Greetings everybody!
I am today with a very interesting fruit
That was kindly sent to me by Brian.
Brian, thank you very much.
Brian sent me several very, very rare and
Interesting fruits and I'm really excited
About these ones, they're things that
I haven't even heard about and yeah.
So let's jump into the first one
The common name for this in the
Area that it grows is "Musho"
However, the Latin name or binomial name
Scientific name is...
"Jaltomata cajacayensis"
If you've watched my channel at all
You know that I'm really, really bad
at pronouncing things.
So, I've actually looked into this and
On the Wikipedia page, they address
The pronunciation of this one specifically
And say that there's some confusion and
Some debate on how to
Pronounce it correctly
Mexican botanists generally
Pronounce the "J" as in the "J" in
Mexican Spanish, so that would mean
This would be...
"Haltomata cahacayensis"
That would be one way
But in fact, more guttural like
The German "CH"
So...
"Chaltomata?"
The original author was a German
So presumably, he would have
Pronounced it with an English "Y"
"Yaltomata"
...I don't know, I don't know what to do
So I'm just going to do what I usually do
And pronounce it wrong, so
This is
"Jaltomata cajacayensis"
I am sorry everybody.
If you look online, you can find a
Few different webstores that are selling
Seeds of this fruit, so
It is out there, you can find it
However, none of these sites really give
Any good information about this plant
There's very little written about it
All I keep seeing is that
"Little is known about this fruit"
That phrase. "Little is known about-
-This fruit"
So I did some digging on it and
I found one resource that actually
Reproduced an essay that was written
By the person who found this
Well, for science
"Thomas Mione"
This is really interesting, I'll actually
Put a link to this in the description
Below if you wanna read the whole thing
I'll read the part where he finds it.
I just love that! Reading the excitement
that somebody has finding a new species
of plant. This is a fairly new to science
species. People have been eating this for
a long time, but the classification on
this is very new. What is interesting
about Thomas Mione is that if you
go to the list of species in the, I am going to try to say it a bit better
Jaltomata genus almost all of them
are documented by him so this is a fairly
undocumented, until recently, species of fruit, Genus of fruit rather.
This is in the Solanaceae family.
So that is in the same family as tomatoes
are from but it is in a different genus.
so I am curious if this is going to have
any similarity whatsoever to tomatoes.
Yeah, I can see a vague resemblance to
a teeny tiny pea sized tomato, maybe.
So, here it goes. Try it.
Oh my god!
I am hit with so many different flavors
right now, I am not sure where to start.
Let me try another one. They're good.
Let's start there. Next lets break down the sweetness and sourness.
Sweetness is more than a tomato,
but I"d say it is a 4 out of 10
It is a little bit less than an apple.
They are not really tart.
There is maybe a hint of tartness there
but not much. So maybe a 1 out of 10
or 2 out of 10
So I just bit one in half, you can see
the seeds in there. They are teeny
tiny little seeds but it does resemble a
tomato, a tomato that you just shrunk down
The flavor on it is unique, but not that
out of the ordinary. I would put this in
the same department as a cape gooseberry.
It tastes quite similar to that, but a
little bit different. I have eaten a few
of these, some of them have a little more
of a savory tomato flavor in them. Some
of them have less. It might be a ripeness
thing. I am not entirely sure. The savory
tomato taste that it has is not very
savory. It is like a slightly savory
tomato taste. It is more like what you
would get from a cape gooseberry,
where it is more of the fruit side of
a tomato than the savory side of the
tomato. You would not want to make a
tomato sauce out of these. It would taste
way too fruity. It would not taste savory
enough, it would be more of a sweet.
There is a little bit of extra notes in
there that you may or may not get
from a Cape Gooseberry. Maybe a touch
of pineapple flavor, like a muted
pineapple flavor, a touch of vanilla taste
They are maybe a bit like Lulo, which is
another tomato relative. Those taste a
little bit like an orange I suppose. It is
difficult to compare fruit to other fruit
sometimes because this is a unique
thing. It does not taste exactly like any
of those things I mentioned
but it does share certain similarities
with them. The most similarities that it
shares with any fruit would be the
Cape Gooseberry, but there it definitely
has its own uniqueness there. This is the
sort of thing that I can can see people
really liking this if it was sold in a
little container next to the blueberries.
You can take and sprinkle these on
your oatmeal or ice cream or cereal or
whatever like you would do with a
blueberry. But, It would give a completely
different flavor. The flavor is nothing
like that but it has the same sort of size
so you would use it in the same sort
of applications as that. The Cape
Gooseberry, they are a little too big
for that. You know, you wouldn't want
to throw a whole bunch of goose berries
on your granola. It would be like eating
little grape tomatoes in texture. These
ones are small and convenient. So it has
even more of a use than Cape Gooseberries
cause they are a little easier to utilize.
This is incredibly interesting to try.
It is a genus I have never even heard
of but has similarities to things I have
had in the past. It is something that has
a long history but is only recently found
for science. Which is really cool.
Yeah, So once again Thank you so
much Brian for sending this to me,
and Thanks everyone for watching.
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