Hey, everyone.
So this is gonna be a little bit different than usual. Instead of doing a regular fruit review,
This is going to be a top 10
worst fruits that I've ever had. So, I have made now 100 episodes,
I have done these episodes in 8 countries,
and because some episodes have more than one fruit in them,
I think it's something like 125 different fruits that I have tried in these videos.
So after having had all these different flavors in my mouth,
which ones are the worst? That's what we're going to get to the bottom of today.
And next week, we'll talk about the good stuff.
That should be really exciting, but now I wanna just see how bad can something that came from Mother Earth possibly be.
Pretty bad.
This is durian.
Now, if you look at it,
it might not look like too much, but this is a very controversial, notorious fruit.
Why? Because it's, in my opinion, repulsive to all 5 senses.
Oh, durian.
Durian is kind of a strange one for me, and that's why I'm putting it in the #10 spot.
Because it's something I can actually see putting also in my top 10 favorite fruits.
It really depends on, like, what kind of mood I'm in. The first time I had durian it was God-awful.
And, you know, some people really love it, some people really hate it.
Me, I... am somewhere in the middle.
Some days I'm in the mood for it, other days it's the last thing I could possibly want.
It's a very acquired taste, kind of like having, like, a stinky cheese
And you know, sometimes you just don't want that. So,
durian, for me, it gets the #10 spot because when I'm not in the mood for it,
I'm really not in the mood for it.
This is actually like... it's alright. Yeah, it's pretty good.
So uh, I'm gonna probably eat this much of it,
I don't think I can eat the rest of it.
It's still, like, a little creepy. But, um, It's good! Yeah.
Yes! I'm really excited about this one.
I've been trying to find gac fruit for a very very long time.
Gac. I was really really excited to try gac fruit.
It's big, it's spiky, it's bright red, and you open it up, it looks like organs on the inside...
It's, like, a really badass looking fruit.
So I was so super stoked to try gac. And when I opened it up,
it is boring. It is, like, such a boring fruit. It tastes like nothing.
If you cook with it, or if you make a juice out of it, it's supposed to be really nice,
but if you eat it just straight on its own...
Eh... it doesn't taste like much of anything. And it has a very, like, slimy texture to it.
So it's just kind of like unpleasant and hard to get through.
Honestly it's kind of a letdown. I mean, this is pretty awesome looking,
and it's a really cool fruit,
but the flavor is just kind of a little disappointing.
It's time for a big one. I'm going to talk about
this guy. This is an Areca palm fruit.
Betel nut is not something that you eat because it tastes good. People eat it because it's a stimulant, and,
I mean, if you look at the flavor, the flavor is not... horrible.
It's just, like, tolerable. It's okay
to get through, if you want the stimulant. It's like chewing on,
like, a spicy stick. You know, not-- kind of like cinnamon I guess, but not as good.
But the big thing is, Betel is all-around unpleasant.
When I ate it, it made me salivate like a gallon of this red spit.
It burned my mouth, it made me out of breath, it gave me, like, heart palpitations, it made me shaky.
It perks you up, and that's why people take it,
but it is not in a pleasant way. It perks you up in a way that makes you feel like, I don't know, like, tense.
More than anything, it just really wasn't a pleasant experience,
but on top of that, it's really bad for you. It can give you cancer, and it can give you diabetes,
and it can do all these horrible things to you, and it stains your teeth, like really really badly.
so because of all of that together... it's not something I would ever do again.
There's no good flavor to it. It kind of dries out your mouth a little bit, it turns your teeth bad,
it gives you, like, all sorts of cancers and bad things if you do it for the long run.
But yeah, if you have opportunity to try it...
reluctantly, I'd say try it.
It is a palm fruit known as nipa palm.
Nipa palm, to be fair, is supposed to taste good if you eat it unripe.
But the one that was sold to me was a ripe one, or mature fruit.
And it was...
impossible to open. Out of all the fruits I've ever had,
this thing was like trying to open a rock. It was so hard to open.
It took so much effort that I spent a day going around trying to get people to open it
And when I finally got someone to open it, it was a huge letdown.
Kind of flavorless.
I'd say the closest thing I can relate this to is eating, like, a candle, but maybe a little bit harder. More like eating plastic.
Spilanthes gooseberries are not normally eaten straight.
It's something that people make a juice out of, or they'll cook with it
they make salads, and it's used more of like a...
like a spice, you know. It gives, like, sourness, and kind of like a...
like a refreshing taste to food. And I like it in cooking. It's pretty good.
But like, on its own, and the experience on its own, it's eh... they're not... they're not fun to get through.
Saying that, the Laotian gooseberries that I had the misfortune of trying were horrible.
It tasted like... a chemical.
Even if you were to cook with it, I can't see how that would improve the flavor of anything.
Not good. I'm sure they don't eat them just straight out because that is not pleasant at all.
I've got, um,
the Limau Kedangsa.
I... don't even really know what this fruit is.
I don't know the scientific name for it.
But I found this particular fruit
in a bucket at a market in Kuala Lumpur
and the guy who was selling them was essentially a witch doctor.
He was selling fruit that is to be used for medicinal purposes and Malay black magic.
And this one... I can see why people don't eat it. The fruit tastes like something that you would
use to curse somebody with. Not something that you would want to eat.
I can only describe it as tasting almost exactly like
lemon dish soap. It had a horrible chemical
soapy flavor to it and not much else.
Might have been poison too.
It's kind of soapy, the way a kaffir lime is.
It's really sour, it's really bitter, It's really astringent.
It smells nice.
This is a Cempedak right here. Take a look at that guy. It's as big as my head
and it smells worse than my feet after a long day running in the sun.
I really love Artocarpus fruits. These are like these big, spiky, crazy-looking fruits that have a very, like,
complicated, like, tropical flavor to them. I've had marang, I've had breadfruit,
I've had jackfruit, and I love those.
And people who kind of like Artocarpus fruits usually revere one of them, called a Cempedak.
I. Hate. Cempedak. And people have given me hell for saying that on camera.
But I don't like them. They are like...
jackfruit or marang, but they have like, a B.O. funk.
Kind of like durian, but in a profoundly unique way that is just, like, unpleasant.
It takes something that is a good flavor and adds, like, this disturbing funk to it.
And when I made the video, a lot of people complained that the one that I had was not properly ripe.
Okay, I've had it three times including having it deep-fried. Which is supposed to be delicious.
Every time I've had Cempedak, I've hated it. So I'm sorry, I just don't like it.
It is taking a good flavor that I like-- I can see the flavor in there that people like-- and just putting garbage on top of it.
It is something I know is...
not really edible. You're not supposed to eat it.
It is a ume.
Pickled ume is a very traditional, very common staple in Japanese cuisine.
Well, I had the bright idea of trying a raw ume. And it was brought to my attention that they are actually
highly poisonous.
Yeah. Luckily for me, I just ate like a tiny little shred of it, and I think I spit half of that out.
So I can live to tell the tale of unripe ume taste like, or raw ume taste like. It tastes like...
like poison. It tastes like something that you should not be eating.
And maybe it's kind of cheating that I'm talking about something that
you're not supposed to eat. So of course it tastes bad.
Well, I don't like regular ume either. Regular pickled ume just tastes like
a handful of salt to me.
So that also would probably be on this top 10 list
somewhere probably around where raw ume is.
It does have like, a very sour and salty flavor, which is good
but not
concentrated like this. And in my opinion. I know some people, they'll just like pop these things and they love it. Me? I...
No. I can't.
I can't imagine, like, enjoying eating this.
This is the wood apple.
This is another one that I get a lot of complaints about because people say in the video that I made
the wood apple I had was not at the proper ripeness.
When it was sold to me, the guy assured me that it was ripe.
Maybe it wasn't. I've actually had it twice, and both times it tasted the same.
But it still deserves a place on this list.
Wood apple has the texture and the flavor of...
a clod of dirt
and...
spoiled eggnog.
It is horrible, but it's horrible in a very... profound way.
Like, you can eat something that tastes really sour or really bitter and that's why it's bad.
You can, like, wrap your head around those flavors, and you can kind of understand why it's bad.
But with wood apple, it just triggers some, like, simian part of your brain where it's just like,
This is wrong. What you're doing is wrong.
Maybe the particular wood apple that I had was not the perfect ripeness. Maybe.
And if that's the case, I'll give you that. That's fine.
But take it as a warning. If you're going to eat wood apple, be very very careful.
Because if you eat one like the one that I ate,
you will be haunted for the rest of your life.
No, I don't like this.
So I'm gonna talk about noni.
Noni is the most vile thing that nature has ever produced.
It is a tumor that grows from a tree.
I ate a teeny little shred of noni, and it made me gag.
I would rather eat dog crap than eat noni again.
That's how bad it is. It is the worst thing that I've ever had. And what just boggles my mind is that people
pay a lot of money for noni juice,
and noni products, and noni fruit, because they think it's good for them.
Maybe it is or maybe it isn't, I don't know.
But it's not worth it! It's bad!
It's really really really bad!
And you shouldn't be putting that in your body. If you would not eat a piece of crap,
if you wouldn't do that, then you shouldn't eat noni, okay?
That's just my opinion. If you think it's really healthy, and the health benefits justify eating something as horrible as noni,
then go ahead. But me? I would rather have the disease.
It's like somebody, like, ate some cheddar cheese
and, like, vomited it on a lemon.
That's kind of what this tastes like.
It's just like
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Alright, that's it guys. Top 10 worst fruits, at least in my opinion.
I've had a lot of fruit, I've gone on some crazy adventures, and these are memories that I would like to just suppress.
Next week we're gonna go into some memories of the best fruits that I've ever had.
These are the most fantastic things that the world has to offer.
So tune in next week, and thanks for watching.