White Sapote Review: The fruit that tastes like pudding! - Weird Fruit Explorer Ep. 260

[@WeirdExplorer]

Hey friends, quick check: Who has actively used the playlists on my channel? Find them useful?

[@matthewgraves6710]

All day every day Jared!

[@D5quared91]

I haven't really used them ever.

[@peglegpeete9122]

I'm looking at tropical fruit trees to redo my yard. I have been thru almost all of your 260 fruit reviews in the past 2 weeks. Today I talked to the produce manager of the closest Asian grocer to me and he said Cherimoya & Salak are fruits they do get in. I still have a list of 50 I want to try because of you & your reviews. Next week I will be talking to some of the big Asian & Hispanic grocers produce people [I live in Las Vegas and we have an incredible Chinatown and lots of Hispanic markets] to see what they can do to feed my newfound lust for tropical fruits. So, YES, some people find your videos very useful. thank you Tom

[@whataworld884]

Very helpful, at least for me. They are great for when I am struggling with ideas for my channel. Also, they are good for sharing with friends.

[@KrishnaWashburn]

Yes, I used your whole giant fruit playlist for basically the entire month of January to the exclusion of any other KZbin content. Question: why aren't That's Not Coffee in a playlist? I love those videos.

[@erniealderete2042]

There are dozens of huge white Sapote trees on my block. I wondered who planted them, because several are in abandoned lots, so I did some investigating. To my surprise its the squirrels planting them! They take the fallen fruit from one yard to another, and bury it, thereby ensuring a constant source of their favorite food. Squirrels may have planted the first orchards thousands of years before Johnny Appleseed.

[@WeirdExplorer]

Oh wow!

[@kayokocalef2918]

I had lots of white sapotes at University of Hawaii at Manoa campus last summer. The fruits were raining down on me and I picked a bag full in a couple of minutes. They are so tasty!

[@tohopes]

They sell them at Safeway here in the Bay Area. The seeds are really easy to sprout, I've got several seedlings going now.

[@JJBoudreau]

What city’s in Bay Area?

[@1967sfoman]

@@JJBoudreauSan Francisco Bay Area.

[@Virtualdream64]

do you know if they still sell them there?

[@tohopes]

@@Virtualdream64 i was just at a Safeway in San Jose and they had some white sapote for sale. i picked up an enormous one. maybe 2 days til it's ripe for eating. only thing is, they're charging an arm and a leg for them right now. like 6 or 7 dollars a pound.

[@Virtualdream64]

oh cool. I did some searching and found one locally a few days ago in the central valley. I might try to grow the seed😅

[@tiki_t]

I love white sapotes!! I've got two of the trees planted but it might be a few years before I get fruit.

[@mistreme8341]

I used to have a white sapote tree in my backyard. Of all the fruit trees we had, it was the most reliable. I live in San Diego so it was happy here. After a particularly warm and humid summer, the sapotes would have that custard umami taste. Between this fruit tree and the loquat tree we had, it is a taste of summer I miss from my childhood. I agree, a sweet avocado is a perfect description.

[@karenrobertsdottir4101]

Did you feel at all relaxed / sleepy? The ancient Nahuatl word for the fruit means "sleep sapote", and over the years there have been various (sometimes contradictory) reports about whether eating the fruit and/or seeds makes one sleepy. It may have to do with the cultivar. Eating any amount of the seeds is dangerous, as they can be deadly poisonous, but a sleep-inducing compound has been extracted from them, so there's probably at least some amount in the fruit as well. This fruit is really underappreciated. The tree grows like a weed and is a very heavy producer, as well as tolerating drought well. There's a lot of potential for its cultivation. Back in the early 20th century there was a push to make it a mass-market fruit, with fruit being marketed as far away as New York; nobody seems to know why it never really caught on. Perhaps transport / storage issues.

[@WeirdExplorer]

I didn't feel sleepy after. Maybe if I ate the seeds? Or if I ate 20 fruits? I think if it does actually cause tiredness, you'd need more than one of these.

[@petermvaughan]

@@WeirdExplorer The fruit is actually not going to put you to sleep but the leaves will. The Entire plant is an important medicinal plant to the indigenous people in Mexico and the Nahuatl discovered many of them. Seeds can be poisonous.

[@maxisorrenti4629]

It’s the leaves that are made into tea :) and that’s what makes you sleepy

[@iuriebarbarosh9200]

Sapote did not make on the market on purpose - they are hi way medicinal + the banana mafia lobby, internationaly. The fruit is eaten to lessen rheumatic pain. The decoction of the leaves and seeds is taken as tea to treat hypertension, anxiety, insomnia, and cramps. The leaves, bark, and seeds have a sedative and mildly narcotic (hypnotic) action. Additionally, they possess anti-spastic and anticonvulsive actions. Yes, I know that.

[@AznGurl135]

"I don't know what the bell does, but it probably gives an angel its wings, so click on it"😂 I'm so glad I'm subscribed, I love this channel and I'm glad you were able to find a ripe white sapote during your travels!👏

[@WeirdExplorer]

Thanks Miki!

[@SamiZouad15]

Great review with many cultivars Jared. The ones we find here in Australia are often green when ripe, taste like a mixture of coconut, mango, avocado, pineapple and apricot. Quite delicious but not overly sweet 5 or 6/10).

[@LeakenaDoll]

So good!! One of my favorite fruits in the world ❤️

[@srm3441]

That confirms it. Im gonna buy one. Creamy, sweet, tropical custardy is MY JAM!!!

[@renac4849]

Jared, if it really is the comhination of those tropicals you mentioned ( mango, pineapple, coco, etc ), and 8/10 sweet: should it not be the best fruit in the world ? I get crazy to taste it soon !!

[@cookiecookieco0kie]

My latino family mentioned this fruit "zapote blanco" so I just knew you would have a video on it. Glad to see this video

[@D5quared91]

Not sure why this fruit isn't more popular? I've only eaten 2-3 in my life and they were extremely tasty!!

[@WeirdExplorer]

They really should be! I've seen them only once for sale in NYC

[@huzbum]

I love your channel. I moved to SoCal from Wisconsin. It's USDA zone 10 here, I've never seen a frost and just about anything will grow here, so when I hear of a rare or obscure plant I might want to grow, this is the first place I go to see what it tastes like. I don't have a lot of space so I only want to plant things that will probably taste good. My house came with a bunch of citrus trees (Cara Cara orange is the best), but I've been adding mostly stuff that you can't get in the grocery store. So far I've planted Ice Cream, Red Dacca, and Goldfinger bananas. I just got a Razzmatazz grape and a couple peanut butter trees that I need to plant. I put some Ube and Tiger Nuts in containers. I don't think you've done a video on Ube, my Filipino step-father-in-law introduced me to that. Makes great ice cream. Oh, and a vine that the leaves are supposed to taste like a french cheese. Paederia Lanuginosa the common name is "La mo." I'm letting it grow a bit before eating a lot of the leaves, but I just tried one, and it does taste like a fancy cheese might taste. I'm also thinking of planting a mulberry and now maybe a white sapote. Maybe an Acerola cherry too, but I'll be running out of space pretty soon. Maybe some Mashua too when I find some.

[@sorashell]

I'm in orange county and have a huge white sapote tree. It's about 10 years old and finally starting to bear a lot of fruit.

[@MalaysianTropikfusion]

Try durians.

[@huzbum]

@@MalaysianTropikfusion meh, I'm not so fond of the sweaty-gym-sock/onion hybrid.

[@MalaysianTropikfusion]

@@huzbum You'll be surprised to know how many durian lovers used to share that sentiment😉

[@huzbum]

@@MalaysianTropikfusion haha I've tried it.

[@amhallor]

I'm about 2 hrs south of Steve. I met him at the Farmers Market, very nice guy. Cool to see you were over here Jared, and nice quality boost in your video! Cheers. I hope you tasted other fruit up at Steve's I still want to visit his farm.

[@WeirdExplorer]

He shared a bunch with me, but this is the last major video from that trip. Thanks!

[@Chris-z6f6k]

The fruit in the second half look exactly like Casimiroa Tetrameria #7(another species) I saw online. The fact that the fruit looks different and taste different too from the other I think confirm that. Ask Steven if the tree from that fruit has wooly leaves, that should confirm it.

[@daliaaponte3822]

Love your channel..I learned sooooooo much with your videos.. thanks for everything

[@ricardomaya510]

thanks for your chanel man,, great

[@KB-os3vv]

Would you compare a white sapote to maybe a cherimoya or sapodilla? Like the flesh, sweetness, and taste of it? I just bought a white sapote tree and I have no idea what it tastes like, but I heard it's very sweet.

[@reyn66]

Place a ripe suebelle in the refrigerator and it tastes like a soft serve vanilla ice-cream.

[@keywestalert6329]

Sweet avocado, flan flavored fruit, custard creamy? I'd like to try

[@gonzo93041]

Were you in California during cherimoya season? California probably has the best cherimoyas you'll ever taste.

[@WeirdExplorer]

I wasn't, will have to try them there when they are in season, I've heard good things

[@alicepearce4597]

Sweet avocado eh? Don't even know if we import these to Canada. When I go to Florida I will see if I can find them for a taste test, they look yummy.

[@squintspalledorous3376]

Alice Pearce you probably won't find them in Florida they don't do well in Florida but they grow like weeds in California because of the dry weather.

[@alicepearce4597]

Ah that's too bad. I hope I will find them somewhere else for I don't have any reasons to go to California.

[@edibletropicaltrees]

It's to bad they didn't have the varieties of the white Sapotes you were trying. Some of the varieties grown in the United States are: Homestead, McDill, Max Golden, Pike, Dade, Reinikie, Suebelle, and Smathers.

[@mmmygc]

You should try Myrica rubra fruits, though it will be hard to get. They only have a shelf life of a few days.

[@WeirdExplorer]

Just tried them a couple days ago in Beijing :)

[@mmmygc]

Nice. Can I have the seeds? Lol JK

[@ladaffodilion]

I like them.

[@I.amthatrealJuan]

Would you say this is comparable to Sugar Apples in sweetness? Would you prefer White Sapotes over those?

[@WeirdExplorer]

I prefer white sapote, they are around the same sweetness though

[@mindwork5880]

It looks delicious. By now I just have a melon 😂 but I will have that white zapote, I will ✊

[@ericpitar]

Hi. What variety was that great -tasting one in the end?

[@onechristianwallace]

I ate one today.So sweet!

[@Erewhon2024]

How would you compare this to pawpaw (Asimina triloba)? Based on the description of the last one, the flavor and texture sound similar though they aren't related at all. (Well, both angiosperms.)

[@WeirdExplorer]

hm.. well texture is similar. The flavor of pawpaws are so variable, I'm sure that there are some cultivars that taste exactly like a white sapote, but generally I would say pawpaws are stronger and have more of a bite to them. Especially wild pawpaws

[@christianlloydcomia9138]

It's look like a green plum

[@donovanvasta9779]

I notice a lot of people don't eat the skin of the white sapote. Some can have a slightly bitter skin, but not so bad to where it's inedible and some aren't bitter at all. I find it's just easier to eat the fruit with the skin, but then again I eat the skin on most fruit people probably wouldn't.

[@Nicopasta85]

What a loser who eats skin on fruit... lol jk what’s up Donavan! I eat the skin too, if you eat it along with enough of the flesh then you can’t taste it.

[@kunheelee88]

Jared, go try some ripe ume

[@mandab.3180]

i want dis. thinking about planting some treeeeez... 🤔

[@GraftingTactick]

Beautiful 💕👍

[@thebluenoble6175]

April FUDGE YOU JARED! Hahahahahahahaahahahhahahahahah!!!

[@darrylaquino6073]

Yummy fruit And beautiful and very nice,***western Australia 🦘

[@adnanchinisi7871]

damn im so jealous.

[@newbornlog2789]

Where is this I'm in southern California right now

[@GaryVolts]

Steven's shirt says Bakersfield but there are trees all over the old neighborhoods of LA, OC, and San Diego county.

[@BitterBeerAndSaltyRamen]

avocado-melon-persimmon

[@KennyPurpleRain]

The ones in the fruit and spice Park have a brown skin

[@drspectre7756]

Try Pandanus AKA Screw Pine.

[@WeirdExplorer]

One day *stares out into the distance* One day...

[@drspectre7756]

Weird Explorer LOL 😂😂😂. I want to try it too. I hear that it tastes like mango and sugar cane but who knows. Thank you for responding!!!

[@amm0nix481]

Casimiora *Edulis* like Passiflora *Edulis* hmmm... (I know they're not related but I wonder what it's supposed to mean)

[@I.amthatrealJuan]

Jan Bialas edulis is Latin for edible

[@amm0nix481]

Oh that makes sense thanks

[@nickb910]

I just had some before watching this video and once ripe they taste like pudding

[@tresatlantes]

did you experience sleepiness after eating a few of em ?

[@sarahmarti563]

Where is this?

[@WeirdExplorer]

murray family farms in bakersfield CA

[@Seven71987]

Does it taste like Vanilla Pudding? Just like how the Black Sapote taste like Chocolate Pudding!

[@GaryVolts]

Black sapote LOOKS like choc pudding but doesn't taste like it.

[@Seven71987]

If the Black Sapote doesn't taste like Chocolate Pudding but looks the part, then is White Sapote also doesn't taste like Vanilla Pudding?

[@GaryVolts]

@@Seven71987 White Sapote is a lot closer to vanilla pudding or perhaps flan.

[@pryncess1878]

Try the black sapote. It tastes like chocolate pudding. I’m going to have to try the white one now. Thanks!

[@WeirdExplorer]

There are a couple videos on my channel about it. it didn't taste like chocolate

[@oscarc6800]

You should dip that fruit into chocolate pudding to make it taste like chocolate pudding !...

[@JaridNeuhaus]

a custerdy Pair

[@matthewgraves6710]

1st comment! 2nd viewer!

[@WeirdExplorer]

Gold star!

[@matthewgraves6710]

Haha, I can't believe you respond to your comments, unlike most KZbinrs. Most of this fruit does not cultivate in my area, which is your area too, I gues we're New York buddies! But anyway, you get the chance of going around the world trying fruit and I love watching every post of yours, thanks for trying the fruits for me!

[@ladaffodilion]

they taste like PEACH. NOT PUDDING. NO.