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Red Rowan Berry Review (Sorbus Scorpulina) – Weird Fruit Explorer



Episode 660: Red Rowan Berry
Species: Sorbus scorpulina
Location: New York, USA

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46 Comments

  1. Peter Huestis

    I guess these are in the same family as Pyracantha. We had massive Pyracantha bushes where I grew up, and of course we all tried eating the abundant, vibrant berries and regretted it every time. Blecch!

  2. Agata Jarska

    I remember rowan syrup from my childhood (late 80', early 90') in Poland. It was mixed with water to make a refreshing (?) drink. It was made by Herbapol company, I wonder if some company still makes those? If I recall correctly, some bitterness disappears after cooking.

    Also, thank you for planting a seed of curiosity – I've just moved to Germany and tasted fresh dates for the first time, as I've never saw them in Poland. I also saw fresh medlars and I'm going to try them too!

  6. Chris Garman

    We call these Green Mountain Ash in my part of Canada. I was always told they were poisonous. The sparrows and other little birds get drunk on them all winter.

  8. mya rocks

    Ive never heard them called Rowan berries here in Canada we call them Mountain Ash, you can eat them but you have to cook them first and deseed them I believe.

  9. Shinobi Yunei

    I come from Germany, this tree (we call it lit. "Bird berry/Vogelbeere") grows naturelly here. If you want to use the fruit correct you will freeze the berries, than it is eatble and can make jam out of it.

  13. SeeNyu

    Apparently when you freeze and unfreeze the berries, they get much less bitter.
    It's not really edible without heat treatments. (An acid that can make you vomit goes away after heat treatments).

    I wish this video was a little more. Maybe there's some in previous video

  14. Vari Lindén

    Try it after freezing. Freezing makes them sweeter. Birds in Finland eat them mostly during winter, when the sugar percentage goes up and there’s lots of energy. Otherwise best to eat them as jam or in baked goods. The flavor is particular and you either love it or hate it. Or like me, you don’t like it at all, but crave it in small amounts from time to time.

  17. merlekerle

    yeah like many said already.. you are supposed to wait for the first frost… or just freeze them b4 consumption

  18. Kyra B

    Love the shot of the axe. Is it bad my first thought was "wonder if it has an edge?" 😂 Nice to see some NA native fruit as well

  22. Ben Alpers

    You can also use them to flavor vodka (though I know you don't drink). Freeze the berries first (as suggested for other uses) then toss them into vodka and wait.

  26. manda b.

    i knew a girl named rowan in college. she was pretty bitter too, ngl. very apt naming by her parents 😆

  29. Michael

    Looks like Mountain Ash. Those things suck until February-ish when they've been bletted. Then they're only mealy, seedy, and smell like a foot that got stuck up a bunghole.

  30. Vik

    Here in Poland we traditionally make a meat sauce out of it, and even more traditionally we make necklaces out of the dried fruit!

  32. Apple Gal

    Hey, we have these here in Newfoundland too. We call them dog berries. I think some people use it to make wine. I've heard the saying that if there's lots of dog berries on the trees, then we're in for a hard winter.

  33. Joshua Hymel

    It'd be interesting to see a lineup of all the most bitter and sour fruits you can find while using miracle berries to change the flavor.

  39. Mojj Mojj

    Rowan berries are said to strengthen the body's immune system and can both prevent and treat urinary tract infection, research has shown that in parts of Russia where the population eats a lot of rowan berries, prostate cancer is uncommon.
    but wait until the frost comes before you pick them or freeze them first.

  40. Tim H

    I've had good luck with hawthorns. They vary in quality, but I've found good ones (foraging in parks or sidewalks).

  43. Jon Hop

    They remind me of a very bitter cranberry. Cranberries can have that bitterness and astringency too.

  44. coop

    So don't believe the lovely glowing descriptions of the taste that fruit tree sellers are using to sucker you into paying outrageous for "fruiting" mountain ash trees for your "permaculture" forest. Actually, most of them are lying about the wonderful flavors of a lot of unusual "fruit" trees they are selling these days. If you never heard of eating the fruit before, there may be a reason. There is also at least one of these companies describing it's red and white current varieties as "extraordinarily sweet. NOT! I'm all for growing native and unusual fruits, but think false advertising is fraud and just turns people off of trying to grow their own fruit.

  45. Amílcar Pereira

    There's a fruit in Portugal that is call "Sorva" Sorbus domestica .
    I made a quick search and did not found it on your channel.
    The ones that I eated had a pear like appearance and are only good to eat when they are extremely ripe.
    It's sweet and have a pear like texture.

    Love your channel and is my companion at my break to eat on my midnight shifts. ✌

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