It has been wonderful to have Miracle Fruit (Synsepalum dulcificum) on the tasting again. The pulp from the fruit has the ability to affect the sour receptors of the taste buds so that all sour foods taste sweet. Watching people's faces as they discover that their taste buds have changed and that the lime now tastes as sweet as an orange. Wow! I am now collecting the seeds and hoping to plant out a large number of miracle fruit bushes. This is a small red berry from West Africa and it should make a perfect pot plant for the shadehouse. Multi national corporations have tried to analyse and synthesize the flesh to use as a safe sugar substitute, but have not been successful.
The Durian has been frozen from our crop in March and April. We are surprised how well this fruit has survived in the freezer. We know Durian is an aquired taste - but in each tasting there is a group of adventurouse folk who like the new taste and hopefully will go on to try a fresh durian.
For those of you thinking about doing the fruit tasting this month, the fruit we are offering:
Breadruit
Black Sapote
Durian
Yellow Sapote
Star Apple
Soursop
Abiu
Jaboticaba
Roseapple
Pommelo
Solo Papaya
Grumichama
Miracle Fruit
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