Did you know that limes that you get at the store are sold unripe?
Yeah. If you let a lime sit on the tree longer, it turns yellow.
I don't know why people don't eat the yellow ones.
I'm guessing that the green ones probably would last longer. Like you can see limes in the store,
I'm sure they are there for like months, you know for a very long time. I think this would probably go bad sooner.
Not that soon, but I don't know. I have no idea why we have green ones and we don't have yellow ones.
But I'm gonna get to the bottom of it.
I'm going to try both of these and see if that is actually a good idea.
And by the way, these were sent to me by Bruce again. Bruce has been very kind sending me fruit in the mail.
So again, thank you very much Bruce. Okay, so let me try a little wedge of this green lime.
All right.
*intense sour reaction*
That's a tasty lime.
Well, that's really good. I think these might be -
yeah, I think these are key limes because it's got a nice flavor to it.
Oh, yeah.
Scale of one to ten where ten is a lemon, it's probably - I don’t think
it’s as tart as a lemon, but very close. It's like a nine and a half. So way up there.
Flavor is really good. It's got a nice
strong
lime flavour. That’s probably
the best lime I’ve ever had,
Super, super good flavor. You could tell that somebody cared about it.
Like Bruce is growing this like in his garden, you know, he's growing this because he cares about it.
It's not being sold to markets where they're just like picking whatever. So let me try the yellow one.
The inside of the yellow one is yellow. It’s actually yellow throughout.
So the green one has a green tinge on the inside.
The yellow one has a yellow tinge on the inside. The yellow one is a little bit bigger.
So I guess it grew a little bit longer on the tree. That makes sense.
It's still sour but it's not giving me pain when I bite it. This is more like
a seven out of ten and that might be why
these are picked unripe.
But honestly,
that's really good.
It's got a nice sweetness to it. More sweetness than the lime. It's not like a lot.
But you know a regular lime is maybe like a 1 or 2. This is more like a 3, a little bit more sweet.
Milder flavour.
I guess because of it’s not green,
you're not getting any of that green limey kind of flavor to it, if that makes any sense.
It reminds me a little bit of a lemon.
And a little bit of like - maybe like an orange but it's unique. I mean, it doesn't really -
it's hard to say that what that
reminds me of.
Because I mean it is a lime. It tastes like a lime, but if you tweaked with it, you know.
It's less sour, a little more sweet. The flavor
is different. You know limes have
kind of like a green flavor to them for being unripe.
This doesn't have that. It's maybe a little bit more like a lemon in that way.
But it doesn't exactly tastes like a lemon either. Altogether, this is delicious. This is really good. It is -
I don't know if I like it better or worse than the green one. I think out of hand
I definitely like this better.
Because it’s not like overwhelmingly sour, so if you wanted to do something with limes, it's a little bit more subtle.
Like put it in
salsa, or like a fresh ingredient where you might want a lot of citrus, I would totally do this.
If you want to just use a little sprig of or like a little teeny little bit of
lime in something to give it sourness, then the green one makes more sense.
But I think anywhere that you would use a green lime, you can replace that with a yellow one and get
probably a nicer flavour.
You just have to maybe use more of it.
If you want to get that same sourness or if you don't like sour things, but you want something to have
a lime flavor in it, I would use this instead. You know, put it on
fish, put it in a cocktail, put it in a drink.
Make lemon meringue pie out of it or key lime pie rather.
But use the yellow ones and you got like a whole different flavor to kind of play with.
So if you like limes, check out a yellow one if you have the opportunity because it's something really good and something different.
But still will give you the things that you like about
regular limes.
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