*relaxing music plays*
Hey guys, so I'm really excited about this one, but before I get started. I want to send out a very very special
thank you to
CJ for actually sending this to me in the mail because this is one that I really really wanted to try
But it's really hard to get your hands on it
unless you go out to umm...
India or like South America
You're not going to find this in stores
but on CJ was growing this, actually in his backyard in
Florida. This. Is. A.
Cashew. Fruit. ~yeah
How crazy is that? Just like check this out
get a nice gratuitous cashew fruit shot.
Inside this shell here, you get the cashews seed which we all know about and you take that
seed and you roast it and you can eat it like normal cashews, but uhh..
what's tricky about this is that the uhh..
the shell in here, if you were to crack this open, there is a very very uhh..
nasty substance that is kind of akin to
poison ivy, okay, believe they are actually related somehow
I read that somewhere, but like if you mess around with this see if you were to crack this open and touch the seed inside,
you're going to break out in all sorts of nasty stuff. It was kind of like a dangerous one to deal with
But also these are more prized, because these, you know, are what people want, you can send these out internationally
the apple, it's not going to last, so in places where these grow people do eat the apples, but usually the seed is already gone.
What people do with the apples is usually not eat it straight out
it's supposed to be kind of astringent, especially like on the outer bit
but you can eat it,
usually it's cooked; they can steam it and then eat it and it's supposed to get rid of some of the astringency
uh.. and you can juice it, you can freeze it, you can make jams out it, you can make chutneys out of it
these do grow, you know in India, alot of these are in India, so it's popular in Chutneys there in Brazil
It's more used for juices, and you make a liqueur out of it. Well
this is what you call an accessory fruit, okay, so this guy here, this little mass on it. it's called the accessory fruit
botanically, a fruit is what surrounds the seed so
this is
technically a fruit the shell that is around the seed would
technically be the fruit, but this is, this little mass that is attached to it, is the accessory fruit
blows your mind doesn't it, but yes let's
See I'm going to be very careful not to
do too much with this guy here. Just because it is difficult, but I believe you can't touch it
normally what you do is you just
twist it off
There we go. Let's pull that guy out
Like that, now if I were to kind of like monkey around with it
I would be in trouble, so I'm just going to put this aside and
There's what's got, you know
It's pretty juicy. I'm getting like little drips everywhere
inside, it kinda looks a little bit like,
like a mango, almost, these are actually related to mango, so it might have a mango ish kind of flavor to it
The smell of this is a very very odd, it smells
like Gasoline
little bit like Cashew nuts
But yeah, a lot like gasoline. Maybe a little bit like Mango too,
so this actually reminds me of the
I'm going to pronounce it wrong, Marang, which I had in the Philippines
because that also gave up a really pungent
gasoline funkiness and this,
this has that, not as strong
but it's still there and I heard the outer bit is astringent, so I'm gonna start by just taking a bite on the inside
got like the nice hairy tongue right now
but the flavor isn't bad,
it does have a great like nutty kind of flavor?
similar to the Cashew nut
but also has like umm..
kind of like a vegetable-ly kind of flavor to it, a little bit like,
like peppers, like bell peppers, very sweet
little creamy tasting
stringy
but
it's pretty refreshing
it tastes like a like a fruit punch. like a tropical fruit punch with
Mango is the key ingredient, but because it's so sweet it tastes kind of like a
manufactured Mango drink
it's a little bit of a chore to eat though, that's because of how astringent it is
and how stringy it is
but, I can see why this is popular as a juice
you take this and make juice or jam, or an alcohol out of it. It has a really nice flavor
so to break this down,
here's what I'm getting, okay, take
strawberries, bell peppers, some Cashew milk and uhh..
some mango and some sugar and blend that together
and that's what you get. There's like a vegetable taste, the mango taste, creamy taste, a nutty taste
but, all in all, it's pretty good. I would definitely use this again, but I would
utilize it another way
I would put it in a different juice or I make jam out of it or something like that, just to kind of cut down
that astringency, but once you get rid of that astringency, the flavor is really really interesting. It's a complex taste
but takes a lot of things that are really good and puts them all together just
out of hand, a little bit of a chore, is why the hell not I'm going to use the little bits of
Cashew Apple that I have and I'm going to try making a very small amount of juice out of it
I know, it's not a lot, but this is all I have so
what's uhh.. I don't know what to do with it, so I'm going to try and mushen it up, blending it
*WHHHHRRRRRRRZZZZZ*
See! A lot of juice actually came out of there, like hardly anything left and there we go
the astringency is umm..
not as bad. It's still like a little bit there,
uhh.. less sweetness, I mean I added water to it and
the problem with adding water is although it takes away the astringency it also takes away a lot of the flavor
so it's much milder now,
umm.. it tastes just kind of like, I don't know, it's a light flavor, kind of like drinking like coconut water, it tastes mostly like water
like a little something extra in there
*sips*
Still good. It's kind of like, like this similar kind of like nutty creamy taste, that the fruit does, of course but
that's kinda like it's pleasant to drink, like I actually quite like this a
lot of people will make this and then mix things into it like other juices or umm..
condensed milk also, that actually would be really good, that would work with the creaminess of it, I think, but umm..
since I know there's a lot of Vegans watching, a lot of Vegan viewers out there, we're gonna do this
Vegan way, I'm gonna add some lime juice
*sips*
Yeah, right on. It's pretty good. It's umm.. it's something definitely worth
working with, on its own...
maybe not best thing in the world, but if you're looking for something to mix with into a juice or a
cocktail or make something out of it,
Cashew Fruit, is certainly a good way to go
uhh.. I like this with a lime
I can even like, I would add even more to it
and make like a nice like, tropical fruit blend it certainly would work well with other
Tropical fruits, it would work well with Coconut, really well, it would work with Mango really well, it worked with like, Berries really well umm..
definitely worth
utilizing if you're going to put a little extra work in and make some juice out of it or something
Hey guys, I want to give a huge shout out to Destin, from the channel Smarter Every Day
Smarter Every Day is a pretty popular YouTube channel, if you haven't checked it out
it's about this guy, he travels around in the pursuit of science. So you know if you like what I do with fruit
he's kind of doing it with everything else, so you know, check out his channel if you haven't seen it already because it's really, really cool
I'm already hooked on it
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