Peach Pie Donut Peaches - Weird Fruit Explorer

Episode 640 : Peach Pie Donut Peaches
Species: Prunus persica
Location: NYC, USA
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[@NiharM77]

If you've ever played Neopets, this is the real life "doughnutfruit".

[@EmmelineSama]

Yes, I have. True! 🤣

[@mndlessdrwer]

It has been the better part of a decade since I've even thought of Neopets. What a nostalgia trip.

[@arfinjalal4563]

Nihar it’s time for a new science 🧪 fiction fantasy web series on KZbin

[@landonconway79]

I cannot even believe that someone still knows what neopets is.

[@NiharM77]

@@landonconway79 it's been nearly 20 years since I've last been on Neopets, but I still remember the days. Good times! Some of the songs I have in my album collection I first heard from people's Neopets pages.

[@ShellyS2060]

I know people complain about "chewing" noises, but I appreciate the sound quality of this particular vid. I felt a bit sorry for you as I heard the crunch of the nectarine.

[@Slawsers]

They taste amazing when ripe I’ve only had the white version and I still prefer them slightly to a normal peach

[@EGOCOGITOSUM]

That is also because the vast majority of regular peaches are badly produced if prime quality regular are unbeatable

[@almarc3747]

These things are so much better than regular peaches.

[@toddburgess5056]

Where do you purchase them?

[@Haroumi]

@@toddburgess5056 in normal shop in EU xD

[@sandrasennhauser1776]

@Al Marc - that’s your opinion. I don’t like them. I prefer the regular ones

[@ismails2864]

@@sandrasennhauser1776 normal peaches you get juice all over from one bite and isn't even crispy

[@10thletter40]

@@ismails2864 You don't need crisp do you?

[@sdfkjgh]

I was first introduced to the donut peach sometime in the mid-90s. The lady at the store recommended submerging them in a bowl of half & half (or milk, as a poorer substitute), and using a spoon to slice off chunks of the peach. She was absolutely right. The peach juice blends so well with the dairy.

[@terryenglish7132]

My local orchard has killer Peach ice cream

[@TheMryi]

Peach and raspberry yoghurt was my go-to breakfast as a kid

[@CookingWithCows]

I think the spherical peaches, if you get a good ripe one, are significantly better than the flat ones. Much juicier in my opinion. Of course, a lot of the regular peaches you get in the supermarket are picked unripe, while the flat ones are picked riper and treated more expediently than the standard peach

[@kyrab7914]

I've honestly gotten peaches that were incredibly firm and then 2 days later, completely rotten. Maybe I'm just bad at picking them out, but it sure is frustrating

[@TaleDreamer]

I always buy one apple alongside peaches and put them in the same fruit basket so that the peaches would ripen quicker.

[@telanis9]

@@kyrab7914 They ripen very fast. Keep them in the fridge.

[@doubles1545]

I bought a property that has two mature peach trees. One is the flat donut peach, the other is a standard round peach. I find both have excellent flavor. I like that they ripen at different times. The donut peaches ripen first. By the time they finish, the round peaches are just starting. Gives me a longer window for fresh-eating. And it’s less overwhelming to preserve fruit from one tree at a time.

[@iteststuff3854]

Jared, you are a beautiful soul and your channel is one of the best things on KZbin. I first stumbled upon it around the mid 200's of your fruit reviews. You inspire me and now I always try every new fruit I can find at fruit markets!

[@kardwise9714]

I’ve found that in the last couple of years that the donut peach tastes more like a “peach” than the peaches we have in stores nowadays.

[@aniquinstark4347]

Probably a result of breeding fruit for aesthetics more than taste like the red delicious apple. If you live in the south you can still get amazing heirloom peaches from roadside vendors. Really good prices too.

[@Sarah_Gwyllt]

Interesting, I don't doubt it. I've found similar with tomatoes, garden tomatoes taste to me now like how all tomatoes used to taste. Now a lot of the ones you get at the store have no flavour, sweetness, and are just fleshy/woody in texture.

[@appa609]

you just don't have fresh peaches in season. Round ones are delicious too in late july to august.

[@MumrikDK]

I never buy nectarines that don't have freckles. It's by far the best indicator of sweet ripeness I've encountered (far better than color).

[@redshirt256]

I love the white donut peaches, my favourite type of peach / nectarine you can buy at a grocery store but i will be on the lookout for these other donut peaches!

[@Greenteabook]

The peach pie peaches I bought last year didn't have much flavor either, just sugar. Family Tree have a few MW of solar out in their drain field that I ended up repairing last year in Reedley. They didn't have a way out there for me to buy a box, but they gave me a plum that tasted like apples 🤤

[@SultrySeeder]

I recently got a couple packages of the Family Tree brand pluots, plumcots, and aprium hybrids. I like the pluots the best.

[@Wertsir]

I remember eating these as a kid. We called them Saturn Peaches. They’re so much more delicious than regular peaches.

[@kyrab7914]

That's such a cute name

[@SuzWarren]

I love white donut peaches! I wish they showed up more in my store. I agree that the peaches readily available are generally meh. The only tip I have for picking peaches is to give the stem end a sniff. If it doesn’t have a wonderful peachy aroma, don’t buy it ( unless you want bland gunk).

[@notmyname327]

I didn't know there were so many varieties! Where I'm from we only get regular peaches in the markets, but my grandmother has a tree with one of these flatter peaches, we always called them "Japanese peaches". They are delicious.

[@DollWhisperer_ASMR_Studio]

a little while back I saw that Walmart had a container of mini doughnut peaches. There were a bunch in there but they were mini baby ones

[@lisaheisey6168]

I love peaches, in general. But the donut peaches, that I bought, really were even better.

[@mitchellsharp1456]

I recently found these at my local organic food store. I loved them.

[@peepslostsheep]

I assumed the name Peach Pie was because it was good for pie lol.

[@tcss0612]

the flat gene is link with sweetness gene in peach. peach has a lot of gene controlling sweetness( not sure how many) some of them are link with flat gene. that is probably why

[@TheWeirdestOfBugs]

And here I thought you'd make a pie out of 'em, but the review was pretty interesting as usual. Have a great weekend, Jared.

[@WeirdExplorer]

Thanks, you too!

[@dsy457]

A peach pie donut peach pie

[@JonHop1]

That crunch on that nectarine almost sounded like u bit into a chip lol

[@lucasteo51]

Fun fact: my friends uncle was one of the first to develop the peach pie back in the 90

[@landonconway79]

These are actually really good. We grew these at our house in CA which is where a lot of things grow great (here in the central valley). Even here in town, you can really taste the difference between homegrown and store bought fruit by a milestone, and that is NOT an over exaggeration.

[@toddburgess5056]

I always put peaches, pears, nectarines, in a paper bag and let them sit on the counter for around 3 days before i eat them. I can't eat crunchy unripe fruit like that.

[@terryenglish7132]

I bought a hard Peach from the guy who's orchard it was, at the local farmers market. He assured me it would get ripe. All it got was rotten. Next Tuesday I'm going in to give him a piece of my mind, if they're there this year.

[@diannaodman2847]

picking more peaches today to dry. i make a mean peach pie, its a peach rhubarb with a ginger crumb crust topping ( all my peaches are ripe and juicy) in Oregon the best for us is called Frost it is more disease resistant no leaf curl on my plants i do not need to spray.

[@roxiegs348]

Just found out this farm is about three hours from where I live. Also saw on their website that the yellow donut peaches are only available two months out of the year and I just missed it. Anyways now that I know this farm is there I am going to reach out to them and see if I can get a tour of the facility and buy a ton of their peaches. Thanks for this video.

[@justjaguar2314]

My favorite is the white donut peach! The first time I had it, I did not have high hopes for it, in terms of taste, but it surprised me! And I looooove the texture

[@hannakinn]

Ever since you pointed out that the name of your channel is Weird Explorer and said that's what it's always been I actually felt weird every time I got a notification. I still watched all your videos and enjoyed them but I also had this really uncomfortable nagging feeling. I wondered how my brain could've been so wrong, because I truly believed your channel nome had been Weird Fruit Explorer. I KNEW that I'd seen that name, in print, for this channel. I usually have a very good memory. My mind doesn't usually make up false memories. So the other night I couldn't sleep so II went back and was watching videos that you'd posted years ago and I discovered that while your channel name is now Weird Explorer if you look at the title of much older videos Weird Fruit Explprer is in the title of the video's you posted. For example look at Top 10 Most Delicious Fruits - Weird Fruit Explorer It's ep 102 posted on August 30, 2015. Aha, the words Weird Fruit Explorer are there!!! See? Those of us that remembered your channel name as Weird Fruit Explorer weren't crazy or experiencing the Mandella effect after all. It could be that we were remembering Weird FRUIT Explorer from the video title descriptions or your channel name may have been changed and you were just messing with us telling us it never had. At any rate, whichever is the case, I'm just glad to know my universe hasn't glitched, I haven't shifted dimensions, my memory didn't totally fail me. The foreboding I'd experience each time I received a notification from Weird Explorer is gone and I can once again enjoy your awesome content with zero trepidation. Yippee!!!

[@tavish45]

You have the best channel on KZbin. Keep doing these fruit reviews. I wish I could find some of the stuff you review.

[@kingdracobonechiller]

My favourite fruit that I have tried so far is a papple. A papple is a hybrid between a pear and an Asian pear. They have the sweetness of a packham pear with the crunch and crispness of an apple. If you haven't tried one yet I would strongly recommend you do, they are delicious

[@terryenglish7132]

For real ? You don't mean Asian Pears ?; which pretty much qualify in taste and appearance. I want Cherries the size of Apples, or at least Plumes.

[@rdizzy1]

Most of what is called a pear apple or apple pear is not actually a hybrid , it is Pyrus Pyrifolia (a pear species)

[@erikjohnson9223]

That is just a pear, not a hybrid. Specifically an Asian pear, probably Pyrus pyrifolia. They lack the aroma of European/soft pears. A few (Hosui?, Yakumo?) have their own aromas, but most are just great substitutes for water chestnuts: snappy/crunchy and sweet, but lacking flavor. Maybe they should be poached, so that they could at least get flavor from the syrup. Or just use them as a crunchy vegetable in a savory stir fry. As desert fruit, they are quite bad IMHO.

[@markiangooley]

Hybrid between a hybrid European pear and a hybrid Asian pear, I think. No apple ancestry but looks somewhat more like an apple than a pear.

[@erikjohnson9223]

@@markiangooley That might be worthwhile. "Oriental pears" grown in the Southern USA used Asian ancestors to try to get firelight resistance into European pears. Their fruit is usually pretty terrible except for canning/cooking (we called them "potato trees"), though some newer varieties have likely improved. The Xinjiang pear is a cross between pyrifolia, European pears, and a little bit of a Xinjiang native (Pyrus armeniacifolia?) and is supposed to be remarkably good though not widely available (unless in western China maybe; its Mandarin name translates and "fragrant pear" [xiang li?, sorry don't speak that language]; Uyghur probably call it by "pear" (/armut/?) plus the name of the oasis whence it came, but speaking a "splittist" language like Uyghur will probably send you to a concentration camp these days).

[@Naftoreiclag]

the intro had me on the edge of my seat. what was going to happen when you unite all three!? well turns out now you have three fruits

[@bestaqua23]

They use to have a mini ( one is about the size of a large coin ) version of this but you don't seen them anymore . Happy to see the version is still hear

[@roxiegs348]

These are my favorite peaches!! crispy, juicy and sweet. Mmmmm, I want them all.

[@woolpuppy]

During mid August, my favorite varieties are the Suncrest and the Veteran peaches. We have a pick your own orchard in Oregon called Detering. It's a 30 minute drive from the Eugene Airport. Suncrests have more tannins than Veterans, Veterans are very delicate in texture and flavor.

[@empressassassin9975]

Interesting that you can get white donut peaches at a grocery store where you're at- I've never seen even a round white peach in stores where I'm at! Guess that's how it goes with regional produce though, grocery stores around where I grew up would often have prickly pears/other cactus fruit which is definitely not something you'd see elsewhere!

[@empressassassin9975]

Actually, come to think of it I think this video is the first time I've ever even *heard* of a donut peach, let alone seen one!

[@lemagreengreen]

I've been buying flat peaches for a while now, they never seem to tell me what the variety is though. Some are insanely sweet, really delicious.

[@cmeow]

I found your channel through the cloudberry video a year ago I think, I ended up getting cloudberry jam through a finish friend and loved it. ive been watching all your vids since and idk just wanted to let you know I appreciate and look forward to your uploads :)

[@maggot1111666]

ive noticed peaches vary year by year. this year they are sooooo good. i will try these. nice review!

[@Krossfyre]

Here's a fun fact about donut peaches. They've been around for a long time. Journey to the West, one of the four Chinese great literary classics, written in 1592, references them. When Sun Wu Kong (who Goku from Dragonball is based on) causes havoc in heaven, he steals all the peaches of immortality and eats them and those peaches are actually donut peaches.

[@sushilover40]

I work in a grocery store down south. In the look up section of my computer/register, the name of the flat peaches is "Saturn" peaches.

[@MidnightMoonday]

what adorable little fruits!

[@OkieDokieSmokie]

donut peaches/nectarines are amazing. ive had some that tasted just like a fruit cocktail bowl.

[@FaceEatingOwl]

Nectarines are my favourite fruit.

[@robbobthecorncobjriii8195]

Mmm that crunch lol. Didn't think I was into ASMR but damn

[@connieembury1]

Good video! I would love see more of the fruit we find here in our stores. Your videos of your travel with what you find in exotic places are fantastic but it's great to have you review more special local produce.

[@WeirdExplorer]

Yeah! I plan on doing more like this. :)

[@spicynoodles5214]

those peaches are so cute!! the fruit doughnut!

[@666aron]

I love flat peaches, probably I love them most out of peaches. So much so that I grew a flat peach tree so that me and every wasp in the neighborhood can taste them.

[@kyrab7914]

I am v glad you answered "but does it taste like peach pie?" Peaches are one of my fave fruits, but I've never had one of these squashed ones. Now I'll have to try them if I can find them!

[@niellahell]

been seein these at work, wasn’t sure what they were!

[@yummyapplestroodle]

I love these ones compared to normal ones, way more sweet

[@maxiaguirre]

I used to eat those in Buenos Aires when I was a kid. They're called "japanese peaches" over here. But I didn't see one of those in almost 2 decades.

[@mannagrynet]

These are my favourite peaches, the ones I get here in Sweden are so incredibly sweet, never had a bad one. We call them paraguayos.

[@__w__o__w__]

wow the colour of that peach pie donut peach is intense

[@Alex-kt7em]

family tree has a green on the outside red on the inside plumcot that I really enjoy

[@aoe9015]

I've had these often, didn't know it was uncommon

[@romo3473]

Our white donut peaches were never sour, even when they were sort of unripe and crunchy :) Thank you for highlighting this wonderful fruit.

[@seebastian5834]

I find the greatest advantage is in handling them - much easier to take a clean bite out of, no need to put on swimming shorts before eating them because you'll slather yourself with peach juice.

[@Goethite_A]

I think that if a peach is crisp it is not ripe. They will ripen but not really increase in flavour. You want peaches to be soft, luscious and messy for the best peaches experience. One of the main flavour determinants, apart from variety, is growing conditions. Commercial growers want to maximise appearance, achieve a uniform ideal size and get the best possible yield. This means they need to irrigate their trees to get optimal yield. As a grower of peaches at home I have found that the best flavour is achieved by reducing watering when the peaches are ripening. This concentrates flavours and sweetness.

[@JTMusicbox]

Shaped like a donut and as sweet as pie. So many fruits falsely advertise tasting like a dessert and this name leans that way but a great review. These were fun to learn about. I’d definitely try them now.

[@KenJohnsonUSA]

I just saw a guy post monstera fruit at 3 for $75. For an ornamental plant grown all over the US, it is probably the most common "rare" and "exotic" fruit one could eat. It amazes me how much people charge for fruit these days. Sadly, most are not up to the hype. If we get doughnut peaches in my area, I'll have to give them a try.

[@ericlivingston8027]

I think I tried my first donut peach a little over a year ago. I was deciding on peaches to grow and those were the best I have had. The white donut peach seem to be more common in both the grocery store and the trees. I can pretty easily find somewhere willing to ship a white donut peach tree. Very few places that have yellow donut peaches ship to me. I ended up buying 4 gold donut peaches from Stark Bros but all the trees were eaten by animals. I don't recall being able to buy yellow peaches many other places that will ship to CO.

[@AM22Salabok]

Wow I had these all the time

[@FilmyWPigulce]

Doughnut peaches biggest advantage is that their stackable.

[@1101agaoj]

MUST TRY fruit added to the list!

[@whatthefunction9140]

A really ripe one of these is pure heaven

[@joshk5686]

These are honestly the best kind of peaches I've had. The texture is just so nice compared to a regular peach.

[@yeezet4592]

Idk. I like the more juicy and acidic ones. Growing some sort of donut peach though, pretty ok

[@PO-po5de]

That nectarine should be super complex and super yummy, if picked at the right time and ripe...

[@JO-iv7tl]

I've had the regular doughnut peach. They grow in my area. Can get them from vegetable stands. Interesting I've actually had something from your channel.

[@isaiahwall3689]

I grow a peach variety called “ majestic peach” very got peach, they are huge! A lot of people can do eat it as a meal. Keep an eye out for it, you won’t find it in a supermarket.

[@parsley_plants]

So I was reading about weird Namibian plants, as one does, and I read about this odd melon and thought of your videos - I don't know if anyone is growing this stateside or if you're planning on traveling to Namibia in the future, but if you ever get the chance to check out Acanthosicyos horridus it sounds super interesting - what a plant!!! Cheers. -K

[@StuffandThings_]

I love donut peaches when you get lucky and actually find ripe ones available (they always seem to be underripe for some reason). So much easier to eat, and that mild sweet flavour of white peaches is to die for. I'm considering grafting some peach onto a big 'ol plum rootstock that popped up, but unfortunately peaches in the PNW are a nightmare and only a handful of cultivars stand a chance. A local nursery seems to have a decent variety of donut peach, so perhaps one day I'll be growing some. I would totally try that peach pie one and the nectarine too if I could, but generally by default its best to assume that they're not going to work here...

[@ashleyj0]

That's cool i've never seen donut peaches before

[@atomicskull6405]

The donut peaches I have tried were cling peaches rather than a freestone peaches. Cling peaches are firmer than cling peaches even when ripe which is why they are used for canning.

[@Aullios1]

I wish you'd cut peaches when you review them. It's nice to know if a particular variety is freestone or not.

[@jarpasmannen]

In sweden the white donuts peaches are sold as Paraguayos. If it's the same fruit (Prunus persica platycarpa).

[@toddburgess5056]

Interesting indeed!

[@zard5930]

Plattpfirsiche! I love them! They are not really rare in Germany. Well, at least the first two.

[@terryenglish7132]

The same gene must produce the flavor and the fuzz. Nectarines are never even in the same league as Peaches in flavor; neither in complexity, nor intensity.

[@riverAmazonNZ]

My aunt has a nectarine tree growing in her chicken run, and the ripe fruit are the best fruit I’ve ever had. Strong flavour! Amazing and complex like wine. I’ve never had another nectarine to compare. Maybe the secret ingredient is chicken poop!

[@JustACitrus]

wow, peach video while I'm eating peaches!

[@joshuajackson6442]

Nom nom, thank you

[@cameronclare5084]

Easy to get in the UK. Used to eat them a lot at uni.

[@SarcasticShrubbery]

I love those flat peaches, but mostly because they tend to be white and I prefer the white ones over the yellow ones. The same with nectarines - I even like the white ones when they're a bit underripe. Funny that they're called "donut" in the US - where I live (NL) they're called "wild" peaches for some reason, they're obviously not wild but cultivated... still delicious!

[@newbornlog2789]

You said the name it was fantastic

[@cactusmann5542]

Tried this in malta a couple of days ago. Pretty good. White flesh variety taste

[@Maaaaaaaaaaaaaaartin]

In Sweden they are called Paraguayos for some reason. Never had a good one, but after hearing all the raving about them in the comments I may try to find some good ripe ones.

[@newbornlog2789]

I literally had a plum apricot cross and it was pretty good

[@TomsBackyardWorkshop]

You obviously haven't had a tree ripened peach or nectarine. They are juiciest sweetest fruits you could imagine. There is no comparison to a shelf ripened fruit.

[@mukhtaralbahlani5273]

So I tried a peach or a nectarine from a town in Turkey called termal in yalova and to be completely honest I've never had peaches or nectarines that juicy or tasty in my life! They were large and they were the round verity so if you ever go to Turkey for a visit you should try their peaches

[@DanteEhome]

These are very tasty. I ate alot back in China. Always wonders where they came from.

[@hollandnovak9753]

Yeah I coincidentally just had eaten those a few days ago

[@IAmBuddythedecibwave]

They stopped selling these at my grocer. I miss these.

[@DagothChad]

litterally the easiest tree i ever grew in the orchard. grows very fast is resistant to diseases, it also fruits ridiculously every year. if you have any family that is living somewhere long term or you have a permanent residence i would highly advise planting one.

[@lynth]

You should have tried them at similar levels of ripeness. Of course the other fruits will taste less flavourful if they aren't softened, yet.

[@leppavu]

I think the flat peach vs. normal peach difference is (as you mention) mainly because they are sort of "dwarf" varieties. A bit smaller, but same sugar content "concentrated" in it. Also, as some others mentioned, I think they tend to be picked more ripe, and handled a bit more carefully therefore. But I honestly prefer classic peaches, but they *have to* be ripe. I do think flat nectarines taste better than flat peaches, somehow, and I lat white nectarines are what I see most. Best is bought from a stand at the side of a country road, right beside the orchard. Even more classic, on a hot summer August day (southern Ontario here), and you just gorge on peaches in the shade. Oh man. HOWEVER, as you noted... those peaches were not ripe. A crunchy peach is not ripe, not edible. I am sort of surprised how many people do not realize this. I mean, I've seen loads of people eat unripe peaches and then when I ask about how good it tastes, kinda report ho-hum. Well, no duh! Haven't tried the yellow peaches yet, but will keep my eyes open.

[@figmo397]

I'd heard that the donut varieties of peaches and nectarines were the "original" ones and that the larger ones were cultivated for their size and not for their flavor.

[@espaciocoyote3699]

In Spain we call those paraguayos and they're sooo good

[@sotirispolitis4617]

These are really popular in Greece!

[@goofygoober1427]

I didn't know about these i live in California I'll keep a eye out for this brand

[@Ally-Oop]

I have avoided the donut fruits so hard cause I always assumed they were a gimmick. I’m so glad to have watched this, donut 🍑 I’m coming for you!

[@johnfrank2568]

Nope, just a cultivated mutation! They are quite nice, even if I prefer normal peaches.

[@filipefmelo]

Same here. I like the round ones but love the flat ones. (gigidi)