My wife brought this to my attention this evening, so I thought I would write about it just in case you’ve not heard about it.
Apparently there is a fruit from West Africa, that turns anything sour sweet. My curiosity peaked when I heard that it turn sour foods sweet because I have an awful sweet tooth, and this may be why I am over weight. Anywho, moving on.
They say that this is good for those going through chemo, as with chemotherapy food taste like metal. I can not attest to this has I have never had cancer, or the need for chemo. However, I am trying to cut sugar out of my diet, so I am thinking of purchasing a few of these, 20 for $60.00, and try them on food I absolutely detest such as rice. Below is what I have read so far on this so-called wonderful fruit.
The miracle fruit plant (Synsepalum dulcificum) produces berries that, when eaten, cause sour foods (such as lemons and limes) consumed later to taste sweet. The berry, also known as miracle, magic, miraculous or flavor berry,[2][3] was first documented by explorer Chevalier des Marchais[4] who searched for many different fruits during a 1725 excursion to its native West Africa. Marchais noticed that local tribes picked the berry from shrubs and chewed it before meals. The plant grows in bushes up to 20 feet (6.1 m) high in its native habitat, but does not usually grow higher than ten feet in cultivation, and it produces two crops per year, after the end of the rainy season. It is an evergreen plant that produces small red berries, with flowers that are white and which are produced for many months of the year. The seeds are about the size of coffee beans.
The berry contains an active glycoprotein molecule, with some trailing carbohydrate chains, called miraculin.[5][6] When the fleshy part of the fruit is eaten, this molecule binds to the tongue's taste buds, causing sour foods to taste sweet. While the exact cause for this change is unknown, one hypothesis is that the effect may be caused if miraculin works by distorting the shape of sweetness receptors "so that they become responsive to acids, instead of sugar and other sweet things".[3] This effect lasts 15-30 minutes.[7]
The fruit has been so popular that some are having tasting parties and trying its sweetness on several different items such as hot sauce with its taste turning to honey. That’s different! I wonder if I will be able to get this in a juice some day? Now that would be awesome. I could sit down with a bowl of rice, and my miracle fruit juice and be as happy as a clam. What would be even better is, if I could get a few of those seeds and plant me a nice grove of these evergreens. And it looks like I found the place. Now if I can just keep out those rodents! Ya’ll have a good night!
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