How a Fruit Expert Picks & Eats Rare Fruit

How a Fruit Expert Picks & Eats Rare Fruit | Bon Appétit

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Tristan Kwong's expertise has earned him the title of Fruit Sommelier-and he’s visiting the Bon Appétit Test Kitchen to share some of his rare fruit wisdom. From sweetsops and rambutans to mangosteens, sprouted coconuts and many more, learn how to pick and eat some of the less traditional fruits of the world.
Check out Tristan on social at @fruitsomm
Director: Paz Mendez Hodes
Director of Photography: Ben Dewey
Editor: Jared Hutchinson
Creative Producer: Parisa Kosari
Culinary Researcher and Recipe Editor: Vivian Jao
Line Producer: Jen McGinity
Associate Producer: Sahara Pagan
Production Manager: Janine Dispensa
Production Coordinator: Elizabeth Hymes
Camera Operator: Carlos Araujo
Production Assistant: Brianna Figueora
Post Production Supervisor: Andrea Farr
Post Production Coordinator: Scout Alter
Supervising Editor: Eduardo Araújo
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0:00 Rare Fruit Roundup
0:16 Sweetsop
1:30 Rambutan
2:17 Abiu
2:50 Mangosteen
4:30 Sprouted Coconut
5:28 Tamarillo
6:33 Cacao Pod
7:28 Mamey Sapote
8:38 Finger Lime
9:21 Prickly Pear
10:05 Golden Berry
10:41 Pomegranate
11:50 Longan
12:44 Watermelon Guava
13:55 Korean Melon
15:04 Omakase Berry
Director: Paz Mendez Hodes
Director of Photography: Ben Dewey
Editor: Jared Hutchinson
Creative Producer: Parisa Kosari
Culinary Researcher and Recipe Editor: Vivian Jao
Line Producer: Jen McGinity
Associate Producer: Sahara Pagan
Production Manager: Janine Dispensa
Production Coordinator: Elizabeth Hymes
Camera Operator: Carlos Araujo
Production Assistant: Brianna Figueora
Post Production Supervisor: Andrea Farr
Post Production Coordinator: Scout Alter
Supervising Editor: Eduardo Araújo
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@torreykat 10 ай бұрын

I really like these kinds of videos because it gives me more confidence to try the new fruits I sometimes see at the grocery.

@federicorobles3032 10 ай бұрын

In Colombia, we boil the tamarillo/tree tomato in order to peel the skin off, then slice it and use it mostly to prepare juices or smoothies.

@m1sh474 10 ай бұрын

We just throw everything in the blender here in DR and filter the liquid.

@NZKiwi87 10 ай бұрын

We cut them in half and sprinkle them with sugar before scooping out with a spoon and eating - yum!

@m1sh474 10 ай бұрын

how do you cut tamarindos in half?!@@NZKiwi87

@pinkofperfection456 10 ай бұрын

Around the equator! @@m1sh474

@NZKiwi87 10 ай бұрын

@@m1sh474 err with a a knife, widthways?! Pretty self explanatory. Note that these comments are about tamarillos, not whatever tamarindos are (have never heard of those)

@HariNilesh 10 ай бұрын

Sweetsop are called custard apple in India, and they're one of the most fav fruits in the subcontinent during late summers

@melissarains1017 10 ай бұрын

It’s custard apple in Kenya also.

@MrGerry111 10 ай бұрын

btw it's called srikaya in Indonesia

@karjad 10 ай бұрын

Also in Taiwan!

@itsgonnabeanaurfromme 10 ай бұрын

What? It's the SAME FRUIT. Of course it's custard apple EVERYWHERE because you're giving the english name.

@TDPT98 10 ай бұрын

"Mouth fidget spinner" That's gotta be the best way to describe the process of eating these fruits haha

@PrateekLala 10 ай бұрын

Living in Toronto, one of the most culturally diverse cities in the world, means we can find pretty much all of these fruits somewhere in town. 😋

@_Just_Another_Guy 9 ай бұрын

Usually in Asian/Chinese supermarkets

@MedorraBlue 10 ай бұрын

Honestly, the reaction to the sprouted coconut was my favorite 😂

@caraeuler2927 10 ай бұрын

I live in a city with a large asian population with access to Vietnamese, Korean, Chinese, Japanese and Indian grocery. I recently started shopping at these stores for the fruit and happily had my first lychee. This guide will be so useful to me. Thank you

@Isaac-ci5wy 10 ай бұрын

Love fruits, excited for this video ❤️❤️

@vnokesCO 10 ай бұрын

Thank you for showing us all of these fruits & explaining them, especially the taste. Prickly pear syrup is fantastic in a tequila drink, like a margarita.

@kitkatzora 10 ай бұрын

Tristan’s fruit smoothie brings everyone to the yard.

@bayronmoreno9078 10 ай бұрын

Love these videos !! Can’t wait for the next one, thanks Tristan!! 🎉🎉

@vanessathurlow68 10 ай бұрын

lmfao the jacket zip after he gets pomegranate juice on it

@vixlenz 10 ай бұрын

Fabulous, thank you Tristan!!💕💕💕

@OhWellWhatTheHell1 10 ай бұрын

I already eat all my fruit rare, thank you very much

@nancytrobaugh1424 10 ай бұрын

Love his videos! Please create more! Very educational and entertaining!

@yakitatefreak 9 ай бұрын

I had the opportunity to pick some ripe 龍眼 [Longan] in Southern China when I was younger. The taste is absolutely worth it. As for the list of fruits, I've had some of the ones native to Asia, the more common pomegranate, and even the prickly pear. Delicious.

@Pink7omy 9 ай бұрын

Wow! ❤ looks so delicious 😋!

@kabaozi 10 ай бұрын

YAYYY fruitsomm is back 😁

@danielsantiagourtado3430 10 ай бұрын

Love your videos🎉🎉🎉🎉❤❤❤❤❤

@mjfreedivewanderer7470 9 ай бұрын

Out of all the fruits mentioned, 6 of them are quite common here in the Philippines. You can add durian too in your video.

@gnomestyle1873 10 ай бұрын

Great and interesting video, thanks!

@gigar9000 10 ай бұрын

Mangosteen is my favourite fruit on par with the durian.

@noface____ 9 ай бұрын

2:33 i didnt recognize it for the name but as soon as it was cut open i realized what it was. we call it caimito in the peruvian amazon and they used to be my favorite as a kid 😍 the one they had were a little under ripe tbh. we used to eat them when the skin was all yellow. they make your mouth sticky lol

@AnnapolisGirly 9 ай бұрын

Wow, I loved this. Now I have a craving for fruit and will look for more Tristan videos! He’s great!

@bleugaze 10 ай бұрын

This was cool. Could you do jackfruit, soursop, starfruit and kumquat next?

@1NokiaE66 10 ай бұрын

The list can really go on.

@Acentra277 7 ай бұрын

Kennip as well, I never see anyone try them

@wks99 9 ай бұрын

About the Prickly Pears: it's consumed a lot in North Africa: Morocco, Tunisia, and so on... The best to open them is to slice both the tips, but not all the way through, then to section the skin on its length and then you can roll the pulp out of the skin. Then cut it in slices. It's high in fiber.

@marcbromaghim-oropeza3199 10 ай бұрын

Pumped to see the Fruit Somm back!

@vivirahmawati3708 9 ай бұрын

Proud southeast asian here, those rambutan are easy to open with your nails if you can find the space that cuts on the skin. That’s the opening. The long opening that looks like a road or a river between the jungle of “rambut” aka hair in Indonesian.

10 ай бұрын

In Ecuador we actually make hot sauces and salsas with the tree tomato. Of course it’s also great for juices, smoothies and desserts. And we don’t use the rind, we poach them and then take the skin off or it is directly peeled.

@stephenwright414 10 ай бұрын

I like listening to this person! Very fun video

@amandoevano 10 ай бұрын

NICE, these are my favorite videos!!! I’m so excited to see Tristan back!!

@xayapenn 10 ай бұрын

The white unripe guava are great with chili sauce.

@garrettso4256 10 ай бұрын

Great video!

@SCBJQ 9 ай бұрын

I love longans. A Chinese buffet near me always serves them. I can't get enough of them.

@m1sh474 10 ай бұрын

Zapote smoothies are excellent and very filling.

@kaminidandapani9047 9 ай бұрын

This was fantastic!

@AnyaGlover 3 ай бұрын

I love those fruits

@swisski 10 ай бұрын

In New Zealand we often remove the skin by blanching like for a tomato, and then roasted/poached, sprinkled with sugar as a dessert or peeled as above and made into a chutney/relish with onion, vinegar, sugar and some spices such as allspice, star anise and ground coriander. Delicious, but when underripe astringent and sour/bitter.

@SamanthaFierke 3 ай бұрын

I spent some time with my partners Guyanese family and they introduced me to sugar apple and I’ve never been so grateful for a new fruit. They’re delicious

@BethanyGrimes-ol5gs 3 ай бұрын

WOW I gotta try

@lazaruslusanlahis1624 9 ай бұрын

Awesome fruit dish.

@therogue1542 9 ай бұрын

i am now in love with tristan kwong

@dakotac180 9 ай бұрын

I loooove rambutan, prickly pear and pomegranate

@nicolenew1708 8 ай бұрын

THANK YOU

@LostInSpaces 10 ай бұрын

Mamey smoothies are my fave 😋 and please don’t chew on guava’s seeds if you don’t wanna break a tooth 😁

@c.thompson9771 10 ай бұрын

Soursop is like a Strawberry Pinapple. Seriously awesome fruit. Thanks for featuring it! 🎉

@josiahjacinto4156 9 ай бұрын

It was also called guyabano in the Philippines

@_Just_Another_Guy 9 ай бұрын

Guyabano! It tastes like a mildly savoury + tangy apple (and has a texture between an apple and a pineapple)

@josiahjacinto4156 9 ай бұрын

@@_Just_Another_Guy My mom uses the meat to make some kind of shake out of it and added some evap milk to make it even more tastier

@heavypootisspencerguy2266 9 ай бұрын

That’s sweetsop not soursop

@ladysecretz 9 ай бұрын

@@heavypootisspencerguy2266 I was thinking the same thing, tho a sweetsop (we call them custard apples here in Australia) might look similar the flavours are different to a soursop (which I'm surprised that he didn't put into the video).

@kristinnelson-patel442 10 ай бұрын

I used an ISI whipper to infuse golden berry into gin and that became the absolute best gin and tonic I’ve had in my life. Now I do that every year when I start to see them in the grocery store.

@4thejoyofit233 9 ай бұрын

Mamey sapote makes great pumpkin pie filling! No added sugar needed!

@roacealfonso4889 9 ай бұрын

Ayoooo! Fruitsomm's back!!!!

@push935 9 ай бұрын

one of the best jobs ever

@justin4036 10 ай бұрын

This dude has to do an episode on expensive Japanese fruit

@EVEspinosa79 10 ай бұрын

Licuado de Mamey for the win.

@georgekwong9294 10 ай бұрын

Mamey Sapote and giving off sunsets -LOL

@beeoneder6799 10 ай бұрын

Ever seen a Feijoa? Come to New Zealand during fall , you will fall for the taste of that fruit .

@jodibadodi 22 күн бұрын

My grandparents house in the Philippines, we have a lot of Rambutan trees! When they are ripe, we would have family come over to harvest them cuz there is just too much for us eat before the rest would spoil.

@EVEspinosa79 10 ай бұрын

If you peel the prickly fruit and put it in the fridge, they make for amazing snacks when the weather is really hot. And just eat the seeds, come on!

@bastiat691 10 ай бұрын

Mangosteen is by far my favorite fruit

@69cheesyfries 4 ай бұрын

Sweetsop is one of my favourite fruits. We eat it like crazy in India during summer lol. It's second only to mangoes tho

@erikadowdy2382 10 ай бұрын

I Like Him😊

@bonajo13125 4 ай бұрын

You can absolutely eat the bits he scraped off for Korean melons 😅 I love the squishy fleshy middle bits haha 😢

@Beet5090 9 ай бұрын

Rambutans are elite

@dudea3378 10 ай бұрын

Lovely video! A lot of these fruits are rare only in the US, but extremely common in their native regions. Rambutan used to be super expensive here but they started growing them in Mexico so now they're dirt cheap when in season.

@_Just_Another_Guy 9 ай бұрын

Some parts of Mexico has the same kind of climate as Southeast Asia where Rambutans grow naturally. So planting some in Mexico is a great idea because it would be relatively easy to grow there too.

@louisejsb 10 ай бұрын

Interesting he says the pomegranate looks like a geode because there is a mineral named after pomegranate; garnet

@minvin 9 ай бұрын

yummy!!!!!

@colin_g 9 ай бұрын

Curious if the white part of the Cacao Pod is also caffeinated?

@OiishiNoAnko 10 ай бұрын

part two requests: achacha, quandong, cloudberries

@sebacodpy6983 10 ай бұрын

SO MANY FRUITS THAT I NEVER SEEM

@mirar1 10 ай бұрын

"It's more like a mouth fidget spinner" hahaha

@xNoneLikeMe 10 ай бұрын

In Ecuador and Colombia they use tamarillo for hot sauce.

@user-ty6rm4ft3k 10 ай бұрын

White guava is tastier. I wish you would have tried it. They are by far a favorite of my family's

@Siimply.Jessica 7 ай бұрын

I think the sweetsop is related to a jackfruit if I'm not mistaken the pods in a sweet stop are almost identical to a jackfruit and jackfruits supposedly very pudding like a dorian, they have pods on the inside that look just like those pods so these are either related to a jackfruit or Dorian

@Alex2011410136 5 ай бұрын

Tamarillo (we call it Terong Belanda, lit. Dutch Tomato for some reason) is served as a juice in Indonesia. it's certainly more effective to wake people up compared to coffee or lemon. 😂

@natalym7601 5 ай бұрын

The way he said "Mamey" (pronounced MOM-AY in Spanish) made the Cuban in me laugh

@ralkia 10 ай бұрын

Have you ever tried Grod Michel bananas? I've been super interested in trying one

@ralkia 10 ай бұрын

Gros Michel**

@josecabello2849 10 ай бұрын

I’ve tried most of these before and the ones I haven’t tried would definitely love to! 😋

@gam5946 10 ай бұрын

No way he’s back

@emiliecorsiero3660 8 ай бұрын

Fun and poetic fact: in french "golden berry" can be translated to "amour en cage" meaning "love in a cagec because of the transparency of the leaves enclosing the fruit ~

@jpit2107 10 ай бұрын

where did you source these in nyc?

@veerium 9 ай бұрын

As someone that lived with basically surrounded by coconut tree. This is the first time i know that you can eat coconut sprouts. People curiosity at its finest.

@Glee73 7 ай бұрын

i was hoping for a durian somewhere in there.. lol.

@graydensnyder2173 10 ай бұрын

You should have done Duku Longsat!

@karjad 10 ай бұрын

Taiwan has these guavas everywhereeeeee

@user-ut3nn1ey7h 9 ай бұрын

hello ba, the program was with some nice tropical fruits - was surprised with the factory strawberry - wondering if you know the asian dried fruits for apperitif - you have one in the mouth and the pit is still in it. what berries are those in asia. thank you - elle for dino plums

@broadwaywes 10 ай бұрын

Not the May May Sapotay LOOOOL

@sagemidson2033 9 ай бұрын

Every guava tree ive ever seen here in aus has had pink fruit. And theres alot of them around where i live

@thisisbossi 3 ай бұрын

I absolutely love rambutans and hate that the seeds are toxic because... well... they taste delicious.

@brunoborgs 9 ай бұрын

In Brazil, most of these fruits are very easy to find, coconuts are like 0,25 usd

@5SkitzoDancer5 10 ай бұрын

What about lanzones? Best fruit in the Philippines!

@michellegreenspan2866 10 ай бұрын

What about jelly melons? I’m growing them for the first time.

@_Just_Another_Guy 9 ай бұрын

Out of all the fruits on this list, I've eaten sweetsop, rambutan, pomegranate, longan, and guava. If you get the chance, you should also try jackfruit. They're incredibly naturally sweet almost like sugar and they have a sweet aroma. I also love papaya, especially cold papaya during the hot summers.

@bonaface 9 ай бұрын

except they have an aroma of onions/feet mixed with cantaloupes. please don't try to mislead the people.

@giraffestreet 9 ай бұрын

One of Southeast Asia's exotic fruit that is pretty underrated to me is Rose Apple or in Indonesia it's called Jambu Air. Which tastes slightly sweet, tart, and watery.

@hailongnguyen1005 9 ай бұрын

@@bonafaceI really don't think he tried to mislead anyone. That's probably how he genuine feel about the fruit. I've enjoyed jack fruit my entire life and your description of the smell is like the first time I see someone make that comparison.

@patshoelace1937 10 ай бұрын

Can someone link the tee Tristan is wearing?? Fire

@B34STIFIED 10 ай бұрын

Kinda sad that BA couldn’t reserve the test kitchen for this. Hated the background noise and stuff going on. This guy should’ve had the respect. He’s very knowledgeable

@purerachet7715 10 ай бұрын

I think it is kinda funny when they do this. They do it all the time when Brad films and he rolls with it.

@lordherjules 10 ай бұрын

@@purerachet7715 yushh