KWAI MUK - Jackfruit's Delicious (but very fragile) Cousin!

[@WeirdExplorer]

Full videos on other artocarpuses Marang: kzbin.info/www/bejne/nqSYpnSffZykgNU Breadfruit: kzbin.info/www/bejne/fHzWpmyberyXq80 Breadnut (I thought it was unripe jackfruit when I had it): kzbin.info/www/bejne/a3a4gYt5oM6jhsk Jackfruit seeds: kzbin.info/www/bejne/nKfXnnWrid6oZ8U Cempedak: kzbin.info/www/bejne/a5PKf4qjZpWshNU King Cempedak: kzbin.info/www/bejne/q5DZpKiEnqZgitE Jackfruit: kzbin.info/www/bejne/n5-3e3RrbreYg5o

[@YTHUTSL]

Bro visit Sri Lanka you can eat lot of fruits you never saw before❤❤❤

[@akiraotoishi5756]

hey i had a idea in my mind when going over my future plan to grow a variety of different fruit plants you shared! but my idea is cultivating and taste. I definitely will be making a recipe based guild including cultivating when i get to that point. I will be making food and sharing it. I have some ideas in mind that make me super happy.

[@Jablicek]

I want to give some recognition to your hosts who were so generous with their time (and fruit)!

[@thomascoleman594]

I'm so envious of you. This is EXACTLY what I want to do, travel the world and try every fruit.

[@objective_psychology]

You should join him on his adventures

[@jamescanjuggle]

pick a spot and pick a fruit, simple as. Even if its a one day trip to a market or save up for a few months and go for a weekend trip somewhere too. Dreams arent for sleep, build em while ya wake!

[@psychonawht2774]

Do it!! Make videos we'll be waiting! (I know, easier said than done.)

[@Dream_more_age_less]

That Kwai Muk fruit looks so soft, there is no way it can be transported to be sold anywhere. Must be eaten straight off the tree.

[@Sgt.Groove]

The pulp might freeze well. I freeze my jackfruit and blend it, because the downside of freezing (at least with jackfruits and durians) is the texture becomes... weirdly more slippery. I'm not sure how this fruit would freeze, but I imagine it has a similar problem. Possibly mushy? Sorbet time bois.

[@isaacthedestroyerofstuped7676]

Might be good as an ingredient if if it does fall apart!

[@spamletspamley672]

Why not sell the juice, or make it into wine? I would. :)

[@Appophust]

Can it? Puddings? Candy? Syrup? Dehydrated fruit? Pretty sure you got that one wrong.

[@BuenavistaNZ]

​@@Sgt.Groove I buy frozen jackfruit all the time from our local Asian supermarket. I've never tried jackfruit fresh because we don't get it where I live. Frozen jackfruit is amazing tho😊

[@UrbanBounty]

Funny thing is 12 hrs ago I googled "weird explorer kwai muk" and 2 hrs ago this popped up in my recommendations 😂 The video didn't exist when I first googled it I'm growing this and have not tasted it yet, thanks for the review

[@bryansaldana5114]

Same😂

[@dougs_urbanfarm]

You are a soothsayer Paul! Mine tastes like a mandarin, very good.

[@UrbanBounty]

@@dougs_urbanfarm 🤣 Gday mate, yes I remember when you first tasted yours. The package is on the way to you today. Hopefully it arrives before the weekend

[@meisteremm]

I've gotta say, man, your channel might be just about my favorite on KZbin. It has a nice stripped-down quality to it, and I love that I am getting to learn about fruits that I might not have heard of otherwise. Thanks for what you do, and it's a shame that Kwai Muk doesn't seem to be commercially viable for mass harvest.

[@WeirdExplorer]

Glad you enjoy it!

[@darcieclements4880]

Agreed. I've been watching it for many many years and I first found it because I like looking for weird fruits so I did a literal search for weird fruit. I am literally one of the original viewers.

[@fabimre]

Breadfruit can ve very good (unripe) fried like French Fries. When I in 1985 was in Suriname (for work) there was a time when there was no potatoes (normally imported, but that was stopped) so the snackbars used liced (chipped and made into strips) breadfruit and deep-fried then. Excellent replacement!

[@TheLittleAlien]

Yeah Kwai Muk tastes more like Artocarpus lakoocha (aka Monkey Jack) - a fruit growing in NE-Thailand. Usually ripe around March - April. The later in its Isan variety tastes like a giant raspberry - super fruity. The tree is almost extinct in the wild these days because of its excellent timber and use as a source of Oxyresveratrol used in dietary supplements. If you ever come to Thailand again do visit us to check out some fruits you have never seen yet.

[@spookz4469]

I wanted to share my thoughts on the difference between dehydrating and freeze-drying fruit. When fruit is dehydrated, it often tastes like it’s been baked, with the sugars caramelizing and making it a bit tougher to chew-like with apples or bananas. Freeze-dried fruit, however, usually tastes much closer to how the fresh fruit does. Although freeze dryers are expensive, I hope your friends can try one! The downside to freeze-drying is that when the fruit is rehydrated, it can lose some of its original texture. It’s never quite as good as fresh off the tree, but I’d still love to try Kwai Muk however I can. Thank you so much for sharing this!

[@pattheplanter]

Juicing might be best.

[@spookz4469]

@@pattheplanter That makes sense too!

[@PtolemaicTaweret]

afaik it's not the "material around the fruit" which is sold for savory dishes but the insides of young unripe jackfruits including the part eaten as a fruit when jackfruit is ripe.

[@darcieclements4880]

Yeah and you definitely want to make sure you're getting it canned because it's full of latex and needs that high pressure cooking to make it edible😂 you can also eat the other material if you shred it but honestly it's such a pain to process that that I have not seen that done very frequently. It's almost always like what you say the the canned immature fruit. You can tell because it still has the structure like they literally just chop the immature fruit into the shape of cans shove it into the cat and cook it in the can that way😂

[@SirCrisius]

I have always loved your videos on here Jared! Now that i work in a high-end produce department in a health food store, i tell all my customers to check out your channel! Your videos are a wealth of knowledge that has helped me learn my new job and inform everyone I meet and know. Thank you.

[@FishareFriendsNotFood972]

That opening music was very suggestive. I was transported back to Times Square in the 70s 🤣

[@Braddy_Daddy]

This video is so thorough. Love your channel!

[@WeirdExplorer]

Glad you enjoy it!

[@СерафимГанеев]

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[@СерафимГанеев]

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[@СерафимГанеев]

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[@tongthaivuong]

Been waiting this for a long time, it's finally here! I saw a little old lady selling these in Ho Chi Minh, Vietnam and I loved them!

[@rachelmilt2058]

Met a fan at a market today in Boston that recognized my merch shirt! Bought some chicken of the woods from his mushroom stand after a chat about your channel and good places to look for fruit in the area. Super cool to meet other fans out in the wild!

[@StuffandThings_]

There are some _exceedingly_ rare Artocarpus from central China (A. nanchuanensis and A. gongshanensis) which IIRC might even be able to survive in some more subtropical climates. I would love to see a review of these, even if you can't really get a hold of them.

[@sinisterthoughts2896]

such gracious and knowledgeable hosts.

[@geomundi8333]

freeze drying will be the solution to so many fruit reaching more people. it just needs to be solar and wind fueled so its nice and sustainable and affordable in developing areas. i want to freeze dry my paw paw, so i can get them to the city

[@foreseengust]

I once had a fruit similar to that as a kid. It had an apricot fragrance. I have no idea what it was, I thought it might be related to sugar apple, but maybe it was that! Edit: it was Artocarpus lacucha! It's also known as monkey jak or Dewa.

[@Indianny]

New Caledonia is such an intriguing place that you rarely hear about. Would love to visit someday.

[@PhinClio]

Fabulous geckos.

[@Massangler1856]

It was pretty relevant in the national news this year over the protests to French colonial rule

[@Lithilic]

I'd call it a guava jackfruit. That's what the color of the inside reminded me of.

[@KramRemin]

Excellent rundown on Artocarpus, as intro to KWAI MUK. VERY GOOD PEDAGOGGY!

[@hardshengpizi]

Fun fact. One for the few artocarpus plant can grow in 9/b

[@davidedgar2818]

My neighbor in Hawaii makes a kind of stew with breadfruit, taro, and sweet potato. This is mixed with sea salt and coconut milk. He usually bakes it in an imu and it has a nice sweet smokiness flavor as well as excellent nutrition. I'd love to try this one that you are featuring from New Caledonia. I bet it would grow very well on the up slope mountains in Hawaii.

[@TigerAceSullivan]

i adore your channel. i love fruit, and i love people, and your videos showcase both so beautifully and realistically

[@PrettyTranslatorSarahMoon]

dude, how do you organize all your raw footage? so many fruits in so many places over such a long period of time...

[@objective_psychology]

How hard can it be, just name them based on the fruit and then search the fruit name

[@WeirdExplorer]

I have one giant harddrive filled with all the old raw footage. Each folder named after the fruit in question and other folders with b roll and such. Not as organized as I'd like but it works. Then there is the "to do" drive with about 2 years worth of episodes to be. Organized by country and then fruit. And a few backup drives to be safe :)

[@Sgt.Groove]

That thumbnail got me thinking of Gac, but that funky fella ain't no Gac! Funny enough though, frozen Gac is labeled as "Jackfruit", yet shows Gac pictures all over the packaging. Well, I'm excited to see what this thing is like! Time to watch :>

[@jolus6678]

Yikes, Gac is basically flavorless.

[@tomh2068]

Thanks for recognizing your French community ☀️🇫🇷

[@Bearorgan]

I bet these would taste amazing sliced and dehydrated or freeze-dried, they should try selling the fruits like that.

[@natashapowell9445]

Its so pretty! That orangish pink is just lovely and begs to be eaten.

[@jakes2305]

I really loved this format! Please do this for garcinias!!

[@WeirdExplorer]

I'm planning on it :) I've got a few new garcinia reviews in the hopper

[@damonroberts7372]

I'm lucky enough to have a kwai muk seedling growing at the moment! Hope the plant is self-fertile so I will eventually get fruit.

[@fruitaddict]

well Artocarpus species are monoecious with separate male and female flowers on the same tree. However male flowers sometimes do not produce pollen whilst female flowers on the same tree are receptive, especially when they are young and do not produce many flowers. This means that it is always better to plant at least two trees to facilitate cross pollination. We have 4 different kwai muk trees in the collection but that one we picked an tasted the fruits from, is all by itself and other kwai muk are not close at all. So you can still get fruits from one tree only. That kwai muk in the video took about 5 years to start fruiting. Good luck !

[@damonroberts7372]

@@fruitaddict Thank you for the information!

[@ChriaM-uk7wn]

0:14 that’s got to be the closet fruit iv seen the mythical fruit on the show One piece “devil fruit”

[@shwabb1]

I've tried it! Unfortunately it was rather unripe, I made some jam out of it, very interesting flavor. Edit: small correction, kwai muk is Artocarpus parvus. It is often confused with the white kwai muk (Artocarpus hypargyreus), both being rather rare, but they are not the same.

[@Han-bc7ir]

Where I'm from, the jackfruit is worshipped by so many. They even roasted the seeds which tasted like chestnuts. I always ate at my favorite Pho joint but it was so popular, there was always a line outside. My property had one mid sized jackfruit tree but it was big enough to hang about half a dozen jackfruits during its season. It was just one tree so I didn't think of selling the jackfruit. But I found out it had huge bartering power. A mechanic friend would do hundreds of dollars worth of fixing my used car just for one whole jackfruit. Here's the best part. Whenever I'd go to my Pho joint with a box of a whole single giant jackfruit, the restaurant would have me cut the line, move patrons in mid meal to other tables for them to share a table as strangers and give me an entire table to myself just as if I was some royalty that walked in. I'd order only a super sized bowl of pho but they laid out spring rolls, summer rolls and packed my pho with so much meat, my spoon could barely get a sample of the broth. I WAS TRIPPING OUT.

[@Lasenggo]

For somewhat accessible Artocarpus we still have gumihan (Artocarpus sericicarpus) and tipolo (Artocarpus blancoi) in the Philippines. Gumihan has a really cool looking fruit that looks like a giant rambutan.

[@cameroonkendrick6312]

Have you tried Florida sea grapes before? They taste sweet and salty and are in season

[@smithyMcjoe]

You do such a good job of describing the flavours to people who probably aren't going to get the chance to really try it.

[@EvanBoyar]

Very cool editing choice to line up when you said "seeds canned" at 1:40 with your old footage of you doing the same. One suggestion, though; I hope that in the future when you are lucky enough to be by the plant that produces a fruit you take a little time to show the plant's morphology-the leaves, trunk, how the fruit attaches to the plant, etc. I know it's not directly what your channel is about, but you're a rare resource and it would be wonderful to have that captured alongside the fruit

[@NurseryEnterprises]

Outstanding!

[@WeirdExplorer]

Thank you kindly!

[@sarahpalm7661]

I recently bought a lakoocha tree, if it survives winter and ever produces any fruits I'll have to send you one. The guy I bought it from said they taste like tart raspberries.

[@enochunte9388]

I love the new Caledonian French accent

[@earkittycat]

You should try fried cempedak, I'm malay but raw cempedak is a bit too strong for me too, but the fried ones are very tasty!

[@WeirdExplorer]

I'm not a fan of fried cempedak. Though I do like the fresh fruit now.

[@JTMusicbox]

“…for about $5,000!” Ain’t that the truth?! I’ve heard it jokingly referred to as Whole Paycheck.”

[@man-xy1cs]

This is my favorite genus of fruit. I've got like 8 different species growing right now

[@WeirdExplorer]

That's awesome!

[@darcieclements4880]

What do you do to keep the trees from becoming stupid huge? I thought about growing some or trying to until I found out how ridiculously large they get and I don't really want giant bowling balls falling from the sky... Or small children in the case of some of them.

[@man-xy1cs]

@@darcieclements4880 These trees are native to my country so it's probably best i let them grow as tall as they can. Although, what I've seen some people do with jackfruit here is they put plastic bags or nets or even sacks around the fruit to try and support the fruit as it grows, when they fall they get caught by the bag but usually they're harvested as soon as the fruit emits an odor.

[@frankmacleod2565]

Jackfruit is my favorite fruit.

[@Vaiper64]

Try Artocarpus chaplasha Fruit sweet and sour version of Jackfruit,very delicious

[@totot99]

Also surprised that you haven't talked about the many Artocarpuses of Borneo.

[@williamcozart8158]

Yay another froot guy video!

[@whatno5090]

Don't forget the kesusu. Not an artocarpus but closely related, and it's supposed to be delicious.

[@billanzell5962]

Sounds delicious

[@youtube.commentator]

Sounds good, looks neat

[@victoriafisher6934]

in san jose california U CAN GET JACK FRUIT FOR NOT THAT" EXPENSIVE. INDIAN STORE OR CHINESE

[@SultrySeeder]

The bark of the tree looked kinda red similar to a strawberry tree. Also, since the fruit is red inside it reminds me of a tiny gac fruit.

[@JeffrotheDude]

"Breadfruit, a seedless fruit" he says as he opens it up, revealing what looks like little brown seeds inside 😂

[@JeffrotheDude]

ps i know they arent actually ty for your time wandering comment reader

[@sazji]

Fresh jackfruit is expensive at Whole Foods, but on the upside, if you have a Southeast Asian population near you, you can get it for a pretty good price, and they often slice it into smaller hunks so you don’t need to commit to 30 pounds of it. :-)

[@darcieclements4880]

Yeah it shows up from time to time in a variety of grocery stores in the US but it's usually fairly steep in price. Even in the Asian markets it's kind of expensive for what you get because they're selling you the whole fruit, so there's a ton of labor extracting the edible parts or I guess more accurately the fruity parts, and you end up paying a ton more than you would think because it's very heavy and most of that weight is the non-fruity bits. I do wish more from this group of fruits were readily available though. When I get it I get it from 168 market and it's still fairly expensive but I can't even be good to fathom how much it must cost at a whole foods😂 I did once get a very good deal in Michigan in a Smith's for pre-cleaned jackfruit. I am so sad that I moved and can't go to that Smith's anymore.

[@Notbluefox]

When I found a breadnut tree in my country, I thought it was breadfruit.

[@harvest5218]

My local grocery store here in the midwwest occasionally has a jackfruit cut in half rotting (or at least on their way there) at the end of an aisle. Always tempted but I'm not familiar enough with the fruit to know when it's too far gone to eat.

[@darcieclements4880]

The only part that you need to be good are the little orange bits that surround each seed. The rest of it doesn't matter. I was very lucky that the store I got mine at somebody actually knew this so they actually sold the fruit plucked out of the husk so that you didn't have to see what could be potentially an ugly looking husk and also saved a lot of work at home. Because jackfruit is so heavy there's almost always one side of it that's been crushed on the outside that looks messed up from the harvest, but it's fine on the inside.

[@Ruktiet]

Man, awesome video. Great overview of the interesting species in the genus. Btw, I’m currently waiting on my fruiting brazilian sunberry to ripen 4 fruits (a Solanum you reviewed not so long ago)!!!

[@WeirdExplorer]

Very cool!

[@docM1]

Remember trying an Indian variety of artocarpus, Artocarpus lacucha, when I was a child in India. Locally it was known as Barhal. Sweet/sour fruit, it looked lumpy from outside, about size of a small orange. It is made into a pickle in Northern Bihar.

[@gingermany6223]

What a great place to visit. Did you know much about their farm before you visited?

[@FoodwaysDistribution]

Subscribed from the Weird Explorer :)

[@WeirdExplorer]

welcome

[@FoodwaysDistribution]

@@WeirdExplorer ??? youtube is messing about. i've been subscribed here for years now and i though i left this comment to the french caledonian channel..

[@dbadagna]

Kwai muk probably comes from the pronunciation of the Chinese term 桂木 (pinyin: guì mù, literally "cassia wood" or "osmanthus wood") in a southern Chinese dialect such as Cantonese.

[@ChriaM-uk7wn]

Hopefully one day when I become a multi- millionaire my dream is to travel like this man and try all of the 80,000 fruits and berries on earth/create one of the largest exotic fruit farms on earth

[@Grimm-Gaming]

Im still trying to get my hands on a Paw Paw! And im in new jersey lol... i can't even imagine this! Though i finally found Mamey Sapotes for sale at an Asian market by me and omg there so so good !!! Like flan in fruit form.

[@Jesiahjesiah]

Does it ripen off the tree? We wait for avocados' savory ripeness; I bet we can wait for these.

[@KramRemin]

Ordered a CHEENA chempedak from Evergreen nursery in FL. It's doing VERY WELL in San Diego. Better cold-tolerance than either Jackfruit or cempedak. Didn't lose a single leaf over the winter, unlike pure jackfruit. In the August heat, it's rolling along quite happily. KWAI MUK are also good for San Diego, can take a bit of frost, have TWO for pollination. NOT LOOKING FORWARD to grafting ('Cheena' on Cheena x self seedlings) as the LATEX gushes everyhwere, and no way can I graft with oily hands. ;(

[@shwabb1]

Cheena is a chempejack, right?

[@knisayusuf]

terima kasih😊😊

[@angelvalenzuela3518]

That looks good

[@sabreTF]

love your videos bro

[@IHWKR]

I bet people would never expect a carnivore like myself to watch this channel. I literally can't stomach fruit. I wish I could. So I come here to enjoy it the best I can.

[@theblobconsumes4859]

There's a lot of different types of fruit with varied flavors, including savory fruits. To not be able to stomach fruit is to say you can't stomach almost anything.

[@IHWKR]

@theblobconsumes4859 I mean I throw up after eating fruit. There's some fruit I can eat but not many. I can stomach half a banana before I start to gag. I love green olives and I'll drink a swig of brine.pumkin pie/bread. Rasins in trail mix. I love some salsas and I like ketchup/bbq and pasta. I think technically a cashew is a fruit? Love those.... But watermelon, apples, pears, plums, cherries, pineapple, blueberries etc etc... all the American staples that anyone could mention or has seen sold in a store. Not a chance I can eat it for one reason or another. Trust me, I love some artificial flavors and I want to love fruit. But I can't. I've spent many decades trying.

[@IHWKR]

@theblobconsumes4859 I tried a V8 a couple years ago. Held it for 10 minutes and hurled it up. I couldn't keep it down.

[@patrickdowney2126]

How does the funk compare to other artocarpus?

[@hardshengpizi]

This one is actually called artocarpus lingnanensis.

[@jasonsutor6788]

I really wanted to like this when i tried it. Ended up with several fruit. I found them way too sour and unbalanced in flavor. I ended up throwing them out because i didn't like the flavor. Not sure if i tried Kwai Muk or Lakoocha though

[@deathpyre42]

So, just out of curiosity, are there any seed shops or maybe channels you'd recommend for growing the fruits you taste? A lot of what you find these days is either misinformation that exaggerates yields/hardiness (no way in heck are you getting dragonfruit to grow in zone 7b outdoors.) and pushes dodgy health claims or is flat out just vague . But you've actually eaten these and seen how they're grown and farmed, so if anyone knows how to sort out the dodgy from the delectable it's you.

[@tmoney399]

are you archiving seeds?

[@stefansauvageonwhat-a-twis1369]

ooh more channel for me also man it makes me want it lol

[@RiazUddin-sk3uw]

Did you just say 5,000 dollars? That doesn’t sound right. Cheers, mate!

[@MikePuorro]

Turn it into a frozen treat.

[@ChaosSwissroIl]

Where would you put a granny smith apple on your sour scale?

[@GTAGMODZ]

Its always so painful and difficult to find affordable jackfruit or durian in europe lol. For a couple hundred grams, frozen low quality you spend at least 15 and higher quality double to triple that for 300-400g/0.75-1lb+-. A whole fruit? 100-300 bucks. Usually 3-8kg of which 500g-5kg edible.

[@Trblsum96]

Can I ask what you do for a living? I would love to be able to travel like you do!

[@dbadagna]

The appearance of this fruit reminds me of gấc (Momordica cochinchinensis).

[@sproutingresilience4787]

That’s strange that jackfruit is expensive at whole foods…. Here in ontario jackfruit is one of the cheapest fruits by weight at the market if they have it!

[@li.li.]

They sell jackfruit at Publix here, too but I'm in Miami so...

[@lisacastano1064]

I've seen it at Publix in Knoxville too

[@darcieclements4880]

I think it's becoming more common

[@barbarabarlow1535]

The bread nut seeds can smell if you boil them.😅

[@aaroniouse]

What about its seeds?

[@WeirdExplorer]

I would imagine they are edible since other artocarpus seeds are. But haven't heard of anyone eating them.

[@isaacthedestroyerofstuped7676]

They looked too small to be worthwhile

[@jfiekms]

i tried this in malaysia. and yeah its like sour cherry syrup. i wish people would make more commercially viable varieties. Lol you mentioned Marang or Tarap. Gave me an anaphylactic shock in Malaysia😂.

[@WeirdExplorer]

cool! I've never seen them there I've only been in the winter though 😅

[@jfiekms]

@@WeirdExplorer Yeah it was in Penang around April

[@dexterrobinson4065]

The most easiest artocarpus to access in the United States belongs in the family Moraceae and is the native mulberry not the jackfruit.

[@ΓιώργοςΜπισδάκης]

I just want to say thank you and sorry

[@tktyga77]

How well could pickling the green ones & turning the ripe ones into such stuff as jam do?

[@darcieclements4880]

I don't think this is the best group for making jams based on the fibrous texture, though it does look like they may vary quite a bit. People are already can and pickle the green parts quite a bit.

[@blackbway]

I've come across one on the Internet called monkey jack. It's also from South East Asia, namely Thailand. I don't know anything about it, so I can't give any details.

[@WeirdExplorer]

that's the "lakoocha fruit" that we talk about in this video. Kwai muk is a close relative

[@ANNAMALAIfarm]

Make a video on (mari mari fruit) of Amazon

[@icedupwolf]

Is Durian part of the same family?

[@fruitaddict]

nope, durian is part of the malvaceae family while Artocarpus species are part of the moraceae family.

[@teodorcamaj14]

Hi jared im going to the maldives next january & i am trying many fruits that i saw on your channel, cant wait

[@WeirdExplorer]

Sounds great!

[@teodorcamaj14]

@@WeirdExplorer thank you very much

[@simoncleret]

French is one of the easiest languages to learn as an anglophone

[@Dazedsoul]

💙💙💙

[@omerbar7373]

I have Some "Artocarpus lacucha" growing in my house in Thailand. Maybe I can send you to try?

[@WeirdExplorer]

thanks for the offer. unfortunately its a big headache to send internationally though.

[@theblobcusn]

Try pedalai

[@scientificatheist9381]

Awesome