Miracle Fruit Tasting Parties

[Sylph]

https://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/28/dining/28flavor.html

The berry rewires the way the palate perceives sour flavors for an hour or so, rendering lemons as sweet as candy.
The miracle fruit, Synsepalum dulcificum, is native to West Africa and has been known to Westerners since the 18th century. The cause of the reaction is a protein called miraculin, which binds with the taste buds and acts as a sweetness inducer when it comes in contact with acids.

... best way to encounter the fruit is in a group. You need other people to benchmark the experience. At his first party, a small gathering at his apartment in January, guests murmured with delight as they tasted citrus wedges and goat cheese.
Then things got trippy.
You kept hearing "oh, oh, oh", he said, and then the guests became literally like wild animals, tearing apart everything on the table.

Where can I try these fruits? I want to go to a tasting party!

[MsTerry]

https://flavortripping.wordpress.com/



Where can I try these fruits? I want to go to a tasting party!

[Sylph]

A few nights ago, I got my family together and we tried the miracle fruit!
I ordered the tablets of freeze-dried fruits from this company:
https://www.buy-miracle-fruit.com/buy-miracle-fruit.html

The tablets came the very next day…great service! They are little reddish tablets, manufactured in Taiwan (Sen Yuh Farm Science, Co)

I picked some Meyer lemons and some very tart pink lemons from my garden. My mother grows some inedible sour and bitter grapefruits; she has a whole tree full of them. We put out flavored vinegar, cranberries, hot sauce, sour cream, dark beer, red wine, some good gin, olives and raw chard. I didn’t have any Brussels sprouts or cabbage on hand, but I hear they are fun to try because they have an element of “bitterness”.

We made the mistake of not tasting the lemons and vinegar and such before we chewed our miracle fruit tablets. I think the contrast would have been more striking if we had done this.
We passed around the tablets, giggling about the “sensory altering experience” we were about to have.

The lemons tasted like delicious lemon candy! The grapefruit and cranberries were tasty. The citrus vinegar was interesting…we could taste the flavoring and it wasn’t very sour at all. The beer was too sweet…I didn’t like it, ditto for the red wine. The sour cream tasted like sweet cream or crème fraiche. Supposedly, liquor, like gin, tastes sweet, too, but I didn’t think it tasted that different. Pickled olives didn’t taste different. Hot sauce was still hot! Maybe the freeze-dried tabs are not as strong as the actual fruit.
It was fun and next time I want to get a bunch of different tart fruits from Andy’s and steamed Brussels sprouts and broccoli to try.
I have to admit, I had a stomach ache from eating too many lemons and sour things all at once!
Here are more sites that offer the tablets.
https://www.miraclefruitworld.com/
https://www.thinkgeek.com/caffeine/accessories/ab3f/
https://www.miraclefruittab.com/

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This sounds like a food that could have some uses in the bedroom. :angelsmilie: