I am in the beautiful mountain city of Bogota, Colombia
The city sits at 8,600 ft above sea level
It’s in the mountains and it is beautiful
And today I’m on the search for some good fruit
I’m here in one of Bogota’s biggest markets; it’s called Paloquemao
This place is amazing, is full of some of the wildest fruits I’ve ever seen
Colombia is one of the most biodiverse places in the world
It has three huge mountain ranges running through it
Because of that, you can drive for a couple of hours and be in a completely different biosphere
These mountain ranges mean that different fruits grow at different elevations,
which means you get a huge diversity of different products
I want to try some of this fruit
Look at that, that is a beautiful, looks like an heirloom tomato x 80
Scrumptious looking inside
Here we go
Woah, holy smokes
It’s sour
That sour patch feel that you get when you have that candy,
it’s like really intense
This is an avocado, it’s almost the size of my head
This is like another world
With a little bit of salt on top, haber
Oh my goodness, it’s so good, que rico no?
I thought it was going to be some watered down version of
the avocado because it’s so big, nope
It’s just as good as the small Hass avocados we’re used to eating
I feel like in my life there’s always a shortage of avocados
it’s always like, ooh we have this little thing of guacamole,
make sure not to eat too much because we have to share with everyone
These avocados are just coming off the skin
It’s like butter with little crunchy seeds in it
It’s full of this slimy, wonderful looking weirdness
We literally cracked this thing open like it was an egg
I’m supposed to slurp it up
Oh my goodness
It’s so slimy and so good
Super crunchy as well
These hangy things, they kind of look like sausages, you know they hang sausages
That’s what I thought they were at first
but they’re like a big melon
That’s so wild, it’s so different and weird
It’s like a melon, but it has a strange riff on it
Good, not my favorite
Well, they cut it open and gave me a little piece of this flesh
It’s super, super soft
It’s like gross and slimy
It looks like it has big old seeds in there
Alright, doesn’t look that appetizing, let’s see what happens
Oh my gosh, what?
It’s the weirdest texture I’ve ever tasted in my life
I feel like I’m chewing on cloth, but it’s melting in your mouth
Guanabana is amazing and super delicate
It’s like the flesh of a...it’s like raw meat it almost tastes like, it tastes like raw meat
But it’s sweet and it melts in your mouth as your eating it
Incredible
This is up there with my favorite
It’s a little green... I don’t even know
It’s like a tiny lime, here we go
It’s got this little bit of orange flesh in there
Woah, that’s like a slimy marble
And my tongue feels numb suddenly
They’re such curious looking fruits
I’ve known these to grow in Singapore or Southeast Asia, but apparently they grow here too
This market is a dream
I could be here all day, there’s like dozens of fruits that I didn’t even try today
Colombia is this amazingly diverse country biologically
There’s so many different elevations and different climates
that you get this amazing diversity and density of different types of fruit
You come to this market, you see all of it in one place