Need a unique idea for a gathering of friends of family? Hosting a Miracle Fruit Tasting Party is a fun way to experience the transformation of fruits, sour and bitter foods to a spectacular sweet taste via Miracle Fruit.
Miracle Fruit is an amazing tropical fruit that temporarily changes your sense of taste and transforms sour or bitter foods and drinks to taste sweet.
Miracle Fruit, Synsepalum dulcificum, a small red berry native to West Africa and Asia resembling an almond-shaped cranberry, causing sour and bitter foods to temporarily (from 10 minutes to an hour) taste sweet. The proteins in the fruit (miraculin) coats and binds to your taste buds and confuses the sweet receptors on the taste buds to respond to acids, allowing the sour or bitter flavors to be perceived as sweet.
You can order the Miracle Fruit in tablet form (Miracle Frooties tablets), perfect for a tasting party from Amazon and for a pack of 10 you can get them for around $15.00 for the large miracle frooties, which we used for our tasting party.
Instructions:
Place a Miracle Frooties tablet (made of Miracle Dried Fruit Pulp and Potato Starch) on your tongue and roll it around very slowly without swallowing until it is completely dissolved. After the tablet has melted, taste sour foods and drinks to experience the unreal change in sour fruits and vegetables into unbelievable sweet treats!
Miracle Frooties recommend you try fruits and vegetables such as:
- lemons
- limes
- grapefruit
- oranges
- strawberries
- tomatoes
- rhubarb
- desserts sweetened with lemon and orange juice
- fruit drinks and beverages without sugar
- unsweetened yogurt
- sour cream
- balsamic vinegar/apple cider vinegar
For our special tasting party, we tried:
- green apples
- lemon sorbet
- lemons
- limes
- strawberries
- grapes
- raspberries
- grapefruit
- tangelo
- oranges
- pineapples
- watermelon
- kiwis
- pomegranate juice
- peas
- cantelope
- green melon
- cranberry juice
- sour candy
Other ideas we didn't try that could be interesting:
- balsamic vinegar
- unsweetened natural yogurt
- sour cream
- whipped cream
- salt and vinegar potato chips
- mango
- peach
- pears
- plum
- orange juice
- tomato
- sour pickles
- blackberries
- cranberries
- V8
- ketchup
- mustards
- aged cheeses
- tonic water
- broccoli drizzled in lemon
- unsweetened tea with lemon
- coffee with a few drops of lemon
- dark beer (I'm not a beer drinker but on the Miracle Fruit website, Guinness is suggested with a drop of lemon sorbet)
- cheap red wine
- sugar-less strawberry topping
- sugar-less key lime pie
- salad with a splash of lemon or vinegar instead of dressing
I heard one gentleman compare the experience to being like Jack and the Beanstalk and buying the "magical beans". The blissful reaction and the giddy-excitement that comes from tasting your first lemon or lime with this sweetened perception quickly allows you to believe the hype.
For the party, you can invite guests to all bring different "sour" or "bitter" foods to try.
We could not believe how incredible the sour fruits tasted under the influence of the miracle fruit. I can't wait to hear what you think of this delightful experience!
I thought it was really interesting to learn that studies are in motion to consider the miracle fruit properties to help those with diabetes to help lose weight or to utilize substances such as apple cider vinegar, known to regulate blood sugar before meals, which allows the vinegar to taste better, increasing the use of the vinegar in diabetic patients. Other studies include experiments in using the fruit extract as a sugar substitute or to consider use for chemotherapy and radiation patients who complain of a metallic taste when eating. The miracle fruit can improve a patient's food intake experience.
