How To Eat Your PawPaw Fruits!

The PawPaw Fruit is ready, ripe and perfect for tasting! This is North Americas largest indigenous fruit and because it ripens so fast, its hard to cultivate and bring to market.

The Ozark Banana as it's sometimes called is a delicacy that most people will never be able to taste.

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[jeanbarraza]

I make pawpaw bread. Texture is like banana but has a unique taste of it’s own. Good crop this year.

[dumbbunnie]

This was George Washington’s favorite food...go on line for Martha Washington’s cook book, theres many delicious recipes for paw paw!

[nkynative]

Pawpaws need to reach a certain ripeness on the tree in order for the fruit to ripen correctly off the tree.
The fruit needs to begin to get soft up near the stem before removing it and placing in a sunny window sill to finish ripening.
If picked rock hard you can expect the fruit to never get ripe.

Also, pawpaws produce both male and female flowers on the same tree, in fact each individual flower goes through a female stage and then the male stage.
There is no male pawpaws.

They usually need another genetically different pawpaw in order to cross pollinate but many trees will produce fruit without another tree.
The variety "Sunflower" for instance will produce some fruit without pollen from another tree.

[paulsimon]

FYI...seeds are moist packed and stratified in the fridge for spring planting...or plant an entire fruit for a small thicket. The tap root must be intact for new trees usually.

[blickch]

The joy I got from you saying paw paw patch over and over....It must have been a joy to say as well. :-)

[BackyardBerry]

2:54 is where I’m at now and I’m guessing (before watching the rest of the video) that the overripe one is the sweetest and mushiest. I like them a little further gone personally. Cultivated types from KSU, Neal Peterson varieties, or Jerry Lehman varieties are top notch. Cliff England at cliff England orchard and nursery comes to the farmers market near me and he has pawpaws for a little over a month and he has some of the most exquisite tasting fruit. Which is understandable seeing as he has one of the largest collection of pawpaw and persimmon cultivars in the United States.

[heatherb]

In a southern drawl..."I want that". 😊 I'm so jealous. I've never tried but always wanted to try pawpaw. I read a lovely book about them though. Thanks for letting me live vicariously through you.

[matthewdeschenes]

the patch of paw paws in Ontario canada ( right in my town not many in canada, my area has the largest concentration of them in canada due to American soldiers eating them along the river durring the war of 1812 ) is told that around Michigan and Ontario along the great lakes are the sweetest fruit of where the trees grow. Sadly I havent been able to try because the animals get to the fruit before I can ! been absolutly dying to try them

[james-nzws]

I haven't found any pawpaw trees where I live in NC yet, but I do know they're around. I heard you mention beer and wine made from pawpaw, but people also use them to make moonshine.

[fowlerfamilyhomestead]

I think someone needs to count how many times the word pawpaw is said in this video😂😂 zac your our favorite!’ And the beginning. Killed me!!😂😂😂

[dfischer]

We have a few spots here in Lanc PA loaded with pawpaws... I always thought of the flavor as a cross between banana and even mango. I eat em off the tree and once made cookies... D.

[duskmoss]

Yes the do grow in clusters or groves the like areas that are shaded for about half the day

[jasonsmith-ugtc]

Paw paw fruit, bee honey, and some Lalvin D-47 yeast.... Make some lovely melomel mead.

[higheraimhomestead]

My parents grew up with an abundance of pawpaws. My daddy always talked about them. So last year I was gifted some. As promised they were delicious and made a most beautiful loaf of bread....WARNING for some people they can cause SEVERE intestinal pain and diarrhea. Had no idea...didn't bother my husband, or son, but my mother and I were very, VERY sick. I will never eat another one. I had to look it up online because I would have never believed it. I was so sad by this....I knew my daddy would have been so proud of that beautiful bread!

[glendabaldwin]

I've never eaten any, but I grew up in the south around Alabama and Georgia and there were a lot of paw paw jellies made.

[graftedinforever]

You can make pawpaw jam, butter or bread. Really good!

[generaljackson]

Still looking my for them around my local woods have not found them yet to try them out .some of the elders in my neck of the woods say that we do have them just have not got lucky yet.Thank you for your channel and all you do. God bless you and your family.

[uthus]

We shook a tree into the creek just yesterday in central Missouri. Good stuff! My daughter thinks they're like a mango avocado fusion.

[kwik]

I tried my first bite today. Really has to be one of the best fruits I've ever tasted. I'm planting my seeds for sure.

[JudyandRick]

Why don’t you sell some of the seeds. Baker creek was selling seeds but they are out of stock. I
I would buy some seeds. I would love to try to grow them in South East Louisiana.