this mango is about seventy seven dollars for one mango
they sell these ones for over $100 each. I'm going to go with that one because I'm cheap.
In Japan fruit is more than just something you eat. You may have heard about the
bunch of grapes that sold for $11,000 or two cantaloupes that sold for $27,000
well why would somebody spend such an exorbitant amount of money on just a
piece of produce. Japan is a gift-giving culture. Special
occasions, meetings, business deals and visits. They all warrant a token of
appreciation. And to show up empty-handed in these situations would be considered
bad etiquette. Well somewhere down the line, fruit became mixed up into this form of gift-giving.
Fruit that is cared for especially well
and considered top-of-the-line is one of the greatest forms of respect that you
can give. Ss with many things, Japan has taken this to an extreme. Fruit is grown
meticulously and individually judged like an edible piece of art. The better
the fruit is the higher the price tag. I naturally was skeptical about this
practice so I decided to try some of the luxury fruit available in Japan. Are
these fruits really as tasty as the price tag suggests? Or are people
paying for nothing more than the presentation.
In the next few videos I will try and find out.
I Iove that not only am I shaking, but he's shaking too.
What am I doing?
I don't know
I'm a crazy person
This is the most expensive fruit that I have
ever bought in my entire life and I've been buying a lot. So this guy is gift wrapped
for me like a little present and rightfully so as this is one of the most
notoriously expensive fruit in Japan.
And its ala carte. We did not get a prix fix for this, no.
This is a miyazaki mango which cost $80 and i think this is probably the
most expensive thing that i buy in japan and i just kind of like had to because
this is like notoriously like one of the most expensive fruits in the world but
it's supposed to be one of the best as well and i love mango so i'm really
curious about it i it even has like a serial number on it
this is um actually an Irwin mango. That's like the variety of mango it is
which is from South Florida somewhere down the line this became known as the
mango of Japan. These are more expensive because they're treated with like a
special care they grow only in the miyazaki region. At least the top-end ones do.
And you see how it's all red around? They grow this in a way
so the sun hits all sides of it and gets it perfectly blushed all the way around
If you were to get this in florida it would not be perfectly red would be like mostly orange
They actually will like put like an individual net
around it on the branch so when it gets perfectly ripe it actually falls into
the net and they go and collect it. It has like a light mango smells
very sweet but you know I can't really tell too much until you cut it open.
This feels so wrong yet so right just to cut into this. It's juicy.
You can see the knife is already covered in juice just from slicing it
Its got a perfect uniform color on the inside very juicy looking and
these are not just like picked ripe off the tree.
They also will use different kinds of technology to judge how perfect it is
They will weigh it to see how dense it is and it'll put um it's called
a refractometer in there so we can see like how sweet it is on the inside
I'm sure there's a much better way of doing this but I'm not sure what that is
So I'm going to cut it like this. Look at it it's just like beautiful super juicy very
like shiny a good color these are chosen because they're not
supposed to have like a whole lot of fiber to them but let's give it a shot
Wow that is the best mango I've ever had and I've had a lot
the flavor is super super sweet there's not a whole lot of sourness to it
maybe like a 1 or 2 out of 10 the sweetness is like sugar.
On a level of 1 to 10 where 10 is a sugar cube this is a 9 maybe a 10 this is
like eating candy it's not fiberous like hardly at all. Its got a nice juicy
texture to it. It tastes similar to the Australian mango which is kind of like a
tropical flavor like bananas and coconut. Australian mangoes were my favorite
mango up until now I mean this maybe has a similar taste but just how its treated
and like how they selected it it's just like at the top level of Australian
mangoes. Its kind of like eating a pina colada.
Is it worth $80? No. No fruit should be costing that much money
Unless they put a jewel on the inside somehow I say that's absurd
But it is still very very good. I would spend like $20 on one
of these maybe $25. $80 absolutely not.
But I can understand why people do to give it as a gift. Because this is definitely
something that's very special and it's not something I could see just showing
up at a grocery store for like 2 bucks like that's not gonna happen
it is really remarkably good
yeah by far the best mango I've ever had. Hey guys do you want to see the next
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