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Sunday, April 01, 2007 

Synsepalum dulcificum

It's the newest "hot" food. Really.
At a party here one recent Friday, Jacob Grier stood on a chair, pulled out a plastic bag full of small berries, and invited everyone to eat one apiece. "Make sure it coats your tongue," he said.

Mr. Grier's guests were about to go under the influence of miracle fruit, a slightly tart West African berry with a strange property: For about an hour after you eat it, everything sour tastes sweet.

Within minutes of consuming the berries, guests were devouring lime wedges as if they were candy. Straight lemon juice went down like lemonade, and goat cheese tasted as if it was "covered in powdered sugar," said one astonished partygoer. A rich stout beer seemed "like a milkshake," said another. - Truth About Trade & Technology
EatFoo(d) has more about this strange little berry dubbed "the Miracle Fruit".

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Wild! I'm going to link to this.

I am going to buy this, haha :) Found some here: Miracle Fruit Berry World

I wonder if it works with yoghurt...

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