UBAJAY - This Rare Fruit Tastes Like Peaches and Garlic

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Episode: 733 Ubajay
Species: Eugenia myrcianthes
Location: New York City, USA
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Пікірлер: 157

@justalittleblackraincloud 11 ай бұрын

But... will it ketchup? 😅

@petrolak 11 ай бұрын

garlic and peaches sounds like a perfect base for a sweet-savory sauce

@elenidemos 11 ай бұрын

Exactly what I was thinking. Will it, that is THE question. 😊

@Mellotheiguana 11 ай бұрын

Do eet!

@u2bAriel 11 ай бұрын

My thoughts exactly!

@anothernate3302 11 ай бұрын

That fruit is demanding to ketchup.

@SY-ok2dq 11 ай бұрын

I just looked this up online, and for those of you who live near Santa Barbara Riviera, there is apparently a mature tree that grows by the side of Moreno Road, at the edge of upper Orpet Park. So if you're nearby when the tree happens to be in fruit, you can give the fruit a try.

@LaserPictures 11 ай бұрын

Thank you for the tip!

@jasonsutor6788 11 ай бұрын

I'm 99% sure that's where these fruit came from

@SY-ok2dq 11 ай бұрын

@@jasonsutor6788 Is Raindance Seeds located in California? The website doesn't indicate anything about where they are located. I think I read that these trees can alsp be found cultivated in gardens in Florida - which would make sense considering where the plants originate from.

@THEoEDUCATER 11 ай бұрын

@@SY-ok2dq He's in Escondido.

@lasagnahog7695 11 ай бұрын

Adding "cool with funky flavors" to my dating profiles.

@gubberfuck 11 ай бұрын

I like how your kitty is asleep behind you the whole time 🤍

@JTMusicbox 11 ай бұрын

It’s always exciting when fruits have complex flavors like that. Your cat also looks adorable next to it!

@kim0307b 11 ай бұрын

The tree that produces this fruit is very cold-hardy. If you're interested, it's not a bad idea to try sprouting directly from seed. It can withstand temperatures of -7 degrees.

@xilith117 11 ай бұрын

Fahrenheit or Celsius?

@erikjohnson9223 11 ай бұрын

@@xilith117Sadly, not Rankine or Kelvin (yes, I know those can't be negative...very poor, nerd joke, sorry), which is what my sliver of midwestern Ultima Thule feels like from mid December until March.

@kim0307b 11 ай бұрын

@@xilith117 The temperature unit is Celsius. The plant itself is very strong.

@nicholasneyhart396 2 ай бұрын

Unfortunately he lives in New York, the northeastern u.s. gets below that -7 celsius for a substantial amount of the winter.

@user-pn2jj7fl3i 11 ай бұрын

Please try sweet cup. It is a type of passionfruit (passiflora maliformis). It is very aromatic and has a very hard shell that has to be opened with a hammer.

@Youdontknowmeson1324 11 ай бұрын

Passiflora are very cool you should try passiflora trifosiata and passiflora foetida are cool.

@bustedkeaton 11 ай бұрын

@@Youdontknowmeson1324he has tried passiflora foetida before. Thats how i found his channel

@katamine11 11 ай бұрын

@@Youdontknowmeson1324very cool indeed! And delicious 😋

@Youdontknowmeson1324 11 ай бұрын

@@katamine11 not all species are most are passiflora lutea is probably one the worst passiflora.

@alecity4877 11 ай бұрын

you say it wouldn't work as a jam or syrup, but honestly, I am curious if it will ketchup.

@sdfkjgh 11 ай бұрын

Will It Hollandaise?

@Youdontknowmeson1324 11 ай бұрын

Likely but you’ll need a lot

@SY-ok2dq 11 ай бұрын

@@Youdontknowmeson1324 Jared said the fruit has a laxative effect so you'd have to go VERY easy on the ketchup!

@SY-ok2dq 11 ай бұрын

I'm sure it would - but you'd have to be very sparing with the ketchup since the fruit has a laxative effect if you eat enough of it.

@Youdontknowmeson1324 11 ай бұрын

@@SY-ok2dq grind up some things that cause constipation should be fine put it on bread like jam or something.

@lucymiau5700 11 ай бұрын

It gets better and better with the Cat representation. And these fruits might be a good base for a Chutney or Ketchup.

@OrangeIncarnate 11 ай бұрын

Peaches and garlic flavours sounds like it could be good as some sort of almost savoury cooking sauce

@patriciamorgan6545 11 ай бұрын

That's what I was thinking. Maybe with bourbon, over pork, would be good. Or chicken, with or without the bourbon, if you don't eat pork.

@nicholasneyhart396 2 ай бұрын

I wonder if I can make hot sauce with these as a flavor

@Edu888777 11 ай бұрын

It is close to the so called 'Uvaia' fruits, this one is know as Ubajaí or Uvaião (big uvaia). Uba × Jaí are local native ancient words, where Ubá means 'fruit' and Jaí means 'Twisted'. Uvaias usully have a very distinct flavor, difficult to describe, and this one have a touch of garlic or onion to it. From the Uvaias fruit there are variations, with different leafs, size of the tree, and sometimes flavor, to name a few: Ubajaí, Uvaia doce (sweet), Uvaia azeda (sour), Uvaia do Visconde (the best one, different flavor ), Uvaia Maracujá(passionfruit flavor), Ocorocillo (from Bolivia) , Pitomba da Bahía, Araçá Boi, Araçá Piranga, Uvaia Caju (Eugenia Delicata).

@blackbway 11 ай бұрын

Wow! Quite a lot of information there. I wonder if any of these plants can grow and produce fruits in Jamaica?

@Edu888777 11 ай бұрын

@@blackbway Yes, All of them probably can grow in Jamaica.

@robsonwilianwinchester9726 11 ай бұрын

@@blackbwayif Jamaica is tropical 🍹 🐠 or subtropical yes they definitely will grow well ! The rest is just take care specially when they're young 🌱 trees like watering and fertilizer!

@blackbway 11 ай бұрын

@@robsonwilianwinchester9726 i want to get my hands on some when I get home. I want to make the most spectacular fruit forest with an abundance of tropical fruits from all over the world.

@EmperorsChildren 11 ай бұрын

I grew up in the northwestern part of São Paulo state, and we used to eat a lot of Uvaia, and made juices, ice cream and mousse from it. I'm not sure of the exact kind, but the fruits were bright yellow and small, about 3-5cm in diameter, and almost always had a worm or two, but we didn't mind as children.

@miscelany2 11 ай бұрын

I bet those would be good thrown into a stir fry at the last minute and serves with some nice sticky rice. I might be tempted to use them in vegan sushi maybe with some cooked purple sweet potato and a drizzle of hoisin sauce. I wish I had one to try.

@RoseNZieg 11 ай бұрын

he mentioned a website. maybe you could buy some there?

@drunken-hamster 11 ай бұрын

You should consider getting a dehydrator. It can be useful for fruits like these which aren't good for much other than eating out of hand but don't keep for very long. We had a loquat tree which produced more fruit than you could deal with and the fruit didn't keep well, so I ended up making a bunch of fruit leather in the dehydrator and it turned out well.

@noneofyourbusiness4616 11 ай бұрын

Peaches and Garlic was my romantic ballad duo back in the '60s.

@ilgufagd4145 11 ай бұрын

After i saw the video you did about the bananas in fiji i remembered that in Tajikistan they have 70 varieties of watermelon if you're intresed. Anyways love your videos, keep it up ❤

@katamine11 11 ай бұрын

Wow! I’m off to do some research now 😅 that is so cool!

@RoseNZieg 11 ай бұрын

why so much variation? that's insane!!!

@TheGallicWitch 11 ай бұрын

Are you interested in people sending you fruit who aren't fruit farmers? Because we're a family of farmers, though not for fruit, and we live in a very strange part of France that is deep and high in the mountains while tending towards the Mediterranean. And in our mountain, there are a bunch of fruits that don't really grow elsewhere in France and you definitely can't find in supermarkets or even farmer's markets. We are a very closeknit community so throughout the generations, people here have found many ways of eating whatever grows wild in the mountain so they didn't have to walk or ride for days to the closest village or town. It's super traditional here so I was taught all this stuff, and if it's something you're interested in, I would love to send you a couple of fruits as well as some of the traditional ways we prepare them so they last very long.

@andreis.4584 11 ай бұрын

Where is possible to read about these fruits and your region? Sounds intetesting :) Greetings from Netherlands

@juliamuth8288 11 ай бұрын

I really hope he says yes!

@robsonwilianwinchester9726 11 ай бұрын

❤ Yes 👍 I'm also want to know this fruits from France 🇨🇵!

@tmcensor 11 ай бұрын

Itching so hard for a new ketchup episode that I legit just sat here for the last two minutes trying not to yell "PLAY THE DAMN JINGLE" loud enough for the neighbors to hear.

@k9man163 11 ай бұрын

I've loved you videos for years. Thank you for making us such fun videos!

@justinwilliams7324 11 ай бұрын

You are the best fruit reviewer I've ever seen.

@eric240000 11 ай бұрын

Thank you for all the great content! You are so good at describing the flavors that I find myself being able to accurately guess the sweetness/tartness scales right before you say it. I can practically taste the fruit from here.

@victoriap1649 11 ай бұрын

Mmmm garlicky fruit… reminds me of when cutting fruit and using the same knife as you did for cooking and the fruit is a savory sweet surprise lol

@The_Bookman 11 ай бұрын

Thanks for the work you do. Expanding our horizons. ❤

@Psysium 11 ай бұрын

I wonder if you could make a galette? Galettes can be sweet or savory as the crust is pretty plain, and you wouldn't have to add anything to the fruit as the topping. Wonder how the flavor changes when cooked.

@man-xy1cs 11 ай бұрын

Eugenia fruits are so diverse, wow

@gwendeerlin 11 ай бұрын

Cannabis also has some gasoline smelling terpenes. I find that strange gasoline smell is nice when there’s a pine hint to it. This fruit is so interesting. Brazil always has the interesting stuff. This sounds like something that’d be interesting to cook with. I wonder if the garlic or horseradish sort of profile will enhance? Sounds like something that’d go good in a chicken wing sauce.

@patricioiasielski8816 11 ай бұрын

Come on it's not just brazilian! hehe There are literally towns named after this tree here in Argentina

@rlt9492 7 ай бұрын

For a member of the Eugenia genus, these are surprisingly cold hardy, to about zone 8b. On the East Coast you could probably grow it from Virginia Beach southwards.

@DeathMetalDerf 11 ай бұрын

The more resonance or pining tasting fruit like what you can find with some mangoes doesn’t really put me off, but I know exactly what smell you’re talking about with the whole gasoline smell thing you’re describing Anne for some reason it instantly puts me off. Thanks again for sharing another amazing fruit with us, Jared. I hope everyone is well and having a great day.

@luke_fabis 11 ай бұрын

Oooooh. This is one for my bucket list.

@zard5930 11 ай бұрын

Hah! I can do that at home! *proceeds to cut a peach on a tray where I cut garlic beforehand*

@Studio-7V 11 ай бұрын

A Eugenia fruit with that kind of mild sweetness and funkiness, while being so delightfully globular? That's a winner in my book! Also, I think I speak for many when I say the "Does Vostok care for it" test is highly scientific and should be included in the episode more often

@WeirdExplorer 11 ай бұрын

True. At the end of the day what she thinks is the most important.

@CobraRaptor 11 ай бұрын

Maybe work as a substitute for garlic? Worth a shot to see how it works out

@Wario-The-Legend 11 ай бұрын

Now this has to be the best fruit ever.

@jasonsutor6788 11 ай бұрын

They get very pungent after a few days. I'd collected ~30 pounds of these and let them sit for a day before i got to processing them and they'd basically turned into a very strong smelling juice.

@HFTLMate 11 ай бұрын

wow, interesting fruit, the eugenias are very interesting indeed....

@HFTLMate 11 ай бұрын

So a capsicum, loquat, nashi pear, garlic, gasoline combination, nice

@DTolen 11 ай бұрын

Jams made with those are delicious, and the texture is unique betwen other jams. Ubajay jam is a bit like in the middle between a jam and a gelatin, is very uniform and extremelly dense, more like a dessert than a jam

@hase.von.b 3 ай бұрын

those grow naturally in may area, eastern Argentina. There are some diferences in taste in the wild trees. Nobody really eats them around here

@HFTLMate 11 ай бұрын

Love the channel bro, everytime I see a drop of juice escape from a fruit you cut into Im like nooooo the juiiice!!!

@terrytartu 11 ай бұрын

The flavour description makes it sound like it will go well with with cheese! Perhaps on a cheddar cheese board?

@WeirdExplorer 11 ай бұрын

that would work!

@truthinesssss 11 ай бұрын

Thank you

@YEE-yg9vw 11 ай бұрын

do a bitterness scale with a picture!

@allisond4737 7 ай бұрын

Could I suggest you make a salad with it. Arugula, avocado, a strong cheese like feta or blue cheese, nuts like toasted almonds or macadamia's, honey mustard dressing, and sliced Ubajay, i bet it would taste great.

@patricialavery8270 10 ай бұрын

I play Farmville 2 and I often have to grow fruits like this I have never heard of.

@youtube.commentator 11 ай бұрын

Shoe polish and turpentine? My favorite flavors

@JO-iv7tl 11 ай бұрын

Describing its flavors and properties sounds like it would make a good pie filling. Add some nutmeg and maybe lime juice with brownsugar. I prefer handpies but even the filling alone is probably good.b

@paulban889 11 ай бұрын

An intriguing fruit.

@lilyschmidt1893 11 ай бұрын

Sounds like a fruit perfect for Chutneys and currys :D

@Promatim 11 ай бұрын

Agreed that it might not jam well, but it sounds perfect for a salsa.

@BigBassTurd 11 ай бұрын

Hey I just saw Brian at the rare seed expo in Ventura. Really nice guy and has some cool plants for sale. This is one Eugenia that I am not interested in growing. That taste everybody explains puts me off.

@ahmed1a313 11 ай бұрын

You should try cordia myxa (Assyrian plum) from Iraq it has a really cool texture

@ahmed1a313 11 ай бұрын

It’s called بمبر “bimbar” in Iraq

@EndChineseGenocide 11 ай бұрын

Would the ubajay work well as the filling of a pastrie?

@mudgetheexpendable 11 ай бұрын

What? not going to make ketchup, they sound like they'd be perfect for it!

@johnnyearp52 11 ай бұрын

I like garlic! I like peaches! But together, I don't know...

@BJCMXY 4 ай бұрын

Just a query about the shirts... Any thoughts about using flaxseed linen blended with cotton (75% Linen 25% Cotton {hopefully} ) because I find 100% cotton doesn't do well with the amount of sweat I have to deal with...it just gets soggy, and in warm weather it never dries fast enough to compensate for the humidity, but linen does dry out despite the sweating levels of warm weather, stays pretty warm in cooler weather, and is actually more environmentally friendly than cotton. It requires no pesticides or fertilizer, and the quantity of material per plant is near 100% use of the plant, instead of the relatively small yield for the amount of plant, and it's technically better than hemp since it needs less steps to go from plant to usable fiber. Using cotton helps make it a bit more stretchy than pure linen is... And less wrinkly. 😅

@Dystopix 11 ай бұрын

Ubayayketchup!!!!

@RomanianGrower 11 ай бұрын

Can you sell the seeds of the fruits you review or someting?

@benwalter4842 11 ай бұрын

Or he grow them inside his apartment as houseplants or in a greenhouse (both if possible of course).

@RomanianGrower 11 ай бұрын

@@benwalter4842 i agree,but in a video he said it wouldn't be possible.I like pushing zones and growing weird exotic fruits but it is really hard to get seeds here in Romania

@robertmoreau8663 11 ай бұрын

When will you go foraging?

@robsonwilianwinchester9726 11 ай бұрын

Actually Jared is ubajay! Jay us pronuncied ja! So is Ubajá!

@PlantObsessed 11 ай бұрын

I think this would be a good base for a salsa. 🤔

@WeirdExplorer 11 ай бұрын

great idea!

@JohnLeePettimoreIII 11 ай бұрын

will it catsup?

@sleazycakes 11 ай бұрын

sounds great for a hot sauce. Instead of mango-habanero you could use ubajay

@WeirdExplorer 11 ай бұрын

Great idea!

@frankmacleod2565 11 ай бұрын

interesting

@ludovica8221 11 ай бұрын

Make chutney!

@simonstergaard 11 ай бұрын

just like sweet-n-farty in jack-fruit?

@Redhotjoepeppers 11 ай бұрын

I feel like this would make an interesting ketchup

@sum_rye_hash_321 11 ай бұрын

Yea….. but will it ketchup?

@reco7234 3 ай бұрын

Seems like it might be good in a salad

@allseeingguy5485 11 ай бұрын

This might be good with chicken barbecue.

@tktyga77 11 ай бұрын

If someone made an ice cream out of it or used its juice & pulp in cooking (sweet or savory)...

@landonconway79 11 ай бұрын

Will it ketchup?

@toddburgess5056 11 ай бұрын

You could make a chutney out of them 🤷‍♂️

@stevenmurray3238 11 ай бұрын

Hey Jared, I’ve got 4 trees of this in my collection but they are not fruiting yet. Do you think I should plant a full row of them? They are weird flavored but I’m not sure that the public would be interested in them?

@WeirdExplorer 11 ай бұрын

I think some good marketing on how to use the funky flavors would interest people to try experimenting with it it. But it's an odd flavor so it's more of a one time buy.

@rogerfarrow8650 11 ай бұрын

Have you tried a medlar yet? )

@WeirdExplorer 11 ай бұрын

yes! check the archive at weirdexplorer.com

@glennquagmire1747 11 ай бұрын

Pet your kitty for me 👌

@ryushogun9890 5 ай бұрын

But it like uncooked garlic flavor?

@amelade 11 ай бұрын

i was thinking ketchup instead of jam/juice

@erikjohnson9223 11 ай бұрын

What is "Asian pear flavor?" I taste water chestnuts: sweet and crunchy, but no aroma.

@eev14 11 ай бұрын

The "I just got juice all over my leg" comment after prying open a fruit like that with your fingers is.. something 😆 Excuse the accidental thirst comment, great video as always though, never heard of this fruit before!

@EDKOKOSZKA 11 ай бұрын

Can you cook with it

@FullModernAlchemist 11 ай бұрын

It’s so hard to describe flavors and smells. I still don’t know how you manage to describe things so well.

@Melissa0774 11 ай бұрын

I forget what it's called, but there's a type of gooseberry from India that they make all kinds of candies and drinks out of. I think it might just be called a gooseberry, but there's also an Indian name for it that I don't remember. I tried some fruit leather that was made from it, that I got at an Indian supermarket and it was so disgusting I couldn't even finish it. It taste like motor oil. But I could see how you could say it taste like gas, so I'm wondering if the fruit in this video actually has that same taste. It just taste like what an automotive garage smells like, to me. I could see how someone could possibly like it or at least develop a taste for it, if they'd never been around cars or gas stations, but for me I can't get that association out of my mind, even though I know on an intellectual level that's not what the flavor is from. It taste like poison to me and makes me want to gag.

@WeirdExplorer 11 ай бұрын

that's amla! I've never had one with a gasoline taste though. it's like a super sour green apple when they are fresh.

@Melissa0774 11 ай бұрын

@@WeirdExplorer Amla - That's what it is! I couldn't remember the name. I've never had a fresh one. I've only had candies and juice that was made from them, so maybe that taste different. Actually I think the fruit leather taste more like motor oil or car exhaust, than gas. But I could see how someone could experience that flavor as more garlicy or herbal, and therefor not disgusting, if they've never smelled motor oil before and didn't have that mental association. I also had a juice with amla, lemon and salt, that wasn't as bad. I mean, I probably wouldn't buy it again, but it wasn't so horrible that I couldn't drink it. But that was mainly because of the saltiness and the lack of sugar, more than the alma flavor. It was some kind of aieorvidic Indian health drink that I got at the Indian store. You should do a video about the Alma and some of the Indian health products that are made with it, if you haven't already. I'm sure you could easily find it at an Indian supermarket in the city.

@cerverg 11 ай бұрын

It looks a lot like Araza / Araca-boi (Eugenia stipiata)

@WeirdExplorer 11 ай бұрын

it does! similar taste too... besides the garlic taste

@diskord42 11 ай бұрын

kitty!

@Caberbalschnit 11 ай бұрын

Fruit salsa?

@WeirdExplorer 11 ай бұрын

good idea!

@archivis 11 ай бұрын

sausage a fy them

@Alex_Iope 4 ай бұрын

Eugenia Piryformis, called Uvaia, is way better than this fruit, sadly it is so soft that you need to eat right after you pick it. Has kinda of peach mixed with lemon flavor.