Whenever I see those herbal medicine guys I just think of Patrick Star saying: "You rub it on your skin and you live forever!"😂

@Cocc0nuttt0

4 ай бұрын

It puts the lotion on its skin or it gets the hose again.

@sinisterthoughts2896

4 ай бұрын

I mean... it's pretty spot on.

@suicune690

4 ай бұрын

"Hooray for lying!"

@marshoman39

4 ай бұрын

@@suicune690 😆

@kevincarter6001

4 ай бұрын

Do you wanna live forever : from conan the barbarian

I went to the asian market once and this very old lady in a grass hat sold me some T. chebula, I ate it and several hours later I was able to move small objects across the room using just my mind! the telekinetic powers wore off shortly there after, when I went back to the store and tried to find that old asian lady she wasn't there and when I asked teh store clerk if she would be coming back they said she never existsed!

@WeirdExplorer

4 ай бұрын

🤣

@macromicrodragon

2 ай бұрын

Children in India have been trained to read blindfolded through brick walls using this in their spiritual yoga practice. Just FYI

I really appreciate that you steer clear of the homeopathic "magic" of things and focus on the facts and enjoyment of the fruit.

@ferretyluv

4 ай бұрын

Homeopaths think noni is a panacea and he cut through that quick.

@MushroomMagpie

4 ай бұрын

You all use homepath incorrectly. But youse all knows bests i guess...

@maddockemerson4603

4 ай бұрын

Not homeopathy, but almost the same degree of nonsense. Homeopathy is the belief that a diluted poison can cure the symptoms that poison normally causes. Homeopathic "medicines" are just water that may or may not contain a stray molecule or two of the active ingredient because of how thoroughly diluted it is. Herbal "medicines" on the other hand just make unproven claims about health benefits and conveniently non-disprovable claims about magic powers. Still bull, but of a different sort.

@jendubay3782

4 ай бұрын

​@MushroomMagpie science does, yes. You wanna know what they call homeopathic medicine that works? Medicine.

@garyparrott1408

4 ай бұрын

Well put!

"Generic unripe fruit" flavour is a brilliant description

This is why I've followed you for a while: You cut all the crap and focus on the fruit per se.

@AcerPrime

4 ай бұрын

Thank you for reminding me about the vampire South Park episode

THANK YOU for the rant about the medicinal plant videos! Gosh it's so difficult to find info about plants that I want to forage and identify because of these videos.

@cat3crazy

4 ай бұрын

What do you do with the products you buy and don't care for? Some times you purchase an entire bag just to taste a piece. Do you share with friends or just pitch it?

@sarahmellinger3335

4 ай бұрын

I usually don't have that problem cause I forage unpopular plants like queen anne's lace. You might want to look on forums or text based sites as they tend to have less trash.

i liked that you warned against false info and sensationalism, which is abundant nowadays

@roelin360

2 ай бұрын

I wonder if it is a "nowadays" thing or people are just aware of it. I just question it because most of the time people say "nowadays" it's almost never anything remotely new and has been happening for decades, if not hundreds of years or longer already

@fidelkva4810

2 ай бұрын

@@roelin360 it’s fair to assume that people have access to more info now. their judgement has probably not changed much over time.

@fidelkva4810

2 ай бұрын

@@roelin360 there has also been a «they lied to you!» trend on social media, because people love that content. in the past, people seemed to not distrust information from schools or most scientists. some distrust has always existed towards the media.

An episode with all the fruits that change your palette, in one recipe, would be cool.

you should make more ice cream and like snacks "for later" type videos, i ended up rewatching your dragon fruit video to make the ice cream and now im buying dragon fruits every other week :)

@WeirdExplorer

4 ай бұрын

Great idea!!

@gamzzie1105

4 ай бұрын

@@WeirdExplorer love the videos, always stay safe and keep showing me fruits, your a really cool dude and i love watching

@robsonwilianwinchester9726

4 ай бұрын

​@@WeirdExplorertry purple 🟣 popcorn is a black or purple ish corn 🌽 heirloom that makes popcorn 🍿 heirlooms popcorns will be nice to try and try put condensed milk 🥛 in it or peanutbutter or one with both of the world 🌎 of north America (us some people do it in USA!) and condensed milk 🥛 in popcorn 🍿 is pretty normal like in a chicago estabelishiment of sweet popcorn's 🍿 and chocolate cake milkshake 🥤! (Food insider did a reporting about it!) Anyway Jared keep the great work!

@ix8750

4 ай бұрын

I support this idea if you run out of ancient and mystical fruits to try out ​@@WeirdExplorer

@Vindolin

3 ай бұрын

@@robsonwilianwinchester9726 Try Cherimoya ice cream, it's so good, it's unreal!

It tastes alkaline. Afterwards if you sip on water, it tastes sweet.

@CookingWithCows

4 ай бұрын

That's because you literally bleached off your taste buds.

@EC-dz4bq

3 ай бұрын

​@@CookingWithCowsthen how would you taste sweet... and didn't know it contained bleach

In Thailand we pickle it in salt solution then drain and pickle further in honey... As snack / cough remedy. Also hiker use fresh one to quench thirst as its draw sliva and leave sweet after test.

Thank you for this taste test and review, it was super interesting. No wonder you could only find the modern, New Age woo-woo health claims for this fruit, but it actually has a thousand-year history in the history of medicine. It was one of the medicinal ingredients used by medieval Islamic medicine (mainly to treat stomach problems, or so it seems) and then obviously by medieval European medicine, too. Back then, it was called myrobalan in Latin, which is, in English, another fruit entirely, which could be another story, I feel.

In.. Telugu... Its karakkay .. Dried chebula outer shell use for cough

Preserves tend to last a long time. If the lid isnt bloated it should be fine.

Will you be doing anymore nutmilk videos? I absolutely loved the intos you made while doing them.

@WeirdExplorer

4 ай бұрын

unfortunately I don't have time to keep it going. There will be a surprise fake milk face off in an episode next month though. 🥛

@shannabolser9428

4 ай бұрын

Yeah, fake milk face off!

On the drinks... My immediate thoughts are: - How does a tea from the White and Black, *combined,* taste? - What about using some of the preserve syrup in water? Warm water vs Cold water? _(the non-expired heh)_ - Or, syrup mixed in with either tea?

"They tore the expiration date off." 😅😬

awesome of you to demystify this fruit a bit! the white terminalia chebula drink sounded pretty good, might have to give something like that a try sometime!

you are doing a great service by de-convolving certain medicinal associations with fruit from the true botany... as a fruit nerd (and not really a folk medicine nerd) I thank you!

@WeirdExplorer

4 ай бұрын

So nice of you

Hi, i love your content and just wanted to say to have a good day!

@WeirdExplorer

4 ай бұрын

Hey, thanks!

You’re probably not going to get sick from eating an ‘expired’ canned product, unless the can or jar, or it’s lid, is apparently compromised in some way. It just might not present or taste as good, or in the way the manufacturer intended it to, anymore.

@markiangooley

4 ай бұрын

Canned goods have been salvaged from 90-year-old riverboat wrecks in Missouri River mud. They weren’t toxic but the nutritional value was low and the flavor almost gone: no damage from microbes but apparently the constituents of sterile canned food gradually react with each other.

Off topic, In my country our Mamey Sapote is yellow and smooth with a sharp bottom, it has a totally different characteristics than the one you've ate in your video. I believe it's more like the egg fruit. Our native June plum is also larger and more juicer than the one in your video. I think the American species are a wild variety. It's difficult to find the native ones though. I just learned that our Mamey apples are egg fruit. We call it Mamey apple over here, it look different from egg fruit though.

@WeirdExplorer

4 ай бұрын

cool. yeah eggfruit varies greatly, they can be all kinds of shapes and sizes. But if its smooth and yellow outside then thats probably it. There is also something called Mamey Apple, which confusingly looks a lot like mamey sapote but is not related and tastes very different.

I’m so grateful to you for these videos! I will probably never have the chance to try many of these foods, but your exploration, research, and thorough descriptions are really wonderful. I can’t help but think that future historians will benefit tremendously from these cross-cultural/-geographic descriptions and documentation!

You impressively navigated a rabbit hole situation that would have infuriated me. Very respectable. 👍

Your understanding and discernment of fruit is already on a mystical level! Yeah real fruit with flavor vs sludge… Why people?!?

Currently in Costa Rica, already found Noni and Soursop in the wild. Noni was underwhelming, really not as disgusting as i hoped, but mine was underripe. Soursop, sadly, was too, so i left it on the tree. Also saw a vendor selling Guaba, which I assumed was Guava, in a traffic jam(literally, they walk between the cars) only to realize it was Ice cream bean once we passed him and it was too late. Just wanted to mention it to thank you for your videos! They have become an absolute go-to for my travel preparations. Gonna hit up San Isidro de El General for its farmers market, too. Thank you! This has been one of my favorite channels ever since i discovered it a few years ago.

Fruit is truly a pleasure and so is this channel! Your channel focuses on all the best things about fruit!

Your videos provided something surprising for me; worldbuilding inspiration! Seeing how crazy and weird fruits all OVER Earth are is giving me so many ideas for fruits in my world of Enterra. If Enterra existed, I bet there's some fruits there you'd absolutely love xD

Great video, I really appreciate the breakdown on how annoying it is to look up fruit online. I don’t remember it being that hard looking ok up fruits and plants without snake oil salesmen.

@DUKE_of_RAMBLE

4 ай бұрын

That's because the internet back then wasn't filled with those types of people yet. Even now, Google search is horrible... harder to find what you want, more interested in steering you towards stuff that earns someone money. 😮‍💨 I miss pre-2010 internet. 😞 _(I've been on it since '94, and 2000-2010 was it at its peak-usefulness)_

I love how the picture on the black harad is just the white harad edited to be darker. Totally feels safe and not sketchy lol.

I take this fruit all the time, I love it. It has helped me tremendously

In India, it has many names. Haritaki, Harra, shilikha,etc. If eaten after meal everyday, people can extend their life. But too much eating can lead to lowering or diminishing of sexual desires. Many saints used to eat this. It's also used to make ink in ancient times. Also used to treat foot fungus.

Wow, the drooly new agers are all over that fruit. Thanks for giving us a clear view of it🎉

The appearance and the way you describe the taste and texture reminds me of kedondong (Spondias dulcis).

I was so excited to see this video. I just bought some haritaki for health but I wanted to know what the fruit tasted like!

so, I need to get some of this stuff so I can become Magneto from the Xmen!

In the medicine vs. culinary foods, I hate how hard it is to find lion's mane mushrooms. They are DELICIOUS, but if you search for them online, 90% of the information you'll find is powdered nutritional supplements. I just want tasty mushrooms! I found fresh ones once in a local grocery store, but it seems like you can't find them dried without getting the powder, sadly.

@Realatmx

29 күн бұрын

You should search them at Chinese grocery store..

Those kinds of descriptions for plant uses gives a bad name to plant & herbal medicine use. The uses for plant medicines, in many cases, is scientifically studied & supported by facts not fables. Interesting fruit. If the seller was not honest enough to remove the product from sale after expiration then removing & hiding the date, I wouldn’t even open the jar. Their lack of honesty extends throughout their business. Thanks for sharing. I’m glad you are safely back home. Many blessings

Hi I just found your channel, I love the concept. I am from Aotearoa New Zealand. I saw that you have tried the Feijoa but there are some other weird and wonderful native fruit that are rare and almost never spoken of even here. The number one that comes to mind is the kawa kawa, a plant more known for its peppery leaves. The Kawa kawa fruit is small, red or orange and has a sweat peppery flavour. There is also the Karaka, a fruit no longer eaten, normally toxic but edible when washed with water and cooked.

The extreme dilution sounds like homeopathy or something.

@WeirdExplorer

4 ай бұрын

I thought of bringing that up but then I'd have to try and explain homeopathic dilutions and... I just can't. 🤦‍♂️

@amanthatthinks

4 ай бұрын

​@@WeirdExplorer you mean homeopathic delusions?

@ferretyluv

4 ай бұрын

That is exactly homeopathy.

I’ve been watching your videos for quite some time now and this channel is truly unique. There’s something I’d really like to see you try, and it is the Sierra Gooseberry. It is an amazing plant, Ribes roezlii is the scientific name. If you can get past the thorns, the fruit is amazing. I love to wild forage them when they are ripe here in the Sierra Nevada mountains of CA, usually around hunting season (general season D zones 3-5) they’re everywhere up there. Fully ripe they’re bright red with maybe a little bit of yellow. Slightly underripe the thorns are red and there’s some red color to the fruit, but the fruit is mostly yellow. The flavor is better on very slightly unripe fruits in my preference because it’s a little bit sour. I hope this comment gets some attention They make wonderful preserves, I believe the natives also had several different uses for them as well. California Native tribes are incredibly diverse so that would be an awesome rabbit hole to fall down into. Anthropologically one of the most culturally diverse regions of North America pre-colonization I would also like to note that there is a significant prevalence of Thimble berries in the area as well Rubus parviflorus

This video perfectly aligned my chakras!😁

You should do a series on "medicinal" fruits people think tastes terrible that is actually good if done correctly.

@ferretyluv

4 ай бұрын

There is seemingly no correct way to eat noni fruit.

@AwesomeFish12

4 ай бұрын

@@ferretyluv Some things you really do just have to choke down for the medicinal benefits.

The one you had in Mexico, we have it in Jamaica and we usually dry the kernels after they're removed. They get harder and more like the almonds you know,..Better even...

8:08 One of your videos is on the lower right of the screen. Funny.

love the funky transition music in this vid 👍

I like the girl who claimed it removes drugs........... With the look of desperation on her face it was perfect.

@AwesomeFish12

4 ай бұрын

Her Hindu Yogi costume completed the picture.

I have a terrible memory too, but i’m a super smeller and have a great memory for smells. There’s some disconnect in my flavor sense though, not sure why.

Thanks good video and interesting too.

@WeirdExplorer

4 ай бұрын

Glad you enjoyed it

Main ingredient to cure dysentery for first time visitors to India.

@erzsebetkovacs2527

4 ай бұрын

How do they take it? Does it work?

@YTKeepsDeletingAllMyComments

4 ай бұрын

Looking it up and there's actual studies showing it has anti Cancer properties.

@hudefuk

4 ай бұрын

@@erzsebetkovacs2527 It's the main ingredient in a number Ayurvedic bowel remediation remedies. Works. Dabur is the most trusted brand.

You have a memory like mine. I work in retail and I’ve had regular customer come in to my store like 20+ times over and over and I can’t get their name to stick. Same for events and stories etc. But I seem to have an excellent memory for random facts and stuff!

I love fried curry leaves and I love greens so I'll definitely be seeking this out!

I haven't tried the preserves, but I would think of getting syrup off then popping the husk. Get everything out and spit the husk out.

You forgot to mention people use to use it to make ink

unrelated, and maybe not really a fruit, but lupin/lupini beans are really good fried, if you come across them at a store sometime you should try it. kinda tastes like popcorn, but different texture. also, unless you get sweet lupin in dry form, it’ll be brined, so it’s already salted all the way thru unlike popcorn. also leave the skins on them, they’ll puff a little inside, and the skin cracks and crisps up. if the skin is off, the inside gets much harder and doesn’t have as nice of texture imo. the skins on their own are fine but meh.

Don't know why, but I love seeing you use that knife lol. Well, suppose I'm a bit partial since we sell them at my store and one of the best cheap knives I've ever owned. Mines 4 years old and still in great condition.

@WeirdExplorer

4 ай бұрын

well just know that they are available in Thailand and well priced. haha

@Caberbalschnit

4 ай бұрын

@@WeirdExplorer for some weird reason, yes, that does make me feel better lol. Just wish I could've gone with you on a tour.

"What we have is terminalia chebula, which I'm probably saying wrong." Salagadoola menchicka boola Bibbidi-bobbidi-boo Put 'em together and what have you got? Bibbidi-bobbidi-boo Salagadoola means menchicka boolaroo But the thingamabob that does the job is Bibbidi-bobbidi-boo! 😁

I’m wondering if those drinks would have VitC benefits? Mmmmm. An orange might be better. If I was going to try the powder, why don’t they pop it in gel capsules? Silly buggers. Really interesting video. I so enjoy your channel. 😊

Please tell us what supermarkets or fruit stores you go to

The name Terminalia might lead one to expect it could be used to commit haritaki.

@tinkertailor7385

4 ай бұрын

I see what you did there. ;)

Thank you. THANK YOU, for pursuing an objective, fact-based exploration!

You're (were) in thailand? Any possibility of a OTR/Weird Explorer collab?

5:36 isn't it actually a "best by" date? I believe the shelf life of jam is absurdly long. Like 3 years or something like that. The shelf life listed by the government is just playing it extremely safe.

I paused the video at 7:11 and checked out the "Kailasa's Blissful Athlete" channel to see what kind of stuff the spiritual youtube people would be saying about the "benefits" of such random exotic fruit, and here are the findings: -He's a white Canadian guy who started doing yoga in 2017 and then moved to India with his wife -He became Hindu and his "guru" gave him a new Hindu name -he wears a necklace with a picture of his guru's face on it -Wikipedia says his guru Nithyananda is a cult leader and fled India in 2019 following "rape and kidnapping" charges and has been in hiding since -Also for some reason the guru's social media pages have since been fronted by some white women living in India -The youtube guy suddenly stopped posting everywhere shortly after his wife allegedly divorced him and left the cult -He probably grilled himself Haratiki, not even once

Haritaki is generally soaked overnight in water and the water is drunk... the fruit is too hard to bite into. (Indian / Bengali perspective)

bet this break of 2 days is because he's actually gotten superpowers and is now saving the world

I hope you try Cecropia (Gummy Worm Fruit) at some point.

19:12 best part of the bideo

Love your channel! How can you afford to travel so often?

Terminalia catappa leaves are used by some aquarists as a mild medicinal source.

Fun Objective Fact: Haritaki, also known as Myrobalan, is the fruit being held in depictions of The Medicine Buddha, Bhaiṣajya-guru-vaiḍūrya-prabhā-rāja.🙏 It has been venerated for many years, long before the advent of the jaded stereotype that seems to have tainted its perception for some, though I understand and respect your commitment to the Integrity of your channel.

Thank you for sticking with facts, but the chance to be psychic? That fits in to my plans for world domination. I'll be making a trip to our international market this weekend! LOL

How do you find these beautiful fruits online ? I mean the information part ? Please share some resources and forums

@pattheplanter

4 ай бұрын

Plants for a Future (pfaf) have a massive database, searchable by all sorts of qualities.

@ronanreallyplayes

4 ай бұрын

@@pattheplanter thank you very much

Hey man love your channel. Got a question. Found this tree where I live and it’s got these golf ball sized fruit with a hard shell three pits inside and kind of a dry creamy flash. was wondering if you could help me identify it.

@WeirdExplorer

4 ай бұрын

Hey thanks for the bucks. I'm not sure. What color is the fruit and where do you live?

Ive seen online that our native white flowering dogwood is poisonous but also heard theyre edible. Any ideas?

Thanks Jared.

Final video introduction: "Greetings everybody, today I'm going to try the manchineel fruit!"

Salt and chili powder seems to be a recurring theme, but I've never had it. Is it only those two ingredients? In what approximate proportion? Would it be good with other fruits and veggies?

@WeirdExplorer

4 ай бұрын

Everyone has their own mixture. I'd just grind up a couple dry hot chilis, throw it in some coarse salt and adjust to taste. Sometimes sugar or shrimp powder is added too. Sometimes its powdery other times its coarsely ground. In Vietnam they use fresh chili. in Thailand it was usually dry.

Also after eating it you lose the ability to swim

Did you develop any superpowers after eating these?

@AwesomeFish12

4 ай бұрын

He got some on his gums, so now immense wealth is manifesting all around him.

Im wondering if you made your own preserve out of it, would it taste better ? You could control the sugar content. Maybe it would make a good sour type preserve ?

Report that criminal store selling expired products immediately.

Wow, those are some crazy hippies you found in these videos. Sort of makes me embarrassed to be a human

@WeirdExplorer

4 ай бұрын

Ah the hippies are alright. You just might want to avoid some topics of conversation

@frankmacleod2565

4 ай бұрын

@@WeirdExplorer good advice.

So, what kind of a dish would you add this powder to?

“Put some out on a table, I’ll take a few nibbles of that why not”

You didn't try the seed or the reconstituted dried fruit? The seed is another Terminalia said to taste like an almond or hazelnut.

Maybe you could check out bilberry sometime

not gonna lie, I was hoping you were going to do a gaining mystical powers bit at the end... But I very much appreciate the herbal medicine sensationalism rant!

I am starting to test medicinal herbs for flavor only. Also herbal preparations for flavor only. I have no interest in any “effects”. I’m curious how to get started in sharing my results. Have you tried Harad murabba?

Maybe you've already said it and I just missed it, but do people in Thailand, too, use it medicinally as well as for eating pleasure? Because if they don't, that could be an explanation for the supposed unpleasant taste. There might be a subjective conceptual and sensual difference between a foodstuff that one eats to enjoy and claims that it just tastes nice vs. a medicinal supplement that one consumes for a reason and claims that it has to have a bitter, medicinal taste.

Noni mentioned! Would be interesting to see a comparison of the different green fruits that are eaten with chili powder and salt with some history on the practice.

The medicinal KZreadrs were all weirdos 😂

Ha, in our language onion is called "chebula" :D

Wonder if there's a way to use kratom in a non disgusting way like this, aside from capsule.

Jared X LA Beast has to happen

i bet it's so beautiful there

The sugar used is probably panela

Trying to find uses for things deemed "medicinal" is so frustrating. Just magic and snake oil. "Rub this fruit on the left ball of your foot under the full moon with a mouthful of spinach and you will gain the power of flight just like the shamans of days past", meanwhile I'm just trying to find out if you need to cook the cool fruit/vegetable I found to eat it lol.

What about using that with jackfruit in cooking, ripe or unripe?

@WeirdExplorer

4 ай бұрын

here you go kzread.info/dash/bejne/Z3mJsrp8m8zWgMo.html

12:52 LA Beast reference.