The miracle fruit-- Synsepalum dulcificum
Has anyone tried these? I found the article very fascinating.
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8 Comments:
Oh, I was reading about these a few months ago. Now that they've made it to New York, I'll try to get some and see what they're like.
butterface at 9:51AM on 05/29/08
i am totally obsessed after reading that article. it was the most emailed article on nyt.com yesterday -- so interesting. don't know anyone that tried them but i am thinking of buying the seeds to try it out myself!
megannesta at 2:00PM on 05/29/08
I got curious but thought "what if my tastebuds stay that way?" Like what your parents said when you crossed your eyes...LOL.
chiff0nade at 3:05PM on 05/29/08
@ chiffonade LOL I had that same exact thought!
Erinay77 at 3:57PM on 05/29/08
If you buy the seeds, be prepared for a looooong wait for fruit. I bought an almost 3-foot plant about 2 years ago, and it shows no sign of blossoming, much less bearing any fruit. Also, it needs and acidic soil, or it will just sit there and not grow at all. Not the easiest thing I've ever grown, but I haven't killed it yet, either.
dbcurrie at 8:42PM on 05/29/08
Weird! I don't know that I'd want things to taste sweeter than they already are...I can't even think of something I wish was sweet. I like sour, and spicy.
Hillary
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Chew on That at 2:29PM on 05/30/08
@dbcurrie -- wow, thanks for that insight! i'm way too impatient (and horrible at all things gardening) to wait 2 years to try the miracle fruit! sounds like it's the more expensive already picked berries for me!! :)
megannesta at 3:48PM on 05/30/08
@megan, I think that in optimum conditions, it's something like 3 years to get fruit, but optimum isn't where most of us live. But I still have high hopes that I'll get this plant to give me a berry sometime before the next century. I suppose if I fertilized it a bit more often, it would be growing faster, but some months, it's lucky if I remember to water often enough to keep it alive.
If I could find the berries somewhere locally, I'd love to try them, just for the novelty. And it would be interesting to see other people's reactions, too. Eat a berry, eat a lemon. Mmmmmm....
But really, it would just be for the novelty. I like sour and tart flavors. I'm the one who will suck the rest of the juice out of a squeezed lemon or lime, and as a kid, one of my favorite treats was pickles. I still loooove pickles.
IIRC, there was some food that they suggested you didn't eat after eating the berry. I don't remember what it was, or if I'm even remembering correctly. Not that it would poison you or anything, but that the taste would be particularly bad. I'm thinking it might have been something like aspargus or artichokes or something like that.
dbcurrie at 12:23PM on 05/31/08