Hello everybody. So, the next few videos are all thanks to Matt and Megan from Seattle. They were kind enough to
send me a package of a few things that they're growing in their garden.
A lot of these things are fruits that come from like an ornamental plant.
So, they're grown for the ornamental, but they also can be eaten.
There's a lot of fruit out there in the world that just, you know, it's edible,
but people don't typically eat it. And
those can be some of the trickiest things to find. So this is really exciting. So,
Matt and Megan, thank you, thank you, thank you for sending me these fruits.
So, the first one I'm going to talk about is one that actually does get cultivated a little bit,
but it's more popular as an ornamental, and that is
Chilean guava.
Chilean guava is not
super closely related to guava, but it's in the same family. So, it does have a slightly
guava-like appearance, but they're super, super tiny. And these are
supposedly-- according to Wikipedia-- Queen Victoria's favorite fruit.
But I wasn't able to find anything to actually like back that up. In Chile
this is popular, but it's mostly popular as a liqueur.
It's used to make a liqueur called
Murtado. And for that, these are like soaked in a very strong liquor. Some of these are green looking,
but Matt and Megan said that is okay. They should still taste good.
Some of them don't, some of the ones they're growing don't even get red, but there are a couple red ones in here.
So, I'll try both and see what I think.
So, let's start with this one.
It's got a little pink color to it, and they said that you can eat the little leafy bits on it.
There's like little leaves on the bottom and top. They said that's fine, so I'm going to.
That's good.
It's got a nice taste to it.
It's a little difficult
to detect what that tastes like, but it is a good flavor.
The texture is nice. It's nice and soft in the center
but firm on the outside.
The texture reminds me kind of like a
blueberry,
but a little firmer. And the flavor is actually very similar to blueberries as well.
These are sometimes called strawberry myrtle, because they have a strawberry flavor
supposedly, and
I am getting a little bit of strawberry taste, but more like
strawberry candy.
So, a very sweet
strawberry, almost like an artificial strawberry flavor,
but also that blueberry taste. I say the blueberry taste is maybe a little bit stronger than the strawberry taste even.
It's a little bit herbal.
So, maybe it's not so much like plain old
blueberries, but
wild blueberries, which I've reviewed in the Philippines randomly.
It's got like a little bit of a spiciness to it,
like a spicy citrus kind of flavor.
These are really, really good. I can totally see using these
either out of hand, like you would eat blueberries, or
if you were to make like a jam out of these or something, it would be good.
Although honestly,
I kind of like the freshness of these.
If this is something that you wanted to grow as an ornamental it would be totally worth going out and
plucking the berries out. So, we're gonna break this down into like understandable flavors.
We've got blueberries.
We've got strawberries. We've got orange peel.
We've got maybe like a little bit of black pepper.
Maybe a little bit of oregano. That's about it. The sweetness on it is very high. I'd give these maybe like a seven.
The tartness is a decent tartness. It's not super sour. It's probably around the tartness of an orange, maybe like a five.
Yeah, I would totally eat these if they were
commonly available. I'm kind of surprised they're not. They might be perishable or something.
But you know, these were sent over from Seattle and
they're in perfect condition. Like maybe I picked out like one out of the whole bunch that they sent me that was kind of wilty.
So, this could totally be like something that could be cultivated and sold at a supermarket.
But it's not, so I feel kind of lucky to get a chance to try these.
So, thanks again to Matt and Megan for sending me these, and I'll see you guys next time. Bye bye.
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