Strange Citruses: Mandarinquat & Limequat - Weird Fruit Explorer Ep. 252

[@TEXAS2459]

that "sunuvabich" was personal 😂😂 Great vid, more imp very useful!!

[@kunheelee88]

For those of you who want to see Jared making weird sounds and expressions, you have found jackpot.

[@niellahell]

i found the mandarinquats at the store, and ofc u have a vid on them! super sour and tasty, love it

[@Erewhon2024]

There are too many Citrus diseases in FL today, but historically (when they could be kept alive) limequat were used as a (frost) hardier substitute for key limes: pies, marmalades, marinades, limeades, but never fresh--as you now know ;-).

[@lisaheisey6168]

Your reactions to the sourness had me laughing out loud! 😄

[@DeathMetalDerf]

Ever since the Wegamn's by my parent's house started carrying kumquats, I've been obsessed with them. I love the burst of juicy, sour part and the subtle sweetness of the rind. So good!

[@crustybuns9344]

Seeing you pucker was amazing lol. Much love!

[@ironmaiden00x00]

Better than watching babies eat lemons! Great video Jared!

[@Cesc8170]

Hello, I have eaten today a Limequat tavares and it has a nicely aromatic non bitter rind and flesh. After using the juice, I coated the rind with sugar, and it's delicious. It is believed that this limequat is actually a lemon x kumquat hybrid, which makes sense to me because I think it tastes like lemon, unlike my limequat eustis, but with a kumquaty touch to it.

[@arnierc4]

I had a neighbor with a sour orange tree growing up. They were very tiny and unbelievable sour. This video reminded me of them :)

[@deanschmidt1095]

Love your series. We were down in Merida, Yucatan, Mexico in July and the fruit vendors were selling nance. They look like yellow cherries with white flesh, but they taste nothing like cherries. I recommend it.

[@WeirdExplorer]

I was down there last month and tried it. Such a strange taste, almost cheesy.

[@deanschmidt1095]

Yes and kind of a texture like soft wax. What month did you go to Colombia? That market looks like a bonanza.

[@anthonydatri7069]

Mandarinquats have been available in Portland markets for the last month or so. Jared captures their tartness well. I bought a net bag of them and end up composting them because I couldn't get anyone to take them for free. That said, thin slices including the rind can be used in salads or in drinks.

[@theuglykwan]

I normally just eat the skin from quats unless it is the Japanese variety of kumquat with the sweet flesh.

[@ncooper233]

Your reactions are priceless!

[@easygrows2699]

Another awesome video, thank you Jared, love it as always.

[@WeirdExplorer]

thanks!

[@karenrobertsdottir4101]

Lol, I've never seen you swear in a video before. ;) Is the new sourness scale going to be from "1 to limequat"? ;)

[@neiloppa2620]

Karen Pease the scale is from 1 to son of a botch : )

[@WeirdExplorer]

I don't swear much in general, there's a curse here and there in my videos though :)

[@leojosepila3005]

I wonder if there's a "Pomeloquat" =) I love all your videos, I even invited my sister to watch and subscribe to your channel.

[@FNugget]

Neil oppa YES PLEASE, hahaha

[@dividedreality9708]

I say a Warhead candy.

[@5naxalotl]

one of the great contiments imo is indian lime pickle ... hot, salty, sour & fragrant. even if you don't eat it, just sitting on the side of a curry it exerts a presence that gives everything a lift. this might be the best use of a limequat. question: if you soak a citrus in water long enough, does the citric acid eventually leach out?

[@AaronSpielman]

I'd probably dig the limequat )without the rind), given that limes, kumquats, and white grapefruit are my faves.

[@PenitusVox]

I just ate Mandarinquats and Limequats for the first time the other day and I knew just the KZbin channel to look up. Your reactions were a lot like mine so I was excited to see the Limequat section, ahaha.

[@bigwave2975]

one of my fave vids!

[@GolosinasArgentinas]

I once found limequats in a supermarket, bought some and chew one whole thinking they would be like kumquats. Big mistake :P. They made a nice "limequatade", though.

[@geriannroth449]

Love the reactions

[@anyelinacantos6935]

Omg! That reaction says it all at 4:34

[@lifeee.]

Nerver seen you say "son of a......."😂😂😂

[@organicgrow4440]

I had a limequat from someone in my office that dared me to have it from a tree that had from their home. Was sour but I enjoyed a small bucket of them & they just sat there and enjoyed watching me in disbelief.

[@spearo561]

Meiwa kumquat is the best if you ever get a chance.. I have a plant of my own and it's super awesome!

[@theuglykwan]

I'd be interested to try a cross with a pomelo or those green thai oranges.

[@thepalebluedot4171]

Is it possible to cross an already hybridized variety Mandariquat + Pomelo ?

[@ZaDussault]

​@@thepalebluedot4171 2 years late to the party, but you can only if it's a fertile hybrid I think

[@DanSanChannel]

I watched HUNDREDS of this dude videos and this is the only fruit that made him say "SOB" after tasting it.... lmao

[@raregrowsNJ]

Mandarinquats are the bomb

[@Chris-z6f6k]

I think these are limequat Lakeland. Never had one, but from your description it seem the worst of the 3 limequat varieties I told you in the other video(eustis,tavares and lakeland). See if you can find an Eustis, you'll love it, it doesn't have any soapy taste and the peel taste good. That was also either overripe or the plant wasn't properly fertilized, that's why it was a little dry.

[@Whfox]

Christian Brandoni I had both Eustis and Tavares. Eustis is smaller, rounder, pale yellow, and tastes more like a lime with a sweet peel. Tavares fruits are bigger and look more like a small lemons, I like how they look in the plant. When completely ripe the peel is deep yellow, sweet, but with not too much flavor, and the inside tastes like a mix of kumquat and lemon. I've never seen a Lakeland limequat in person.

[@Chris-z6f6k]

Thanks, I also recently got the Tavares and although it's nice and productive it has very little taste. I was hoping it would improve with age or that I didn't get them at the correct ripeness, but it seem they are like that then. Not very useful imho.

[@cabbage0dusk]

Great reactions haha

[@morafarms]

Honestly watching you first only eat the flesh had me thinking "No no that's not how you do it!" - I grow limequats, love em - They're not as sour as yours in the video though. I can stand eating mine, although of course not as easily as a kumquat. They're excellent for cooking though!

[@Friend2FriendnMA]

"WHOOOOOOOOOOOO"! 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@hibaby9379]

4:21 the face you made killed me!...lol

[@ikyitching]

Cute minital fruits!

[@CutiePie-xi4zo]

Omg I need to try all of these 😍

[@robkeller3431]

I steered away from those two Kumquat hybrids.

[@StephenHutchison]

How do they make these combinations? Are they cross-pollinated, grafted, or what?

[@richardportman8912]

I enjoy your videos. Those limequats look pretty intense. Maybe can use to flavor water? Thanks again.

[@ZE308AC]

I just bought a ton of mandarinquats at the purple 99cent store.

[@SalieMAY1]

That lime one looked. So painful .

[@alicepearce4597]

The Mandarinquat looks delicious but I probably wouldn't touch the limequat. LOL

[@WeirdExplorer]

its a bit much haha

[@alicepearce4597]

I could tell by the expression on your face. :-)

[@pawprint6677]

If you were to play Milo in a Live action Atlantis remake i think it would be perfect. Also, love your videos!

[@alvin9882]

Where did you get them?

[@CutiePie-xi4zo]

Yeah I want to try them all in juices I also love citrus fruits. Lol son of a biscut

[@armondopiercy2647]

have you tried pandanus?

[@jeff6899]

I love my Eustis Limequats...there are different types; not sure which one you had. I can eat them straight.

[@easygrows2699]

My citrus plants are dying, a 4 year old lemon tree, a 4 year old kumquat tree, a 4 year old chinotto, a 2 year old calamondin, a 2 year old lemon tree raised by seed, a grafted 1 year old lemon and a grafted 1 year old orange tree, all are showing same symptoms, leaf dropping and blackening and dying of stems, i am not overwatering it, if at all underwatering. I live in germany, so i had to take them in for winter.

[@WeirdExplorer]

sorry to hear that!

[@alleng6196]

Could be anthracnose? "Anthracnose of citrus trees is caused by the fungus Colletotrichum gloeosporioides. Symptoms include twig dieback, premature leaf drop and dark staining on fruit. Dying leaves and twigs develop dark fungal spores. Anthracnose infections are more common after a prolonged wet spring." That sound right?

[@ashleydonovan6710]

Hey know you live in New York as do I was wondering where you recommend going for some good weird fruit finds??

[@WeirdExplorer]

there are some good market stalls on mulberry street and canal. also eataly will get some good stuff.

[@ashleydonovan6710]

Weird Explorer eataly??

[@WeirdExplorer]

yeah its in manhattan... 23rd street and 5th ave I think

[@alleng6196]

Yeah, just walk around canal street area, tons of things including rambutan, durian, pepino melons...! I tried jack fruit for first time there! Can't remember were, but also nearby there is a ice cream shop that sells purple 'ube yam' ice cream, highly recommended!

[@reilea9977]

Loooove your weird fruit videos! I was wondering what do you do for protein? meat, beans, nuts, lentils, peanut butter, eggs? Thanks 💙

[@alleng6196]

he vegetarian....

[@freakfreak786]

5:50 lmaooo

[@raggedyanarchist]

You've gotten a lot tougher about extremely sour fruits than you were in your early videos.

[@wanderlustspirit4607]

I wish you could eat it whole like regular kumquats

[@wanderlustspirit4607]

Nevermind. Welcome me to the commenting without watching the whole thing club please haha

[@justin2121]

Very funny.

[@myTube-bh9fj]

You are supposed to eat the rine to cut back on the sour

[@lbochtler]

Have you ever tried Calamondin's?

[@WeirdExplorer]

I have! I think its in the video I have called "strange lime varieties" although I have a future video comparing the ripe and unripe fruit coming soon

[@lbochtler]

interesting, the one you tasted is different from what i have eaten. I got mine from my Calamondin tree. They where from what i can tell fully ripe, if not slightly over ripe. The did have a similar flavor to what you described, but i did not notice the peppery taste you mentioned. Ill just have to try some green ones next year.

[@Promatim]

Is there a difference between a mandarinquat and a calamondin?

[@cerverg]

Next: Pomeloquat

[@frankmacleod2565]

sweet

[@rageshreemairembam989]

Son of a............ 😀😀😀😀😆😆😆😆😆

[@diskord42]

Just eat the seeds :)

[@cezarcatalin1406]

Go try a pommelquat

[@Goxut]

Have you try " Delima Fruit "? from Indonesia

[@vazev]

I've tasted limequats that were quite tasty, but I think those might have been more towards overripe than yours. Not very sour at all. Or maybe the tagging was off, because it was not as oblong as yours, more round/flat.

[@Chris-z6f6k]

They were probably the same as mine, Limequat Eustis. They are the most round of the limequat, check the pictures on google, they are almost a ball.

[@stevebrown2403]

Ha! You cursed!

[@c.r.m476]

Not is mandarinquat, is Calamondín

[@limkengthean8705]

ha ha ha..

[@SqueezySqueez]

Oh.... son of a bitch 🤣

[@lovinghobby9072]

You need to eat with skin.

[@matthewgraves6710]

1st!