Guyana we call it genip. N we eat it with salt and pepper
I remember when I would try to climb the tree in our back yard n would I just fall of the tree
I’m From Trinidad We Call It Chennet And Right Now We Have It In Abundance 🥳 If You Never Had This You’ve Ben Missing Out
Nah they so good
Thank you
Such a mouth-watering fruit! Are there still street vendors in Miami selling clusters of mamoncillos to drivers stopped at red lights? I remember encountering that around 2006 down there.
Yes there still is but not right now at this time of year. I haven't seen any these past two weeks. I would say they ripen in the very end of July and very beginning of August.
The skin is almost like a tough thin orange rind
Just bought some while sitting at a red light
I’m Trinidad we called these chenet and Guyana it’s called gunip
Here in South Fl. they're in every grocery store 😜
I love quenepas. Everytime my grandma goes to visit Puerto Rico I beg her to bring back quenepas. I havnt had them in a while though, airports dont allow fruits to go on the plane :(
we used to eat them in key west fl they are so good miss them
I love to taste one of those. Never had one.
They are good! You can find them sold online or in some ethnic grocery stores.
these one of my favorite child hood fruits we call em quenepas
I love these
Se llama quenepa en Puerto Rico 🇵🇷
In Haiti we call it quenepe. I can eat it all day long. Nice video
I love limonsillos 🇩🇴
I wonder if you press the seed... if oil would come out if it.
I would think that it would but the effort of pressing the seed for oil might not be worth it. Maybe the oil doesn't taste too good or there isn't much oil in a seed.
thank you, my market is selling them now, and I'm on my way to buy some.
That is great!!!
My favorite. They are different whether in Jamaica, Trinidad, or Florida. Jamaica's were the best to me. Round and plump. Right up there with My other favorite fruit calamansi
That’s a guaya or quenepa, momón or mamoncillo,Spanish Limes which are the same as mamoncillos look very similar to leeches but taste different I agree with you.
Am I the only one who eat it with salt and chilli??👀 It tastes too good that way! Try it!
limoncillos!!!!!!!!!! I love these so muchhhh
Me too!
The best are from Puerto Rico 😍
In curacao called kenepa
I love those
My sister gave me some small green fruits from somebody selling them on the side of the road and so I was interested on what it was and I found your video here. You explained the taste perfectly. Can we grow them from seeds??????? By the way , I watched some of your videos. I love your garden. I actually just start adding edibles around my home but only trees. I dont have time for the high maintenance things. Do you have a suggestion of low maintenance things to plant. I like your cucumber vines.
Mamones is wht we call them in El Salvador
Reallyunlucky10 Cool!
Todas las frutas de sur América se las llevaron los colonizadores y las han esparcido por todo el mundo, es bueno que todo el mundo disfrute de esto tan hermoso como es la naturaleza
They ate great, I just found out about them a week ago, and found a market here in Pennsylvania where they're sold.
That is awesome. Very easy to grow too :)
How do you tell the difference between a male Spanish lime tree and a female one? Apparently you need both to get fruit from those, Thanks.
Thanks for that experience. My girl and I found some in NYC. Proud of you! Keep doing your thang girl 🥰🥳
Glad you were able to find some and thank you!
Those are huge! The only place I know where to get these in Southern California is the El Salvador marketplace on Vermont between 11th & 12th in Los Angeles. Wish I had more than one supplier!
Yeah unfortunately they aren't too common. I don't see them for sale all too often here. I got these from my uncle. There is a tree where he used to work.
Now I want to try them hmmm
Puerto Rican’s call them quenapa
In Guyana we call those Ginnip
Cool! Thanks for sharing.
I'm guyana we call then ginip
In cuba we call them mamoncillos
Yes my family called them that :)
y u grab it like that?
Here in Belize we know it as Kinep 😁 I love them!
Nice! They are very tasty :)
same in Haiti
Bih Glizzy It is interesting to learn of all the different names :)
omg i’m like obsessed with these. i live in south florida, do you know where i can get them or when they’re in season?
Me too I can't find them where I live I will have to get my aunt to send me some
It’s called kenep in Haiti it’s my Scottie fruit it’s so good I can’t believe it’s a lime in Spanish
I dont like how the flesh sticks like hair to the seed it gets stuck in my teeth. Tastes amazing though. I wonder if theres a way to juice them effectively
OMG I have been looking for these forever! My ex-partner from many years ago was from Puerto Rico and every time she would come back from a visit she would bring bags of these and hide them from me so I didn't eat them all LOL I just remember they kind of have a "pop" when you bite them and then you just eat the orange fruit and throw the seed or nut whatever is in the middle. OMG I wish I could get these in the states... Any ideas LOL thanks for the video
Ethnic stores like Vallarta sell these!
Tropical fruit sells them online
which state r u in?
Thanks Melanie. Where is the cheapest/best place to buy one of those trees?
You’re like Mona Lisa come to life ❤️
Thank you :)
Muy interesante. Gracias.
Gracias a ti también.
They also go by another name and have it on the title also they are very popular in Dominican Republic and Puerto Rico
There are probably over 20 different names that the mamoncillo is called! The fruit is also popular in Cuba. It seems that a lot of Cubans favor the mamoncillo over the lychee (mamoncillo chino).
I have never had one that big before. I’ve only had the smaller ones
Whaaaat? Lima española? ¿Dónde está el papel que verifica esa informacion? ¿Qué documento con índice y DOI, preferiblemente de una pagina academica?
I try growing in San Diego but it ain't easy they grow but not all that great
I am not too familiar with the climate the Spanish lime likes. I think it prefers warmer weather since it is common in Cuba. The lychee I believe does better in cooler climates as it needs a couple of cold days to flower and fruit. Maybe you will have better luck growing that one. The two fruits are cousins but do not taste very similar. The lychee has more flesh and is a lot sweeter than the Spanish lime.
True, yea my lychee are growing but not as good as they would in flordia, I think it might be because the air is a little to dry here. I'll see how the spanish lime do this summer hopefully they will put on some growth. But yea I'm jealous of your humidity in south Florida you can grow so many tropical plants, one I would love to see you grow is an Abiu tree mine seem to be stunted here and dieback every winter but I think you will have way better luck.
Alex Contreras Yes to much drier over there. It’s funny cause many people say oh I want to grow tropicals and I’m here dreaming of some pomegranates and figs. But I am grateful for all the grows well here! I haven’t even tried abiu but I for sure want to grow it eventually!
It's called guinep where I'm from . And it's sweet of kinnep
We grew up calling them quenepas
In Jamaica we call these Guineps.
Great video! When I went to Belize, they called them Kenip or Guenip, and I fell in love. I live in Louisiana now and a trying to grow them from seed here. Gotta wait 5 years before they fruit tho :(( delicious fruit! Any tips on how to grow them in sub tropical areas? Can the small plants be grafted to a citrus root stock or anything to speed up growth?
This fruit is not related to citrus species so it cannot be grafted onto a citrus rootstock. The plants will grow big and I am not too sure about it growing in sub tropical areas. The kenip, as you called it, is in the Soapberry family. A cousin of kenip is lychee and I know that these trees do better in cooler climates so maybe it would be a better option for you. Lychee is meatier and much sweeter. Kenip also has the issue of the trees being male and female so you need one of each for fruit production. I think lychee doesn't have that problem. You can try protecting them while they are young and as they get older they should be able to withstand cooler temps. hort.purdue.edu/newcrop/morton/mamoncillo.html In this link it says that the tree can withstand some frost and it is not strictly tropical.
@@OurTropicalSoil thanks for replying! just what i needed to know!
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@ourtropicalsoil have you tried and had any success planting these from seeds? I’ve always noticed they look easy to start but probably won’t do well here in upstate Ny.
I believe they will start quite easily, however, I have not tried any myself. I think it would be best to buy a grafted tree as the trees take many years to reach maturity and fruit. I am not complete sure but I believe this species also has male and female trees so a grafted tree is best to ensure you get fruit. Regardless, it is much too cold for Spanish lime in New York. The only way I think you could get the tree to reach maturity and to fruit is if you had a very large heated greenhouse.
And in Trinidad and Tobago we call them chenet
So cool. So many names :)
Aww lil mamon. lolol. Mamoncillo.
I like the way to taste but om god the seed takes up so much space 😅
in Creole they are called kenep
In Jamaica we call those Ginup
Cool!
They are so awesome mildly sour
Yes delicious!
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it is call ackee in barbados i love them👍🤗
The name ackee is given to a completely different fruiting tree. If you google ackee the fruit that comes up is actually poisonous and deadly if not eaten at the correct time. When eaten at the right time it is quite good. I am not sure if Spanish lime is called ackee in Barbados, but if you find any fruit that is called ackee then it is best to get more information on it before eating it.
It is called ackee in st.lucia
The ackee you're speaking about we call it Jamaican ackee yes and it's poisonous but Spanish we call it ackee
Ah thank you for clearing that up. I just wanted to make sure cause the Jamaican ackee is poisonous. I learn something new everyday.
Is it sweet?
Kinda but it's more sour.
These are called Limoncello in the Dominican Republic!
Where do you get Spanish limes from
I got it locally from someone that had a tree.
Looks like our ackee. (Barbados)
I have tried ackee. It is delicious.
I like it a lot, but I never heard it been called a Spanish lime
In Florida that is what I have heard it called. In Spanish I learned it as mamoncillo.
noooo hon , in barbados the are call ackee ,...in Barbados , tht what we call them here ok , people in different countries or states call them different names
Sorry, yes I know it has different names in different places. I just wanted to double check we had the right plant because the plant that is called ackee in Florida is very poisonous if not eaten at the right time. Now I know mamoncillo is called ackee in Barbados.
Do you know if the skin is edible?
I haven't heard of the skin being edible so I don't think so. The skin is tough and not easy to chew.
Q manera más rara de comer eso... si no comes la piel q tiene dentro de la cáscara no sabes comerlo... y pues no es difícil llegar a la semilla cuando están maduros.... pero nunca intento
It's called kenep
There a bunch of names for them
Yeah I'm from st.croix that what we call then
Rambutan cousin mamonsillo quenepa
Yes they are all related. Also to lychee and longan!
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