What's so mysterious about Miracle Fruit?

Introduction of Mysterious Fruit

Mysterious Fruit: (Miracle Fruit) Miraculous Fruit/Berry

Scientific Name: Synsepalum dulcificum Denill, Sapotaceae

Common Name: Mysterious Fruit

Miracle Fruit (Miracle Fruit)

Mysterious Fruit is a tropical evergreen shrub that grows in West Africa, Ghana and Congo. Origin: West Africa, Ghana, Congo, a tropical evergreen shrub

Mysterious Fruit of the English name Mysterious Fruit (Mysterious Fruit) or Miracle Fruit (incredible fruit), Mysterious Fruit belongs to the evergreen shrubs, native to tropical West Africa, Mysterious Fruit of the magic lies in the bar will be eaten by the strange acidic fruits into a sweet as syrupy fruit, such as consumers in order to consume lemons, which contain a variety of fruits, such as lemons and other fruits. Such as consumer intake of lemons rich in vitamin C, but because of the strong acidic flavor of lemons, the need to add a lot of sugar water by watering down, dilute citric acid, for fear of excessive intake of sugar, so that deterred, do not dare to eat. If you eat a mystery fruit, you can turn sour lemons into sweet lemons, and the aroma is incomparable, after eating the sweetness of the taste retained in the mouth for up to 30 minutes. Because of the mystery fruit pulp contains mystery fruit (Miraclin), is a glycoprotein, can change the human sense of taste, eat acidic food also feel the taste of sweet. Mystic Fruit should therefore potentially provide a dietary supplement for acidic foods or a flavor modifier to satisfy the sweetness needs of diabetics. Mystic Fruit has 2 distinct flowering and fruiting periods per year, i.e., flowering in February-March, ripening of the fruit in April-May, and a second flowering in April-May to ripening of the fruit in June-July. The ripe fruits are small deep red fruits containing a seed and a small amount of white sweet pulp. If grown in pots, this mysterious fruit can also produce flowers and fruit, and will undoubtedly be an interesting fruit tree for both ornamental and edible purposes.

Tree shape: Mystery fruit is a perennial evergreen shrub, rarely deciduous, tree height up to 2 to 5 meters, slow growth, planted in pots four years of tree height up to 60 to 80 centimeters, the tree shape is slightly steeple-shaped.

Leaves: the first leaves are light green, the old leaves are dark green or dark green, the shape of the leaves is slightly similar to the fine-leaved olive, oblanceolate or obovate, most of the clusters of branches or the main trunk of the intergrowth, leaf veins are obvious, the lateral veins are interspersed, and the edge of the leaf is slightly wavy.

Flowers: flowers bloom in the axils of the leaves, small white flowers, diameter of only 0.65 to 0.75 centimeters, blooming throughout the year, flowering period of 4 to 6 weeks, the flowers have a light coconut milk flavor.

Fruit: fruit after flowering, a green ellipsoidal berry, about 2 to 3 centimeters long, diameter of about 1 centimeter, bright red when ripe.

Seeds: covered by the pulp, the seeds accounted for about one-half of the fruit, slightly pointed head and tail, such as small olive-shaped, edible pulp, after the removal of the pulp of the seed half of the dark brown smooth surface like the seeds of Sakya fruit, the other half of a layer of film left by the pulp covered, difficult to remove, so there is (yin and yang son) called.

Mystic fruit effects

1), edible methods: cooked fruit can be eaten raw, juice, made of concentrated ingots, juice combination of sugar-free lemon popsicle (Mystic Fruit Popsicle) seeds can be eaten raw and made of concentrated ingots.

2), Nutritional Composition: Fruit pulp is rich in special glycoproteins, vitamin C, KI, citric acid, succinic acid, oxalic acid, etc., the seeds contain natural sterols, etc., vegetables contain sodium, potassium, calcium, magnesium and other trace minerals.

3), the main function: because the fruit contains special glycoproteins, can be high acidity of the fruit into the agar jelly like sweetness. Often eaten raw cooked fruit or concentrated ingots with the adjustment of high blood sugar, high blood pressure, high blood cholesterol, gout, uric acid, headache, etc., up to the normal value of the stabilizing effect of the efficacy. Fruit juice applied to mosquito bites can reduce inflammation and swelling. Seeds can solve heartburn, sore throat, hemorrhoids and so on.

Superoxide radical (--) scavenging activity (SOD-Like activity)

Food name SOD-Like

Activity (u/g)

Mystery fruit ingot (meat ingot) 1520

Yam 27

Spinach 140

Hundred fruit 94

Dried Seaweed 72

Dried Seaweed (Roasted) 230

Minna Leaf 290

Celery 200

Leek 180