Should we do more fruit/veggie based taste tests?

Growing up the youngest of nine kids on a farm, I was the official family “persimmon tester.” When unripe, the taste is so sour it would lock your jaws. Love this taste test, do more!

I love when she tastes first and isn't too fond and immediately adjusts her facial expression so that Andrew will not see. Lol.

Persimmons and lychees are some of my top favorite fruits but they have to be ripe to truly be amazing

Exotic fruits are pretty common in our household. Just FYI: Rambutan is red when it is fresh. Dark brown means it's old, so the flavor is going to be different (and not in a good way). Even ripe, however, it is a very mild fruit (not our favorite). It will not ripen once off the tree. Starfruit tastes amazing when it's more orange with darker edges (as you described). Sweet, flavorful and very juicy. Cactus Pears come in a number of varieties. Our favorite is the large green ones, which have a fresh, juicy melon flavor. The others we find pretty bland. Don't chew the seeds, just basically squish it around inside your mouth and swallow everything. We can eat those by the buckets. Lychees are our #1 fruit, but there are a number of varieties and they are all slightly different. Our local big box store carries the worst tasting lychee possible. They should be completely sweet (and yes, floral), with no brown on the skin (that means they are old) and they should feel like they almost have a bounce to them when you press on them. If they give, they are old. And they taste terrible when they are old. They do not ripen once off the tree. We open them by peeling the stem at the top (then we suck the juice out before it spills - the best part!) and then peel or even crack the skin down the lychee. They taste best when refrigerated. Persimmons in our household are preferred crunchy. We eat them like apples, skin and all. Never knew people didn't eat the skin. It would be great to have more videos that talk about different varieties of produce, including different varieties of vegetables like tomatoes or carrots etc. They all taste different and can be used for different purposes (especially tomatoes). These can often be found at farmer's markets and can add take vegan dishes to the next level. The varieties we are used to in stores are not there because of flavor or quality, but because it does well mass-produced and sits well on the shelves. The more we are aware of the amazing varieties out there (just look up apples for example) then hopefully that will create more demand for quality products that actually taste like the fruit was meant to taste like.

Andrew’s face, reactions and comments are the best.

Omg u guys should go to an Asian grocery store and buy vegan snacks! I go really often with my parents and they have a huge selection (just read the ingredients of stuff ofc)

Haha quenepas are pronounced “ke-ne-pas” loved those growing up. They’re plentiful in puertorico. My grandmother would make me sit to eat them because she was so scared I’d choke on the pit and Puerto Rican grandmothers are so paranoid to begin with. They’re so yummy when they’re sweet but terrible when they aren’t.

Persimmons are one of my favorites! My friend likes them super hard like that but I prefer them very ripe. They will get very juicy and sweet. Definitely give those another try!

Andrew being Jamaican, you should know tamarind 😆

0:20 Andrew, thank you. You are truly stepping out of your comfort zone for us and we really appreciate it!

I love watching you guys! The honest reactions make me laugh and brighten my day. Thanks for sharing your fruit experience lol!

i grew up eating most of those fruits, i only ate apples and grapes when i was older, as a child i only saw them in books. ahaha

This is exactly what my family did for me for my birthday! no cake or anything needed, my gifts were most of what you had and a few more fruits, and then I gave everyone a piece of some and read off of google where they came from/history/origin of it! it was awesome, the best birthday I have had!

Okay I just started watching and I see quenepas!!! So excited.

The persimmon should be soft and jelly like on the inside. They are incredibly sweet. If they are picked too soon in the wild, they can make the inside of your mouth pucker. I believe they have to be picked after the first frost. The star fruit should have been a little riper as well, I think. I would have waited to slice that until the spines were browner and the fruit was a golden yellow. I LOVED this video and would love to see more. I also think the pear cactus might not have been completely ripe. The ones I have had have been very sweet. Please do more taste tests like this but I also love your regular videos.

I enjoyed this video. Especially the all the Caribbean fruit. Andrew his childhood showed up .. it was dope !

Omg, the facial expressions! 🤣🤣🤣 p.s. lychee is great. 😉

I had a Santa Claus/Christmas melon on Christmas last year and it was the best melon I've ever tasted. You gotta try it again when it's more ripe and in season. It's truly amazing.

Donut peaches are my FAVORITE!!! When Trader Joe’s has them they come in plastic packs of 4 and I buy them ALL on my weekly fruit trips in the summer!!!

I've definitely never tried most of these! I wouldn't even know how to eat some of them LOL Andrew's hatred of basically everything cracks me up. Y'all are so fun.

Here in Mexico we do something called "aguas frescas" is similar to a juice but it's not the exact same thing, so with the tamarind we boiled it, then we let the water sit for a few hours until is cold, then we smash the tamarind with our hands, then we drain the water, we put it a jug and lastly we add sugar (as much as you like). It taste so delicious when it has ice cubes and is hot outside. (Also, sorry if my English is bad 😅)

I'm so shocked you guys are not that excited with trying new fruits!! I always get so excited to see all the options and how beautiful they are!

In Trinidad (Caribbean) we call it tamarind/tambran. And it's usually made into candy or a sweet and spicy sauce. There's a popular snack made with it ....on a stick. Banderilla ....this may be where you remember it from. Yellow and red packaging. And the one you know as Ginep....we call it Chenette.

Tamarinds are used in a lot of candy and cooking. It's used in my favorite chutney.

8:10 Passion fruit is one of those few real exotic fruits I tried and I must say, it is so nice! Tart but sweet and extremely aromatic! I love it with yoghurt and granola! Also, the more wrinkly the outside is the sweeter it will be :)

You've added six new foods to your diet. That's awesome. This was such a fun video and you two are really fun people. =)

Those peaches you have are associated with heaven in Japanese mythology. They are called 'momo'. Apricots and peaches both originate in China, although they have travelled to other territories, with time, and are grown in many places around the world. I like this video. Today most fruit isn't tasty to people because we are used to heavy cream desserts and can't really find excitement from fresh fruit /but i like it/. Passionfruit week is starting here. Stay well!

Passion fruit is amazing!

Love your channel 💕. Next time would you get some close-up B-roll to edit in while you chat about it? Would love to be able to get a good view of the things you're eating💕.

I know this channel is food centered, but I would absolutely love a video on the care tips for your plants in the background 😍 they are so beautiful and healthy!! Love the video, as always 😊

I don't know how I got here but I love you two ❤

Great job exposing us to exotic fruits. Thank you. I would love to see more of these videos.

When he said it sounded like a cockroach I died😂😂😂 cmon man LOL

Big upps to u and ur empress ...channel is fire 🔥

As a Haitian 🇭🇹 girl growing up in Florida we always had Ginep around😁 especially during those hot 🥵 summer days. Thanks guys u brought back sooo many memories 🙏🏾😊😊

More fruits and veggies. This was fun.

Loved this. Guineps, passion fruit, tamarind, lychees, starfruit with the skin (Jimbalin (sp?) in Jamaica) - I had all of these growing up in Jamaica. Lychees are awesome.

This was so much fun to watch! I'd never heard of donut peaches until I moved to Germany a few years ago, but now they're one of my favorites. I'm glad you liked them too. I had one at home already, so after watching the video I tried the trick where you push the pit through to make a hole, and it worked! Maybe the peach needs to be riper. I'd love to see more of these videos. If you can find one, I recommend trying a pomelo. It's kind of like a giant grapefruit, but it's sweeter and pale yellow. Another one I first ate in Germany!

Glad you guys did this one. There are so many fruit I walk by in grocery stores.

Enjoyed this video! It is Cool to learn about different fruits that I have not know about before.

The thing after the peach is quenepas. They are THE BEST. Grew up eating them in Puerto Rico. Tamarind and passion fruit are both delicious but an acquired taste. Tamarind is also used more for cooking, juice, etc. than eating it straight up. I've only ever had starfruit as a garnish on a drink.

I think persimmons are best tasting when they are ripe to a pudding like consistency. Like the skin starts to dent when you pick it up. Especially with hachiya persimmons, since they are very astringent and bitter when not fully ripe. I do prefer fuyu though. Last fall I made a lot of persimmon preserves.

Andrew makes reference to living in Jamaica but I feel like he remembers nothing 😂😂😂😂 Tamarind balls are popular after school snacks for young children. Passion fruit grows wild all over the country. Guineps are a whole treat when you're eating a dozen at a time😂😂

Tamarind is often used in Indian cooking. Dissolve in water and remove seeds. Adds tartness to food like some lentils.

Watching Andrew carry on eating the passion fruit was amazing!! 😄

Omg, I have tried all those things, you are going to be surprised and pleased. You have a lot of just fruits. Enjoy!

That prickly pear was definitely not ripe. These grow wild on my island and they are delicious. All those spots have very tiny prickly needles. They are so small that u can feel them in ur fingers but u can barely see them. To get them off we burn them and then cut in half n scoop or just bit into it. The tamarind is something I want to try now. Thanks guys

I have always eaten Star fruit with the skin on.

Korean Melon, Eating the skin together is very effective in constipation. also eat seeds and pulp. There are many different melons in Korea. In particular, frog pattern korean melons are famous.

This was a really fun video.

I eat persimmons when in season, with the skin. Ripe fruit often has brown spots in them, it's just the sugars in them so nothing to worry about.

I love Tamarinds. I ate them for the first time a few months ago. I eat them when I have a candy craving. It's natural 🥰

Am a Jamaican love making starfruit with ginger every Sunday Andrew you should you that man say a star fruit lol hahahah love ❤️ all your videos 💕💕💕 one love guys where are mi Caribbean people at 🇯🇲🇯🇲🇯🇲🇯🇲🇯🇲🇯🇲🇯🇲🇯🇲

This video makes me so happy that my husband will eat any (vegan) food I put in front of his face. I couldn't be with a picky eater no matter how chocolatey, cute and funny he was. lol

The catus pear is great. look it up on you tube. I eat them with yogurt but they can be juiced. The tamarind can be juiced. and paste good in a lot of things, cakes, and other stuff

Thanks guys, this was fun! Andrew, you are SOOOO extra. 🤣 I watched the entire video without pausing. I think some of your fruit wasn't quite ripe so you may want to do a second round. LOL There's an exotic fruit company that you could check out for more varieties. You've inspired me to hit the fruit market tomorrow morning.

Absolutely loved this video !!! So fun to see other types of fruits. Wish I had an asian market in my area, I'd love to try the korean melon. Thank you for sharing 👏👏

Flew from Canada to Philippines And wow the fruits and veggies I never seen before. And ones i had in Canada like Banana But tasted nothing like the ones in the Philippines...There is a process They do in North America with Banana's right before they go to a store They are put in a Gas chamber which makes them Turn from Green to yellow with a faster time (4 to 6 days) Then they are shipped out The gas does infact change the taste ..One of the limes in Philippines is called Calamansi Not like a North American lime The only thing close to it would be a Key Lime However it is a touch sweeter And many people use it for pork And other dishes And drinks And a huge list of others ..

The nopal fruit taste great juiced.

the green tunas (cactus pear) are definitely more delicious! I don't really try to bite through the seeds I just kinda swallow it after some chewing lol. but they are so juicy and refreshing. be careful handling the skin though, there are tiiiiny prickley thorns still on them

Star fruit is universal you can put in a fruit salad or green salad 🥗 😋 and you can eat whole you have had a green one leave it in a paper bag for two days should taste sweeter at the end of the Ripening process. P.s we also call our star fruit ( carambola ). You have to eat when it turns yellow

I was yelling when I heard Andrew bitting the passion fruit seeds 😖 as if you guys will hear me 🤣 please DO NOT bite on the passion fruit seeds!!!! You just suck the juice out of them. With quenepas those were a bit small, if you are able to find bigger ones they are THE BEST! as they are sweet like candy🤗 thanks for trying these. In Puerto Rico quenepas, passion fruit and tamarinds are everywhere😂😁 you guys are awesome!!

Omg thats crazy, I just tried Rambutan last week for the first time it was good. I prefer it over the Lychees which look similar when opened *The cactus pear is really good in smoothies I don’t eat it by itself yuck lol

You guys should try cherimoya (also called custard apple or corosol) next time. It's my all time favorite!

Yummy! I’ve tired all of these except the lemon drop melon. I’m going to my local store this morning to pick up most of this fruit. DELISH 😋

star fruit in a salad, yummy

Y’all are so funny!

Persimmons are my favorite but they need to be very soft almost jello like. If you roll the tamarind in sugar it tastes better. In the Caribbean they call them tamarind balls. I enjoyed this video. Thanks for taking the time to make it.

Persimmons that are not ready are icky -- meh, at best. When they are ripe, though, YUM.

i'm the same way! i grew up in an italian household yet the only fruits my parents liked were bananas, apples, blueberries, watermelon and thats.....it LOL so i'm limited on fruits i enjoy or have even tried. i'm much more of a veggie fan than fruit! if i were doing this video i'd be just like andrew and be questioning every single one😂 you should do more of these fruit/veggie taste tests! bring the kids along too! for veggies i recommend whole foods, they have different types of squashes and etc

I love passion fruit n yellow dragon fruit 💛

Tamarinds also come in candy form. It has sugar on it. I got those from a Jamaican from as a child.

Ooo I want to try some of these!

Wow! I haven't even heard of some of these

Put a little salt on your grapefruit it brings out the sweetness. LOVE doughnut peaches..peaches are my fav! Thank you for your videos

I have used star fruit as decoration on fruit salads. One goes a long way, though, to put on top. Somewhat "citrus-y".

Quenepas!!!!! Theee best! Especially when they're off a tree on the Island🏝If your a fan of tamarind and passion fruit there are frozen fruit pulp pouches usually sold in the hispanic freezer section. Stir with water😋

Y’all are so cute!!! Thank you for posting I want to find a lemon drop melon.

Passion fruit and tamarind juice is delicious

You are meant to swallow the passion fruit seeds whole, not crunch them. Fun vlog🌞

Second comment - a jar of liquid version of tamarind paste/concentrate is WAY easier to use than raw or a brick of pulp. I use it in Asian recipes for a sour element similar to Pomegranate Molasses. It makes a great liquid Indian Chutney basically on every restaurant table.

I am laughing so hard I have tears!😂

Well the cactus pear doesn't have the name because it looks like a cactus but it grows on a specific type of cactus. Its like a cactus fruit. It's very common in egypt (where I live).

Absolutely obsessed with passion fruit- but the ones I grew up with in Jamaica have a yellow outer shell, not purple/red. I used to bite them open and just eat the inside. My aunt used to bring bags of them, and I'd go through a dozen in a seating, easily. I never chewed the seeds. Just slurp. Tamarind is called tamarind in Jamaica. Also, guineps are the bomb! Ya'll making me miss my trips to Jamaica. I keep editing my comment with each fruit, lol. Growing up as a first generation American in a Caribbean neighborhood in Brooklyn, I never really realized that some of these things are considered exotic.

YUMMMM… more like this plz 😁 I have eaten the “pear” I’m Mexican & we call them “tuna” don’t know why. I have also had the Tamron, we call it ta-ma-rin-dough (not the correct spelling but just spelling it phonetically). I love the tartness of them. A lot of Mexican candy has it. I would love to try a lot of those fruits ❤️ TY for sharing 😁❤️

Cactus Pears are a staple in my house! They were a very common street food in Morocco while I was there and make me hecking nostalgic. The seeds definetly take some getting used to though!

I think you got a bad lychee. The good ones taste amazing 😋

Santa Claus Melons (or piel de Sapo “frog skin”) are SO delicious once they are soft and ripe. If you wait until they are fragrant on the skin has some give you’ll probably have a much more flavorful experience 😊

I'm from the Caribbean and most of them are pretty common... I'm from Barbados by the way!

I wait until persimmons get super ripe and then freeze them. We cut the tops off and eat it like a sorbet. It's delish. In Barbados, we ate tamarind in a jar...warned not to eat too many but love it

Well the cactus pear doesn't have the name because it looks like a cactus but it grows on a specific type of cactus. Its like a cactus fruit. It's very common in Egypt (where I live).

I laughed so much at his faces when trying things. The passion fruit at the end when he keep spooning into his mouth and look on his face every time. Hilarious!!! You should order some exotic fruit from Miami fruit. They have so many different kinds. I always wanted to try Black Sapote which is suppose to be known as the chocolate pudding fruit or the Durian which is suppose to taste like almond ice cream or the Canistel which is suppose to taste like custard. One day I will try them. Just have to find out where to locate them. :)

I love quenepas, though i know them as mamones, I'd eat them all the time as a kid

This was fascinating. I wish you had jackfruit.

OMG y'all are SOOOOO FUNNY I was dying

1:50 These are my absolute favourite! Donut/Flat/Ufo/Cookie/Paraguayan Peaches are just so so delicious! Especially when at that perfect ripeness when they are already sweet but still slightly crisp :D

Having the skin of the seed sticking onto the meat of the fruit is common with rambutan (or 'quả vải' in Vietnamese). It's actually a joke between me and my brother that if we manage to get three or more seed skin free rambutans in one eating, we're buying a lottery ticket :))) Oh, and lychee is DELICIOUS. Fight me.

Don’t bite the seeds. You can run it in a blender with some water on low for a couple of minutes, and pass it through a strainer. You will have the juice without the seeds. I grow them in my yard.

You can make aqua de tamarindo with the tamarind.