Orange Surinam Cherry : Trying a new variety of this interesting fruit - Weird Fruit Explorer

[@dondobbs9302]

Thanks! This solves a mystery; my wife bought a "Cherry tree" sapling from a local market (Chiang Mai, Thailand) and when it fruited, we had these. I said "those are not cherries but, they're pretty good!" I made a batch of jam with the last harvest.

[@CobraRaptor]

Thank you, Jared, for taking us on a journey throughout the world's exotic fruits

[@Vpusta]

10/10 would recommend to anyone

[@e.k.3820]

Being from Surinam (country in the north east of South America and north of Brasil) i only after my 30s began to appreciate the flavor of this Cherry wich we call 'monki monki kersi / kers' (Surinamese/Dutch). Being said it has a lot of medicinal uses. More common is the West indian cherry (Acerola (Barbados Cherry)). For us just called 'kersi' (cherry) which is used for juices, eaten as is or even pickeled. Thanks for all your testing and being clear about background uses and flavors etc..

[@WeirdExplorer]

Thanks for the inside info from Surinam!

[@robsonwilianwinchester9726]

@@WeirdExplorer Jared try Florida stoppers plants ☘️ from Eugenia genre!!!!!!

[@robsonwilianwinchester9726]

​@@WeirdExplorerit will be a great idea to visit Miguel property to try his fruit's!

[@robsonwilianwinchester9726]

​@@WeirdExplorerEugenia auxiliaris White Stopper in Florida!

[@Sloxeos]

Pitanga is my favorite fruit! There are a lot of trees of it around my neighborhood, so I eat them a lot in spring. Pitanga (the word) comes from tupi and means "reddish"! Great video!

[@notmyworld44]

I was born in Tampa Florida, but moved to Houston when I was 5. The Surinam cherries are one of my early childhood's best memories. They are delightfully aromatic! I have not tasted one in well over 70 years now.

[@edgarburlyman738]

Yeah those Muscovy ducks sure are a lot more "friendly" than regular ducks.

[@emilynelson5985]

They’re also a new world import!

[@SKDemon0]

The "wild" ones near me (South FL) stare at me through my patio door until I feed them, they let you pet them while they're eating (not sure if they don't care or just don't notice lol)

[@suzubee9602]

I used to have ducks like that and regular ducks There was definitely a difference in their behavior All ducks are kinda evil imo but at least the muscovy ducks were cute because theyd fly wide circles around my house before going to sleep

[@toddburgess5056]

Which is strange, because they're usually quite aggressive

[@avibhagan]

they taste a lot better than regular ducks , too . YUM.

[@loganlogon3720]

Thanks Jared and Miguel, love these collaborative episodes!😄

[@WeirdExplorer]

Glad you like them!

[@anne-droid7739]

Lovely to meet Miguel. And the ducks, lol. Thank you!

[@WeirdExplorer]

Our pleasure!

[@mardu2416]

Finally after over 30+ years I learned the name. We had one of these cherry bushes around the side and back yard of my childhood house. The red and dark red ones were the most ripe and edible. The green, yellow, and orange were best for cherry fights.

[@thomasmunzenhofer8111]

I had the surinam cherries growing in my backyard in aruba they're sour but in a bitter way, and I loved them for when I had a sore throat

[@ronborras637]

I grew hedges of the orange ones south of Miami, Mom had a nasty cough, made a tea with cloves honey, bags of Chamomile tea, mint leaves, cured her overnite.

[@WeirdExplorer]

interesting to see a few comments mentioning its good for coughs and sore throats

[@kelvinfranklin3764]

i’m in miami right now and at our airbnb they have them as hedges to😂 that the only reason i’m here because i just tried them.

[@mardu2416]

We had them too in Miami. When I was a kid we used to eat them and play cherry fights. We didn't make tea out of them, we did make cerasee tea. This was from the mid 80s to mid 90s.

[@mardu2416]

​@@kelvinfranklin3764I haven't seen them here in Miami in a while. Do you remember which area you were in? We also use to have Chinese plums (loquat).

[@hospitalgal101]

This channel is criminally underviewd

[@4801534501]

This was the first weird fruit I ever tried beyond what I could find in a Florida grocery store! I was at Leu Gardens in Orlando and they have these growing there.

[@marcelobgr1949]

I have a pitanga tree in my backyard, and it is one of my favorites fruits. There are several varieties, with diferent fruit colours and sizes, as you said, but they taste very similar. I don't taste the gasoline on it, but I believe if you take the sepals out before eating, it will probably lose some of the bitter aftertaste.

[@arianelcole]

it's rue taste

[@hopegold883]

They look like what we call poha berries in Hawaii

[@liabobia]

Omg Muscovy ducks! They are so beautiful and they make the most adorable noises, plus they have clawed feet!

[@darriendastar3941]

That was just the definition of charm from beginning to end 😀

[@jeff6899]

Fantastic video ! Miguel is fantastic ! It is readily apparent that he loves his fruit passion

[@janeysiegrist5061]

I love your duck entourage they quack me up 🦆

[@Losttoanyreason]

I think I had some of the orange surinam cherries as a teen and this video may have answered a question I have had for 52+ years😉. What me and my buddies ate looked just like what you munched. I always wondered what they were. A family not far down the street in Tampa Florida had some bushes growing at the front of their yard near the sidewalk and told us they were safe to eat and we could try them but didn't know what exactly they were. I and my friends tried several. They were Ok, I didn't dislike them but they didn't make me want to have any more as they weren't sweet enough for me. I thought they reminded me a bit of tomato minus the acid mixed with a very weak cherry taste. I remember wishing that tasted just like cherries becuase regular cherries don't grow in Florida😢.

[@protoguy]

I grew up in Miami and there were bushes all over our neighborhood. We called them Florida Cherries.

[@davidarundel6187]

Regular Cherry's , require a hard winter to set buds-fruit for the coming season . Wild bird down ones can be consumed , though are quite small and bitter .

[@phranerphamily]

Ducks will basically eat anything 😂 Big thanks to Miguel for coming and meeting with you that was really awesome!

[@THEGROWITS]

woooooo. you have a celebrity on the channel!!!!!!Miguel!!!!!!!Nice video again!

[@tattooyu]

I was perusing a farmer's market here in Los Angeles with my friend, and lo and behold, there were Surinam cherries! Immediately thought of you and had to try it. Completely unexpected flavor. My brain didn't know what to make of it at first; it was both familiar and wholly new. I really liked it. The flavor was fruity sweet and a bit umami like a tomato.

[@pattheplanter]

I am interested to see the madroño (medronho?). In my experience they only become edible at all, let alone tasty, after a mild frost, when in Spain. They then become incredibly moreish and unlike any other fruit I have had. The old Roman Pliny said it was called _unedo_ because nobody would want to eat more than one. I suppose they didn't get enough frost there.

[@WeirdExplorer]

It's going to be a big episode. Going to Portugal really opened my eyes about arbutus

[@Palaeogeobicho]

medronho dont really need frost to be god to eat, we just need to allow it to ripe until is soft to the touch (and be quicker than the birds). if they are to much over ripe then they will start to ferment and we can taste the alcohol, which is not bad. A fiery distillate is made with medronho. The size and sweetness varies very much from tree to tree. I love it, is a great snack while walking in the woods.

[@davehendricks4824]

I went to the domes in Milwaukee. In the one that was tropical, they had a few Surinam cherry trees. The fruit was ripe and a few had fallen to the ground. I ate them and thought they were great!

[@pheebs887]

Beautiful Muscovy ducks!

[@tinyjungle_]

My orange Surinam Cherry is very sweet with an orange citrusy effervescent pop. The best Surinam Cherry I've tasted to date.

[@user-lk5ud7ux7l]

I put forward the motion to get Marco, Don Carlos, Jared, and Miguel all in one spot for a "our top 10 favorite *and* least favorite fruit" episode. Or just a discussion about fruit, I'd watch that too lol

[@MelodyL]

Also Steven!

[@figmo397]

I had orange Surinam cherries when I was on the big island of Hawaii. They were growing wild on a Taro farm. We were on horseback and had easy access to the fruit. My reaction was similar to yours in that they were cherry-ish, but I didn't get a bell pepper taste or a "gasoline taste" from them. They were a little less sweet than apples, but they were still quite tasty. The "fun" part of that trip was sneaking the fresh fruit I'd obtained on the big island in my luggage to the US mainland (yes, I succeeded!!!). I was able to share them with my manager, who was amazed that I was able to get out with the fruits intact.

[@arcofspira]

Thanks for another awesome video! I love fruit and watching you try new and exotic fruit and learning from you.

[@TheNimo98]

In Florida, They grow in regular house bushes. Every other house has a bush with these fruits. The taste brings me back to being a kid and you and your friends dare eachother to steal and these fruits from bushes while walking home from grade school 😅😂 I miss those days.

[@vanessapaakkonen6637]

Great video! Making connections wherever you go and giving me an education on fruits beyond my grasp!! Thank you , very interesting.

[@MrCotchios]

Videos like these are my favorite, I like it when other people who know a lot about the specific fruit are in.

[@cptnmus8996]

I live in Brisbane, Australia and have three trees of the first kind you tried, at least from the description of the fruits taste and it's appearance. They call it Brazilian Cherry here and consider it a weed, delicious fruit but are prone to fruit flies. Possibly what we have here is just a variation but the fruit seen pretty much exactly the same

[@sharifcargill3053]

I live in The Bahamas and have one of these trees in my backyard. You either love or hate the taste. No in between. Keep up the exploration my guy

[@ProgressiveGarments]

I have two varieties or pitanga, one that has the astringent taste, and one that is completely sweet and not astringent at all and they both look identical. Lawrence Perth, Western Australia

[@robpelick7460]

I'm growing several varieties of these in my yard right now as I know that's probably the only way I'll be able to taste them. The oldest plant is only two years old and hasn't fruited yet. Keeping my fingers crossed.

[@LeRainbow]

Great video, Portugal looks beautiful.

[@ikreate4u]

I have owned a surinam cherry plant for over 7 years and it has never fruited. It was gifted to me when I purchased my Sweetheart Lychee. I now consider it an ornamental but wish I could finally taste it’s fruit.

[@arianelcole]

I have one plant since 4 years now, never saw a fruit on it. I wonder if they are dioic and I have a male.

[@DankFroot]

@@arianelcole not dioecious.

[@DankFroot]

Give it more light if possible, and prior to the flowering season, feed it with phosphorus and potassium (avoid nitrogen).

[@chang1865]

I have this cherry tree in my yard. Fruits nearly all year, birds love them.

[@broshmosh]

These look delicious! I'll keep an eye out if I ever travel in Portugal. :P

[@toddburgess5056]

Let's get a round of applause for the ducks! Those little rascals really stole the show! 🦆🦆🦆

[@radionoakmont7756]

awwwwwwwwwws what adoraable musskovie ducks i used to have several of them lovable but sometimes mean but boy they love fruit and lettuce the most especiaally lettuce they become happy campers, they definetely wag their tails when very happy hehe brings back many memories for me and a new fruit id love to try and grow one day this is amazing thank you m8.

[@TheIslandHomestead]

I'm growing those here in Hawaii! You always go to other countries all over the world to try fruits that are here in our backyard! In my opinion the black surinam is the best tasting.

[@protoguy]

Not sure if you'd mentioned it previously, but these fruits are all over South Florida, particularly Miami. The bush was used as hedges in our neighborhood when I was growing up in the 70s. We ate them but we also got in trouble for throwing them at cars. We called the Florida Cherries.

[@NicoleBermz]

Your still in Miami? I am and I bet it’s completely different from when you were growing up! I just ate a few cherries

[@jeffery8928]

My kids love them! I will have to get some calycina to grow out in our yard

[@heyy13]

Oh! These are the style of brazillian cherry we get where i live in Australia. People commonly have them in their garden.

[@martemis]

In trinidad se have something very similar we call ceries (cee-reez). We make delicious jam with them.

[@bigmikeg84]

I had bright reddish one's like this growing in my backyard. New hire landscaper cut the bush down too much and they haven't fruited since.

[@pedroff_1]

I find a ton of them around my university campus, I even keep a mental map of their trees, and I always see the local birds getting them to eat. I always mistake pitangas with acerolas, though

[@THEGAME-ko3mg]

Always a good day when you upload

[@WeirdExplorer]

Glad to hear it

[@Sherirose1]

We have them in Guyana as well and always wonder why we call it Suriname cherry. 😂 Guyana has cherries with 3 seeds, Suriname cherry need to be ripe before eating, has a few little sepals at the bottom of the fruit. I love fruits. You should try kukrit, awara, and peach (Guyana has a velvet outside and like custard inside- the ex major of New Master dam has a tree in his yard Alphonso)

[@sdfkjgh]

5:37 Out of contex, that sounds like a line from a horror story: *"I've eaten your children!"*

[@BillCoz]

Duck at the end was like "WTF guys I didn't get any!"

[@dianapulido1807]

We have the red ones in our back yard. You find them all over Miami most people don't know that they are edible. The plants are used as an ornamental hedge. Some people call them Haitian Cherries.

[@NicoleBermz]

Ornamental hedge? I have some here in my neighborhood, cutler bay, and I juiced them with my Nama juicer. Very tasty with limes and cucumbers. I researched online their full of vitamins and so forth. You still eat them?

[@brajmanohar9213]

Thank you so much for this channel Jared ! I am exotic fruit lover from South India and currently buy one acre of land for organic fruit orchard. So I seeing your channel and diciding , which species i will plant in my garden. Some things i even never taste before in my life. Now have some doubt about champedak. Shold i plant one champedak tree or no.

[@igorsousa7415]

i had one in my house here in brazil

[@natureza6589]

Tem aqui na cidade, mas nunca comi :( é boa?

[@igorsousa7415]

@@natureza6589 cara eu lembro q eram bem azedas pro meu gosto, mas eu era pivete, chato de fazer algo com ela e o tamanho tô caroço mas se tiver coragem tenta

[@arianelcole]

It's rue! the aftertaste of pitanga is like rue, I don't know that cerrado cherry but looks very similar to a cerejeira and it's a nutty fllavour.

[@alexisamico2921]

I had a few surinam cherries before in Hawai'i, and the ones I had tasted exactly like scuppernong grapes (a type of muscadine) :)

[@paazbra]

I love pitanga!

[@__-bz7wh]

Boy do I love fruit

[@barrett5195]

Miguel seems cool and mysterious.

[@paulwright8378]

Whilst you're in Portugal years ago I bought some seed to grow in the UK and the fruit is like a honey due melon but you hold it in your hand and eat it like an apple,the skin is thin the seeds a small and you eat it all it's nice and soft and extremely sweet,see if you can find some whilst you're their 🍉

[@pattheplanter]

Pepino? Yellow with purple stripes?

[@paulwright8378]

@@pattheplanter no it's not pepino it's like a tiny melon and extremely sweet,I bought the the seed from Portugal so it something that grows their

[@paulwright8378]

@@pattheplanter Kajari melon,I did a quick search

[@TheWeirdestOfBugs]

The Cerrado cherry looks fairly interesting :o.

[@vladimirputindreadlockrast812]

I would gorge on these between May and July in south Florida. A very common hedge, so sweet, so nutritious. Why not set your sites on the sea grape, if you haven't already.

[@liamthompson9342]

Is that related to burdekin plum? It looks very similar.

[@jessemays9427]

It was nice to see Norm MacDonald doing a cameo as his character from 'Mike Tyson Mysteries'.

[@zsandmann]

Mid-May?! My goodness you must have so many fruit videos in the vault.

[@WeirdExplorer]

I have enough filmed to last me until 2024... and I'm traveling again in a few weeks. 😅

[@cathyburrows8162]

It is more cherry and pine taste to me , I have found these in Bermuda where they used for hedges

[@edgarburlyman738]

I wanna be a globetrotting epicurean with connections in every country for any strange new thing I've an urge to try!

[@ronayetanner8769]

Hello I live in Canada. And I’m wondering if you have ever tried a CHUM (Cherry plum) or Haskap (Honey Berry)? I grow BOTH! 😊 I also grow a fruit that is a gooseberry mixed with currant. I forgot the name, however this plant hasn’t produced any fruit as of yet, hoping this year it will!

[@bear5016]

Interesting flavor description. I have them growing in my yard. (Not the orange variety youre reviewing). Very heavy floral flavor, tastes nothing like cherries. The darker they are, the sweeter. If theyre red or lighter, theyll be more tart.

[@zer0nix]

What is the sweetness and acidity level of the cerrado cherry?

[@THEGROWITS]

Miguel with his TFH shirt on!!

[@DTolen]

That's native here in Paraguay, they have a unique taste, but I wouldn't say it is gasoline. To me they have a celery taste, among with it's cherry, and tropical flavors. The celery is a bit hard to recognize, but it is very clear to me, and it's the reason some people like pitangas and some people doesn't. There is another fruit called Koku, that also have a celery taste, but it is very small, so it isn't quite popular as fruit

[@arianelcole]

I live in Uruguay, they also grow here, it's more rue (ruda) to me than celery but they are similar tastes.

[@DeKKH]

I just ate my first one off our plants. It was not sweet or tart but rather plain. But it kinda like a cayenne taste but not texture.

[@JTMusicbox]

Very cool! Do you know how closely related they are to the Pitangatuba (star cherry) which you reviewed previously?

[@WeirdExplorer]

Same genus!

[@fabimre]

In Surinam the call that red fruit (as I mentioned earlier): "Caribbean Cherry".

[@crazeddino6421]

Im pretty sure they y grew these in my elementary school in florida??

[@kalinaszek]

I want to go to Portugal for fruit vacation, any recommendations?

[@davis4555]

I have been growing Suriname Cherry after finding a hedgerow of them on vacation. Unfortunately, we had a very unusually cold cold snap that killed most of my plants; not all, though!

[@Eugenia_Farms]

they are so big compared to the savannah cherry that grows here in central fl.

[@Mr.shorty44]

What is Miguels channel or where can I follow him or find his social

[@shahidurrahmansumon2180]

What's the culivar name of this orange one?

[@joshcarlton9184]

Tastes like bell pepper? Celery? Curry leaf? Gasoline??? This is going on my next barbeque beef.

[@KerriEverlasting]

I need this in my life...

[@TuppyMSM]

We have all the most popular varieties where I live

[@mujkocka]

Wow, I wish I could have a selection of fruits. If I win the lotto, that’s one of my wish

[@valterzc8187]

These pitangas are really delicious, they are everywhere in my city as they are native to this region

[@WeirdExplorer]

So good

[@gadget4208]

Can you do a video on the coffee Berry it's in North America 🌎

[@RobRuckus65]

Miguel seems like a cool dude.

[@morten.hekkvang]

Do any of these fruits grow true to seed? I would imagine they would have to graft from existing trees, no?

[@wyomingtreeplanter]

A good source of plants with exotic fruits such as Eugenias and Garcinias is Sow Exotic. Are you familiar with this site?

[@Sherirose1]

I wonder if Miguel will grow wiri wiri peppers.

[@lyonheart84]

I would describe the aftertaste as resinous rather than petroleum on the only fruits I've tasted which were from my own ( probably seed grown ) plant, a bit disappointing

[@morten.hekkvang]

To anyone worried about ducks eating cherries, it is no worries to feed ducks cherries. As long as it is in moderation, and rarely. As cherries are a bit acidic. But what we see. in this video is completely fine!

[@apex_noob8394]

We got them in Miami by the ton

[@joec8750]

Those damn ducks are all over naples florida

[@raggedyanarchist]

Just an interesting little fact since you're so interested in variety vs subspecies vs species vs genus, etc, (at least where fruit is concerned)... did ya know that domestic ducks are nearly all varieties of Anas platyrhynchos domesticus which is a man-made subspecies of Anas platyrhynchos (mallards)? All, that is, except Muscovys like the ones in your video, and they're not even in the same genus as other domestic ducks!

[@rayikaikin]

i have a hedge with some type of surinam cherry and ive tried it but it tastes terrible. gasoline isnt a good enough descripion lol. the chemical taste was all i tasted theres no redeeming cherry/bell pepper notes lol

[@WeirdExplorer]

these ones need to be super ripe in order to eat them, otherwise they can taste like bitter chemicals

[@SarahLovesFood]

Mmmm. Gasoline. I've been describing the taste of curry leaves as "old car engine" for a while now, so that checks out. (I love curry leaves, btw.)