I hope you don't have trypophobia,
because this is kind of scary-looking.
When you look at it up close, lots of like little holes,
but this is a pretty bizarre... Fruit.
It's called Kousa Dogwood,
and I actually foraged this.
This isn't something that you can buy at stores usually.
It's got like a really really bad shelf life like once you pick it; you should eat it.
It's normally grown as an ornamental tree,
so if you go to like a lot of parks, this will just be growing like everywhere. I actually picked these in Central Park.
It's actually an Asian fruit though, if you go to Japan or like China.
People will pick these and will eat them. It's like a normal normal thing. You might find like a few vendors selling it,
but it's usually just something that people will come across and just like pick off and eat.
The flavor of these fruits varies quite a lot tree by tree,
so if you are foraging for them, it's kind of recommended that you pick one and you try it,
and if it tastes good, that's a good tree,
but sometimes it tastes really really bitter and acrid,
so you don't want those. You also want to make sure it's ripe. To tell that it's ripe it should
Yield under pressure. These actually are known to...
To get damaged on the tree just from bumping into other fruits on the tree or just like the branches of the tree,
so they are they are quite fragile.
You don't want to eat it if it falls. You want to go to the tree and just pick it off.
If it comes off the stem easily, that means it's ready. Basically, if you have to force it off,
It might not be completely ripe.
Almost looks like kind of like a lychee. When these are young they actually are like very ridge-y, like there's these little um...
These little bumps stick out quite drastically. If it's really bumpy like that; You don't want it.
You want to be like, little bumpy,
but you know like mostly like smooth where you can run a finger across it. You can eat the skin, but
It's not supposed to be very good, so most people will just like break it open and eat inside
So I'll do that first, but I'll try the skin as well just to see what it tastes like.
I'm just going to break this open.
It comes apart pretty easily.
The inside is kind of like custard-y, and I don't know if you can see it, but there's quite a lot of seeds there.
I heard that in each one of these little holes, there is actually
Four seeds. I actually don't know if that's true;
doesn't seem like there's that many seeds in here, but I heard that somewhere. It comes out pretty easily, just like that. Basically just mush,
so if you want to eat it if you kinda, just like squeeze it out of the fruit, and then
try it.
Hmm
It's good!.. hmm
You know, it was actually really good. The texture is kind of gross. It's got like a
grittiness to it. I think towards the skin is where it's sandy,
so if you just like suck out the middle and don't really go digging around like for the last little bits of fruit, um,
that would be pretty good. It tastes like a little bit like,
like a very mild like apricot.
Yeah, something like a peach or an apricot. It tastes like that.
When you're eating it, you don't want to eat the seeds. The seeds are, um,
inedible so that probably... I don't know if it'll poison you, but it's probably not good for your digestion. Now this I think is going to
be pretty gross. I mean that, I mean, if not the flavor just the texture of this is very like rough,
but you can eat it, so let's see.
Ahck
*spitting*
It's awful, um...
Yeah, don't eat the skin. I mean, even if you can, it's really bitter, and
the texture is really awful. It's like leathery and
sandy and gritty, and it tastes bad.
Let me try this one that is... It doesn't seem like it's completely ripe just to see if it's okay.
So I'm going to break that open.
Yeah, it's a little um... It looks okay in the middle, but it's a little drier. It's not as juicy.
It's okay, but the the flavor isn't as strong, so I think you can eat it, but
I mean if you can get like the ones that are just like bright dark,
or that are like this kind of red, this very like dark red, compared to like one that has like some yellow to it,
Go for this. So yeah, that is Kousa Dogwood. It's a very interesting fruit.
It's it looks really weird. If you got trypophobia you might want to avoid it, but otherwise try it out.
It's got a real nice flavor,
decent texture. Avoid the skin and the flesh near the skin, and you'll be okay. Thanks for watching.
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