The bumpy skin of the hedge apple is similar to a dehydrated fruit: it has lumps all over and is generally unappealing to most humans. This ugly appearance and a semi-rigid exterior is the reason why most humans do not bother eating it. After all, who has the time to peel a hard skin and only to find out its taste is as undesirable as its exterior. A white and sticky fluid will come out from its pulp when you open a hedge apple in half. This is called the latex, which is comparable to the latex released by rubber trees.
There is no scientific proof on this yet. Only a study by Robert Frazee , a retired University of Illinois instructor for the Department of Natural Resources, concluded two things:. Absolutely false.
There is nothing in existence that does that. Those are silly claims made by people trying to earn a quick buck off of the ignorant. GOD Bless you. Not delightful tasting, but not horrible either. Ever eat a real orange and bite into a seed before you can spit it out? Even after multiple handwashes, it is incredibly sticky, and god help you, if you get it under your fingernails.
According to the USDA write-up on the fruit, it is ALL edible, not just the seeds, but truthfully I would not recommend it, simply because it is non-yummy.
About 45 minutes after ingestion, started noticing that something felt funny. I got a tight-and-floaty feeling across the forehead, a little tingling on lips and mouth. That forehead feeling, I recognized that, from college days. About an hour and a half after eating them, my cheeks felt numb and it seemed like my sense of smell got very sharp. After about 2 and a half hours, the euphoria started to fade and I stopped yawning, and now, almost five hours after, I feel completely normal.
No upset stomach, no pains or any other lasting side effects, so far anyway! Also read that some compounds in Osage-orange fruit are under investigation for the most important anti-oxidant characteristic: preventing cancer! You probably heard about anti-oxidants in red wine and dark chocolate and broccoli, and recently Nestle has done testing on a drink they concocted which is massively stuffed with various flavanoids.
Honestly, that was completely unexpected. Goog said the seeds were edible. What you described is the same type of reaction I get to anti-inflammatories. This is an allergic reaction — be careful! Certainly that is not how I would define or describe it. Commenting here to second that what you describe definitely sounds like an allergic response to latex. You can google latex and cross reactive foods. Watch out for the skins of figs! I am considering making a jam from Osage oranges.
Well maybe because even with less sugar in the jam, it would cancel out the benefits of the cancer fighting power of the Osage??? I am asking for your opinion due to your response which resonated with me. Cancer feeds on sugar. So putting sugar in the recipe would be defeating the purpose. Do your homework because big pharmacy makes big money off of sugar. Suggestion…use natural pectin. Every cell in your body feeds on glucose the simplest sugar of all including cancer cells if you have any. So what?
It makes me cringe everyone someone says cancer feeds on sugar. Your body will make sugar from fat or protein if it has to. Eating lots of sugar is not good for you but it has zero to do with cancer. Also cancer feeds on sugar? No it feeds on you! Actually restricting sugar — that is simple carbs — is a successful treatment for some cancers.
There is a growing school of medical thought that sugar indeed does feed many cancers. I just read an article on an Australian news site about Jackfruit it looks like a giant stretched Hedge apple, so I did a quick bit of research and they share both the mulberry and moraceae family names.
The Jackfruit tree also has orange wood used as a dye. The reason for my post is that the Jackfruit is at the moment the latest fad in vegetarian meat substitute dishes around the world its flavour lacking flesh absorbs spice, herbs etc. Point being if hedge apple flesh could live up to jackfruit as an edible alternative to meat, well the skies the limit for the scorned, friendless, little hedge apple hehehe x.
Jackfruit is a really delicious fruit. My wife is Filipina and we eat it a lot. You can hardly tell the difference. God no! There are so many better things to put into my body. The latex is significant, coupled with the extreme bitterness, and general messiness of this fruit, No my gut says: Not Me!
I too was a youthful omnivore prone to experimentation. When seeking to extract seeds to make a more orderly hedge row, I had an unpleasant neighbor on the otherside of my fence, I thought to plant just the seeds after extraction.
The taste is firmly in my memory and my mouth puckers with the reminder. I always thought that the fruit extract should have some use as glue , paint, or mordant.
I moved away prior to development. The aforementioned hedge row never filled in cleanly and was bolstered by thorny locust. It is thick and impenetrable now. Plant thorny locust, mow them over a few times and they get vicious, in Arkansas anyway. You can eat hedge apples.
Google grilled hedge apples with bear steak. Watch the video. Where I used to live in Western Pennsylvania, the Amish sell the fruit as a spider repellent. We used to keep the fruit in paper bags in every room of the house and discard as soon as the fruit started leaking into the paper. Supposedly the fruit ripening gave off a gas that repels the little buggers.
Saw very few spiders in the house. I have heard that the fruit are sold in Asia for the same purpose… but never seen it with my own eyes.
Yes you can eat these in small doses. I live in Kentucky. My mother and I both have cancer and I know several people that have done what we are doing and the tumors are gone. No we do not eat the seeds. We freeze these and then grind the shell and all to the creamy white center a little at a time. We were told no more than a table spoon a day. They taste like cucumber to some and honey dew Mellon to others. More than this amount can cause diarrhea.
But I will say I believe it does kill cancer cells. It is high in B I know people who are in remission. So we are doing this and we are not getting high or sick from it. I took a chance and ate hedge apples during a fight with cancer. The first thing I noticed was two warts I had on my finger and toe were gone after a few weeks. Although I did go thru surgery and chemo my doctor was amazed at what he described as perfect blood work He said whatever your doing keep doing it.
You rarely ever saw a single spider afterwards. No idea how it works, but it always worked for them! I saw hedge apples for first some 30 years ago at the local botanic garden, and i really liked the trees with the big yellowish balls.
Later it appeared that it is not only nice but one of the best wood for bow making. The hunt for the seeds started and ended up with a stolen ball. Nice thorny stuff 25 of that. The osage conquered Hungary, Szeged.
I received my first from Cold Stream farm. They arrived and planted well, it was Feb. I was thinking the later to leave up had root problems to sort out?
Tree Help. And a friend of mine harvested 69 Hedge Apples for me. A video shows a soaking in a bucket of water does wonders on picking through the fruit for the seeds. Was walking trail today found strange fruit. Will go back tomorrow to pick up more. Love learning about odd green ball from tree near me. I used to sit and admire these big old osage orange trees growing in an old field. One tree had a large and very busy bees nest. I video taped their festival-like lives.
Then one day I went there and the nest had been taken down. The city most likely protecting hikers. Every year I used to take those brain balls with me but never came up with anything to do with them. They would just roll around my car floor till I tossed them. Pungent smell. Back then everyone said and I read that they were toxic but kept spiders away. I am so happy to hear that they are edible. Thanks for all the info. Now I have another question. I live in Pensacola and have been trying to find a Osage Orange tree for some time.
Do you know of any up here or what sort of areas should I be looking in for me to find one? Thank you for your help and great website.
If I could just remember the cross street. It is Euclid Street. East side. South of cross street Beverly. Here is a view of the property. I think the Osage Orange is south of the big one in the middle… next to the car.
But I think that is the right spot. You pay the postage. Relatively slow growing trees. They do have nasty thorns when they grow a bit. They go right through the sole of a sneaker, and into your foot. Wow…I live in Ponce de Leon, 40 miles west of you.
Glad to hear that they grow in this area. I am in the woods and have heard that neither spiders or roaches like osage. I would like to buy a few from you to plant on my property. Actually about 45 miles north. I am in FL east coast. There is a farm in GA that gives them out for free but would rather not travel that far. I had one go through sneaker under the Osage and didnt know it was from the tree at the time. It fell just short of puncturing my foot….
Hello everybody im here in memphis do anybody know someone that has a orange tree n can send me some u guys r bless just 2 get up in go out n your own yard in get oranges anytime u please awww man im so jealous. There is a grove of them in Grand Jct. Right into town, left on the first road by the old Western Auto to the end of the street.
Turn right and they are in the yard to your right. Peaches, I live just north of Memphis. Did you find the oranges you were looking for last year? We have a tree up here that is dropping them like crazy right now. I love my Hedge Apple trees here in AR!! Growing up in OK, we called them Horse Apples. Yes, they are all over the place here. I try to protect the ones that I have. They provide snacks for the squirrels and deer that visit here plus some entertainment for my kids!
And I have tried frozen shavings of the hedge apple with no ill effects. It was were VERY mildly sweet in an earthy sort of way. I have a big tree in the yard and it has thousands of big green fruits. Few are falling on the ground due to weight.
They had noticed that the Indians made their bows from it. I did a search of the osage orange after reading the name in a couple of different stories. I was born in Kansas and have lived most of my life here and all I have ever heard the tree called is Hedge or Hedgeapple. Makes great fence posts and burns very hot. Have seen horses eat the apples and pack rats seem to use them as their mainstay food source. My dog brings them to me for me to throw for her to fetch.
Will have to look into making a bow from hedge. Question concerning the edibility of this plant. You indicate that the seed are the only edible portion of the fruit. Is the rest of the fruit poisonous or simply bad tasting making it unpalatable for any type of consumption? In your article you mentioned the amount of mis-information on the Internet and I do not trust what I have read so far. The reason I ask is that I was contemplating a jelly experiment, but not sure if it would be a poisonous experiment or not.
It just has a difficult texture. The comment about freezing it. I was also interested in its use as a flavoring of some sort and was going to experiment myself this fall. I have heard that if you cut up the fruit into pieces and put around your house or outside it will keep cockroaches away.
They most definitely keep cockroaches away. We had a tree in our yard in NY and gave them away to neighbors to get rid of roaches. My mom would split one in half and place under the kitchen sink. We gathered up unused fruit to take to the park for the squirrels. Very edible. I eat them everyday. It tastes alot like a mild cucumber. Not to mention they are great for your health. I know if there is a fruit some one has figured out how to use it.
When it is hard enough, grate it with cheese grater, i use the fine grater. Eat one tsp a day if you are not sick.
One tablespoon three times a day if you have serious ailment. There was an anecdotal account that a man ate 18 hedgeapples, and after which his serious ailment disappeared.
My husband knew the guy that ate 18 hedgeapples in a two week time period. Only side effect, it gives some people diahhrea.
I finally cut it open today, took several tries! Like latex ugh…hard to get off. No big seed in the middle, but a few very small seeds that looked like pumpkin seeds. The smell was just a green, fresh smell. After reading all about the Osage tree and where it is located, I would like to announce we have at least one tree in Dalton GA!
Sticky latex comes off easily with a little cooking oil. Rub and use an old rag to wipe it off. Then wash. Hey Brother I just read your post. I live in Blue Ridge and would love to start some Osage trees so if you still have the tree we could meet up when they are ready. I live in country Bama and I see hundreds of these fruits on trees and on the ground. They look so much like the breadfruit from the islands except they have seeds.
I am interested in having some of the fruit…. I am in dire straights to find the fruit. I have hundreds of these items. I hate them and would be glad to send you all you want, just let me know. I would love to have a few!! I used mine in Michigan and really works to get rid of spiders. Let me no and how to work this out or if you still want to get rid of a few.
Thank you so much you can contact me at my email. James Lucas if you could send me some. I will pay for postage. I would greatly appreciate it. Thank you in advance. Yes Cali has them. There is 1 big tree in Julian that throws fruit all over the ground every year. Send some to c.
Sutton at Thomas St. Let me know what postage is. One grows in Jacksonville, if you are there the right time of year you can pick the fruit up for free. I have a number of these trees on my property here in Charlotte NC.
They are all in full bloom and full of fruit!! Contact me at Ronnyboy gmail. Hi , the name of this fruit came to me in a weird dream.
My dead uncle told me about it. I looked it up and to my surprise it exists and I found out it goes by other names, the Osage orange and hedge apple among other names. Todd went to college and graduated as a Phd Chemist. When he retired he decided to find out if he could isolate the healing properties. Long story short he found that the healing properties came from the seeds of the fruit. He created a process to extract the golden oil and found the literal Fountain of Youth. I have a video pinned on top of the page of Todd explaining the Clinical Trial Results which is very informative.
Pomifera ended June with 1. In 5 months Pomifera is considered a 20 Million Dollar Company. I hope you enjoyed reading this. Stay Safe!! Colleen Bourque. I know people who have been using the fruit as a pest repellent for their home for many years, and they swear by it. Let me know if you can help, please! Osage apples may work also, but the least amount of sugar or smell of rotting fruit might just attract them.
They attract ants [at certain ripeness] so be careful where and how you place them. Thank you to everyone who has enlightened me on understanding so much more about these great trees.
This link was just sent to me, and i cannot keep from leaving my comments. Hedgeapples are edible, and NO, they are not poisonous. They taste a little like cucumbers.
The most valuable use for hedgeapples, is the ability to stop cancerous growths. I have been either eating or taking a hedgeapple capsule for 7 or 8 years now to help prevent cancer. If i was told i had cancer, i would not take chemo. I would just double up on my hedgeapple intake.
The ingredient found in hedgeapples is called tetrahydroxystilbene. Look it up, studies have proven that this ingredient reduces cancer cells. Where do you get hedgeapple pills at? I have never heard of this. They use the tree for fence posts and even burn the wood, but it sparks really bad.
The hedge balls just fall on the ground as no one uses them and have no use for them. If you drive down a country road when the hedge apples are ripe, you will see them laying in the ditches. I have never heard of anyone eating the hedge ball. How do you fill capsule with Osage Orange? Have no desire to create them to sell them but just curious considering how the stuff inside is like latex rubber. Can you tell me where I can get hedgeapples this time of year or where I can buy the capsules.
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Privacy Policy. Password recovery. Recover your password. Forgot your password? Get help. Hedge apples come from a deciduous tree known as Osage orange Maclura pomifera. Other names given to the hedge apple tree are:. During your stroll to the grocery store, you might have come across the hedge apples and start wondering, where did the hedge apple originate?
The Osage tree came from the southwest in the drainage area of Oklahoma, Texas, and Arkansas. It was well known for its wood by the Osage nation of Native Americans and the Cherokee. They used the wood to produce bows for hunting, which some years later, they were worth more than a horse and blanket.
As it became more accepted, it became of value to the Midwest farmers and ranchers. They used it to make living fences due to its sharp thorns, thus named hedgerows. The American settlers also used the trees as a hedge to keep away free-range animals from their gardens and cornfields. During their growth, the hedge apple trees were severely pruned and sprouted numerous adventitious shoots that were interwoven.
They, therefore, formed a dense thorny barrier hedge. You might have come across some hedge apples and come to find out it is not a good idea to eat them. Hence the question, what are the uses of hedge apple? Despite their unpalatable nature, there are several other uses you can explore. Also, the trees and leaves of the hedge apple can be useful as well. Such uses include:.
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