So I have just been walking around the streets here in
Mexico City and
one of the
landscaping trees not that one, but one of the landscaping trees here happened to have
these growing, these ice cream bean fruits, which is pretty interesting, because like I've been to
God, I don't know, 12 markets since I've been here. This is like towards the end of my trip and
I haven't seen these anywhere, but I just like passed by a tree and I just see these like all over the ground
I'm like, oh, okay. So I knew that these grew here, but I figured like, maybe not in this region
Or they weren't in season, but apparently people don't really
eat them. So much at least
in Mexico City or so, I would believe but they are a
popular ornamental tree.
My guess is that these might be the same species that I actually found recently in
my
City. In, in New York City near my house. There's a a shop that sells a lot of fruit
That seems like it's been fruitlegged, you know, like people brought it over the border illegally.
So that would make sense because most of their fruit is coming from Mexico,
I believe. The video I took of that fruit is gone because my laptop was stolen with that footage on it
I took a picture before I lost my laptop
This one looks different just because it is lumpy and the other one was smooth
Which might just be the ripeness of it or it could be that it's a different species altogether
but it like
Overall, it does look similar. I like just foraged it. So there might be like a few differences because of that
These are not grown for flavor, but let's see if it is still
delicious. Inside it,
Case you don't remember my last video an ice cream bean where I had three different species other than this one
They look like little cotton balls on the inside
Let me just take one of these guys out
That's interesting. The seed on the inside is green. And the last ones that I had all three species were black on the inside
The flesh comes off the seed like rather easily the texture isn't as good because it's very mealy
But again, this is not grown to be eaten. This was grown to be a landscaping plant, so I guess that makes sense
The flavor is still pretty good.
The flavor
Is actually a little ice creamy, its creamy and has like a little bit of a vanilla kind of taste to it
but what's
not as much as the
Gigantic one that I reviewed in Bolivia that one or Colombia
That one was very ice cream-like. This one is like a little ice cream
it's because it does have a creamy taste but
The mealiness kind of like takes away from that
it
has a
Interesting taste to it though, which is a little bit like cinnamon. A vanilla ice cream with cinnamon in it. It kind of tastes like that
It's actually pretty good
You know, like the texture is like not so good and I'm going to say that's probably because of the soil conditions
You know just like being ground in, you know, Mexico City like whatever soil
Rather than you know cultivated for the fruit. It's probably because of that
It doesn't like grow super properly but, no despite that texture. The taste is actually quite good
It's got nice sweetness to it
It's not like you know
crazy sweet like candy or anything not as sweet as the ones I had before. It's a maybe like
six or seven out of ten, you know a little bit sweeter than like the sweetness you get from like
I don't know the sweet you get from like an apple?
I love ice cream beans and it's interesting to try another another species
So I'm not sure if I've had this one or not. It might be the one that had in New York, but
Just trying it like picked wild like this
It is a little bit different just for like the texture but it does taste similar to it. So I'm not too sure but
Yeah, always fun to find more ice cream beans laying around
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