Garden of Eden Gourmet Market - Eden Gourmet - The Miracle Fruit or Miracle Berry

Miracle Fruit Available Exclusively at
Garden of Eden and Eden Gourmet Stores...

It's a tiny berry. But it works miracles when you eat it before sour foods.

Lemons instantly turn from sour to sweet. Even a bologna sandwich turns to cake. ...my sense/mind didn’t quite get what was going on. Then i went for the lemon, and it really did taste like lemonade!

Then the grapefruit, which was already pretty sweet… and what little sourness it did have was gone, it was sweeter/waterier tasting. Chinese mandarin peels… it was not the pseudo-medicinal taste i despised as a kid, but tasted more like candied peels sans crunchy sugary bits on the outside!

... Definitely a fun crazy party food experiment that will leave guests with that look of surprised bewilderment...

The Miracle Fruit Plant, sometimes known as Miracle Berry, Magic Berry, or Flavor Berry (Sideroxylon dulcificum/Synsepalum dulcificum)[1] is a plant first documented by an explorer 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 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 is sweet, and contains an active glycoprotein molecule, with some trailing carbohydrate chains, called miraculin.

When the fleshy part of the fruit is eaten, this molecule binds to the tongue's taste buds, causing bitter and sour foods (such as lemons and limes) consumed later to taste sweet. This effect lasts between thirty minutes and two hours. It is not a sweetener, as its effects depend on what is eaten afterwards, but has been used to cause bitter medicine to taste sweet. Miracle Fruit or Miracle Berry, or Magic Berry is exclusively available from Garden of Eden stores in Manhattan.

How To Enjoy Your Miracle Fruit:

Step 1:Purchase a selection of citrus fruits (lemons, limes, grapefruits), vegetables (rhubarb), cheeses (Humboldt Fog, bleu cheese), beer (Guinness, other dark stouts), and tequila (the cheaper the better). Lay your goodies out on a big table.

Step 2:Wash your miracle berry. Step 2:Insert berry into mouth; swirl it around for approximately one minute, like a hard candy.

Step 3:Bite into berry. Coat tongue with the berry's juice. At this point, the juice should be sweet. (There's a seed in the middle. You can spit it out or swallow it).

Step 4:Taste a lemon wedge as a test. It should now taste like lemonade.

Step 5:Proceed without caution.

Due to the recent coverage of the Miracle Fruit by The New York Times, and the overwhelming demand for the fruit, we ask that you call ahead to our Garden of Eden Locations, or Eden Gourmet Locations to check for availability and pricing.

Prices and availability may vary.

MIRACLE FRUIT FAQs:

QUESTION: "Can you ship me the Miracle Fruit?"
ANSWER: "Due to the incredible demand for the Miracle Fruit, we cannot ship them at this time."

QUESTION: "Can you tell me which location has them, and how many?"
ANSWER: "As the Miracle Fruit sells so quickly, we can not keep acurate count from our warehouse. Your best bet is to contact the stores directly. Our store locations are listed on our website at http://www.edengourmet.com/locations.html"

QUESTION: "Can they be frozen?"
ANSWER: "Yes, use a freezer storage bag, and thaw only the amount you plan to consume for about 15 minutes before consumption."