Thank you very much for keeping us up to date with currant events.

They're called R. odoratum because the large yellow flowers are very fragrant and smell a bit of cloves.

I have a whole row of clove black currant bushes growing in my yard. I didn't realize they were considered rare, that's cool!

Since childhood my family has had a “flowering clove” bush, as we called it. In the last few years it has started fruiting! And I believe this is just what it is. I always thought it looked like a current bush, but it gets small yellow and orange flowers in early spring making the whole yard pleasantly smell of clove.

Can’t legally grow either of these in NC.... alternate hosts of white pine blister rust. I’ve never tasted either one but I’ve always wanted to.

I've always described blackcurrant flavor as blackberry + citrus, but then again, I've only had it in jam and tea.

The clove black currants look so yummy

We had a black current berry bush when I was growing up. I loved the black currents and picking them off the Bush at anytime was so fun and yummy!!!

Ribes? Ahaaa, so that's where Ribena gets its name.

I discovered that black currants contain a lot of sulfur when I made water kefir with black currant juice. I came to like it and made several batches, but it was definitely funky maybe like a hint of asparagus or durian.

Blackcurrants make an excellent jam. One of the top fruits for jam in my experience. (Btw, Ribes is pronounced "rye bees".)

The reaction to the black gooseberry would be a nice reaction clip

Fun fact; clove currants, also called golden currant and buffalo currants, are actually native to the US. And for those who are concerned about disease, they have not been shown to carry the white pine blister rust that some varieties of blackcurrants carry.

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I live in Iceland and currants are grown in nearly all gardens

I just had some black currant/cherry Skyr by Icelandic Provisions. So good! My Aunt and Uncle grew a black currant bush outside of their house in VT for years (they would make ham with it..I preferred their wild Blackberries tho lol)..

I grow Ribes odoratum as an ornamental in my garden in the UK. {Grow Red Currant, Black Currant and Gooseberry in the fruit garden}. Normally they set few fruit, but this year there was a good crop. I would say they are sweeter than Black currants but less powerfully flavoured. My wife made a nice jam from them.

Staying currant with all the juicy details

Black currant taste is hard to quantify, it's quite unlike any common fruit or berry. I'd say it has a certain... mellow herbiness to them. Grape and vanilla isn't a bad approximation, but I think that explanation is missing something. Sweet herbs. Minty, without the menthol, perhaps.

R. odoratum is cultivated under the name "Crandall" R. divericatum has been crossed with domestic gooseberry to make a cultivar called "Black velvet", I have not tried it yet.

this is very very surprising to me that run of the mill blackcurrants are "supposed" to taste fairly plain and sweet. I planted a blackcurrant bush in the mid 00s which has been thriving ever since. The currants are not at all "dessert". They taste powerfully herbal and spicy. Kinda like what I expected that "clove" currant to taste like. My blackcurrant has that kind of medicinal pungency that something like a clove has. any time before they are very ripe, they are harshly acidic too. As are my redcurrants which I planted at the same time. But my redcurrants have none of this spicy herbal characteristic. They just go from harshly acidic to moderately acidic and sweet when ripe. by the way , I am someone who enjoys eating straight grapefruit and never add sugar to anything.

Rye-bees

I love raw grapefruit, I peel them and eat them in segments like a big orange, so I bet ide love the gooseberry

I love currants and gooseberries! It's fun to find them in the forest

Oderatum refers to the smell of the flowers in spring. They smell like cloves.

If you have some contact in the Great Pacific North Wet, western Washington to be specific, see if you can procure some "Skunk Currant".

RYE-bees

I think it's interesting you posted this. It was just the other day friend was showing me photos of his light pink with darker pink spotted currant berry plant he just got the other day. He said it was ribes malvaceum var. viridifolium.

OMG yes! So glad you're reviewing clove currant!

Looking to grow some currants or gooseberries so I am going through your older videos. I remember this one well

Wow I wish I could explain flavors as good as you!

Black currants and gooseberries are really common here in England

All I know is that when you said ribes my ears perked up. I really wish I had anywhere near the ability to try a lot of the fruits you do, but I am a perfumer...so I tend to smell a lot of these things in lieu of eating them. Ribes Mercaptin is one of the strongest chemicals I know to exist in the perfumery biz, so when you said ribes I connected with this video immediately.

I would love to see you do brix tests on a bunch of your favorite fruits!

Amazing video as usual

Omg, I grow those currants! It's my first year being able to harvest anything; I got a half-dozen clusters. I just ate a handful of ripe ones straight off the bush this afternoon while watering my yard. Yum. They're a little sweet, a couple were a little tart (I should have waited another day or two), flavorful though. The flowers smell awesome, btw.

I've been looking for a nursery like this in the greater Seattle area, thank you so much! Also, I can't hear about gooseberries without thinking of the Witcher

Those are beautiful. They look like a work of art.

Clove currants name comes from the flower I think. The flowers smell wonderful a bit like cloves.

I love clove currants! They are also called golden currants because they are covered in bright yellow flowers in early spring. They make great jam too.

The official difference between currants and gooseberries is the thorns. Even "thornless" gooseberries have a few of them.

I just felt like commenting about how much I love your videos maybe it's because we're both odd lol I've been watching for ages

Touch of Kale flavor lol that’s what currants remind me of. I added a little kale to a berry smoothy and it tastes like currant

Maybe you should make a top 10 fruits to cook with!

Love the video! I bought some chilean guava and feijoa, thanks for the videos you did on them.

the general difference is that gooseberry plants are spiny and currants are not :)

I bought a dozen of these this year at Mulhalls in Omaha. They are becoming more popular. Can't wait till they start producing.

Great Video. Thank You.

I recently found the best jam that I couldn't find for over 5 years (Boysenberry Jam made by Trappist monks in western Massachusetts).. I used to get it a lot 5-10 years ago, but couldn't find it anywhere until now.. Idk why no one knows how good Boysenberries are! They are literally the best tasting berries! I tried one other brand, and it was full of crunchy seeds (which was horrible), but Trappist's even says "seedless jam" right on the jar! It's the best, ever.

I have many currants varieties, the black ones like jostaberry have a taste to strong for me i use them in jelly's the color is beautiful or i mix with other berrys in jam, there they shine

Since you mentioned grapefruit Jared, I also like to sometimes have something on it, but I don't like just dumping white sugar all over the place. I also detest most sugar substitutes, stevia is really off-putting to me, and I'm not touching aspartame. There's a sweetner called "monk fruit" which is actually quite nice. It's more on par with sugar as far as sweetness to volume, so it can be more adaptable to recipes, but lately I've had it on my grapefruits and it's pretty good. You should give it a try some time. It might also be cool if you did a special like you did with the milk's, but with sweeteners/sugar substitutes. For people who can't have or don't want sugar, it can be daunting to delve into the world of substitutes, so having a little breakdown video could help many with finding one that could work for them. You're the perfect person to do it! ^_^

A grapefruit game changer for me was to only eat the flesh rather than the membranes around each segment. That way it's sweet and tart but not bitter

Oh I think that I’ve eaten the coast gooseberries, they grow in the wild here in BC in the transition area from coastal to inland climates. The ones I had were pretty good, but then again I don’t like sweet things so maybe that’s why I enjoyed it more. The bitter tannic thing was nice actually, but I also love black coffee, I’m into those subtle bitter flavours. It could be good in a jam though.

It is likely the leaves that are fragrant. It is pretty usual for black current leaves that have a lovely scent.

I havea large white currant plant growing in my yard. The plant is actually a piece of a much larger plant that was growing wild on my grandparents yard for decades. Interestingly they grow larger than the white currants I find in the wild.

Very cool

Amazing

I had no idea they would be rare somewhere, have been eating them all my life

I don't know if you'll see this, but grapefruit doesn't need sugar or cooking to taste amazing! The trick is to peel back the thin, translucent "skin" that covers each wedge. You only want the little "juice bag teardrops" that make up the main flesh. Avoid anything white or translucent, just bite into the wedge after peeling its "skin" but don't eat the outer rind (also bitter), as if you were eating a watermelon slice. I guarantee that most of the people who think they hate grapefruit wouldn't mind it if they ate it like this! Gets an undeserved bad rap.

The clove currant is probably the Crandall variety

I'm a huge fan of your channel. I'm wondering why you haven't done Salmonberries? They seem so easy to find. Haven't seen a video I can find in a search.

holy shit I remember you from a fever dream 2 years ago. I didn't think this channel was a actual thing

This has me excited for wild ribes season in CO, will send some more weird ones ur way!

The clove currants are native to this area of the US, but I've never been that interested in growing WPBR susceptible ribes in this area (even though we don't have any white pines or restrictions to grow ribes). I think something like 15 states restrict ribes (usually northwest and east). Currently we just have some gooseberries and jostaberries. I'm planning on adding native or decorative red currants at some point.

Cool!

Can you do a video of hickory nuts there’s two varieties that grow behind my house shellbark and shagbark hickory trees

I find black currents have a medicinal berry taste ;) Gooseberry spines ;) Have you tried the gooseberry thats pink green with spines on the berry made from the skin they are not bad You bite a tiny hole in the berry and squish the juicy seeds in your mouth not the skin I do this with black currents sometimes because the skin is strong tasting

Estonian farm standard ,makes for great juice

i like black currant flavored candies but have never tasted the fruit 🤔

I got currants and gooseberrys and black currants all those type of berries normally have tiny worms in the fruit so he is getting his protein for sure.

Black currants really are a flavor on there own. Delicious when ripe, but pungent for sure

The first time i had black currants I thought I bought raisins and wondered why they tasted so good and made me feel so invigorated. Noticably sweeter than raisins. I kept buying them after that until Greatest Grains closed. I should buy some online. I want to try black goji berries. I can't find a video of yours on black gojis. Have I succeeded in suggesting a fruit to you which you haven't explored? Maybe I just didn't find it, and you did make that video. I want both now. Black currants and black gojis.

Cool

You should try prickly gooseberry herd it’s good

I found some trees here in Rochester NY that look identical to the black currants, but are smaller and the leaves on the plant are very different. They're very smooth edges and oval with points at the end. The berries grow one or two from each point and they each have a single see. The leaves look identical to chokeberry leaves, but the fruit look more like this. They have nothing at the top of the fruit where the stem goes in (like nightstandes or strawberries for example), the step just goes in smoothly... and the fruit it perfectly round with just a tiny dot at the bottom center (don't look like choke berries in that way). If anyone has any idea, I'd definitely appreciate any help identifying them.

Great video, but unfortunately black currants in the Ribes genus are illegal in many States (USA) due to a belief that they may be responsible for a fungus that can harm pine and other trees. The good news is black currants are exceptionally healthy; and if you can find them, you should eat them! If you see dried "currants" in the grocery store, they are most likely a miniature raisin from a grape commonly called a "champagne grape". Keep the videos going, you do great work!

They can't be that rare, they even grow here n Sweden. Ribes odoratum is sometimes grown as a decorative garden plant in Sweden (and possibly for honey, but I'm not sure). The flowers have a strong smell, as the name suggest. I've seen Ribes divaricatum (or at least that was the closest match I could find; with Google Lens, since the plant wasn't to be found in any Swedish books). They were growing on what in Swedish is call "ruderatmark". I don't think there is an English term for this kind of wasteland. I've forgotten the exact Latin term (something like "rudera terra", which I guess is where other languages borrowed the word from), but in French it's called "espace rudéral" and in German "Ruderalfläche". As the name suggests, ribes divaricatum are creeping, thorny, wines.

Can you ferment wine from both berries???

Has anyone tried a black currant that has is sweet but has a slightly, almost durian flavor that lingers on the tongue? I found some black currants in WA state at a local fruit market and am wondering if they are a special variety? Not nearly as mind tasting as what Jared described regular black currants tasting like

It took me several months to find this video

You probably have but if you haven’t you should try some varieties of Mulberries, the trees grew all around where I grew up so I’d eat them all the time when I could.

Ive eaten those before they grew in my grandma's garden

Here's an idea. What are good plants to grow in your windowsill?

wolf berry or blk goji, then wonder berry ,huckle berry and a few others all look the same ,40 types fruit come up every year here im in newengland

if you want to enjoy grapefruit without sugar you need to peel the little skin and just eat the pulp it get rid of the bitterness you will thank me later.

at one point, I was at my grnadma's house, and I was making myself a sandwich, so I asked her where the jelly was. she opened a drawer and pulled out a jar and said "this is red currant jam." she then looked closer, and said "ooh, but it's not red anymore" and I said "I don't think it's current anymore either"

Come do a speaking tour in Australia.

Ribes is pronounced rye-bees, thanks for the video.

Can I’m find this any where in my sate

Next time you should have camu camu fruit

currant ketchup?

Wanderlust nursery doesn't appear to actually sell these, so it's an odd tie-in.

I saw gooseberry and I’m like oh no And then I read the rest and I’m like oh yes

Hi I live in wast Virginia

The Ribes diveracatum grow by my house. Agree they taste pretty bad

JARED!!! Great video as always but I must inform you that there has been a crucial mistake in this video. The fruit that you refer to as 'Coastal black gooseberry' (Ribes divaricatum) must have been misidentified, because it is not actually that species. In truth, it is actually the Black swamp gooseberry (Ribes lacustre), an entirely different wild species. Interestingly, this species is also not actually a gooseberry, but a spined currant that has an incorrect common name. I am very good at IDing Ribes and it is unmistakable that the second fruit you try is actually Ribes lacustre. Again, great video, I just thought you should know!

pronounced ri-beez, I believe. E pronounced las in Fleece. It's not a plural of the word ribe.

Goose-fra-berries..😤😎

i kinda want berries like that but it doesn't grow here :(

is that the hallucinogenic fruit Lol