SEA BUCKTHORN - Reviewing The Fresh Fruit in Estonia - Weird Fruit Explorer
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- čas přidán 23. 08. 2024
- Episode 509: Sea buckthorn
Binomial Name: Hippophae rhamnoides
Location:Helsinki Finland, Ranua Finland, Tallinn Estonia
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How would you use sea buckthorn?
Weird Explorer I'll just flush them down the toilet
FOOD, EATING FOOD, I WOULD EAT IT, AND MAYBE MAKE A JUICE/JAM, BUT THEN EAT AND OR DRINK IT
My family often drank it as a sweetened juice/compote. They'd also use the jam or put into muffins/scone type baked goods. Its one of my favorite fruits and I planted a few bushes at my house this year.
@@whereswaldo1630 🤣
Don't worry, the green and brown stuff gives EXTRA flavor
It looked like you were eating warheads candy when you tried the Estonian variety haha
Pretty much!
How is this comment from 2 days ago
@@vb_andrecampos I think patrons get videos early
Hey Jared! I was going to suggest reviewing warheads at the next livestream. I live for your sour reactions haha
@@AutoAnomoly makes sense
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.
You can actually overdose on vitamin eating them, lol. My grandmother ate them for decades and then all of a sudden became allergic to them
no wonder your greatfulness brought me bless you .
@@Vilppy Vitamin C is not one of the vitamins which get stored in your body and poison you if you have too much. It's water soluble, so you just pee it out.
Vit C is greatly reduced by cooking so don't expect a high Vit C in jam, just the raw fruit. Juices are sterilized so not to ferment in the bottle so the VitC content would be reduced as well unless you make the juice and freeze it.
Made with beet sugar?
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.
Freezing a plant forces it to convert some of its starches into sugars
@@toericabaker Right!
Same with Brussels sprouts, they taste better, sweeter and less bitter when harvested after frost.
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.
Like collards in Georgia
I love watching these with my family, might just become a patreon if im being honest. Keep up the good work!
Please consider giving the money instead to those who really need it, like the ICP party in India
@@Locke3OOO Whos to say Jared doesn't really need it?
@@Locke3OOO no
@@Locke3OOO whats wrong with you bruh
Man, your content is some of the most consistently interesting and enjoyable stuff that I watch on CZcams. You kick ass.
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
Wow! You should name this series "Eating Finland...One Fruit at a Time".
He's not in Finland..
@@ascra1693
This was indeed filmed in Finland on a recent excursion. Jared lives in NY. He travels worldwide tasting the local fruits in season. That's what his CZcams channel is all about.
@@stanervin6108 to be fair he visits Estonia aswell.
@@Kardinaalilintu
True. 👍
Why does he not have more subscribers. The work he does deserves it’s own tv show. You would think CZcams would promote good educational content and not the brainwashing mess they push. You deserve more credit.
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.
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
haha very good
For Swedes they are Havtorn I've wondered what buckthorn was for some time and now I got an answer sweet!
Where I am from (Canada), the word "buckthorn" refers to Rhamnus cathartica where as "sea buckthorn", the plant and fruit featured in this video, refers to plants in genus Hippophae.
In Finland its called Tyrni which comes from old Norse. Oddly all Scandinavians call it something completely different
Buckthorn is called 'getapel' in Swedish, which literally translated means "goat (crab)apple". This plant's leaves and berries are mildly poisonous btw. Then there's also the boxthorn bush which is called 'bocktörne' in Swedish, from which you get goji berries.
@@Vilppy Tyrni is probably related to "törne", "thorn" and "torn", like in havtorn.
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'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.
Here in the Netherlands we call it 'duindoorn' (translating to 'dunethorn'), I live close to the coast so we have them growing around here. Locally people make some delicacies with it, the most amazing thing I had was a dark chocolate bon bon with sea buckthorn filling.. The combination is just fantastic. We also have sea buckthorn syrup in the grocery store to make lemonade with.
I love how he said "I feel like I have to make this review".
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.
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.
That bowl you were eating out of. What type is it, the pattern caught my eye.
probably made out of a tree knot
Just the day before yesterday I was walking in the local botanical garden and I was looking at the sea buckhorn, and before opening CZcams just now I was googling the plant, then I see you just released a video!
Wow great to see your channel has blown up as much as it has, really cool. you deserve it
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.
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.
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
I'm from Tallinn and I just started watching your channel a couple of days ago.
Freaky
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
physalis?
@@modestoca25 google it
Yay those are delicious absolutely love them
I enjoy these reviews as much as I like fruits! ^•^
Is the art in your pfp your art? :o it looks cool!!
@@lambybunny7173 yes! And thank you!
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
In Romania these are called Catina, and are used as an indicator of oil deposits beneath the ground.
Thanks for this
This is amazing as a sorbet! :) Best sorbet I ever had
omg the chanterelles at the market look so good :O
Definitely try wild strawberries when you’re in Estonia
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.
It makes GREAT jam and is pretty amazing in tea as well(dried of course).
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.
I hear the more harsh the climate the more nutritious they get, as their dormancy period is an important rest
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!
Where does one procure an awesome burl bowl at a random location in Estonia?
Right? Bowl review when?
Gift shops in coastal resorts in Germany sell sea buckthorn everything. Jams, sweets, deserts, teas, liqueurs... they'll have a whole section for it.
looks cool
I LOVE sea buckthorn, there are a bunch of new beers in eastern Canada that are starting to incorporate them, it makes delicious sours
it’s crazy how much fruit you’ve tried 😭 you should try capulines, they’re a berry from mexico that falls off trees and they’re so sweet and nostalgic for me, my family used to boil them into a syrup/jam and they’re delicious! or another possible fruit is tecojote, we use it in boiled holiday punch/cider (ponche navideño) and that’d be such a fun holiday vid! i would love to see more mexican fruit videos and the ones you’ve made so far are so great!! love ur content :)
oh crap you’ve already tried tecojote! would love to see a holiday punch episode regardless :DD
Every summer, sea buckthorn yoghurt ice cream - yummy! ^^
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?
I think it should be noted that there is a very large amount of Seaberry variants with different sizes and flavor profiles!
Gotta be carefull with that stuff, I heard it can attract griffins
Winds howling
Mmmmmm
I had a teacher, who was traveling abroad. Sadly, I don't remember where, but he was out with the local having a good time. In front of his hotel was tree with small fruit on it. The bird were eating them, and he ask someone, "Can people eat them?" The person said, the berries keep away ghost, that why it was planted in front of the hotel, but if you it the fruit, you're cursed. The fruit let evil spirits into you. Wifes feed the berries to their husbands, if the husband cheated. So, pick the fruit, and and ate few. The were pretty good. So he pick a bunch more, and put them in his pocket to eat. He turns around, and all his friends are wide eyed, and backing up. They refused to do anything with him, after that. Maybe it's the same with griffins.
That tends to go badly for the griffin. They're absolutely delicious stuffed with sea buckthorn.
Maggie and Chris?
Sea buckthorn are the best! They pair really well with Rowan berries in a jam and in muffins, highly recommend!
Thank you I enjoy your videos and give me some good information on plants I am considering growing for food.
Yaaaay another fruit review
This plant is called rokitnik in polish. It grows in the dunes along the baltic coast
You should try out the Whitebark Raspberry!
I heard it tastes like blue raspberry, and it's also where the name comes from.
A good day to watch the homie review some sea buckthorn.
Have had these before and they are still my favorite fruit
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 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.
It's very good in tea - take 10-20 berries, crush them, add a bit of honey and cinnamon, and add tea - soooo good!
Love seeing the same fruit compared from different locations!
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
There are so many local products with sea buckthorn (“Duindoorn bessen”) where I live on Texel, NL
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
That bowl needs to show up in a jareds Cabinet of Curiosities video, It looks freaking cool!
your intro music on this one makes me think of twin peaks. :)
That's what I like about it :)
Hello from Estonia
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!
In northern germany you can find these rather often in super market as well
The ice cream is quite popular as well
Good to know
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!
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.
I’d like to see you review the Hua Moa banana. It’s a Hawaiian variety that tastes like peaches
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 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.
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.
Wish I knew what was growing on the bush behind you while you were describing the ice cream. Thanks.
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.
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).
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!
Its coming up in a future episode :)
Great work :)
Great job weird explorer
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.
One of my favorite berries
On Sundays I like to eat fruit and watch weird explorer eat fruit
seeded it few days ago... first already sprouted. now i need to wait few years.
Mmmmm ...woody seedy sour with good grease content
Great content Jared.
omg look at those chanterelles! Too bad they're not a fruit. You should start a mushroom/veggie channel too!
Awesome bowl
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. :)
Even better than your original sea buckthorn video trying the frozen fruit!
Yeah, I actually taste Sea buckthorn jelly in Czech Republic
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.
Great suggestion!
Weird Explorer is the only man I know who is allowed to hold ice cream cones like that.
I was just thinking they'd probably make a great jam then you mentioned it, I bet it tastes delicious!
Wtf is going on in your pfp 💀
Damn do I love this channel
SEA BUCKTHORN + BANANA = THE BEST DAMN SMOOTHIE YOU HAVE EVER TASTED TRUST ME BRO YOU GOTTA TRY IT. Super simple!! Nothing else you have to add. one part buckthorn and one part banana. Beautiful, golden-orange colored smoothie that is like SUPER healthy and UBER TASTY!!!!!
They are good in musli and yogurth
Did you end up eating that whole bowl of sour berries at the end?!
Sea buckthorn fixes nitrogen to your soil and grows in poor soils with little rain. Good for the land.
I will have to trial growing it one of these years if I can find a plant. I live in a difficult climate.
@@t.dig.2040 Will need a male and female plant
Thanks, that is good to know.
It is very invasive. Birds spread the seeds far and wide.
Daniel S invasive there is no such thing as an invasive plant. There are however weak gardens and landscapes that have voids that are begging to be filled because the land is poorly maintained by its stewards.
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
Its hard to pick them and thats why they are soo expensive but for the health benefits its worth growing them.Be sceptic of the health benefits and you will have a surprise.
If you get one of those berry pickers that you hold by a handle you would avoid the pain. They are big, boxy and remind me of a bear's paw.
In my country (Mongolia) we make juices out seabuckthorn or eat them raw