How would you use sea buckthorn?

It looked like you were eating warheads candy when you tried the Estonian variety haha

Sea buckthorn was a hugely important source of vitamin C for ancient northern Europeans, although you rarely see it now in the UK. I love the jam I buy from my local Polish shop, it's so good but hard to find here outside of speciality stores. I'm so grateful to have a variety of shops from different parts of the world here in my neighborhood.

Hi Jared. The Sanddorn (german) is growing here wildly too. I guess I've heard they are best after having some frosty nights before the harvest. I really love this sour stuff. 11 out of 10 is a nice rating, LOL! And they are a vitamin C bomb. Nice woodturning bowl, btw.

2:44 Actually... buckthorn is traditionally harvested after the first frost night in Sweden, because it makes it sweeter and less sour. Other wild berries that is traditionally used only after they have been frozen by Swedes, because they get sweeter and/or less sour and/or less astringant is: wild crab apple (only used prepared), wild rowan (eaten as is, or prepared, but the common garden variety Sorbus aucuparia edulus, is sweet even before being frozen), wild blackthorn and wild cranberries (Vaccinium oxycoccos). Cultivated varieties is usually edible without being frozen, but also have more of a one note taste. If those berries is picked before the first frost night, than Swedes usually put them in the freezer over night, before preparing or eating them. The varieties of Prunus avium, that grow in my part of Sweden, isn't sweet enough to make a stiff cider, before they have been frozen. Of course, nowadays you could add store bought sugar instead. There are also lots of wild roots that also become more edible after they have been frozen. There are even those that make you sick if eaten before they have been frozen.

I love watching these with my family, might just become a patreon if im being honest. Keep up the good work!

Man, your content is some of the most consistently interesting and enjoyable stuff that I watch on KZfaq. You kick ass.

Wow! You should name this series "Eating Finland...One Fruit at a Time".

When I was on my term abroad in Germany I took a trip up to the island of Ruegen where I got to try sea buckthorn. I thought it was really delicious! Love your videos :D

They have a pretty unique flavor but if I had to describe it in common flavors I would say it tastes like something between a mandarin, peach, 10 lemons and a bowl of olive oil

Sea-buckthorn grows in the wild very close to my home. I've used it in sauces and jams and currently have a sea-buckthorn mead (honeywine) still in primary fermentation. And you were right. Freezing the branches makes it MUCH easier to pick the berries.

There's a local brewery that makes a beer with a different fruit every year and last year they made sea buckthorn beer and honestly it was one of the best beers I've drank.

For Swedes they are Havtorn I've wondered what buckthorn was for some time and now I got an answer sweet!

That was also my thought when I tried them fresh, they taste similar to Citrus. I'm getting sour mandarin. I like them. The plants are also very though. They fix nitrogen in the soil and they can withstand -43°C/-45°F.

I love how he said "I feel like I have to make this review".

Why does he not have more subscribers. The work he does deserves it’s own tv show. You would think KZfaq would promote good educational content and not the brainwashing mess they push. You deserve more credit.

This was the one berry I was waiting for you to taste while in Finland! I'm glad that you had the opportunity to review it properly. At first I was a bit confused when you rated the sourness, but when you got to the Estonian variety it matched more with my experience with the berry

That bowl you were eating out of. What type is it, the pattern caught my eye.

Side note, the bush/plant is also very thorny, and the sour juice gets into the wounds when you pick them. Also a lot of bugs live under the berry clusters. I've also heard about freezing the branches to make picking easier, but i can't fit a trees worth of branches in my freezer. Fun fact, seabuckthorn has separate male and female plants.

I'm glad you ended up reviewing the fresh fruit dude, I love sea buckthorn. I am familiar with it in Germany, where it is called Sanddorn. It is especially popular in the north in Ostfriesland, and it is used often to make jams, to flavor candy and other sweets, in alcohol, and in all kinds of creams and other aromatic things. I've always loved the citrusy, rich flavor. edit: just got to the part in the video in Estonia, where it is super common. That is how it is in East Frisia in Germany as well, you can find its presence all over the place.

Just the day before yesterday I was walking in the local botanical garden and I was looking at the sea buckhorn, and before opening KZfaq just now I was googling the plant, then I see you just released a video!

I have a big sea buckthorn bush in my garden. The harvesting is always a bit painful, but I really like it as herbal infusion and as juice.

Yay those are delicious absolutely love them

In Romania these are called Catina, and are used as an indicator of oil deposits beneath the ground.

if the are fully ripe they taste a little funky/cheesy and they have a intense flavour, the taste is like physalis with a hint of mandarine with a prickling feeling on th tounge you find them mostly in Northern Germany coast

Great work :)

I use it mostly as juice, jam, on tea mix and at Christmas hot drink with some spices, like cinnamon, cardemum and few others (also maybe little vodka or brandy for extra kick). And in cooking. Filet of white meat fish, with little bit of salt and then covered with sea buckthorn berries and and slices of fresh pineapple. Then cooked in oven in about 200 decrees of Celsius about half hour. Juices of both sea buckthorn and pineapple give the fish excellent rich taste! Btw, I'm drinking it as juice just now.

It makes GREAT jam and is pretty amazing in tea as well(dried of course).

Thank you I enjoy your videos and give me some good information on plants I am considering growing for food.

Gotta be carefull with that stuff, I heard it can attract griffins

Nice vid man! I love sea buckthorn! Here in the Netherlands it grows in the dunes between 200 m and 7 km from the sea. It's a protected reserve so officially they can't be picked. But unofficially it's allowed to pick like a few cups of them for yourself as long as you don't damage the plant. I feel they are very underappreciated and I'm happy about that because if they were like raspberries everyone would pick them and the personal use allowance would surely not be there.

Great job weird explorer

Yaaaay another fruit review

Great content Jared.

Yesterday I finally tried the persimmon and the purple sugar apple because I found them at my local market, I don’t know if I would buy persimmons again but the sugar apple definitively. Even tho it’s a bit messy

The way you described em near the end really reminded me of kumquats! Its like that zesty numbing orangey flavor with the sourness of a lemon?

This is amazing as a sorbet! :) Best sorbet I ever had

looks cool

Have had these before and they are still my favorite fruit

Wow great to see your channel has blown up as much as it has, really cool. you deserve it

Once again I was tempted to look this fruit up on this channel, just out of curiosity and again I found the videos right away, thus, once again I have to give credit where it's due for a consistent naming system of both videos. I found these growing in norther Germany, usually near beaches, especially if they have sand dunes and in stores I usually see this as jam, tea mix, liquer and juice (in that order), oh and just for fun it is sometimes called them "Zitrone des Nordens" (German lit. citron of the north). However I also need to say, I had no idea just how many ways this fruit can be used then again it's quite telling about my region what we most commonly use it for... Now I'm kind of curios about that icecream though and I need to see if I can find it here, or if I need to petition my family (which has an icecream maker) to make this.

I enjoy these reviews as much as I like fruits! ^•^

Where does one procure an awesome burl bowl at a random location in Estonia?

Every summer, sea buckthorn yoghurt ice cream - yummy! ^^

I LOVE sea buckthorn, there are a bunch of new beers in eastern Canada that are starting to incorporate them, it makes delicious sours

A good day to watch the homie review some sea buckthorn.

Definitely try wild strawberries when you’re in Estonia

Sea buckthorn are the best! They pair really well with Rowan berries in a jam and in muffins, highly recommend!

Hey, so I'm from Hong Kong, and I think there are this berry you haven't tried yet here. Rose Myrtles are a sweet, and overall a very lovely fruit I think you should try. Don't eat too much though, that might give you digestive problems. It's not the best fruit to buy, you're better off looking for it while hiking. It's very satisfying when you're hiking and thirsty and then you find them, they're amazing. You should try them!

I'm from Tallinn and I just started watching your channel a couple of days ago. Freaky

Some American nurseries have been promoting sea buckthorn heavily. I think I was in too warm a climate when I considered growing it. Researchers in the Soviet Union did a lot of research on its health benefits and bred new varieties.

omg the chanterelles at the market look so good :O

would love to see you try to GROW the exotic fruits that you travel far and wide to try.Sure some of the seeds are not able to be taken out of country but do try the ones you can order in the states

Damn do I love this channel

That bowl needs to show up in a jareds Cabinet of Curiosities video, It looks freaking cool!

Looks neat

I personally believe the best ice cream flavour comes from freshly poured juice on top of the ice cream. I'm told when the flavour is frozen with the ice cream it doesn't quite hold the flavour. Cheers, love your videos. From two Canadian Haskap and Seabuckthorn farmers! Please try Aronia berries one day! :) And let us know if you're ever near Toronto!

Gift shops in coastal resorts in Germany sell sea buckthorn everything. Jams, sweets, deserts, teas, liqueurs... they'll have a whole section for it.

Awesome bowl

There's a danish (I think) company called Bulow that sells liquorice here in Norway that has sea buckthorn in it, and it tastes magnificent. Thinking I might try to grow some (buckthorn, not liquorice) come spring. Great video, cheers.

I'm glad you talked about this, plant nurseries in my country keep offering this as an exciting and tasty foreign food and now I won't buy the super expensive imported plant that doesn't really fit my particular tastes

I was just thinking they'd probably make a great jam then you mentioned it, I bet it tastes delicious!

Very nice video. I was thinking about Baba Yaga. When she wasn't busy grinding us poor sinners into her mush, she also kept a special mortar for that food . I think she used to cook them, but i barely escaped.

I live in Germany and sometimes when come across them I pick a bunch of them and juice them. if you mix the juice 1 to 1 with honey, it's the most delicious thing.

You should try out the Whitebark Raspberry! I heard it tastes like blue raspberry, and it's also where the name comes from.

I guess it has such a big place in Estonian culture because it was a good plant to know about before we knew about vitamin and trace mineral deficiency. A sort of natures multivitamin.

In northern germany you can find these rather often in super market as well The ice cream is quite popular as well

Found fresh durian for sale at a local Asian market. They unfortunately are like $50 each. Definitely smells funky. Want to try it regardless just for the novelty. It's air shipped in so the price is high and that is mostly the preventative especially when you live on a budget. Really cool looking though. Will try it eventually. As for sea buckthorn I've tried growing it here in North FL but it died off. Wasn't really the right time of year to have tried to move root divisions though. Was in active growth which isn't ideal.

i like tartness of lemon i might give this a try

This plant is called rokitnik in polish. It grows in the dunes along the baltic coast

I think it should be noted that there is a very large amount of Seaberry variants with different sizes and flavor profiles!

Wish I knew what was growing on the bush behind you while you were describing the ice cream. Thanks.

I live 5 min walk from the beach and we have a lot of sea buckthorn. It is said, that if you can pick them of the beaches without mashing them, they are not ripe enough. That is the reason we freeze them. I would say, they taste like pineapple.

On Sundays I like to eat fruit and watch weird explorer eat fruit

Even better than your original sea buckthorn video trying the frozen fruit!

Hello from Estonia

Love seeing the same fruit compared from different locations!

I’d like to see you review the Hua Moa banana. It’s a Hawaiian variety that tastes like peaches

The highest botanical source of Omega 7 in nature, 2nd is Macadamia nuts, 3rd avocado I believe. Seabuckthorn is also incredible environmentally friendly compared to other fruit trees - a nitrogen fixing tree!

A lot of vitamin C, carotenes, REAL VITAMIN B12(!), omega 7 fatty acids which we missing these days, because we don't eat bugs etc. A real powerhouse. Would be great if you would add some information about fruits you review, not only about taste.

I looked through your channel and saw that you haven't tried the Japanese silverberry/autumn olive yet- there an invasive species in the eastern US that have small edible berries. I like them and think they're worth trying!

your intro music on this one makes me think of twin peaks. :)

Good to know

It looks delicious

There are so many local products with sea buckthorn (“Duindoorn bessen”) where I live on Texel, NL

It's very good in tea - take 10-20 berries, crush them, add a bit of honey and cinnamon, and add tea - soooo good!

Picked some earlier this month. Never ever again, what a pain to pick. They are sitting in the freezer now, waiting for me to have the energy to make some alchol out of it. "Sloe" is my current favorite for this part of the year. :)

My word I'm fashionably late. I recall hearing sea buckthorn as an ingredient in some of the more tony skin care product commercials. There was a lot of money in that most interesting vessel. Your curls are popping in this series btw.

Weird Explorer is the only man I know who is allowed to hold ice cream cones like that.

If you ever get the chance, I highly recommend you try some named varieties of sea buckthorn. The taste variance is very interesting, for example, we have one variety that tastes strongly of papaya and mango. In my opinion, it's far superior to the wild variety. I've also noticed that they lose almost all their sourness if they get REALLY ripe. But usually the birds will get them before that.

I didn't realize Estonians were so obsessed with sea buckthorn. I'll have to grab some products next time I'm over, you're right that its not quite so prevalent in finnish culture (we are obsessed with bilberries and domestically grown strawberries).

One of my favorite berries

seeded it few days ago... first already sprouted. now i need to wait few years.

I was going to try growing them, but a horticulturist at a Botanic Test Garden told me that they were very leggy and unmanageable. I checked the plants out and decided against growing them. Those plants grow nicely.Still there's the thorns. I would use them for jam or juicing

please try devil's pod or ling chest nut or singhara they are my favourite fruit you should definetly try it. It is found in india

Sea buckthorn fixes nitrogen to your soil and grows in poor soils with little rain. Good for the land.

They are good in musli and yogurth

omg look at those chanterelles! Too bad they're not a fruit. You should start a mushroom/veggie channel too!

In my country (Mongolia) we make juices out seabuckthorn or eat them raw

Yeah, I actually taste Sea buckthorn jelly in Czech Republic