Jamaica vs Trinidad: Fruit Names 🌍🇹🇹🇯🇲

[@growingmyown]

I am from Jamaica so these other names are making me smile, enjoyed..new friend here from Growing My Own.

[@YohanPartap]

Thanks and welcome

[@carlwash1]

Same here

[@chelseaclinton4535]

Yohan, you have to do a continuation of this video, because you have barely scratched the surface.This video is very interesting and informative.One love.One Caribbean.💯❤️❤️🇯🇲🇯🇲🇹🇹🇹🇹

[@YohanPartap]

Thank you, I will

[@HeatherFrancis-d8e]

Yohan very interesting esp.for students doing Caribbean Studies in CAPE.More more

[@sandrabarran5162]

Very good info and We getting to know our Caribbean island names for fruit.

[@YohanPartap]

Glad it was helpful!

[@nari9623]

In Dominica we say both Zaboca and pear. We speak creole/ patios a lot. We say starfruit or karambola. We say bitter melon. We call guinep,kenip. Pommecythere is the name we call it too. We call in malaka or pommerac. We call it sugar apple as well.

[@YohanPartap]

Great info!

[@ericab936]

I was born in Dominica and I remember growing up we called avocado pear and zaboca. Great memories 🥰

[@blackpanda7298]

We need a part two. I definitely enjoyed this, had me smiling.

[@YohanPartap]

Glad you enjoyed it!

[@ivor5298]

In some parts of Jamaica the sweet sop is called Custard Apple

[@blackpanda7298]

@@ivor5298 fi true

[@paullee2680]

Love this these are some of the fruits I eat as a young boy in rural Jamaica

[@YohanPartap]

Thanks for watching!

[@Moniqula]

Thank you for all this knowledge. Would love a collaboration with some other countries and see how they all connect and sound different.

[@YohanPartap]

Maybe one day!

[@CCLXII]

Pommecythere/June plum. In St Vincent and the Grenadines we call it golden apple. And Pommerac/Otaheite apple we call them plumrose. Thanks for sharing and for showing the images of the fruits.

[@YohanPartap]

Glad you enjoyed!

[@bagopappy]

In Tobago we also call it Golden Apple

[@MacDeez-i5f]

​@@YohanPartapBlessing.Something you fail to mention,;Kingstonions having different names for many fruits .👍 We drink the Cerasse bush for purging of the blood.🫡

[@MacDeez-i5f]

We have a different fruit we call rose apple .

[@TriniP-vo6wj]

Seriously, I never knew that.

[@Manolo971]

Thanks for this interesting video. I’m from Guadeloupe, and we also say Zaboka. I think it’s from French way of saying avocados : Des avocats that is pronounced « Dè Zavoca »

[@YohanPartap]

Great info!

[@petergeorgesmith6064]

In Haitian Creole, avocado is also zaboka.

[@claudefrancis9128]

Great video. Here in st.lucia we calling it june plum golden apple and in creol pomcytter as well

[@YohanPartap]

Thanks!

[@nenenord6320]

In Haiti zaboka is how we say avocado, and we say kenep for the “Spanish lime genep, so cool fun to know🇭🇹🇭🇹

[@DanielDan-g3k]

Yea we call it zoboca in Trinidad and Tobago

[@lonalxaia]

In St Lucia and Martinique is avocado is zaboka.

[@daviadavidson7979]

In Jamaica, we chew the guinep a bit before giving it to our younger children to prevent the seed choking them.

[@YohanPartap]

So I see the idea of kids chokin gon the seed is not only a trinidad thing.

[@MacDeez-i5f]

​@@YohanPartapWas a big phobia here also.I got beaten from my mom for giving my lil brother guinep as a kid.lol

[@BarbaraCaleb]

In antigua we chew it too

[@Jasmine-q8x6l]

Oh gawd I just love guinep

[@nca4794]

Nobody ever chewed mine😅

[@enabrown3078]

Thank you for the informative video today! The content was well presented, and I learned the different names of fruits in Trinidad. One love! 🇯🇲❤️

[@YohanPartap]

Glad it was helpful!

[@coolislandbreeze9906]

Totally enjoy 🇯🇲 🇹🇹

[@YohanPartap]

Thanks!

[@coolislandbreeze9906]

@ You are most welcome. Also please forget the narrow minded comment from my fellow Jamaican . Many of us dream of a day we even more united as a full block of Caribbean Island powerhouse economically and otherwise.

[@claudiakellier-reid6925]

I learned a few things from this video as I'm Jamaican and didn't know the different names of all the fruits that we share with Trinidad. Interesting content. Thank you.

[@YohanPartap]

You are so welcome

[@dcw5461]

2:32 we also call star fruit "Jimbillin" in Jamaica

[@YohanPartap]

I have heard that in teh comments, but there are otehr fruits that Jamaica also cal Jimbillin. Thanks for watching!

[@Moniqula]

@dcw5461 Yes. Thank you was about to comment this.

[@wilsonsmanz]

This is so interesting. Here in Grenada we have some different names for those fruits as well. Well for avocado we also call it pear or we call it avocado. I don't know that second fruit at all. Third fruit, we also call it Five Fingers like our friend in Trinidad. Fourth fruit we call it Skinup. June Plum we call Golden Apple. Sapadilla we call it Mammy Apple. Next fruit we call it Cashew. Next fruit we also call it Star Apple but it's not often we see it now. Next fruit we also call Sugar Apple.

[@YohanPartap]

Thanks for the info!

[@elainelawl2572]

Very informative video well done my Caribbean neighbor. Part 2 please.

[@YohanPartap]

Will do

[@flowyscreations]

Good vlog. Here from Jamaica. What of jack fruit, soursop, do you have hog plum, tamarind, breadfruit, tangerine, and custard apple? These are some old time favourites while growing up in yaad!

[@YohanPartap]

Everything

[@JanetCousins-to3hz]

I totally enjoy the travel vlogs and hope that you will continue doing them. Thanks for sharing this😃

[@YohanPartap]

Thank you! Will do!

[@normanfl6592]

I’m enjoying this series and learning so much about Trinidad.Please continue the series.❤️❤️🇯🇲🇯🇲🇹🇹🇹🇹

[@YohanPartap]

I hope I can contune to find topics like this. Thanks for watching!

[@pameliaphillips993]

In Jamaica we're scared to give children guinea because we're afraid that it will choke them so if we do the is crack before it's given to them.

[@sanciawatson8005]

We also call the star fruit jimbilinh

[@georgiarichards5628]

Big ups to my brothers and sisters from Trinidad. Nuff love ❤️ We have the same response to guineps too😂😂😂

[@YohanPartap]

Good to know!

[@moyrahroberts2275]

That was cool. Thanks for the info.

[@YohanPartap]

Glad you liked it!

[@StephanieWade-tc9wb]

Thanks 👍 for such a unique and educational video. Enjoyed your content Looking forward for more.

[@YohanPartap]

Glad you liked it

[@claudettefacey310]

I enjoyed this video . Thanks for helping us to learn more about the similarities and differences between these two countries.

[@YohanPartap]

Thanks so much!

[@hilorygraham-quaccoo4953]

Wonderful!! Yummy

[@YohanPartap]

Thank you 😋

[@donavanbromfield4536]

Well done. 🇯🇲

[@YohanPartap]

Thanks!

[@JudithWinfield-ub2wh]

A phenomenal presentation. ❤

[@YohanPartap]

Thank you so much 😀

[@viviennecampbell2084]

Enjoyed your content ❤❤kee😮them coming 1❤from Jamaica 🇯🇲 🇯🇲 🇯🇲

[@YohanPartap]

Thank you so much 🤗

[@Misha-TNT]

As ah Trini🇹🇹 we enjoying this love to Jamaica 🇹🇹🇯🇲❤️

[@YohanPartap]

Of ocurse, thanks for watching!

[@russellperry6155]

Always enjoy watching You,interesting topics

[@YohanPartap]

Thanks for watching!

[@monicastoddart1366]

Thank you so much. Much more to come please.

[@YohanPartap]

Will do!

[@karleinegraham446]

I think the Ministry of Agriculture in the Colonial Government of Jamaica, labeled the place where the fruits/food came from into the island. Much of the food came from Africa and Asia. So we have Otaheite apple ( Out of Tahiti), we have East Indian mango and also Bombay mango thàt I guess named for the region of India that the varieties are from. We also had a Christmas mango. Guinep is called ginepa in much of Latin America and labeled as such in the grocery stores in New York. Very interesting to explore the different names!

[@YohanPartap]

Thanks for the info!

[@Doll676]

You learn something new everyday

[@NativeNomad10]

Othaheiti is quite recent because most Jamaicans called it Jamaican apple or just apple

[@thesefoxes2821]

Love the topic g🔥 🇯🇲 👊🏿

[@YohanPartap]

Thanks!

[@denisegrant7440]

Nice i knew both name of the Fruit as I'm a Trini Jam.. i love your video 2 differenti sland same colonial influences

[@YohanPartap]

yes, thanks for watching!

[@cdmango5756]

We in St Kitts 🇰🇳 call June Plum, Golden Apple

[@FlorenceLedgister]

Hi Yohan, watched for the first time this morning. Interesting blog, good to know. Us 'Carribees: (my coinage) should get to know each other's likes and differences more. Thanks Trini. Fr: West Indian girl...😊💥🌴🐬🌾🇯🇲

[@YohanPartap]

Thanks!

[@shelley-annmalcolm1331]

Encore. Part two needed.

[@YohanPartap]

Soon I hope!

[@donnadwarika6370]

Thank you Yohan n Happy Holidays.😂

[@YohanPartap]

Same to you!

[@joycoldspring9789]

Appreciate,do one for the vegetables too.

[@YohanPartap]

Will see, if it has enough variation.

[@lennoxramberran1459]

Very good information

[@YohanPartap]

Thanks

[@cindyali3695]

Finally been waiting on this for a long time

[@YohanPartap]

Hope you enjoyed!

[@simonelavigne8618]

Very interesting! Now do same name-different things

[@YohanPartap]

Thanks for the idea!

[@faithfulness22]

Great video!!! I miss home🇬🇾🇬🇾

[@YohanPartap]

Glad you enjoyed

[@Velorise-q2d]

Naseberry and star apple are still common in Jamaica.There are 2 types of naseberry: the extremely round ones and the egg shaped ones.Also there is the star apple that is green on the outside

[@YohanPartap]

Thanks for watching and the info!

[@carlwash1]

I love those fruits

[@kaybrown883]

There is also the starapple which is purple. Have both growing in my yard in Jamaica.

[@dorehb7679]

We Indians in Jamaica call it karielle. (Spelling )😅. We stew the June plum as well we eat it with salt or add mango make chow. Don’t like sweet sop😮😅. Like the food videos 🙏❤️.

[@YohanPartap]

Good to hear, thanks for watching!

[@MunchieAGoogleUser]

Growing up in Jamaica we called Bitter Melon Caraille. Never even knew it was called Bitter Melon until I was older. My parents would curry it.

[@YohanPartap]

Good to know!

[@kaybrown883]

Knew about the cerase fruit. I went to Guyana and its there I first heard the name corialle

[@marilynking5885]

I enjoyed the video...in 🇧🇧 we got some of thess fruits to

[@YohanPartap]

That's great!

[@gregdan8652]

love love this big up yourself

[@YohanPartap]

Thanks!

[@theazrael4423]

Interesting stuff, I basically didn't know most of this 😂

[@YohanPartap]

Glad to help!

[@charlotterunyon5843]

Love the lesson

[@YohanPartap]

Thanks!

[@shantibronowicki9565]

Enjoyable video even throughout Asia these fruits have different names Here in Vancouver there are lots of different cultures different fruits 🥰🥰🇨🇦🇨🇦

[@YohanPartap]

Thanks for sharing

[@Maitland5]

We used to call star fruit jumbiline

[@MacDeez-i5f]

I can remember going to rural Jamaica and learning a different name for a lot of fruits.

[@YohanPartap]

Thanks for the info!

[@MunchieAGoogleUser]

Yep. I still call it Jumbiline…

[@jamiami3804]

Jumbiline is a different fruit.

[@carlwash1]

so true

[@staminadon]

Long time don’t see no video s Ahope everything good

[@YohanPartap]

Juts fine, just not alot happening

[@Mindyouriwnbusiness-zh6vq]

Love this ❤

[@YohanPartap]

Thanks!

[@abishop7347]

It would be great if your research could extend throughout the Caribbean. Chennette/Guinep is called Ackee in Barbados. Very interesting. Do you dounce? What is your name for it?

[@YohanPartap]

Yes good idea, this is more based on my expeonce having lived in both Jamaica and Trinidad.

[@carlwash1]

What is dounce? First time hearing this one

[@venusmoodie4874]

OMG guinep is called ackee in Barbados. I cannot believe it. Imagine me going there asking for ackee and get guinep wow

[@tascrphs]

Brining back memories, I was surprise he didn't mention Dounce. As a kid in the 70's I would eat Dounce till my belly tie-up... Ackee till my mouth feel like glue, and golden apple till my neighbor tree empty.

[@patriciarhodes3763]

Good job……thank you😮

[@YohanPartap]

Welcome 😊

[@peggyseabrun4829]

The latex from the sapodilla tree is called chicle, and was used as the base for chewing gum. Still used in some today.

[@YohanPartap]

Cool!

[@booboochick8574]

You are correct. It is a base for chewing gum we call chiclette. It is called bwee in St. Lucia.

[@elaine7461]

Thanks

[@YohanPartap]

Welcome

[@MzFeefi]

In St. Vincent and the Grenadines we say: 1 - Zaboca/pear/avocado 2 - Caraille/Karila 3 - Five finger/Carambola 4 - Ackee (yes we call guinep ackee) 5 - Golden Apple (Golden apple juice is our national drink) 6 - Sapodilla 7 - Plumrose 8 - Haven't seen it here 9 - Sugar apple

[@YohanPartap]

Great info!

[@shaniceforbes6658]

In Jamaica, we also call Star Fruit “Jumbline”

[@YohanPartap]

Thanks for watching!

[@cleo63100]

The otaheite apple tree was introduced to Jamaica in 1793 by Captain William Bligh on the same ship that brought the breadfruit. The fruit is named after the island from which it came - O taheite or Tahiti..

[@dubsounds]

No man. suh weh yuh a seh?? de breadfruit and de ackee wasn't on the same ship already cooked?? SMH

[@YohanPartap]

Thanks for the info!

[@colleenmckenzie2723]

​@@dubsounds😊

[@carlwash1]

Just toninght was telling my younger family members here in the USA about breadfruit and that it was brogth by Capt. Bligh👍

[@Wineanddinediva]

Naseberry is my faforite ..like brown sugar

[@YohanPartap]

Yep it is like brown sugar!

[@MD_ENTERTAINMENT]

Maybe some people called the cerasee fruit "bitter melon," but I never hear that name used in Jamaica. Nice video though 👌🏿

[@YohanPartap]

I am hearing that it might even be the same.

[@gachalife-gk4qz]

In st.kitts nevis we call June plum a golden apple.

[@YohanPartap]

Same as Tobago!

[@hutchinsonjohnson2909]

Big you self yohan love you show brother

[@YohanPartap]

Thanks !

[@mahlonstrachan8075]

I grew up in St.Mary Jamaica. I knew the bitter Melon as Corila also

[@YohanPartap]

Interesting!

[@MunchieAGoogleUser]

Yes. Correct. Me too. Didn’t even know it was called Bitter Melon until I was older.

[@rakeshpersaud5885]

Yes, in Guyana we call it Carilla too...

[@mitsysimkelle2325]

Now I get it, some of the names are from French words and others names given to your foods are possibly from other languages. I guess Jamaica stayed more to English and Spanish. Thanks for sharing.

[@YohanPartap]

Yes, Trinidad had French influence!

[@Courtneystewart115]

In Jamaica the star fruit is called Jimbi -ling

[@YohanPartap]

Good to know!

[@shamelcutkelvin8807]

In Belize we call it star fruit🥂

[@rootelation486]

Those sapodilla are too sweet for me. We have plenty of them growing in florida

[@YohanPartap]

They can be very sweet!

[@rootelation486]

@YohanPartap i thought it was just me 🤣

[@MitzieRamgeet]

We also have green skin star apples here in Jamaica

[@YohanPartap]

Yes, there are different varieties!

[@FlorenceLedgister]

/contd. Oh, Otaheiti apple, using the Arawak/Taino for the apple. Carribean girl.🌴🐬🇯🇲

[@YohanPartap]

INterestig!

[@desornrichards6228]

In st Vincent, we call pommecythere- golden apple, we call guineps - Ackee and pommerac- plumrose

[@YohanPartap]

Great info! Thanks!

[@naveennisbett4883]

In st.kitts we call june plum (golden aple)

[@ttthegr8]

In Jamaica 🇯🇲, star fruits are called five fingers too. The fear your mom had about guinep, is the same fear Jamaican parents have. We have a few types of naseberry. Sand berries are found in the Linstead, St. Catherine area. Maybe other places Thanks ❤❤

[@dubsounds]

Except in Jamaica you'd get a beating for being damn chupid and swallow the guinep seed

[@YohanPartap]

Thanks for the info!

[@dazd240]

We call Avocado zaboca in st Vincent too

[@YohanPartap]

nice!

[@shamelcutkelvin8807]

In Belize we call it pear🥂

[@catpes9670]

We bite the ginip seeds in Guyana to give to thw kids too

[@georgealleyne17]

In 🇧🇧 it's in order of appearance 1.Pear, 2.Cerasee or bitter lemon ( we use mostly the leaves and stem.) , 3. Five fingers or carambola, 4.Ackee, 5.Golden apple 6,7,8 we don't have here 9. Sugar apple

[@blossomwhyte4787]

Sweet sop, custard apple,

[@YohanPartap]

Yes heard that also

[@shantisingh4113]

Five fingers is also called carambola

[@YohanPartap]

Never heard of that one!

[@terrencecampbell6086]

@@YohanPartapand also known as Chinese Jimbilin in Jamaica

[@Johndl1988]

The avocado you call Zaboca in trinidad is actually the kweyol( creole) word in st Lucia we call it zaboca primarily due to our Creole language. Derived from the French word (avocat) Most of the countries that speak Creole call it zaboca The countries like Trinidad 🇹🇹 Dominica 🇩🇲 etc have some Creole ancestry and hence why they call it zaboca also Haiti 🇭🇹 and st Lucia 🇱🇨 are the two islands with the most similar creole dialect then Mauritius 🇲🇺 etc. Not to be confused with the dialect in Martinique and Guadeloupe that are a heavier French dialect closer to Parisian French. Same goes for chenette, pommecythere, sapodilla we call it SAPOTE in st Lucia, sugar apple we call it pommekanell in st Lucia

[@YohanPartap]

Great stuff!

[@patsy8016]

Otahiti apple is originally from Tahiti near New Zealand

[@YohanPartap]

Thanks for watching!

[@jodimorgan624]

in Jamaica we call bitter Melon cerasee and the star fruit we call it jumbelin or Jimbelin

[@YohanPartap]

Great info!

[@audreyduncan1416]

In Jamaica we also have a fruit named jimbelin...its the same size as a cherry but it yellow and very very sour. I know the starfruit as starfruit

[@mariojawahir2825]

Pommecythere is the creole name in slu Golden apple in English in slu cause the skin turns yellow and it’s sweet when ripe Pommerac is pomme damu a sweeter version of wax apple in slu Etc etc

[@YohanPartap]

Very interesting!

[@victorcharles8686]

Zaboca is a patois word.

[@YohanPartap]

Yes, good info.

[@theazrael4423]

Taíno origins actually, not exactly patois. I learned something today, I was not aware of that. Interesting stuff

[@johnsheldonfrederick2862]

Yes we use Zaboca in St Lucia

[@SM-nd3ry]

In Jamaica we call it jimbilin Is a more common name than star fruit

[@YohanPartap]

Thanks for the info!

[@marciaking4765]

I also think in Barbadoes what we in Jamaica call ackee is knowm ss something else & guineap is called ackee . Please correct me if I am wrong

[@mematixta6407]

Jamaicans call Star Fruit, Jumbilin as well

[@YohanPartap]

interesting!

[@dubsounds]

Had it not for you Mr. Yohan, I wouldn't have known that me spend all me Primary school years in Jamaica eating "bullah"

[@YohanPartap]

My goodness! lol

[@dubsounds]

@@YohanPartap Growing up in 60's/70's Jamaica, one thing I enjoyed was the clever banter, witty repartee, and light-hearted humour which existed between Islands. For example: Remember that song about Trini and Bajan, dying of starvation? Bajan said: Look, look, look Trini, let us make a cook Yuh put de rice. I put de meat Then we'll all have something to eat

[@Benji_1]

​@@dubsounds yes that was a Calypso by the Grand master. Lord Kitchener from Trinidad and Tobago.

[@dionnestanford4703]

Pommecythere/June plum. The names come from the name Jew plum or plum of the Jews, but because of the French influence in Trinidad's history, Trinidad got and kept the French version, and Jamaica got the translated English version.

[@stephanierobinson1357]

In Tobago in growing up we call the pommecythere golden apple.

[@catpes9670]

In Guyana we call avacado pear too

[@YohanPartap]

Nice!

[@cdmango5756]

We in St Kitts 🇰🇳 call Sweet Sop, Soursop

[@vbrown6445]

What do you call soursop?

[@NinetteMcKenzie]

Correction sir,in Jamaica cerasee is different from bitter melon

[@carleneenglish2444]

Guinep makes nice juice. Use hot water to help take off the edible portion. Squeeze it, like how you extract coconut milk, to get the juice. The sour the fruit, the tastier the juice. Green mango makes nicer juice than ripe ones too. You would never know it's mango juice.

[@marshastephenson2337]

Thanks 🙏🏽 What is sapodilla? I think we call it naseberry. Also we have green skinned star apples too

[@wilsonsmanz]

Well it's green when it's not ripe

[@marshastephenson2337]

@ No, there are two varieties. One that is ripe and the skin colour is green. Do some research

[@wilsonsmanz]

@marshastephenson2337 well I don't know about that. I don't doubt you. I just know the one I am used to which I just had at home starts green and as you leave it longer it turns yellow and sweeter. So I don't know. I can only speak from experience

[@marshastephenson2337]

@@wilsonsmanz Ah… you’re confusing the star apples I mentioned with star fruit 😃

[@paulbramwell142]

Blessed love Trini.

[@YohanPartap]

Thanks!

[@Blessedandfavoredfamily]

In st lucia we call avocado zaboca

[@YohanPartap]

NIce!

[@DeniseBraveboy]

Golden apple in Grenada

[@shamelcutkelvin8807]

In belize we say golden plum🥂

[@sophiaabdullah1069]

5 finger also known as carambola, pommecythere also known as golden apple

[@YohanPartap]

Thanks for the info!

[@tenishapeter9157]

zaboca is creole.. That's how we call avocado/pear in creole in St.Lucia. Pomecyte and chenet are also creole names of the fruits here. S you are right about the French connection.