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"...also known as Stair-frut" -with superb deadpan delivery. love it.

"... Also known as Starefrut." You made me snort while I was drinking!

As a native Tagalog speaker, his pronunciation of balimbing both horrifies and delights myself.

I spit my drink at "Stair-frut"

I’ve always described starfruit’s taste as how you’d imagine “fruit” to taste if you’ve never eaten any kinda fruit before and someone tried to explain fruit to you

I just wanted to say thank you for the the information at the beginning of the video regarding starfruit and kidney disease.. I love to eat starfruit, I have been eating it my whole life.. As a kid we had starfruit growing in peoples yards in South Florida.. Now that I am older, I have kidney disease due to complications from a surgery last year.. I have not had starfruit since that surgery and thanks to your information I will stay away from it... Thank you...

His humour is so underrated. So subtle and able to deliver it with a poker face. I could never. I love it! Honestly stair freight made me laugh so hard

I'm still thinking of the person who said, 'You are nice looking young man, and you're good at discribing fruit.' Hard to argue with your gradmother.

nearly spit my coffee out when you said stair frut

I laughed when you drew the angry face on the methoxybenzene functionality of the toxin

Finally someone showing the fruit being eaten at the proper time

We had a friend with a star fruit tree and we were given two big bags of mostly unripe green/yellow fruit. I loved it and ate a whole bunch in one setting and than coughed up blood. Ever since if I have anything with star fruit in it my throat starts swelling. I suspect it has something to do with the compound when unripe and I made myself allergic? Weird fact.

Thumbs up for "ster frut". Now my 5&7yrold boys are running laps around my bedroom repeating your pronunciation. Too many more of those and your channel could rank up there in the favorite list with "you suck at cooking".

Oops! I left the episode preview out at the end. Its going to be on the Chilean Macadamia Nut (Gevuina avellana)

Public Displays of Confection made a starfruit candy just earlier.

I have kidney disease, and starfruit is a total no-no for me. I've had it a few times before my kidney disease. I liked it, but it is something I can live without for now.

When you realize his name is weird explorer not just weird fruit explorer lmao XD

I am going through a tough emotional time. Watching your videos really puts me in a good mood and make me smile and sometimes laugh. Your videos are all the wholesome I need right now. I truly thank you.

Oh damn I love this hero’s sense of humor. That’s why I watch. Much respect. I wish good health and all the best to you and yours!

Thanks for putting kidney warnings! It bums me out, but I appreciate knowing that it's a forbidden fruit before I ever get to taste it, unlike spinach which I miss dearly...

In 2013 my partner at the time and I shared one of these on our first trip together. She's now my wife! I heard that if you share this fruit with someone, your fates will be intertwined, don't know where I heard it from though

Not sure if you've already done a video like this but seeing the title of this video made me think of it but maybe a short video explaining the difference between immature/mature and unripe/ripe. This was something I was really clueless about until my very first class of culinary school that explain that there is indeed a difference between the two conceptions, how met people confuse them for each other. Just understanding these simple things has really help when it came from getting the best stuff when buying from a store or harvesting both things I grow myself and foraging wild edibles(the wild edibles especially).

Love Carambola. There are many, many different varieties. They all taste somewhat differently. It is a fruit that has to be eaten right off the tree and only when ripe. They don't get any sweeter once taken off the tree and when ready will come off the tree earlier. They never get any riper than when picked. The unripe, picked too early, fruits are extremely astringent and sour. not sweet, quite tart. The ripened fruits are extremely sweet, a bit of tartness in the back, but very, very sweet and juicy.

I cant stop laughing at the "Stair-frut" hahaha

Hey there! You and your channel have introduced me to alot. Thanks!

When I was in Dominican Republic I was walking down the street and a kid stole a star fruit off a tree for I tried it and it was the best star fruit I’ve ever had. Turns out I probably should’ve washed it but it was awesome

I got to try star fruit at school in first grade. They had a program where we got to try tropical or fruits we don't have where we live every week. It was such a neat program for children

I always describe the flavor of carambola as if lemon and cucumber had a baby but less sour and more sweet

I've very rarely had starfruit, but loved them for years. Never have I heard a better description of that very wonderful, yet unique flavor.

Love your vids! Always happy to see a new upload

“Stair-frut”. omg LOL you are a legend. I actually LOL’d 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

I love your sense of humor.

Love your channel man, your contents awesome

I’ve only ever used these as a garnish. Where I live, they’re always green when you buy them, so I thought that’s how you eat them🤣. Always thought they were very underwhelming. Hard, tasteless and sour. You live, you learn! Thank you!

i love star fruit. i live in florida and sometimes you're walking around and you just see one on a tree. i've seen grapefruit, walnuts, bananas, and coconuts growing around too

Thanks for posting! BTW, in Malaysia, both the sweet starfruit (Averrhoa carambola) and the sour belimbing (Averrhoa bilimbi) are called 'belimbing' in Malay. It's usually obvious from context which one you'll be getting (e.g. if it's a fruit salad, it'd be the starfruit, and if it's a sour cooked curry or in a sambal paste, most likely the sour belimbing).

as someone who grew up with starfruit I can tell you the best way to have them is when the ridges are just starting to go brown and they drop off the tree. if you pick them while they are on the tree, and they are starting to go brown, they are juicy and the texture is like an extra watery pear. the trick that me and my friends discovered to reduce the bitterness is to cut the sides of the "stars" off. the center of the fruit tends to be more sour to, especially if the fruit is picked before being tree-ripened.

Smarter Every Day supports this channel, that's pretty neat.

Tree ripened fruit is always the best

Yes! My Kari is fruiting!!! So good! Juicy and refreshing

There were a few trees in my middle school, but it spread that they were poisonous since they looked so exotic and the kids that tried them were eating them under ripe and said it tasted like burning and poison. I never tried one because of that... thinking back it was likely pesticides

The commercial cultivar is most likely Arkin, it's productive and ships well.

Ghad this fruit is so nostalgic! I remember when I was around 10-13 years old, I used to steal these from someone's tree at the riverside near where I lived, these are the best I love to eat those by cutting them and put them on a bowl and mix it with salt! Some may not like it though and eating this on its own is still good! Also eating these with your friends is one of the best experience I had on my childhood!

I love fruit and watching you review fruit makes me wanna travel and eat fruit.

I like how I apparently like many of these "weird" fruits and find them very commonly...because I come from the region where this grows. The jackfruits and belimbings and rambutans and of course the King of Fruit itself the durians. Haven't had some belimbings in a while though.

Never heard of star fruit before😍 educational!

My wife is growing a couple of starefruit. This video makes me eager to get them in the ground.

Thanks, I have not tried a Star fruit yet. I plan on trying some after your review. Thanks again

Lol, I love your super dry humour. You started this video well, sir.

That 10/10 fruit joke at the beginning was the star of this video.

Star fruit one of my favs

You are a god among men for that pronunciation joke! As if my sons and I didn’t watch this show enough already. For anyone exploring this, you should know that this (along with Smarter Every Day) can definitely be classed as the best show on KZfaq. While I am just a lowly electrical engineer, my wife is an Ecology professor and a chemistry and A & P professor (also Botany and Zoology during certain semesters as the need arises). We watch this show like Jared is the messiah and might just save the world. I wish good health, happiness and all the best to you and your family!

I'd say it has the texture of a green grape. You nailed the flavor profile, but, you always do :-)

i love stairsfret when they're just perfect like the notorious pears which ripen for 40 minutes when you're not looking etc eddie izzard lelelelhe'sclever

Very good with the starfrut gag there. Approved

Like orange with the tannins of a dry wine mixed into the flavor. Quite an interesting fruit.

One of my favorite fruits

When I lived in Florida I ate a lot of these. Love 'em!

The one weird fruit I've had before you reviewed it! 😳

Thank you for listing the medical issues - I'd never heard either, and now I know I oughtn't have this :-( tasty tasty stairfrut! 😔

Starfruit is such a cool fruit! I wanna try it one day.

Really enjoy your channel. You’re a hoot.

Delicious fruit.

Love the cart lol

HA. Love your humor, friend.

Green starfruit is very astringent. We usually eat them before they turn very yellow or ripe because we dislike the soft texture of ripe starfruit. We love the ones that are lighter green because they're crunchy, sweet, sour and a bit astringent. We would put them in vinegar with a bit of salt or sometimes just plain salt. We call starfruit balimbing and that one you called bilimbi is what we call kamias. I know their skin kinda look similar (and texture too) but never knew they are actually related. We use them as souring agent and for preserving certain food. My grandmother would add tons of kamias in shrimp paste.

I eat these all the time I love star fruit

Its probably been 20 years since I last had a star fruit. It was really good. It was really juicy and tasted kind of like a tangy pear.

you got me with "Stairfrut"

This is by far my favorite tropical fruit to eat whole. I eat it frequently when in Hawaii, but I also couldn't tell you what it tastes like. LOL

You killed me with that pronunciation!

Starfruit is one of my favorite exotic fruits. I have a tendency to eat them when they've just lost all their green because sometimes the brown edges on the riper ones are kinda dried out and not a fun texture. I tend to sprinkle a little bit of sugar on it if it's not ripe enough.

Star fruit is really nice. I love them and they are really fun to eat. The ripe ones are really sour and sweet. Like it has this extremely sour taste that jumps at you with a sweet aftertaste. It fun but never tried it unripened. Plus it's a cut fruit. Been years thou so I may be wrong but was an important part of my childhood

I've had one from a tree at Fairchild that was extremely sour, I think even more so than a lemon. I think it was the sour variety which you mentioned.

I tried a star fruit for the first time today and it reminds me of a nashi.

I live in Singapore and we eat this so often when I was young. Its best served in a dessert setting, usually with crushed up Ice. You can google it, "Ice Kacang".

Can I refer to you as fruit master with my freinds?

This thing put a serious dent in my exotic fruit enthusiasm as a little kid, i begged my mom to buy one of these (exotic fruit are expensive here) because they look so cool but it tasted only sour and like soap. Interesting to hear they are potentially good. lol I guess it was unripe or a mainly decorative cultivar, putting a slice on drinks as decoration is one of the main uses here i think.

Okay but that looks absolutely delicious

Stair Frut for the win!

I grew up with starfruit being a special occasion in my family. My mother would buy it any chance she could and would surprise us with it. We always had it greenish yellow and we absolutely loved it. To this day, I get them in two packs and I eat the entire thing like you would a pickle. I have never let them ripen to the orangish brownish color, have had the patience lol I bet it would be amazing. I need to try it.

We have trees of these here in kauai that are crazy packed full of starfruit.Picked the biggest one from a tree yesterday and ate it.It was probably the sweetest one i've ever eatin.

Cool, next time I see a Starefrut, I’ll be sure to eat it no matter how ripe it looks :)

Yay an area that I know more about than plants. That article was talking about how starfruit inhibits the cytochrome p450 enzymes like cyp3a which is mostly talking about CYP3A4. CYP3A4 ligands include a ton of drugs in the opioid, antidepressants, chemotherapeutics, antipsychotics, quite a few gabaergic anxiolytics and hypnotics, a few azole antifungals and more. These cytochrome p450 enzymes chew up and process a multitude of drugs and plant compounds. When you inhibit an enzyme, you essentially are increasing the levels of those drugs in your system indirectly, it's like getting your friend drunk and then making him try to solve a puzzle, those enzymes become less efficient as they are trying to process the starfruit compounds. It should be noted that carambola also inhibits other enzymes (even to a greater degree) like CYP2D6, CYP2A6, CYP1A2 and CYP2C9. All of these enzymes metabolize a very very large portion of all pharmaceuticals. The bergamottin in grapefruit juice also has this effect, but I'm not sure if it's quite as potent of an inhibitor. Oh, and caramboxin isn't the only thing to worry about in starfruit, I believe they also have oxalic acid I believe, they're related to Oxalis (sorrels)

I had one, store-bought. Tasted like vaguely sugary water and nothing else.

I just tried one from a supermarket for the 1st time. It was really watered-down. The flavor I could taste was really good. It just needs more of everything. More sweetness, tartness, tropical fruit flavor. The texture isn't bad, either. Juicy and slightly crunchy.

Man is on another level. He's calculating fruit

In Hawaii where I grew up the kids call it "five-finger" because you can put your fingers (and thumb) in each groove. It's pretty good, but what I find interesting is the part in the center where the seeds are, that sort of gel around the seeds is like the ultimate "meh". It has no taste, but you just don't want to eat it.

To me star fruit is that "tropical" taste brands always want

I love me some stare frutt! 😃

Had these straight from the tree in Florida they were good but the honey bell orange was one of the best fruits I've ever had

You have done it all

I think KZfaq has done a wonderful job at hiding your videos from me for a while but I'll be going back to watch the upload I missed. Your videos are still as great as ever.

I grew up eating starfruit! its pertty popular in the south.

Opening an 8:26 video with a 25:30 ad about some metalworking equipment is not fair. I usually sit through the ads for your revenue. Am on a fixed income and just can't afford Patreon or KZfaq premium. You still get a 👍🏻.

I had a substitute teacher who used to say "carambola" a lot...this made me think of her.

I cant 🤦‍♀️I wasnt ready 😭

Have you tried and reviewed the Zahidi Fruit? Absolutely delicious. Gets sweeter as it ripens (type of date). I love them when they are yellow and crunchy. 😋

Epic name for star fruit Stare front