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This is extremely hard to contact juggle.
But, it is a passionfruit.
So that's the fruit of the day
is this guy here.
Passionfruits are not very common where I'm from in America, but they are used all over the world.
And um, I've seen these before at gourmet markets in the US and New York.
But they are always very wrinkly whenever I find them and they have been sitting around for a while.
This one I got fresh.
It's starting to wrinkle, ah, a little bit and like many fruits I have come across,
it has signs of bugs now. If you see that little hole right there,
there is probably a bug in there, a bug in there and
there's probably a bug in there
so, when I open it up it could be full of bugs and I might not want to eat it.
But, er, I'm still going to talk about it either way. The flower from the passionfruit is probably the most interesting thing to talk about.
During the 15th and 16th century, Spanish missionaries
used the flower of the passionfruit to illustrate the passion of Christ
I used to think that passionfruits were called passionfruits because they were used as an afrodisiac, but
er, apparently I was wrong about that.
They were used to illustrate the passion of Christ because of several features of the flower. The ten petals and sepals
represent the Ten Apostles. Now, if you know anything about Jesus, you should know that there were
twelve apostles.
well, Peter and Judas aren't allowed to be petals or sepals because they denied and betrayed Jesus respectively.
The tendrils represent the whips that were used while Jesus was carrying the Cross.
The filament, it's called the corona that incircles the flower represents the
crown of thorns.
The three stigmas represent the three nails that were used in the crucifiction.
The pointed leaves represent the lance. The lance was stuck in his side
The five anthers represent the five wounds,
four wounds caused by the nails
and one caused by the lance.
The ovary of the flower if you squint really hard at it, it kind of looks like, err, like a little Holy Grail.
The Grail was used supposedly to collect the blood that
came out of Jesus' side when he was stuck with the lance.
Umm, yeah. That's what it says.
So, I guess the flower is where the name comes from and not the fruit itself.
But uh, yeah saying that I'm going to open this guy up
and show you what it looks like.
It's very light. I didn't say it before but these are very light
and I actually heard air escaping when I just cut it. I don't know if you heard that
but I guess there's a lot of air in here.
Wow! That's very strong smelling.
Kind of messy to be eating with my fingers.
It's something that's
used very often
muddled in drinks and
I think there's a good reason for that. It has a lot of flavor. A very unique flavor.
But eating on its own is a little overwhelming.
It probably would be good if I took like some sugar and put it in there.
Umm, in fact, I think I might do that.
I have my little handy packets of sugar.
Let's see what
it tastes like with a little bit of sugar in there... and oh hey I've got a very very small little spoon.
So I'm gonna eat one the seeds with this.
There how adorable is that?
Yeah, that's nice! Very nice.
Yeah, the seeds are crunchy.
You can probably hear me crunching away.
The flesh is just kind of a little slimy around it. The texture is kind of nasty.
There's kinda like little slimy seeds. So, there's so much flavor, and there's not really a whole lot of
fruit in there. So I can see why it's usually used to flavour things since it's used as
like a flavor enhancement in juices or sometimes I see it used as sauce
for desserts and I guess that makes a lot of sense because there's not really a
whole lot of fruit here, but the fruit that's in there is very, very strong.
Eating on its own... it's like little
little overwhelming flavor-wise. A little underwhelming
quantity wise
But it's tasty.
Yeah, I can't think of anything else to tell you but passion fruits. Good stuff. If you have a gourmet
supermarket near you, it's worth popping in to try one out. All right. Thanks a lot. Bye.
Well hello, so I'm in America right now
I've been back....
today, I've been back for about three weeks now and
I
came across another
passion fruit. Now this one is a little bit different than the one that I had in Malaysia. You can see that
this is actually a lot
smaller and it's darker in color. This one is from New Zealand.
It's a New Zealand passion fruit and I think the one that I had in Malaysia was
a Malaysian or probably an Indonesian
passion fruit, but also a purple one. (Cat meowing)
Sorry, my cat is meowing. Stop it.
She wants attention.
So um,
you distracted me. You know that.
Yeah, I know you don't care. Just yawned. Okay, so this passion fruit here is a different, I
believe it must be a different kind of variety of it
because it is a lot smaller and a lot darker than the ones that I've seen. I know that there's
yellow passion fruits and different colored passion fruits, but this one is also purple.
I'm gonna open this up and see
what it looks like on the inside. If it is any different or maybe it's going to be very similar and just be smaller.
That would be disappointing but let's take a look here.
All right, so let's talk about
taste. I've got a real spoon this time, sorry to disappoint you by not having a little baby spoon
or drink stirrer but err,
yeah. Let me show you inside. It's
noticeable difference here is ...
(Cat meowing - it knows it's in trouble now)
(Sighs)
I'm a little distracted because in
changing the footage there, my cat who's been trying to get attention
just
coughed up a hairball.
Yay. So I'm going to just kind of
focus on the lovely aroma of passionfruit and not think about it. Okay so the ...
let me show you the inside here. This inside ...
it's different! If you can see here the white portion is
significantly smaller than
on the larger one that I had before and you also can see that the seeds are very tightly packed together and
on the one I had before they were...
there's a lot of air inside.
Mmm
It smells about the same, I want to say. Maybe a little different.
I did have the other passionfruit... (I think) it's like a month or month and a half ago.
So let's
see if I can tell the difference.
It's definitely different!
It is
stronger. It's much stronger.
I know last time I had some on its own, and I had some with sugar ...
it was better with the sugar.
But it wasn't intolerable when it was fresh on it's own. This is uh,
this is borderline
intolerable. It's like, it's okay but it's very very sour and very very
strong. The taste is different too.
It actually reminds me a lot of
soursop or guanabana. It's got like that similar sourness to it.
It's maybe not as creamy or like custardy tasting as the guanabana is
but
it's similar, just like maybe like a stronger, more
floral tasting
flavour than soursop.
Yeah, so that's all I have to say about this, so hope you learned something today.
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