They make a coconut sap alcohol in the Pacific, across the belt the Spaniards plowed in their galleons. On Guam, they call it tuba. As for using the fruits, I'm not sure there's much culinary use for them since they are so small and not especially economical compared to regular coconuts. Maybe candied with a raspberry or cherry glaze might be nice on a fruit platter.
I'm sure that sugar syrup was at least in the past used to make some variant of wine/rum. But now was sugarcane imported from India during colonization it's just so much more efficient to make alcohol out of sugarcane that there's no reason to use those little nuts. I'm sure it makes delicious desserts! I would be curious to know if you use it in a local form of flan though?
@@angelwhispers2060 Palm wine/syrup isn't made with the nuts, you have to destroy the palm itself to obtain it. Hence why its pretty impractical, as well as being terrible for the environment. Especially with such slow growing, rare trees.
@@StuffandThings_ when i heard sweet sap, that was the first thing i thought of. Boil it down and make syrup. To bad its not like a maple tree that you can just drill a hole and tap to get some sap. It doesn't kill the tree.
Aaw, I love those! Here in Chile they usually sell them by the kilogram at local produce markets Their honey is locally called "miel de palma" and it is amazing on desserts, tastes like nutty caramel sauce
I grew up in the Bay Area and used to eat these all the time as a kid, there was a tree across the street from my childhood home. My family calls them monkey nuts! 🤣
honestly i agree with you on this things versatility in desserts. my chef mind is racing thinking of all the types of garnishes you could use this for, like imagine a personal cake/tart with tropical flavours and the top is decorated as a mini island using one of these as the fallen coconut
Ver very bad for you, almost pure saturated fat, Every cookie yo eat with "cream" its made out of cocquto. Its like Palm oil hardley good for human consumtion
Hello! Since I live in a Mediterranean country, two winters ago I decided to grow three of them almost from seed. I can tell you that, if planted in the winter time (rainny season), they transplant well and mine are already able to withstand dry and warm to hot summers in light shade + they are not afraid of snow falls, wet cold soil...and even fire! They grow very slow so I'll see the first little coconuts within 45 years maybe! but I think that growing a palm that beautiful and hardy is worth it!
Salaam! What country are you from? Planting a fruit-bearing tree is a noble deed. Even if it takes fifty or a hundred years to bear fruit, it may feed your children and grandchildren someday.
Ouricuri (by far the most similar), coco-babão, coco-catolé, babaçu… Brazil has dozens of similar palm nuts. To the point many people here are surprised to know coconuts were brought during colonization from Asia, as they just assume it’s a bigger cousin of those several other native ones.
For years I had this idea that the perfect food UA-cam channel would just be some guy traveling around eating different fruits, and then not that long ago I found your channel -- this is everything I wanted it to be, thank you
Dude, in Trinidad & Tobago we call that fruit "Peewah"..It grows on a tall palm tree. Its outer flesh is eaten as well as the "tiny coconut" inside.. Very tasty and somewhat of a "summertime" tradition..And yes!! They taste just like coconuts.
So are you ever going to review the tonka bean? I've heard that it's illegal in the US to sell it as a food product but apparently you can still buy it, just not labeled as a spice. It really is one of my favourite spices in the world, and more people deserve to know about it.
@@danielmoura9421 My favourite use is tonka with strawberries. Just macerate some mediocre storebought strawberries with a bit of sugar and grated tonka bean and it'll intensify the strawberry flavour so much, making them taste like the best, ripest strawberries you've ever had.
I loved the "reverse almond joy " idea . Too bad I've been in Los Angeles for years and hearing that they thrive here is news to me. Haven't seen anything here besides lemons, some orange fruits that drop from palm trees, and ... concrete.
the shoutout to Iguanamouth in this is absolutley hilarious because they're one of my favorite artists and PRECISELY who I found your channel through. Word travels far!
We don't really use the sap for wine, just for a syrup called "miel de palma" (palm's honey). It is really tasty but you have to cut the whole tree so is not very recommended, as the chilean palm is an endangered species.
I remember I found one of these palms at a botanic garden, they are huge! I took some of the nuts home to try and taste them but I couldn't crack them open 😂
If you're interested, there's a fruit called "mbocayá" (we call it that) from Paraguay, Northern Argentina, etc. It is pretty much a small coconut, it taste very similar. Probably some sort of convergent evolution.
Oh happy day! Something new in the world of coconut…I love coconuts as much as I love life itself. Thank you so much for this video! This is truly a wonderful day where I’ve learned something NEW about COCONUT!!! I am leaving the house now in search of these little beauties. THANK YOU!!!
I believe you're right about why it's called a wine palm. Palm-sugar wine is pretty common in any culture that drinks alcohol and has readily available palm sugar.
Its fun that as a child i walken by the parks, finding these nuts and thinkig that is boring to have the little cousin of a beach coconut, and 20 years later a random youtuber teach me that its an endemic plant from my home, the more you know.
Wow, I just searched online for some because that crunch made my mouth water and I love coconuts....and these are unfortunately next to impossible to find in bulk!! 😫
I am going to hawaii soon, and I am one of those growing freaks who loves to grow every exotic thing possible. I have done lots of research and I am pleased to find out I can bring seeds that are dry back, but I am barred from bringing any seeds with fruit clinging to them. So definitely going to do a super good job of cleaning them and then drying them out at the last moment so that they are still viable, and bagging and labeling them correctly. Hopefully I can get some awesome new fruits :) Also those little coquitos could be awesome crushed into chunks for like on top of a coconut cream pie
Oh, interesting. I've never noticed these in California. But now I'll definitely be keeping my eyes open. I kinda want to grow one now, and as a bonus, they won't randomly fall and kill you.
I immediately got on the interwebs to see if anyone was selling them here in Sweden. Didn't expect to find anything but someone actually does sell them. Six nuts ordered and I'm going to try to grow them!
Geeze, that crack though. Good thing he has the jaws of a crocodile, I don't think I could bite that thing. I'd probably choke on it if I tried. I wonder if a food processor or blender would be capable of grinding it into a coconut flour or just crushed pecan / almond type consistency like a garnish.
Love watching your videos. The tiny nut you are eating, does look like dried ‘normal’ coconut which you can buy from South Asian grocery stores. In India dried coconut pieces are sold with mixed dry fruits and eaten as snacks or used in cooking. Perhaps the fresh nuts will have tiny amount of water in them.
I found those trees growing in the wild near Chacala, Mexico. I thought they were little coconuts. They grew in bunches (like dates) way up in large, tall palm trees. Very tasty, like coconut, but more oily.
A good use of it would be to add the crunch texture to food. Maybe something similar to a Crunch chocolate bar, but replace the rice with pieces of coquito.
Oh, coquitos! These grow all over the place naturally over in Paraguay, where I live. Me and my friends used to get entire bags of these things and smashed them open on the sidewalk when we were young. No idea if it's the exact same species of tree but it sure looks like it
I've found something like these growing in landscaping in Florida. I was too chicken to try eating the fruit, but they were like tiny soft coconut husks the size of dates, orange-yellow in color, fibrous yet juicy, and the flesh smelled a bit like apricot and bit like coconut water. Inside was a tiny coconut with coconut flesh. Again, I did not try it. If I ever get to travel again, I'll have to eat one
You should check out a very little known rare and endemic distant relative to Jubaea chilensis, called Jubaeopsis caffra, indigenousto South Africa. Slightly larger and a tough shell also housing delicious coconuts with fluid and is not as temperature sensitive as Cocos nucifera (the common coconut). Really awesome but difficult to find even in S.A. Great episode Later
Thank you for sharing these videos. I find myself doing research on many to determine whether they could be grown in my area (USDA zone 7a). If it is not too much for you to add, could you include a comment as to where these could be grown in the U.S. or what USDA zone they are found? Your work is awesome keep bring this type of joy and education to the world.
How would you use these?
I think soaking them in stuff, like alcohol or sugar syrup?
I think filled with nutella, or ground up on top coconut milk chia pudding! Maybe ground up in brownies as well sounds really good too
Definitely find a way to make them softer by soaking them in some tasty liquor.
Eat them raw or mash them into paste to make coconut filling for a dessert
They make a coconut sap alcohol in the Pacific, across the belt the Spaniards plowed in their galleons. On Guam, they call it tuba.
As for using the fruits, I'm not sure there's much culinary use for them since they are so small and not especially economical compared to regular coconuts. Maybe candied with a raspberry or cherry glaze might be nice on a fruit platter.
All you need now is a teeny little pineapple and a thimblefull of rum. Serve on the world's smallest beach.
Tinycolada?
SQUEE@
Yes
At just over 150 feet long, Gulpiyuri, located in Spain, is the smallest known beach in the world.
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The sound of the crunch when you bit into that thing was formidable
Crunchiest god-damned crunch I ever heard in my life!
Quite formidable lol!
I was waiting for it after reading this comment, and was not disappointed. what a pop
Palm wine isn't actually all that common here in Chile. We mostly make its sap into syrup and use it in desserts.
I was wondering if it could be used that way. How does the syrup taste? Is it similar to coconut, or hearts of palm maybe? It sounds very interesting.
I'm sure that sugar syrup was at least in the past used to make some variant of wine/rum. But now was sugarcane imported from India during colonization it's just so much more efficient to make alcohol out of sugarcane that there's no reason to use those little nuts.
I'm sure it makes delicious desserts! I would be curious to know if you use it in a local form of flan though?
@@angelwhispers2060 Palm wine/syrup isn't made with the nuts, you have to destroy the palm itself to obtain it. Hence why its pretty impractical, as well as being terrible for the environment. Especially with such slow growing, rare trees.
@@StuffandThings_ when i heard sweet sap, that was the first thing i thought of. Boil it down and make syrup. To bad its not like a maple tree that you can just drill a hole and tap to get some sap. It doesn't kill the tree.
@@angelwhispers2060 Yeah, we do! It goes on leche asada, which is pretty much a somewhat rustic baked flan.
I'm sure Darwin wasn't looking at a nicely trimmed tree.
@You Exist: It might've been a bush...( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)
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Aaw, I love those! Here in Chile they usually sell them by the kilogram at local produce markets
Their honey is locally called "miel de palma" and it is amazing on desserts, tastes like nutty caramel sauce
I gotta try that honey! sounds awesome
Are you talking about actual honey that bees make from the flowers, or the syrup made from the sap?
@@juliebaker6969 its not actually honey. Is it’s sap, so yes, syrup. And its delicious.
I wonder how it would go with pancakes!
Looking for the suplier this mini coco can you help me please?
I grew up in the Bay Area and used to eat these all the time as a kid, there was a tree across the street from my childhood home. My family calls them monkey nuts! 🤣
MONEKY NUTS😂😂
honestly i agree with you on this things versatility in desserts.
my chef mind is racing thinking of all the types of garnishes you could use this for,
like imagine a personal cake/tart with tropical flavours and the top is decorated as a mini island
using one of these as the fallen coconut
Oooo you could make a castaway scene or pirate
@@StonedtotheBones13 hahaha totally!
Yes!
Ver very bad for you, almost pure saturated fat, Every cookie yo eat with "cream" its made out of cocquto. Its like Palm oil hardley good for human consumtion
The chilean wine palm is the closest living relative alive to the once lush Easter Island / Rapanui palm trees
Hello! Since I live in a Mediterranean country, two winters ago I decided to grow three of them almost from seed. I can tell you that, if planted in the winter time (rainny season), they transplant well and mine are already able to withstand dry and warm to hot summers in light shade + they are not afraid of snow falls, wet cold soil...and even fire! They grow very slow so I'll see the first little coconuts within 45 years maybe! but I think that growing a palm that beautiful and hardy is worth it!
Salaam! What country are you from? Planting a fruit-bearing tree is a noble deed. Even if it takes fifty or a hundred years to bear fruit, it may feed your children and grandchildren someday.
Reminds me a lot of another, Brazilian, palm nut, "Ouricuri" (Syagrus coronata). Also pretty similar in taste to coconut, as far as I know
Ouricuri (by far the most similar), coco-babão, coco-catolé, babaçu… Brazil has dozens of similar palm nuts. To the point many people here are surprised to know coconuts were brought during colonization from Asia, as they just assume it’s a bigger cousin of those several other native ones.
There's also Butia capitata in Brazil
@@ricardorodriguesrr18 you’re right!
@@danielmoura9421 also Parajubaea torallyi, Mountain Coconut
For years I had this idea that the perfect food UA-cam channel would just be some guy traveling around eating different fruits, and then not that long ago I found your channel -- this is everything I wanted it to be, thank you
I love to hear more about palm fruits!
its such an interesting family of fruit
Bruh
You should do water berries
They are common in Southern Africa
Ill edit for the link
thats a cool looking one. Love syzygiums
Sounds delicious 😋 😍
Could you toast them and make honey roasted "coconuts?" How do they come on the tree? Are there lots of them?
How,cute♥️I like your idea of a reversed mounds candy bar.
Texture of the inside looks a bit like the edible part of Brazil nut, sort of waxy, but a tiny bit crumbly when you poke it.
It is harder and chewier than that. You have to work at chewing it.
Dude, in Trinidad & Tobago we call that fruit "Peewah"..It grows on a tall palm tree. Its outer flesh is eaten as well as the "tiny coconut" inside..
Very tasty and somewhat of a "summertime" tradition..And yes!! They taste just like coconuts.
I love coconuts so I need to find this
It actually has a few drops of water in it when it's fresh. Very cute little coconut. Even that water tastes like coconut water.
So are you ever going to review the tonka bean? I've heard that it's illegal in the US to sell it as a food product but apparently you can still buy it, just not labeled as a spice. It really is one of my favourite spices in the world, and more people deserve to know about it.
@noob19087: Eh, I still prefer tonka trucks, myself.
I had tonka ice cream recently and it’s just so f’cking good. It’s a common addition to chocolate here in Brazil, and very used in Amazonian dishes.
@@danielmoura9421 My favourite use is tonka with strawberries. Just macerate some mediocre storebought strawberries with a bit of sugar and grated tonka bean and it'll intensify the strawberry flavour so much, making them taste like the best, ripest strawberries you've ever had.
OMG yes please!
@@noob19087 thanks for the tip!
These look so satisfying to eat, that crunch !
I remember eating those as a child! They are so delicious and bring back memories of my grandparents. Thanks for featuring.
I loved the "reverse almond joy " idea . Too bad I've been in Los Angeles for years and hearing that they thrive here is news to me. Haven't seen anything here besides lemons, some orange fruits that drop from palm trees, and ... concrete.
Mmmm, concrete.
Lots of minerals in that stuff.
@@meisteremm Not to mention, concrete is a crunchy as these little coconutters.
@@MrLoftyDreams Definitely.
Never heard of these before. So interesting. Thanks!
Thanks for watching!
the shoutout to Iguanamouth in this is absolutley hilarious because they're one of my favorite artists and PRECISELY who I found your channel through. Word travels far!
We don't really use the sap for wine, just for a syrup called "miel de palma" (palm's honey). It is really tasty but you have to cut the whole tree so is not very recommended, as the chilean palm is an endangered species.
Aaaah!! One of my favorite things 💕 so glad you are trying mire things from Chile
I remember I found one of these palms at a botanic garden, they are huge! I took some of the nuts home to try and taste them but I couldn't crack them open 😂
Awww, these are so cute. They sound like I'd love them!
Makes me wanna make a cereal out of these- seems like a fun idea to make some kind of natures cereal with them, with some coconut water and berries.
You should collaborate with Crime Pays but Botany doesn't💯🤣🔥
Wow really awesome I would love to cook with these!
If you're interested, there's a fruit called "mbocayá" (we call it that) from Paraguay, Northern Argentina, etc. It is pretty much a small coconut, it taste very similar. Probably some sort of convergent evolution.
I'm a purchaser. Is this a large quantity?
that thing's got a great crunch!
Oh happy day! Something new in the world of coconut…I love coconuts as much as I love life itself. Thank you so much for this video! This is truly a wonderful day where I’ve learned something NEW about COCONUT!!! I am leaving the house now in search of these little beauties. THANK YOU!!!
My pleasure 😊 Good luck finding them, seems like online is the best bet these days
I believe you're right about why it's called a wine palm. Palm-sugar wine is pretty common in any culture that drinks alcohol and has readily available palm sugar.
Put them in a food processor and use them as a topping instead of walnuts on desserts. After processing, use them in cookies. Lots of possibilities.
I'd try to grind them extremely fine, and just maybe a coconut Marzipan can be created.
tiny adorable coconuts 😍 i don't really like coconut that much but cute fruit is cute fruit 😗
Its fun that as a child i walken by the parks, finding these nuts and thinkig that is boring to have the little cousin of a beach coconut, and 20 years later a random youtuber teach me that its an endemic plant from my home, the more you know.
Thank you for this video ! 😊💐
in my youth i was a travelling hippie lol. i used to pick those at the beach in costa rica and make necklaces to sell to the tourists
:P
Wow, I just searched online for some because that crunch made my mouth water and I love coconuts....and these are unfortunately next to impossible to find in bulk!! 😫
I just found one on a beach in Florida. Has some coral buildup on it but imma see if I can sprout it
Yeah, I'd love these. Love coconut, of course.
I’m surprised these aren’t more popular or more readily available. As you say, they’d make a perfect garnish for coconut desserts.
I am going to hawaii soon, and I am one of those growing freaks who loves to grow every exotic thing possible. I have done lots of research and I am pleased to find out I can bring seeds that are dry back, but I am barred from bringing any seeds with fruit clinging to them. So definitely going to do a super good job of cleaning them and then drying them out at the last moment so that they are still viable, and bagging and labeling them correctly. Hopefully I can get some awesome new fruits :) Also those little coquitos could be awesome crushed into chunks for like on top of a coconut cream pie
Pina colada garnish would be an amazing use for it
They ARE adorable! Thank you for pointing that out 😍
When I first started watching years ago I thought, how many fruits can there be in the world, 100? Boy, was I wrong.
The crunch is real, I remember my jaw hurting because of how hard it can be
Maybe soak it in coconut milk and see if they soften, then try covering them in chocolate so you don't get the hard crunch/dryness inside
I used to pick them up the streets in Mexico, great snacks
I've wanted to try these for a long time
Oh my gosh the chocolate idea is f***ing genius
Love your channel 👍🏻👏🏻☘️🌸☘️🌸
You can do coconuty things...
I love that!! 🤣
I don't even like coconut but these things are so cute that I'd want to eat them. They definitely should sell them filled with chocolate.
Or caramel.
Those are really cool! I want to try some.
It sounded like you actually were breaking teeth when you bit into it! I’m glad for your sake that wasn’t the case!
Oh, interesting. I've never noticed these in California. But now I'll definitely be keeping my eyes open. I kinda want to grow one now, and as a bonus, they won't randomly fall and kill you.
Queen palm fruit also have a significant 'coconut' flavor in the outer fruit
Palm oils intermixed with flavors like apricot & some unique traits
Bro I love your channel it’s so interesting!
Glad to hear it!
I immediately got on the interwebs to see if anyone was selling them here in Sweden. Didn't expect to find anything but someone actually does sell them. Six nuts ordered and I'm going to try to grow them!
Thank You. I Love Coconuts.
Thank you
Geeze, that crack though. Good thing he has the jaws of a crocodile, I don't think I could bite that thing. I'd probably choke on it if I tried. I wonder if a food processor or blender would be capable of grinding it into a coconut flour or just crushed pecan / almond type consistency like a garnish.
Love watching your videos. The tiny nut you are eating, does look like dried ‘normal’ coconut which you can buy from South Asian grocery stores. In India dried coconut pieces are sold with mixed dry fruits and eaten as snacks or used in cooking. Perhaps the fresh nuts will have tiny amount of water in them.
Absolutely adorable. 😍
10000+ years ago some forgotten culture turned that into what we all now take for granted as "coconuts". All but guaranteed.
This is similar to dried coconut which is mostly found in India. As you mentioned it is also sweeter then regular coconut.
I found those trees growing in the wild near Chacala, Mexico. I thought they were little coconuts. They grew in bunches (like dates) way up in large, tall palm trees. Very tasty, like coconut, but more oily.
3:53 there's that sound 😌😌
A good use of it would be to add the crunch texture to food. Maybe something similar to a Crunch chocolate bar, but replace the rice with pieces of coquito.
The existence of a coquito nut implies the existence of an el coco... Wait, that's just the coconut.
You should try Butia Palm fruit and the seed. It tastes and looks amazing
love those!
Oh, coquitos! These grow all over the place naturally over in Paraguay, where I live. Me and my friends used to get entire bags of these things and smashed them open on the sidewalk when we were young. No idea if it's the exact same species of tree but it sure looks like it
i thought you said "fruit of the chilean wine mom" and i was sorely disappointed upon rewinding
Someday I want to own a mature Chilean wine palm
nice goal to have
They took ages to mature, so, is not that easy
triccele I know, lucky I am young and have time to wait
They grow in Florida, too. Many front yards have these trees. But what do you call the flesh you eat to get to that coconut seed?
Anyone else think think this guy has absolutely gorgeous lips and the cutest chin? 😄 Adorable 🥰
These are everywhere where I live
Shrink ray coconut ha ha ha, super funny.
Forget candies, I want to see a tiny pina colada in one!
Palm fruit seeds also have a very similar coquito inside.
Isn't Holy GOD So Creative for humanity's provision??? ☺💓
would love to taste one some day!
It's so good!
The tiny coconut is a garnish for a pina colata. put them in your coconut curry. Run them through your spice grinder and make them into macaroons.
I've found something like these growing in landscaping in Florida. I was too chicken to try eating the fruit, but they were like tiny soft coconut husks the size of dates, orange-yellow in color, fibrous yet juicy, and the flesh smelled a bit like apricot and bit like coconut water. Inside was a tiny coconut with coconut flesh. Again, I did not try it. If I ever get to travel again, I'll have to eat one
you failed to say the most interesting thing, it grows in temperate climates, it can handle a little frost in winter.
Hey! I am from that small central area in Chile
if i had a tree i would fill them with chocolate like truffles. i think that would be awesome
This is too cool!!
You should check out a very little known rare and endemic distant relative to Jubaea chilensis, called Jubaeopsis caffra, indigenousto South Africa. Slightly larger and a tough shell also housing delicious coconuts with fluid and is not as temperature sensitive as Cocos nucifera (the common coconut). Really awesome but difficult to find even in S.A.
Great episode
Later
Oh, iguanamouth is an awesome artist! Also i'm allergic to coconuts, i wonder if i'd be allergic to this also.
Breaking news. Tiny coconut tastes like big coconut.
Thank you for sharing these videos. I find myself doing research on many to determine whether they could be grown in my area (USDA zone 7a). If it is not too much for you to add, could you include a comment as to where these could be grown in the U.S. or what USDA zone they are found?
Your work is awesome keep bring this type of joy and education to the world.
Coconutty things, very nice
There are some palm trees of that species in Botanical gardens in Portugal.
As a northerner I would probably use that syrup for pancakes