Greetings everybody!
So, it's time for another 'top ten best fruit in the world' episode.
Now, for those who don't know, I've spent the past seven years travelling around the world, reviewing fruit.
I've been to 25 countries, as I film this, and I just finished my 400th episode reviewing fruit.
That's a lot!
And, I'm going to do things a little bit differently this time.
In order to keep things a little more fresh, I'm only going to be counting things in this top ten video
that I've done since the last top ten video that I did.
So watch that top ten video for everything up to episode 200.
And this top ten video is for everything between 200 and 400.
And then err, next time it'll be 4 to 6 hundred
if I'm still doing this which I probably will be.
When you think about fruit, bran muffin is not usually a flavour profile that you would expect.
But that's what you get with the lala palm.
Not only do these things do these things taste almost exactly like a sweet bran muffin,
they also kind of look like them too.
These oddly shaped fruits grow in Madagascar and they're so hard and so fibrous
that it's actually kind of hard to eat them.
But there is something very satisfying about gnawing on these things.
It's got a little bit of a dry raisin taste, a little bit of a bran flake taste... rasin bran!
Just like a bran muffin.
And the winner of the fruit that really should be in supermarkets, but isn't, is this one right here.
The chilean guava would fit in perfectly in the berry section of a supermarket
right next to blueberries and strawberries and all that.
And it kind of tastes like if you were to take all of the berries in the berry section
and mix them together.
They are in the same family as the guava and they were supposedly Queen Victoria's favourite fruit.
I think she was onto something because these things are amazing!
So, we're going to break this down into
understandable flavours.
We've got blueberries, we've got stawberries,
we've got orange peel, we've got maybe like a little bit of black pepper...
maybe a little bit of oregano.
So this could totally be something that could be cultivated and sold at a supermarket...
but it's not!
White sapote is a native to Mexico and Central America and sometimes they can be found
at supermarkets in California!
Unfortunately the majority of the world, besides that, is out of luck.
These fruits have a creamy consistency kind of like pudding and this incredible
complex yet mild flavour.
Imagine like banana pudding with a little bit of coconut, a little bit of pineapple,
a little bit of vanilla.
Yeah, that's actually incredibly good.
The one and only fruit on this list that is native to my country,
is also one you will sadly never see at stores.
Thimbleberries are super concentrated with flavour and have a nice tartness to them.
And they can fit on your finger like a thimble!
They taste a little bit like if you were to cross raspberries
and strawberries together.
They're pretty good in a jam,
and that's usually how they are used.
But they're even better fresh.
But, unfortunately, they are so fragile and so
perishable that if you want to eat them fresh, you have to go pick them yourself.
It reminds me of like...
the flavour you get from a
like a strawberry or raspberry sorbet.
Where it's almost like a little bit more concentrated.
Syzygiums are a genus of fruit that has over a thousand different species in it.
You can find these in tropical areas all around the world and the fruits are generally pretty tasty.
But most of them are very mild.
Several of these species have the common name 'rose apple' and are said to have a floral taste.
But, honestly, the majority of them do not really live up to that name.
Except for one!
This particular rose apple with the scientific name 'Syzygium jambos' is very small,
but has a very strong rose flavour.
And it would be incredibly useful in making a floral-tasting jam or
be used to cook with, make an ice cream out of it.
There is so many possibilities for this little fruit.
It does actually taste like your eating rose petals.
The flavour of the baobab fruit isn't really top ten material, but then why can't I stop eating it?
Objectively, this shouldn't really be on this list.
But, when I think about any particular fruit that I've eaten over the years, if I can just transport one into
my hand, at any point in time, most of the time it would probably be a baobab.
There's something so satisfying about eating this powdery fruit.
If the fruit itself doesn't win you over, then the
almond-like seeds on the inside will.
Just, don't eat them together becuase, for some reason, they taste really good seperate
but when you eat the seeds and the fruit together, it just doesn't work.
Not everybody likes this fruit but I actually like it a lot!
It tastes like... yogurt and a little bit sour, like lemons.
So, it reminds me a lot of having a lemomn yogurt.
This get number four on my list, even though the one that I had, had a worm in it.
And that is saying something!
Mammee apple may look kind of like the mamey sapote,
but they are not related and they taste completely different.
Mammee apple has a very strong fruit flavour that is reminiscent of mango and apricot.
But also with a very floral taste to it.
Worm or not, this is definetly one of the best fruits I've ever eaten.
I'm reluctant to say, just given that these bugs have gotten to it, is that I actually really like this.
Weird.
Yeah, that's good stuff!
I've reviewed so many mangoes over the years, that I've lost count.
And everytime I review any mango, I will always consistently get comments
from people, living in different countries, telling me that I know absoulutely nothing
about what I am talking about because I haven't had mangoes from their countries.
And, I'd say, about half of those people are people who are living in India.
Well fine! So I went to India and I ate six different mangoes there and
you're right!
Indian mangoes are incredibly good.
There are flavours in these mangoes that I have not tasted in any other fruit.
They are so unlike mangoes that I get at supermarkets where I live.
Although I had a lot of really tasty ones when I was there, there was one that I thought
really shined above all the others and that was the 'Hamam Mango'.
This one is creamy white on the inside, super sweet and extremely musky.
It's so different tasting, that if someone were to give me a piece of this and not tell me if it was a mango...
I don't think I would think it was a mango.
After seven years of reviewing fruit, I thought I knew everything there was to know about mangoes...
but then I go to India and I try this mango and it changed everything.
What is that?! Umm.
This is.. I feel weird even calling this a mango.
Here's another weird one that I first found while I was in India.
'Bull's heart' is a relative to some of my favourite fruits.
(Fruits such as) the atemoya, the pawpaw, the rollinia, the cherimoya, the sugar apple...
But this one separates itself from the other ones I've had because it's texture and flavour is almost excatly like coconut yogurt.
I'm not sure if this is my favourite of this type of fruit but (it) is one that is WAY up on my list for being so unique.
So I've been separating out these seed... just kind of like digging them out of
the fruit with this fork here.
Just in that action of digging these out, I have basically just liquifyed this
pulp. This pulp doesn't have a lot of intergrity.
So it became actually more yogurt-like now, not just flavourwise but the consistency after just
a little bit of stirring with a fork turns into yogurt.
If I had to choose one type of fruit that is my favourite,
it would be Garcinias.
The only one that seems to show up at markets in my country, the USA,
is the purple mangosteen which are good
but not anywhere as amazing as some of it's relatives.
The first time I did a top ten video, a Garcinia, the achacha, made it to number one.
The second time I made a top ten video, that fruit was number two.
Well, since I decided not to include old reviews in this list, I will not be including the achacha.
However, I don't think I really need to.
I have had Garcinias since then that are at least as good as the achacha, if not better!
And one that especially stands out to me is this one.
I'm not sure excatly what this one is, but I found it for sale in a market in the Bolivian Amazon.
And I think it might be 'Garcinia intermedia' but I'm not excatly sure.
The flavour on this is similar to the achacha, only sweeter.
So, it's kind of like if you were to take purple mangosteen and the achachairu and mix them together.
Or, if you haven't either of those,
it's like if you look a purple mangosteen, that kind of like that amazing, intense, sort of like grape but
really much, much better than grape flavour and mixed it with a little bit of like
a little citrus taste. A little lemon juice or something.
But better!
Well, that's about it guys. I guess I will be making another one of these
when I hit episode 600.
Which is just insane to think about but I never thought we would be getting to 400 either and here we are!
So it's been a wild ride.
If you didn't see any of my past top ten videos, go take a look at those and I will see you next time.