Hey all, I'm Chinese and i've been eating the ginkgo nut all my life and I love it. This is how it works. DO NOT eat the inside "stem" or germ of the nut. That is where the toxin is at. We remove it with a tooth pick. Next, one common way to prepare it is to caramelize it with some sugar. It is then added to a desert. It has a chewy texture, and when lightly sweetened, it tastes great. I can't say anything about the nutrition though. It is prized for its texture and flavor, not eaten primarily for its nutritional value. Hope this helps.

@chapter4travels

7 жыл бұрын

Do you take out the stem before or after you cook the nut?

@peteryeng

7 жыл бұрын

before cooking the nut

@chapter4travels

7 жыл бұрын

Thanks for the reply Peter, can you expand on your preparation method / recipe? I have a very large female Ginkgo with lots of seeds / nuts. Thanks

@peteryeng

7 жыл бұрын

I eat them, I don't prep them. Only watched mom do it. If you google "Chinese ginkgo nut dessert" or something similar, you will find lots of recipes and pictures. When you look at the pics carefully, you will notice you are all "broken" at some place, indicating the stem / germ was taken out. Folks normally buy them with the shell, and dried. I dont know if you need to dry them first before preparing. That's the only form I am familiar with.

@ZE308AC

6 жыл бұрын

Peter Eng how do you eat can ginkgo nuts?

it smells nothing like parmesan to me. To me it smells like the worst vomit imaginable...truly disgusting. I don't know how he can be indoors with those fruits. NYC tries to plant only male trees but occasionally a female gets planted and it will stink up the whole block in fall

@wormworm9388

6 жыл бұрын

to me they smell like semen.

@Tuttomenui

6 жыл бұрын

I worked with a guy once doing landscape maintenance and he told me about ginkos, he said the fruit makes a mess and smells like dog shit.

@undertaleaufankim9517

5 жыл бұрын

That doesnt mean you dont like Koreans right?

@sazji

5 жыл бұрын

worm worm Get medical help now. 😅

@sazji

5 жыл бұрын

Augustus Supremum Yes they are really vile, and if you touch it, that smell really sticks! They’re one of the most ancient trees still living and we’re around when the dinosaurs were. Trying to imagine what animal found those fruits attractive.

When i was about 12 i went to an edible forest with my dad and i found some ripe ginko and i asked the guide if you could eat the fruit, he said yes. i proceeded to take a bite of the fruit and was immediately hit with sharp sourness followed by astringency then followed by half of my tongue going numb for the rest of the day after having the fruit in my mouth for a fraction of a second.

@WeirdExplorer

4 жыл бұрын

That guide should be fired. It's totally inedible and dangerous to eat.

@oldkingcrow777

Жыл бұрын

@@WeirdExplorermaybe there are different varieties, I was under the impression it's "edible" in the same way noni is. Albeit instead of the cancer curing claims you have "you could die if you eat too much" lol

@tanyawales5445

10 ай бұрын

The guide was a sadistic monster and knew better. Ginkgo fruit smells horrendous. The nuts when cleaned don't have an objectionable smell. The flesh around the fruit after it rots on the ground for several days smells and tastes bad due to the presence of two volatile compounds in the sarcotesta- butanoic and hexanoic acids. They are moderately strong irritants to skin and induces severe eye irritation and severe respiratory symptoms if inhaled. The smell is that of rotten butter and rank male goats combined. My personal memory of the smell was of fresh cat feces, a lot of it , which smells horrible. Many ancient plants have draconian ways to protect themselves and their young. Ginkgo has outlived all of its predators over time by adaptations such as insecticide crystals in the wood, inedible pulp around the nut and nuts that decrease vitamin B6 in the eater. Eat too many nuts and the predator either gets sick with neurological symptoms or dies.

the intro music is a cross between the hill street blues theme song and a 70's porno with a plotline.

@danielgaudette777

6 жыл бұрын

hypoeddy I knowww it reminds me of Taxi or Mash... I fkn hated those shows lol

@baddie1shoe

5 жыл бұрын

It reminds me of the background intro music used at the beginning of the movie they showed to girls in school talking about periods. I saw it in the 80s-but it was clearly produced in the 70s.

@applegal3058

3 жыл бұрын

@@baddie1shoe haha, yeah, it definitely sounds like a 1970s educational film!

Fun fact is that ginkgo trees (like many other trees) do not have sexes set in stone. Different branches on a single tree may be of different sex, or the whole tree can change sex entriely. So despite the landscapers' efforts, ginkgos do whatever they want 😛

@oldkingcrow777

Жыл бұрын

Kind of like us humans as a species 🤣

@notone4540

Жыл бұрын

Yew trees can do that too. But in general these types of trees keep the same sex all their life. But sometimes half the street of ginkgo switches to female and we have a very smelly autumn ahaha

@tanyawales5445

10 ай бұрын

Named male varieties of ginkgo are grafted onto another ginkgo - male or female. Sometimes, when a gingko of fruiting age gets plowed into by a vehicle which happened right next to Boise Library's (Ada County, Idaho) parking lot, the surviving tree puts up shoots from the stump. If cultivar branches are grafted onto a female, the female stump will put up female branches, eventually flower and fruit if there are male trees nearby. Ginkgo trees don't arbitrarily change sex. I will say one thing about Ginkgo trees - they are tough. That poor 8" diameter tree except for the stump and the later branches coming from the stump was absolutely demolished. It is rare that ANY tree can come back from an injury so severe. Ginkgo's really have a will to live!

To me it smells like a frat boy drank a bunch of sour milk on a cheep beer bender then vomited and mixed it with a little bit of rotten fish!

@WeirdExplorer

6 жыл бұрын

accurate

@applegal3058

3 жыл бұрын

Jeeze, that sounds terrible!

@SY-ok2dq

3 жыл бұрын

@@applegal3058 I can assure you, it IS terrible. A pavement covered in fallen fruit which others have stepped on, is something you go out of your way to avoid. If you step on fallen fruit the foul smell will cling to the soles of your shoes. To me, it very much smells of vomit, and something rotting. Not surprising, since gingko fruit flesh (not the seeds though) contain butyric acid, which is what's found in vomit, I believe. So you'd want to avoid handling the fruits with your bare hands. They cause skin irritation.

@applegal3058

3 жыл бұрын

@@SY-ok2dq yuck, I believe it's not a nice experience 😕

@tabeechey

2 жыл бұрын

Yeah, definitely has a BO component in addition to the vomit.

Ah, the vomit tree! I once went to a funeral at a funeral home that had a female ginkgo next to the door, where the dropped fruit got stepped on--and they didn't clean it up. It struck me that allowing such a stench at a mortuary was a particularly bad idea.

@WeirdExplorer

3 жыл бұрын

Oof... yeah that's not the place for a tree with barf-scented fruit

@anne-droid7739

3 жыл бұрын

@@WeirdExplorer It was a gift that kept on giving--we tracked it into the house on our shoes. Not the memory we were expecting to make. Fortunately, the deceased gentleman would have laughed about it, so we did. =)

This just solved a very old mystery for me! When I was in first grade we went to see Niagara falls and we stopped at Letchworth park, I think, and I was amazed by all these beautiful fan shaped leaves that were as deep as my waist at the time. Over time my family would say, "like these type of leaves?" And I just finally found them!

Oh. My. God. I've eaten these all my life and only now did I find out the name. My grandma used to cook this tofu curd desert in sort of like a milk soup. She'd add heaps of these nuts in and I used to literally eat 95% of the ginkgos and blame it on grandpa. Fun times. If you find the nut is dehydrated, you can still use it. It would just be chewier. Oh, if you split the nut in half and pull out the green shoot it will remove the bitter aftertaste.

been wanting to know what these were called for years here in queens new york we used to have couple trees near our block and it would smell horrible. i used to see elderly asian woman fill bags of them up always wondered why

@WeirdExplorer

6 жыл бұрын

Yeah that lady knew what to do. Ginkgo nuts are hard to find at markets and pricey.

A few little factoids: That terrible smell is mostly from butyric acid. Ginkgos are excellent urban trees because they have a high tolerance for air pollution. The ginkgo genus is over 270 million years old. Sexing ginkgos is difficult, because they are sexually mature at about 20 years. Therefore, when landscapers want males, they usually graft a scion from a known male to rootstock of unknown sex. Also, individual branches of ginkgos sometimes change sexes. Males aren't always preferred, because some people are allergic to the pollen.

DUUUDE GINKO SMELLS LIKE CAT VOMIT!! If wood apple smells like that I aint eating that either lol.

Thanks to Purdue University, I know what rotting Ginkgo fruit smells like on a hot, humid summer day. I've heard horror stories of people pranking their friends by sticking Ginkgo fruit in random places.

@WeirdExplorer

4 жыл бұрын

Thats a cruel prank. Its natures stink bomb

@notone4540

Жыл бұрын

I thought someone vomited... but it was a ginkgo in the park

LOL-as kids we called them "nanny poops" because of the smell. LOL

In Japan, we call that part of Gingko/Icyou (銀杏/イチョウ) Ginnnann (ギンナン) and use it in many dishes like deep-fry, Chawan-mushi (茶碗蒸し savoury egg custard) and so on. As he says here, it is not meant to be eaten in bulk, usually it is used as a decorations, a small part of ingredients.

I'm Chinese and we have it in sweet soup. My favourite is with dried soy milk skin / yuba. It has contrasting textures and the slight bitterness of the gingko pairs nicely with the sweet soup. You can freeze them till needed.

@omniscient159

4 жыл бұрын

theuglykwan do you eat the juicy flesh?

@myagrimm4719

Жыл бұрын

Have you ever gotten sick from eating too many or know someone who has?

Great, thanks for making this video. When I tried the fruit last fall before knowing it's poisonous, it was sweet and tasty if you can ignore the smell. The raw nut was kinda starchy.

@WeirdExplorer

8 жыл бұрын

I've heard that before, that the fruit is actually not that bad once you get passed the whole poison thing. Haha.

@porp109

8 жыл бұрын

+Jared Rydelek yeah it's too bad I died. I only learned about the nut after I found a bunch of places in Brooklyn that grow them. That time I removed the nut and went after the pit. Felt the shell, thought it would be hard, so I ran it over with a Citibike. It gave way real easy.

@WeirdExplorer

8 жыл бұрын

+porp109 thats using your noggin

@jq3267

5 жыл бұрын

Oh god, don't eat it raw

The sentence "flying ginkgo nut" is hilarious to me for some reason lol

We have one of these in front of our dormitory and the berries fall on the stairs and all the students mash them into the concrete, making the whole archway reek for a month.

The beauty, in the end, is that they look like very fine jade.

Oh I remember eating these as a kid. I’d always get tempted cause they look so good but I always regret eating them cause I think they taste like sweaty feet.

Ginkgo trees can change sex if there’s no trees of the opposite sex nearby so if plant a row of male ginkgoes along a road some will eventually change to female. It’s a pretty good survival strategy

Smell test... baaah.. baah... aah...

@tedarcher9120

3 жыл бұрын

Baaarf

The smell of the ginkgo fruit comes from butyric acid, which is the smelly substance in vomit and rotten butter. The same substance will also give you rash if you touch it for too long.

It's also got some compounds in it that act as blood thinners, so people should be aware of that before they eat those.

thanks for the info.. I live in upstate ny and look forward to finding these

The fruit looks very similar to a native persimmon that we have her in NC.

i gather them here in austria - prefer to have them salted, like them a lot!

@lukasdao190

3 жыл бұрын

I have a tree at home. Like a big one and I did not even know that I had 1 at home

I've never heard of roasting these. Usually I have it boiled in soup. Has the taste and texture of a boiled nut.

Growing up in deep east Tx we had a big ginko tree in our yard and never knew it! My great grandparent built the cabin over 100 years ago I wonder if they planted it, my grandma just called them stink berries and didn't use them for anything!

@Realatmx

Жыл бұрын

You can sell berries.. These called soap nuts.. They are organic detergent

Hey Jared thats exactly the fruit i posted some time ago. in Germany. Smells like .......

@DAMNBOAH909

8 жыл бұрын

we have it in front of a school :))))

Stinks like barf and damages your flesh - I don't think I will go out of my way to try to handle or eat these things.

@Canceriantigershark

5 жыл бұрын

The foliage is beautiful though as an ornamental. I believe it is the only surviving member of a prehistoric tree family as well.

Kinda fascinating that other 'Ginkgo' species that are now extinct and related to the biloba were eaten by dinosaurs millions of years ago. The foul smell might have been attractive to them and is an evolutionary advantage.

The ginkgo fruit smells like vomit.

@WeirdExplorer

5 жыл бұрын

and cheesey... not unlike noni:/

Even though they are males when planted, they switch gender when there’s a large population of the opposite sex so many of the trees have switched over to female since being planted to equal everything out. My uncle told me this and he was a gardener for some places in the city.

Hi Jared! I'm currently growing some chilean guava and Goji berries indoors in Chicago. If you ever travel here and want to make episodes, I invite you to come try them!

@theuglykwan

6 жыл бұрын

I grew them both in Scotland. The goji bush didn't do well, possibly due to lack of sun and got spindly. I never took it with me when I moved. The chilean guava I thought would never fruit but apparently it does but they are so small they are the size of an apple pip. Maybe one day with more climate change to make it hotter here. No room to take it indoors or i'd consider that. Do yours fruit?

Ginkgo trees are common in Pittsburgh. There are two female trees that have been bombing the cycle track on Schenley Dr. As I was biking past, I called them "Stink bomb trees"! Anyway, they are beautiful trees.

I use to see the ginkgo leaves at my old house but never found the ginkgo tree

I did some recherche in the net and it seems to be pretty versatile in the kitchen. Found quick many recipes.

@bjornmundt5801

7 жыл бұрын

***** Use Google.

How to eat can ginkgo nuts?

Are you from New York? Also do you have any videos of your contortionist act?

@WeirdExplorer

8 жыл бұрын

Yep I'm in nyc. contortion stuff is at www.contortionjared.com

I wonder If they have any of the therapeutic/herbal medicinal/stimulating properties as the supplements which, I think, are from the leaves... ...and I have the same set of black dishes.

does anyone knows the name of the intro song?

hi! please, what is the name of the song during the intro?

@goncharov000

4 жыл бұрын

Plortopod -- I know your comment is two years old but.. Thanks for sharing the name of the song, I bet I would've spent forever trying to find it!

I miss your old intro. Felt sad but happy at the same time

@SY-ok2dq

3 жыл бұрын

You can always listen to it here on KZread. It's from a 1981 horror film "The Black Cat." m.kzread.info/dash/bejne/q62du8N7k5iWZqw.html

There's a street near a friend's house that has ginkgos along the street for about half a mile. They're spectacular when they turn gold in the fall! But the fruit stinks and gets spread all over by tires.

hi I found your channel a few days ago and I haven't stopped watching, being an aspiring botanist I love your series! also might I just say your lips are so beautiful!! i was relieved to find out you're still active on here haha much love from Canada🍁

@WeirdExplorer

8 жыл бұрын

+jaime yeo Thanks!

@rexmarcus3340

8 жыл бұрын

+Jared Rydelek I've seen these sold in Asian markets next to the Enoki mushrooms for some reason. I bought them once and had no idea what to do with them, ate a few and tossed the rest.

@bjornmundt5801

8 жыл бұрын

Hi there, i found two recipes on the net. 1. 1 cup of water + 1 tablespoon of sugar, bring it to boil, reduce heat, only simmer it, add some preboiled nuts, let simmer until the nuts are covered with a kind of syrup. Don't eat more than 20 nuts. 2. fry some cubes of meat or tofu in a bit oil, add cubes of Zucchini, add last 2 minutes some nuts and mix with some basil pesto.

@WeirdExplorer

8 жыл бұрын

sounds pretty tasty

@bjornmundt5801

8 жыл бұрын

Jared Rydelek You inspired me. i have a Ginkgo tree nearby. Hope to get some nuts, to try this year. It is interesting what could be used around me. If you want, i can give you some very old recipes for using Sloe. Got them from old Ladies in neighborhood.

7:01 wow what a familiar sight…for some reason i never read what those were when i was a kid

There is one nut always on your videos visits and clicks on that thumbs down

@WeirdExplorer

7 жыл бұрын

I noticed that. They must have nothing better to do in their lives.

@nytrodioxide

6 жыл бұрын

A ginkgo nut, perhaps?

Have you ever tried sprouted coconut? I've never tried it myself, but I hope to someday. My mom is Filipino, and she mentioned one day that it was one of her favorite foods, so I looked up some videos about it. Seems like it would be a perfect "weird fruit" for your channel.

@democracydignityhumanrights

6 жыл бұрын

disseria I know this was a year ago so you may know now, but he has a video of sprouted coconut on the channel

@democracydignityhumanrights

6 жыл бұрын

disseria also you can order sprouted coconut online, he mentioned a website in the video, might be a good Mother’s Day gift

@ongges20

6 жыл бұрын

theyre hit or miss, some ca be bland but when u have a tiny one sometimes thyre very good, kinda like eating sweet ctton, lol

@1cor731

6 жыл бұрын

His video of sprouted coconut is at kzread.info/dash/bejne/lKatmLaRZ9Snqso.html

@AldoSchmedack

Жыл бұрын

It is great! ❤

How many ginkgo nuts would one have to eat to be poisoned to death?

what is the intro music

Hey Jared great channel.Whats the title intro track please?

Have you reviewed the Guinep yet?

There's a gingko fruit tree near where i live and it drops hundreds of that stuff all over the road. It fills up the whole street with the smell of dog shit.

Why is there a video about erectile dysfunction in my recommendations when I never watched anything involving penises on KZread?! ON A FRUIT TASTING VIDEO?!

@WeirdExplorer

8 жыл бұрын

+metademetra Yeah sometimes I think the suggested ads are trying to make fun of me. Like "Oh you're watching THAT video, you must not be getting laid. Here's an ad for Viagra and an online dating site."

@madrabbitwoman

7 жыл бұрын

metademetra now if the video was about bananas...... ;)

@democracydignityhumanrights

6 жыл бұрын

Superfood Box exactly Ginkgo increases blood flow to the brain and..... “other” regions

Used to call them stink berries. They used to line our high school street. Would have huge mushed puddles that smelled like rotten fruit dumpster fires.

What the hell is the song at the start?

My college had trees that would drop fruit on the sidewalk. The fruit would gunk up the side walk and rot in the sun. There was no avoiding them and people would get it on their shoes and track it inside. There was no escape from the smell.

Love how the chinese process these, boiled til soft and sweetened. They call them "White nuts" or rather literally translated to "White Fruit"...and the boiled sweetened nuts are delicious. An acquired taste but delicious!!!

I just cleaned and rnse mine, left them out but is raining so can roast them yet ,i am excited

I remember picking these fruits and rolling them into the street trying to get cars to run them over. We never tried eating them, but it was fun to roll them around

What is the intro song???

@WeirdExplorer

4 жыл бұрын

Main theme to the movie The Black Cat

@SkuttleCS

4 жыл бұрын

@@WeirdExplorer thank you!

Nope nope nope! I have smelled enough to never want one in my mouth.

@puurplegiraffe

5 жыл бұрын

heh

I’m gonna try this because they grow right outside my house. I think you can also make a tea from them because there’s this guy that does it where I live.

@AliceHasenkohl

4 жыл бұрын

but you use the leaves for tea, i think? i really like the nuts when salted, and their color is so pretty and vibrant.. i'd be interested to know how you liked them!

@tanyawales5445

3 жыл бұрын

The dried leaves are used for tea. It helps your brain have better circulation. The seeds are eaten as a kind of tonic. Ginkgo biloba leaves and sarcotesta also contain ginkgolic acids,[65] which are highly allergenic, long-chain alkylphenols such as bilobol or adipostatin A[66] (bilobol is a substance related to anacardic acid from cashew nut shells and urushiols present in poison ivy and other Toxicodendron spp.)[42] Individuals with a history of strong allergic reactions to poison ivy, mangoes, cashews and other alkylphenol-producing plants are more likely to experience allergic reaction when consuming non-standardized ginkgo-containing preparations, combinations, or extracts thereof. The level of these allergens in standardized pharmaceutical preparations from Ginkgo biloba was restricted to 5 ppm by the Commission E of the former Federal German Health Authority. Overconsumption of seeds from Gingko biloba can deplete vitamin B6.

Do you have a ginkgo trees?

I wish he was more learned, the 'Pushbroom leaf'? It is the ONLY tree on the planet with a 2 lobed leaf.

Ginkgos actually don't make fruit as they are not flowering plants. They're a different group all together, it's closest relatives are conifers but only distinctly. The "fruit" is actually a fleshy layer of seed coating. Also interesting: pollen overwinters inside the seed and only pollinate the seed near spring on the ground.

@boxelderinitiative3897

2 жыл бұрын

Ye ginkgos are gymnosperms like pine trees or spruces, they are dinosaur trees

Ginkgos are pretty common landscaping trees here in Maine, but they only plant males. I have yet to come across a female unfortunately, I would love to propagate some from seed.

@SY-ok2dq

2 жыл бұрын

The trees are capable of changing their sex, apparently. So what was originally a male tree, can turn into a female tree, and start producing fruit. I've noticed that new branches can sprout anywhere from the tree trunk. You'll often see them come up from around the base. I'm sure those could be cut off and propagated as cuttings. They're extremely hardy trees so I'm guessing that cuttings would do well.

@Realatmx

Жыл бұрын

Better you grow from cutting... Grown by seeds will take 20 years to fruit

I have been researching and growing ginkgo for over 30 years. There is a LOT of misinformation in these replies. May I recommend The Ginkgo Pages by Cor Kwant, an online blog, that is not only informative but factually correct. Regarding your video, I believe the reason the “nut” was so spongy is because you cooked it when it was too fresh. I harvest mine, dry them completely, then cook them. The consistency and flavour is then much more nut-like and the color is more like jade.

you should do a series where you live off foraged food in nyc

Technically they are not fruit they are fleshy seed coats. The ginko is a gymnosperm not a flowering plant, it's more closely related to cycads than to flowering trees.

This intro song specifically sounds like the 70s in one song

Is this the same plant as ginkgo biloaba?

@WeirdExplorer

3 жыл бұрын

yes! that's the only species of ginkgo too. I believe when you see supplements labeled ginkgo biloba its made from the leaves though

@vinny8256

3 жыл бұрын

@@WeirdExplorer ahhh I see! Thanks for the answer man, love your content.

When I was in NYC a few years ago, I found Ginko fruit in Central park... Only thing is I ate the flesh from a dozen or so and not the seeds. Thought it tasted like a rotten apricot.

@alr.3137

5 жыл бұрын

Dan Levold XD epic fail

@benhawkins1495

4 жыл бұрын

Did you really eat them? I ate some accidentally and I’m a bit worried.

Just an FYI, if you’re picking nuts or apples or basically anything off the ground, clean them well! Because there’s a good possibility that deer are pooping where you’re picking and you don’t want salmonella, E. coli or anything else.

Near my university there is a Gingko, i remember sniping the area between the nose and mouth of my friends with the bean

as a kid we called it "the stink bomb tree" for good reason.

So it smells bad, the fruit is corrosive to the touch, the nuts can explode when you roast them, and the nut is still poisonous after all that work? Yeah, I'm probably going to continue not eating these.

Ahh Ginkgo Biloba, it grows everywhere in the southeast US, though not indigenous, it does quite well. It's sadly the last of its kind in the entire division of Ginkgophyta and it's an endangered species. Hopefully things turn around for the little guys, they've lived this long through the deaths of their cousins. They are a great nootropic and are really cool to see. I'd like to grow my own somehow out here in the desert, hopefully they'll be okay.

@WeirdExplorer

4 жыл бұрын

they're going strong in nyc. planted on every street as an ornamental.

@MrHarmfulHarry

4 жыл бұрын

Here's an abstract from a research article for you "Ginkgo biloba is known as ‘living fossils’ as it is the only surviving member of ancient trees. Ginkgo fossils are being known from rocks as old as two hundred million years. This plant is native to China and scattered in broad leaved mixed-mesophytic forest up to 1,100 m and it is located on the border of the Yangtze River valley and on the hill country. The wild population is confined to the Zhejiang province, China. Some other parts also have wild population but those are not up to sufficient numbers. Flavonoids and terpenoids-lactones such as Ginkgolides and bilobalide are the active components and these are unique to the Ginkgo. Plants are used for bladder inflammation and pulmonary disorders, heart abnormalities, skin infections and neurodegenerative disorders. A Ginkgo product by the name of Tebonin is a leading herbal medicine in market. So the consumption of this plant worldwide is very high due to which plant is facing great threats towards its extinction. Ginkgo biloba is listed as endangered plant in the IUCN red list of threatened species. There is hardly any wild population of Ginkgo exists, majority of the trees are existing in the cultivated form and million of the dollar industry has cashed in based on the medicinal properties of the leaves. Resultantly it is possible that this living fossil will survive the short of time. A recommendation for its preservation is that there should be some steps to increase the size of wild populations." Meaning that it's cultivated successfully, however in its natural range in the wild it's sadly becoming pretty sparse.

@tanyawales5445

3 жыл бұрын

@@MrHarmfulHarry That's because the tree's sperm swims to fertilize the female. You need a forest for that sort of thing.

i used to have these in rice porridge all the time, sweet and savoury kinds. i'm hungry now. shame the fruit itself is a nightmare

I got a 75 FOOT or larger GINKGO tree next to my house. Wish somebody would come take it down. They have 4 seasons of Mess.

That's a ginko tree! Omg XD

Jared tries to eat dinosaur food

I have read that ginkgo trees can change sex if there are not enough trees of the opposite sex around.

haha use a paint mixer and a bucket ful of water. then mix it. the nuts sink to the ground and the fruitflesh will swimm on top. whit this method i would do at least 1kg

@WeirdExplorer

3 жыл бұрын

Good technique!

Is it soap nuts? I never knew they are edible.. Ancient times we used it to wash clothes in India🇮🇳

@WeirdExplorer

Жыл бұрын

Nah, thats this one kzread.info/dash/bejne/aYR4r7Rwk6-bc84.html

Smells like cat vomit to me !

One of ginkgo's nicknames is the dog poo tree.

By my experience you’re safe to eat more than 10, but you should gauge yourself. The most I’ve eaten was 28 in a day, but it may vary especially in young children. I didn’t get any side effects either. I eat it by actually cracking the Shells first and pan frying the bare nuts with oil and salt

No wonder the family's so old! They're near impossible to eat!

Wait... I ate Ginko fruit in Italy once and nothing happened to me... Not the nut, tho...

It just stinks, not garbage stink but an organic sweet rotten sulfur stink. And don't eat from trees where lots of car traffic and dogs go because the trees are in the city because they are very good at detoxification which means the nuts may be filled with things that can hurt you but not the tree.

They smell much worse than Parmesan. It’s really gross.

If I remember correctly, I think they actually make medicine out of it

gingko smells like if cheese shat itself to death.

So satisfying squeezing it out, like popping a pimple

Cats curious bout the smell

similarity with pistachio nuts

We miss the old intro music.