CUT NUT - Our Hunt for An Edible Fruit Related to a Notoriously Poisonous One

Episode: 743 Cut Nut
Species: Barringtonia edulis, Barringtonia Sp
Location: Luganville, Vanuatu
Thanks to Steven Murray for joining me on this adventure. Find out more about what he's up to on Instagram: Murraystevena2
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[@WeirdExplorer]

That's the last video from Vanuatu! To see all the episode from Vanuatu and Fiji, check out this playlist: kzbin.info/aero/PLvGFkMrO1ZxIcYi9W28am_eCdjMD1PxZX Next up I'll be posting a series of new fruit reviews that I filmed in Thailand!

[@GolosinasArgentinas]

Loved the series!

[@dlbstl]

I loved your Vanuatu episodes! A really interesting place and people.

[@hqi01]

What a nice person to invite you to their home. Amazing country, amazing people, amazing fruit. 👍

[@ferretyluv]

These two always have good experiences because they’re looking for something as simple and wholesome as fruit. Food is one of the few things shared.

[@simonphoenix3789]

it's incredible how nice people are in some of these places.

[@willywonka7812]

People who don't live in hyper-capitalist corporate states tend to be nicer, because the system doesn't pitch them against each other

[@charlotteritchie9969]

@@willywonka7812I wish it was that simple but some people are just awful

[@CaedmonOS]

​@@charlotteritchie9969Yes, some people are just awful, but if a significant portion of people are awful, the problem isn't the people the problem is the system.

[@Menstral]

High trust environment

[@Menstral]

@@CaedmonOS Is it the people or is it the system. Of course it's the people and not the system, the problem is the individual, who statistically functions as unintelligent, weak, lazy, pandering, conformist. The Milgram experiments showed this without a doubt.

[@JohnEsse]

it's so special to see you make connections and give respect to local people and their traditions around fruit. love you guys

[@christopherbrand5360]

The connection with the driver and his wife is so awesome

[@gorillapermacuture]

On Kauai we call the strawberry tree "Captin Crunch Berry" . Tastes like it spot on. I have about 50 cutnut on my land.

[@melhawk6284]

Huh! Wish the strawberry trees grew around me! I have a terrible sweet tooth, and a serious taste for Cap'n Crunch!

[@jolus6678]

@@melhawk6284, everyone must taste things differently because they just taste like figs to me 🤷‍♂️

[@melhawk6284]

@jolus6678 oh, figs will work too! I LOVE those suckers!

[@lasagnahog7695]

Steven is an absolute gem. These Vanuatu videos were all so good.

[@SarahLovesFood]

I love your commitment to eating the non-edible parts of fruits 😂

[@julianiemeyer1010]

First off, Steven is *amazing* as a cohost. Secondly, there's an annual apple tasting festival in Bremerton WA that easily gets 300 varieties to freely taste. It's in late October and other than airfare and lodging is free to go to.

[@Jeff_Lichtman]

Most of the people that Jared and Steven have met on their adventures are friendly and helpful, but this was really exceptional!

[@mleshoestar777]

What a beautiful example of human kindness. Gives me hope 💗 thank you lovely cab driver & lovely woman

[@shannabolser9428]

That is awesome that you found such a good guy willing to share his garden and fruit. That is so cool

[@LakelandRussell]

Very wholesome episode maybe one of your best thank you

[@WeirdExplorer]

thanks so much!

[@catherinedufresne3543]

I agree. This is thw kind of content that drew me into the journey

[@iteststuff3854]

Agreed. Fantastic episode

[@breathedreams7344]

Your channel truly is one of the very best

[@WeirdExplorer]

Thank you so much 😀

[@michaelgusovsky]

Hey jared, i just tried somthing pretty interesting that you havent talked about, honey locust beans. Technically a legume not a fruit, but it tastes really good, you take the seeds, grind them up and roast them, and make a coffee like drink with them. If any interest ill send you some!

[@alfonsomural4792]

I used to grow strawberry fruit trees in Florida and I always thought they tasted just like strawberry shortcake

[@TheWeirdestOfBugs]

He wasn't just a taxi driver. That's what I call a friend for life.

[@youtube.commentator]

Genuinely nice guy, glad to see there are still some out there

[@shaynecarter-murray3127]

It never ceases to amaze me how nice people are in some parts of the world

[@chairshoe81]

i know it shouldnt be surprising, but it feels so encouraging and nice when someone helps you and invites you into to their home in your videos. its happened a lot too where the person will be cultivating lots of interesting fruits, so cool.

[@thekenneth3486]

What great luck with a taxi driver! I like Steven: he adds extra knowledge and opinion to the adventure.

[@DovidM]

The saponins (soap-like compounds) in related plants is a fish poison but may not be poisonous to people or warm blooded animals. The purpose of fish poisons is to stun or kill the fish which is then eaten. Soybeans are an example of a common crop that contains high levels of saponins. Oats and spinach are two other examples.

[@yourhighschoolenglishteach8405]

what an incredibly nice person and family!

[@ChaosPootato]

Cool people, very nice garden!

[@opti6248]

always dope to see how friendly the locals are in some of these places

[@lyletheisland]

Your adventures are fantastic and have been a huge inspiration to my nerdy self, covering my two little acres with every fruit tree that I can, for the sake of their level of hospitality. I've even got a greenhouse with caimito, mamey sapote and rollinia inside, and about 25 young pawpaw trees. Come through Georgia (the state) sometime, town called Social Circle (no, the town name isn't a joke)

[@blackbway]

What a smart taxi driver. He drove them all over the country, looking for a fruit that he knows that he has at home. That's gonna run up a bill. Then last minute he said, let me take you to my house, you can find it there. That's another bill. But at least they got free fruits from the deal, and we get a nice adventure video.😊

[@gabehopper6219]

That’s a bit cynical, the entire fare for the day was probably still a very fair price for Jarod and Steven. And the cab driver probably has been affected by the cyclones like everywhere else on Vanuatu

[@blackbway]

@@gabehopper6219 it's a joke...

[@gabehopper6219]

@@blackbwayokay champ

[@vivianm5350]

Haha aww you're so polite to the coconuts - calling them 'mature' not old

[@Sleebers]

What a wonderful driver, that's amazing. I love to see locals inviting ppl over.

[@HermanBelmer]

You filmed that opening suspiciously like the turtle scene in CH

[@theblobconsumes4859]

You don't just casually drop something like that in

[@WeirdExplorer]

That is the nicest thing anyone has ever said to me. 😅

[@Moontanman]

Vanuatu! The only freshwater hermit crab in the world lives there!

[@sharendonnelly7770]

Cut nut adventure top points, hot as Hades, great cabby, wonderful backyard garden, amazing find in out of season fruit, and sunburn. (Aloe vera! If that's not available, use vinegar, honestly, it works)

[@jrcorsey]

This was my favorite Vanuatu video. I did wish we had gotten some face time with taxi driver and wife, maybe their names? Just a note for future vids. Also, watching Stephen fall would be more compelling, but I recognise that this isn't a comedy channel.

[@palarious]

Their garden looks awesome!!

[@AdamsWorlds]

Whow really lucked out with that family, very nice of them.

[@gerardjohnson2106]

Green hulls of Black Walnut in US are also used for fish poison, albeit illegal.

[@erzsebetkovacs2527]

Black walnut? Not the same species as the European walnut (Juglans), or is it? And why is it illegal?

[@transecho]

​@@erzsebetkovacs2527It's the same genus (juglans). It's illegal to fish with the hulls because the US generally forbids fishing with toxins as it can kill fish that are not the legal size afaik.

[@erikjohnson9223]

​@@erzsebetkovacs2527Juglans nigra (there is another one on the West Coast, but I forget the name, maybe Juglans hindsii). The tree is legal (though notorious for killing many of its neighbors--especially tomatoes and apples though pears survive--through the allelopathic chemical, juglone) and is generally the USA's most expensive timber. Nuts are edible but a royal pain to extract. Many Americans enjoy black walnut ice cream (they have a much stronger, "woodsy" flavor than your Juglans regia), but due to expense and processing difficulty, it isn't particularly common in other food applications. The ground shells are sonetimes used in drilling muds. What *is* illegal is fishing with poison (or dynamite for that matter), though in extreme cases, on *isolated* lakes/ponds, landowners or park rangers may be authorized to kill everything in order to eliminate an invasive species.

[@KyrenaH]

​@@erikjohnson9223 When I was a kid we had a large black walnut tree in the backyard. We learned that even the leaves of a black walnut tree are toxic.

[@1.4142]

I like how everyone is a gardener. Much biodiversity. Sadly cyclone lola just hit vanuatu.

[@stevenmurray3238]

Cool, I think the green cut nuts were a different species from the more common purple one. Very cool find

[@WeirdExplorer]

The first one might be the more common b. edulis. That green one though... no clue. Barringtonia procera looks a bit like it but has more of a red color inside it

[@aza8800]

So stoked for a new episode. Goodmorning everyone and Jared :)

[@theunnamedjpg]

I think I've seen something like this growing near my home, the fruits look cool to me, but I never know that could be eaten until I saw this video

[@christosscapularis4483]

The way I read the title 😆

[@frankmacleod2565]

Man you guys have all the fun.

[@JTMusicbox]

Soft juicy coconut flavor with a hint of cooked chestnuts? That sounds incredible!

[@shanleyshoupe7873]

this was such a fun video! adventure is right!

[@sarahmanalapan8443]

You guys have the best job.

[@StonedtotheBones13]

These kinds of videos are def one of my favorites. Ppl are always so nice to make connections over fruit. And so proud to show you their area and gardens and hard work they've done. Like you said, you didn't just get to try a fruit you've been wanting to, you got to meet some lovely ppl as well.

[@skeetchildress9232]

very sweet. such a wholesome video.

[@WeirdExplorer]

Glad you enjoyed it!

[@jemtebelle]

That's awesome! You dound the perfect driver!

[@WeirdExplorer]

Thank you very much!

[@gorillapermacuture]

I have sliced and roasted my cutnuts for a very almond like result. Everyone should grow cutnut! The flowers are beautiful!

[@WeirdExplorer]

Great tip!

[@erikjohnson9223]

Some of us have severe winters, but I'll keep that tip in mind if I ever move to the (humid?) tropics.

you managed to find a horticulturalist taxi driver. out of all the people, absolutely amazing. bless the dice gods

[@shrimplol9317]

Sunburn and sweat youre gonna love them eventually.

[@fazilrazak3909]

There is another relative of the fish poison fruit in Malaysia which is edible. Both the fruit and the leaf shoots. Baringtonia racemosa (putat in Malay)

[@Smex]

was smiling so much watching this

[@Smex]

oh boy, I'm doing it again

[@user-cx6ty9gl7q]

Keep encouraging the fruit finding You are changing the 🌎

[@paulwright8378]

It's a shame that some of these fruit only exists on this island,they could probably make a lot of money exporting them and others would get to enjoy these beautiful flavours

[@ChrisK557]

Your best episodes are when you get immersed in the culture like this. I love your calabash episode for the same reason. "I've heard that people make a juice out if it" ... "Ok so I found someone who invited me to their home and made me the calabash juice" ❤

[@stefansauvageonwhat-a-twis1369]

very wholesome

[@ben_mango]

There’s cut nut in Hawaii too,

[@SimpleIdeaz]

Don't know about you but I used to mix strawberry nesquick and put popcorn in it like cereal

[@deepwaters2334]

Half shell life in Vanuatu!

[@MeAuntieNora]

Such a great video! What kind and welcoming people!

[@WeirdExplorer]

Thanks so much!

[@detectfevi]

My guy the sun was kicking your bottom! Thanks for nearly dying to give us content, a true hero!

[@aicirtkciub9167]

Looks like a great trip. Thanks for sharing.

[@WeirdExplorer]

Thanks for watching!

[@smugboi_]

Cut nut is really fun to say

[@mikenoel3522]

Wow! You just happened to find the taxi driver that is a plant nut.

[@shrekopher]

On The Ranch? 😂 But for real I thought the same thing about the name the other day lol.

[@stringsofhell]

What a wonderful video, very wholesome. I'm a bit sad I'll never be able to try these.

[@__w__o__w__]

man that guys yard looks like paradise

[@fazilrazak3909]

The cut nut looks similar to the Barringtonia racemosa, called putat in Malaysia.

[@TortlOdum]

what a genuinely nice man

[@ryanwuryan7584]

Yooooo the purple ones grow near my house it’s cool

[@censusgary]

VERY nice!

[@WeirdExplorer]

Thank you! Cheers!

[@DH-.]

I don't smoke cigarettes but the history of tobacco is rich ... Seeds came from America and it's settlers were addicted so if they traveled they did so with large stashes and seeds to grow wherever they migrated. Plus it's Malaria treatment, possibly??

[@Magmafrost13]

Shoutout to the world's greatest taxi driver. What a legend

[@efrainoctavio3506]

I've seen a lot of Muntingia trees and berries here in Mexico so I was wondering when will they appear in your channel, oddly enough the ones from here taste more like jackfruit or so I think

[@WeirdExplorer]

I had it many many years ago in this video: kzbin.info/www/bejne/mpLFoGd8bKaopqc Its never had a dedicated episode, but it should!

[@meganng6711]

I finally know the name of the buah ceri tree! It tastes like the most sugary candy ever! But the govt cuts a lot of them down because they attract bats.

[@moayadmyro2091]

I am very fan of exotic fruit and am already know alot but i can not get my hand on all of them

[@ShellyS2060]

What super nice folks ❤

[@mingbotlarue5694]

Scrolling fast and choking on my KitKat because "CUT NUT" is NOT what my brain told me i was reading 😅 Wew lad....

[@telesniper2]

Kinda like Almond vs Bitter Almond

[@441rider]

Customs probably watchers the Explorer pretty close. Is that a seed? cutting? fruit?

[@mandab.3180]

what amazing hospitality 😄 very cool that you got to try it.. tho it did look exgustingly hot there 😖

[@Ruirspirul]

amazing episode

[@michaelrredford]

Thanks!

[@WeirdExplorer]

thanks so much!

[@kiwihib]

Vanuatu got hit by a cyclone again last week.

[@vrvny]

‏Reminds me of Pecan nut. For pecans eating them raw is less nice than when you give them time to mature

[@harmonicliving3507]

Yum

[@jasminehubbard6217]

I think i would eat the fresh cut they look kinda cool put i wouldn't tried the posion friut because it too dry eat and to much chemicals that got it and they not in season to have one put they was kinda interested to see them and it called the fish poison friut was kinda azaming to look at it

[@Hitaishi-janardhan]

What about the pulp around the seed? Is it edible too?

[@Hoa--angVuTuyetNgan]

Since you've made alot of videos on the normal apples, bananas and oranges, stuff like that but with special varieties, you've never made videos on pomegranates before. And please do because you have not made a single video about the pomegranates, special varieties of pomegranates 'n stuff like that.

[@Local_custard]

I'd be interested in seeing unusual vrieties!

[@WeirdExplorer]

I've got one in the hopper about ways to use the entire pomegranate. :)

[@gingerkitty1425]

Loving your videos ❤

[@WeirdExplorer]

Thank you!!

[@XcaptainXobliviousX]

you guys have the craziest luck finding fruit people

[@jordanott5464]

I don't noramlly comment, but I really liked this video

[@luzellepampola5862]

I see those here in the Philippines but am not sure if it is the edible ones. What is the difference between the edible and poisonous ones?

[@williamcozart8158]

10:00 I think you might have set those down in some bird shit...then you picked it up and bit it.. 😅

[@connissia]

You missed your chance to use the words cut nutless at 4:09. 🤣🤣😄

[@v2joecr]

Can you import just the seeds of some of the fruits you find to grow in the USA?

[@victoriafisher6934]

watch "live in village" she harvests very wierd fruits! ! ! !!!vietnam

[@beamer.electronics]

Not Cut Nut, that guy and his family were - diamonds :)

[@DovidM]

The species name edulis indicates that it can be eaten.