Hello and welcome to in the kitchen with Matt, I am
your host, Matt Taylor.
Today, I have another fruit to share with you and to do
a taste test.
I'm going to be talking about the kumquat, so I'm going to
show you how to eat.
It gives them health benefits of it and tell you where they
come from and where they grow.
So this is the kumquat.
I got a nice little pile here that I bought from the Asian
market near my house every once in a while.
I like to go down there.
It's called the Mekong Market in the Mekong Plaza.
I like to go down there and shop around and see what new
fruits do they have available.
And so I found several that I wanted to showcase here
on the show.
And this is the kumquat and the kumquat.
Here's a closer look at it is a little citrus fruit and it
looks like an oblong orange and it is part of the
citrus family.
And they come from or they are native to China, but have long
since been cultivated in like Japan and Taiwan, India,
the Philippines, in Europe and other places of the world,
North America, in California and Florida, to name a few of
the places that they grow.
Also in the Caribbean.
And there's other places that I probably forgot to mention,
but they grow all over the place and they're actually a
little bit more hardy than that orange as far as
growing them goes.
And it's just a neat little fruit,
little citrus fruit.
And one thing that's unique about these is these are one of
the citrus fruits that you eat, the whole thing peel
and all the oranges.
You don't eat the peels or lemons.
You don't eat the peels unless you like candy them.
And but with these, you just eat them fresh.
And a lot of times you can just pop them in your mouth
just like that.
And you can eat the seeds, too, if you want.
It's a really, really cool fruit.
I've had these in the past and so this is not my first
time eating these.
And and what you'll want to do is you are going to wash them
and dry them first and then you'll eat them.
But we go but before a.
Cut into wine and eat it, I want to mention some of the
health benefits that they have so they are low in calories,
low in carbs there.
There's no fat, no sodium in them, and they're high in
vitamin C and they have a lot of antioxidants in them.
So it's a very nutritious citrus fruit.
All right, and then to eat it, like I guess I just wash it and
then you just pop this whole thing in your mouth if
you want.
But where you can also do is you can just come in here
and cut it.
I want to show you what it looks like in the
middle anyway.
And it's just got this little citrusy look on the inside and
there's like five different compartments.
And then if you want to, you can just dig out
any little seeds.
But like I mentioned.
The seeds are edible and you can crunch down on them if you
want or just dig them out.
I usually just eat everything with the seeds and everything.
And for those of you who like planting seeds and whatnot,
this is one fruit, where does it really grow?
Well, from seed.
So you'd want to buy some kind of a sapling, but here you go.
And then you just pop this in your mouth.
And I will mention that it's kind of interesting.
This is kind of like the opposite of an orange
on the inside.
The flesh is more sour and then the skin, the peel or the rind
is where the sweetness comes from.
And so it's a blend of sweet and tart.
And sometimes depending on the one that you buy, it might be a
little bit more tart or a little bit more sweet
than the others.
So just pop it in my mouth.
Mm hmm.
I love these.
Like, when you first bite into it, you crunch down,
it squeezes the juice on the inside into your mouth
and it's tart.
It's like a sour orange type flavor or mix between an orange
and a lemon.
And it just kind of gets you kind of tanginess hits your
tongue and you're like, well, this is kind of tart.
And then as you eat the peel, all of a sudden a burst of
sweetness comes in there and it blends together for a really,
really tasty fruit.
I love these.
Uh.
So there you have it, one of my favorite citrus fruit,
the kumquat.
Have you ever tried a kumquat drop a comment down below and
let me know what you think about them.
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Time for me to eat another one.
Oh, yeah.
mmm mmm mmm