CHILEAN WINTERGREEN - Weird Fruit Explorer Ep. 350

Reviewing an adorable berry with very little flavor.

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[charlesteames]

I have to say your thumbnail image for this one was wonderful. Absolutely hilarious.

[catalinafeliu]

I have those in my backyard here in south of Chile and theres a purple one also 😊 we also have another species called murtilla and murta but the ones you are eating we call them Chaura. I'm from Chaitèn

[pelao]

They look like Chabras, I've eaten them in the wild in Yelcho Glacier, southern Chile. Chabra Roja and Chabra Negra (Red and Black Chabra) grow in small (no bigger than 90 cm, around 3 feet) bushes at the foot of the mountain, the red being tartier and the black sweeter. Meanwhile the white variety grows between the pebbles in the glacier top hugging the pebbles in the ground like a small vine. When fully ripe the skin of the white fruit is semi translucid, and is sweet with a very mild and pleasant flavor.

[markiangooley]

I wonder how much of the flavor of domesticated fruits is due to selection or breeding. Possibly a lot: apples from trees grown from seed aren’t necessarily worth eating. Not just fruit quality: someone’s found a silver maple with unusually sweet sap, and clones of it are being planted for maple syrup production.

So if someone chose the trees of these species that bore the tastiest fruit, and cloned them, they might have a source of better fruit.

[realstatistician]

I appreciate your review!
I’ve been into Rare cold-hardy fruits for years now and I only just learned about this one, and now I know why lol.

[andrewheather]

Weird Explorer thank you for rating fruits again on your weird fruit explorer episodes

[battybethc]

💛💛💛💛💛💛💛💛💛💛💛💛💛💛 So teeny tiny and cute! Too cute to eat! Thankyou for the Video! Keep up the great Work! Much Love and Blessings to your Family, Cat and you! ❤💙💛🙏🌛🌝🌜⭐🙏🕯

[peepas]

Dude nice shirt! Here I come constantinople...

[keekatt]

Neat! I worried the white ones were poisonous so I am glad to hear they can be eaten.

[williamedongesiii]

Wikipedia agrees with you. Noting "The fruit of most other Gaultheria species is insipid in flavour and not extensively consumed.
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still its good to have verification, because many people claim white mulberry, is insipid and I wholly disagree.

[endingranches]

Melicoccus bijugatus
Also known as the genip

Please do a review on this fruit. It is one of my favorite fruits an so very unknown. My exgilfriends grandmother brought some home to Ny from purtorico and i have never had them since and they were so devine. As a man who love mango i know you willlove these. If you have done them in a review I could not find it. Could you point me to the video if it exhist. Ty

[thuggie]

they look pretty even though the flavour not not much

[社会主義惑星人民連邦]

I have a General Wintergreen in my lip. Oh wintergreen fruit not snus ;)

[Monthlychore]

“People dont eat that maybe for a reason. Maybe they are tasty.”
Or maybe they are poisonous.

[XiaosChannel]

so why is your channel just named "weird explorer" not "weird fruit explorer"

[osdias]

It'd be helpful if you could type or display the Latin names of the fruit. I can't find them online, I'm probably spelling it wrong.