--- title: Baby Tortoise Eats Applesauce: Viral Video description: And also delightful canonical: https://time.com/4023302/baby-tortoise-eats-applesauce/ author: Samantha Grossman article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2015-09-04T19:17:47.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:24:19.466Z og:title: Watching a Baby Tortoise Eat Applesauce Is Oddly Soothing og:description: And also delightful og:url: https://time.com/4023302/baby-tortoise-eats-applesauce/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Watching a Baby Tortoise Eat Applesauce Is Oddly Soothing twitter:description: And also delightful twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # Watching a Baby Tortoise Eat Applesauce Is Oddly Soothing ## Video: 5 Elements of A Viral Video [Watch (HLS stream): 5 Elements of A Viral Video](https://cdn.jwplayer.com/manifests/vgQtqA8c.m3u8) (1:31)  _Published 2015-06-22. 5 Elements of A Viral Video_ by [Samantha Grossman](https://time.com/author/samantha-grossman/) ## Samantha Grossman Sep 4, 2015 7:17 PM UTC by [Samantha Grossman](https://time.com/author/samantha-grossman/) ## Samantha Grossman Sep 4, 2015 7:17 PM UTC If you’re in the mood for something cute, we recommend turning your attention to this video of a baby tortoise enjoying applesauce for the very first time. This tiny little fella is named Herman and though he seems a bit skeptical at first, he soon realizes how delicious applesauce is, and starts taking huge bites. “He’s 2 months old and we’ve only had him for a week,” owner BJ Massey [explains](http://cuteoverload.com/2015/09/03/herman-tries-apple-sauce/). “But the store we got him from informed us he’d only eaten re-hydrated pellet food, so we’ve been spoiling him with Kale, Bok Choi and (unsweetened, pure) apple sauce.” _Read next:_ [_Super Chill Tortoise Is a Skateboarding Pro_](http://time.com/3703047/skateboarding-tortoise/) ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4023302/baby-tortoise-eats-applesauce/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4023302/baby-tortoise-eats-applesauce/"},"headline":"Watching a Baby Tortoise Eat Applesauce Is Oddly Soothing","datePublished":"2015-09-04T19:17:47.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:24:19.466Z","description":"And also delightful","url":"https://time.com/4023302/baby-tortoise-eats-applesauce/","keywords":["Newsfeed","animals"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Samantha Grossman","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/samantha-grossman/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4023302/baby-tortoise-eats-applesauce/","name":"Watching a Baby Tortoise Eat Applesauce Is Oddly Soothing"}}]},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"VideoObject","name":"5 Elements of A Viral Video","description":"5 Elements of A Viral Video","thumbnailUrl":"https://cdn.jwplayer.com/v2/media/vgQtqA8c/poster.jpg?width=720","uploadDate":"2015-06-22T13:42:30.000Z","contentUrl":"https://cdn.jwplayer.com/manifests/vgQtqA8c.m3u8","embedUrl":"https://time.com/4023302/baby-tortoise-eats-applesauce/","duration":"PT1M31S","potentialAction":{"@type":"SeekToAction","target":"https://time.com/4023302/baby-tortoise-eats-applesauce/?jw_start={seek_to_second_number}","startOffset-input":"required name=seek_to_second_number"}}] ```