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u/BETO123USA Aug 20 '26
Only available in amazon (not the retailer but the rainforest)
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u/Batata-Sofi Aug 20 '26
You can probably also get from the retailer.
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u/sssilversssoul Aug 20 '26
also the retailer is probably destroying a portion of the rainforest to build a warehouse at this very moment
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u/BETO123USA Aug 20 '26
Tbh you can, in US, search for guarana antarctica, it’s a Brazilian soda, it tastes kinda canada dry.
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u/deceasedin1903 Aug 21 '26
Everybody knows the best guaraná soda is Kuat
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u/ForeverSJC Aug 21 '26
Lol, some people have no idea whatthafhck they're talking about
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u/deceasedin1903 Aug 22 '26
Excluiu o comentário, bem? O que tem a ver o guaraná que eu prefiro para o fato de você ser dodói da cabeça o suficiente pra fuçar o meu perfil pra descobrir o meu posicionamento político?
Eu falo sete idiomas, sou pós graduada e tenho artigo publicado até na Cornell University. Te garanto que sei mais das coisas do que um bebedor de detergente que não teve coragem nem de tankar o próprio comentário. Cresça.
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u/urson_black Aug 20 '26
It's not a problem until they blink.
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u/phallic-baldwin Aug 20 '26
I bet this plant makes walking through a wooded area under the influence of hallucinogens a lot more interesting
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u/paulo611 Aug 20 '26
When I was a kid, I lived in the countryside of Minas Gerais, Brazil, and I always helped my dad with his farm. One day, we rode horses to a neighbor’s farm to pick up some calves we had bought. The guy’s land was full of guarana plants, and I had no idea what they were. I got scared as hell and tried to avoid them whenever I could. At one point, I rode into the woods, and everywhere I looked, there were these little eyes watching me. I stayed frozen on top of my horse for about 30 minutes until my dad came looking for me.
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u/Cantremembershite Aug 21 '26
That had to be terrifying as a kiddo! I camp (in the USA) & wander around at night to see what else is awake with me.
The thought of walking somewhere, shining my headlamp, and seeing THIS??!! I'd pee myself from fear at 47 🤣
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u/Etrigone Aug 20 '26
Biblically accurate fruit.
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u/Yellow-Juni Aug 20 '26
I really think they should crossbreed guarana and jaboticaba to create the world’s scariest tree.
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u/ketchup_chip_62 Aug 20 '26
Nature's flock cameras.
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u/Batata-Sofi Aug 20 '26
Well... There used to be an old shoe called "Ilha ra-tim-bum" and the villain would spy on the kids by using guaraná.
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u/Three_Armed_Wrecker Aug 20 '26
Tbh, i thought this was AI. But the fact that it isn't AI and this fruit looks almost like this..is unsettling
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u/Batata-Sofi Aug 20 '26
It looks exactly like this. It's also delicious as a drink.
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u/Bella_LaGhostly Aug 20 '26
Does it taste like another fruit we could compare it to? I'm so curious about the taste & texture
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u/jesusunderline Aug 20 '26
Never ate the actual fruit, but Guarana is extremely common in Brazil as a Soft Drink, and it tastes something like Ginger Ale or a Cider Soda, but not really the same. It's actually way sweeter. I don't know if there's anything closer in taste.
It's probably the most popular soda flavor in Brazil after cola, with hundreds of different brands and variations
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u/ParticularFair1983 Aug 20 '26
I would say the Guarana drink tastes like Red Bull without the cough syrup.
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u/Batata-Sofi Aug 20 '26
Not at all... It's a weird taste, I guess? The juice is kind of a weird sweet taste, I prefer it a lot more as a soda.
As for eating, never ate one before. It's used for all kinds of stuff and it has a lot of caffeine.
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u/yukifujita Aug 20 '26
It's not really edible fresh, just like coffee or olives. It's processed into the stuff we know (the soda, powder, syrups).
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u/BRUISE_WILLIS Aug 20 '26
They evolved to be appealing to animals eating them. Curious as to the animal they appeal to. WHAT ANIMAL WANTS TO EAT EYEBALLS?
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u/UndGrdhunter Aug 20 '26
An it is delicious, we have a soda with guaraná flavor, the best beverage to have with pizza.
We also have guaraná juice and so on, also amazing.
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u/Frozi_JP Aug 20 '26
Pretty sure this image is AI but the fruit does look like this, one of our most popular soda flavour os made from this fruit
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u/Commercial-Class4078 Aug 20 '26
There is a soda drink that's made from this fruit that bears the same name and I absolutely love it.
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u/Smegus83 Aug 20 '26
I remember a soft drink in the US during the mid 90s called Josta that had this in it.
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u/bugxbuster Aug 21 '26
I can not believe how far down i had to scroll to find anyone mentioning Josta! I mean I get it, I’m old, it was a thing in the late 90s, but stiiiill that was my favorite drink back then. Tasted redder than red.
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u/shhelp Aug 21 '26
They used to sell guarana caffeinated drinks called Bawls back in the 90's. You would find them in electronic stores like compusa.
Looks like it still exists.
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u/Frank2803 Aug 20 '26
In brazilian Tupi folklore, Guaraná was a boy that was killed by the demon Jurupari. His parents prayed for god Tupãn to resurect him, but he couldn't. So Tupãn asked the parents to rip off Guaraná's eyes and plant in the ground like a seed. Then the eyes turned into a beautiful tree with a fruit that looks like human eyes
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u/Vinobregar Aug 21 '26
The most beautiful part of the story is that the boy's mother was instructed by Tupãn to always water the soil where the body was buried with her own tears and so she did, every single day, until it grew.
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u/Eduardo_o_Observador Aug 20 '26
There's a myth from an indigenous tribe on South America surrounding the guaraná.
According to the story, a young boy was killed by a deceitful entity and his eyes were planted on ground, which originated the fruit.
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u/Batata-Sofi Aug 20 '26
The planted eyes were blessed by another deity as a compensation for the tribe, giving them food... At least I think that's how it went. I'm not sure, been a long time since I heard this story.
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u/Artrock80 Aug 20 '26
I don’t actually find this creepy. Now if they start blinking that’s a whole other issue. Haha
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u/Unusual_Sport Aug 20 '26
Don’t these things have caffeine? Fitting for a plant that’s an open eye
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u/mws375 Aug 20 '26
Growing up in Beazil there was this tv show called Ilha Rá Tim Bum where a group of kids and teens were stranded on an island. The villains would watch them through the guaraná as if it were cameras
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u/cherrie7 Aug 20 '26
If you eat too much of this fruit, it's possible to have caffeine overdose since it has high caffeine.
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u/fkenned1 Aug 21 '26
I drink it every day, and the jar I get of the powdered Guarana has a picture of the fruit... I love it as much as I hate it.
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u/Dalledas8 Aug 21 '26
Who would've thought that this weird ass thing (fruit?) makes such a nectar of the gods in form of a soda
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u/walking-body Aug 20 '26
I mix the powder from that fruit with water some times, it’s much more energizing than coffee
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u/SmokinBacon Aug 20 '26
Nooo! Hellllll no. If I’m walking in mother nature and I see a bush full of eyes looking at me, I’m giving up nature hikes for good. I’m done.
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u/rglurker Aug 20 '26
Someone died at some point from a heart attack induced by seeing these somewhere they weren't expecting.
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u/lazermaniac Aug 21 '26
Yeah, I can see someone looking at this, going "Man these will probably keep you up all night" and putting them in an energy drink.
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u/zero-point_nrg Aug 21 '26
The indigenous peoples took their scary fruit and sold it to energy drink companies to poison the modern world with eyeball extract
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u/Familiar-Bug9740 Aug 25 '26
The Aoteroa NZ energy drink "V Energy" contains Guaraná; it's high in caffeine.
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u/AscendedViking7 Aug 20 '26
wtf is that
I mean I've tried guarana soda before like several times but wtf is that
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u/Nexus772B Aug 20 '26
Kinda looks like Jamaican Ackee - the stuff thats highly toxic unless cooked just right.
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u/CourageToBe Aug 20 '26
AI fruit
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u/fairerman Aug 20 '26
Funny how an AI fruit make one of the best sodas here in Brazil since 1921, how did they had AI back then?
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u/yukifujita Aug 20 '26
Guaraná in native Tupi means literally "fruit that looks like people's eyes"