English Name: Miraclefruit
Alias: Dream Fruit, Miracle Fruit, West African Sapindus, Miracle Fruit
Family: Sapindaceae
Mystery Fruit belongs to the genus Mysticus of the family of Sapindus, an evergreen shrub native to West Africa, naturally occurring in the jungles of Indonesia. It is native to West Africa, naturally distributed in West Africa to the Congo, and also found in the jungles of Indonesia. 60's was introduced into our country to plant in Hainan, Guangdong, Guangxi and Fujian.
Shape
Tree shape: Mysticaceae is a perennial evergreen shrub, seldom deciduous, tree height up to 2 ~ 5 meters, slow-growing, planted in pots four years of tree height up to 60 ~ 80 centimeters, the shape of the tree 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 interspersed, the leaf veins are obvious, the lateral veins are interspersed, and the edge of the leaf is slightly wavy. Leaf veins are about eight pairs.
Flower: Flowers bloom in the axils of the leaves, small white flowers, diameter 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.
Peculiarities
Mystic Fruit is an oval-shaped red fruit, no more than 2 centimeters long, on the surface there is nothing mysterious. You just have to eat a little bit of the mystery fruit, and after about 4 hours, the taste changes: sour, bitter and spicy become sweet.
Mystery fruit can be eaten fresh, can also be made into acidic food additives, made of diabetics need the sweetness of the flavor changer. Such as consumers for the 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 the deterrent, 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. People who are afraid of taking bitter medicine can first taste a grain of mystery fruit, and then take the medicine, which will not appear any unpleasant taste. Therefore, it is called "the magician in the orchard".
Reason
This magic plant is native to tropical Africa's mystery fruit, which contains a flavor-altering protease (also known as mystery fruit), although it can not really change the taste of food, but can change the human sense of taste, so people ate after the mystery fruit and then eat any acidic food is sweet. When eaten after the mystery fruit, the mystery fruit will be distributed in the tongue taste bud cell membrane (taste cell memlbranes), in the neutral pH environment, in the mystery fruit on the sweet receptor protein (sweet receptor protein), will not be with the sweet taste according to the acceptance of the site (sweet receptor site) combination, therefore Myricetin does not have a sweet taste. After consuming acidic food, because of the presence of (acid), the structure of the taste cell membrane on the tongue will be changed, at this time, the sweet receptor protein will be combined with the sweet receptor site, so it will feel the sweet taste, the mystery fruit protein will be tightly combined with the surface of the tongue, lasting for more than 2 hours, in the consumption of the mystery fruit in 1 to 2 hours after eating the acidic food will be felt sweet and delicious. Therefore, the function of changing the sense of taste of the mystery fruit is a natural, physical and safe change, suitable for daily food consumption.
In the food industry, people often use the mystery fruit as a flavoring agent. Mystic Fruit is a small evergreen shrub in the family of Sapotaceae, with a beautiful tree shape and luxuriant foliage, which was introduced from the 1960s in China and is now cultivated as an ornamental plant for gardening in many areas; it opens small white flowers in September every year, and bears fruits in October, and the fruits are ripened from green to red in November.
Efficacy
1) Edible: ripe fruit can be eaten raw, juice, made of concentrated ingots, juice combination sugar-free lemon popsicle (mystery fruit popsicle) seeds can be eaten raw and made of concentrated ingots.
2) Nutritional composition: the pulp is rich in strange 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) Main function: Because the fruit contains special glycoproteins, it can transform the fruit with high acidity into 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 angina, sore throat, hemorrhoids and so on.
Cultivation
Mystic Fruit is also an interesting ornamental plant, suitable for high temperature, high humidity in China's subtropical and tropical regions. Mystery fruit origin is in Africa, in the 1960s, Premier Zhou Enlai visited in West Africa, Ghana *** and the country had the mystery fruit as a national gift to Premier Zhou Enlai, Premier Zhou handed over to the National Tropical Crops Research Institute cultivation and propagation. Now the mystery fruit is not only in the botanical gardens have planted, expanding cultivation, but also gradually to the lives of ordinary people.
Mystery fruit belongs to the shamrock family tropical evergreen shrubs, also known as flavor fruit, native to West Africa, Ghana, the Congo area, like high temperature and humidity, the growth of the appropriate temperature of 20 ~ 30 ℃, field planting to well-drained, rich in organic matter, PH value of 4.5 ~ 5.8 of the acidic sandy soil.
Mystery fruit plant height of 1.5 ~ 4.5m, more branches, dense foliage, the tree was steamed bread-shaped, is a low shade hair, lateral branch sprouting strong, stem and branch brown, branch green tip red unique, smaller leaves, alternate, branch short, clustered, each seam has a leaf 5 ~ 7 pieces, color glossy flowers small, white, visceral, flowering period of 2 ~ May, fruit ripening is inconsistent, fruiting period for 3, June, October, the fruit is small ellipsoid, 2 long, white, visceral. Fruit small oval, 2cm long, 1.2cm wide, bright red fruit at maturity, white juicy flesh, seeds an olive-shaped, dark brown, pollinated by ants and other insects.
Mystery fruit to seed, plug hair, aerial pressure and other methods of reproduction, to plug the main seed, can be used to spot seeding, sowing or strip seeding, seed picking, sowing, can not be exposed to the sun or stored for a long time, the seed into the soil 2cm or so, the germination rate of up to 100%, when the seedling grows to 5cm or so, there are 4 to 5 true leaves, can be transplanted, in the seedling period to strengthen the fertilizer and water management and appropriate shade, the mystery fruit growth Slow growth, generally 3 to 4 years after planting before flowering and fruiting, the use of asexual reproduction can be 1 to 2 years in advance of the results, and can be dwarfed to improve the ornamental value of the tree.
Mystery fruit is suitable for dense planting, plant spacing 1.5 ~ 3m, it is appropriate to choose well-drained, high organic matter content of low-lying land or gentle slopes planting, mystery fruit requires high temperature and humidity conditions, suitable for tropical subtropical altitude humid areas, but there is still a certain degree of drought, cold tolerance, in the winter when the lowest temperatures of 3 ~ 5 degrees Celsius, will be on the young twigs and leaves produce cold damage, but not lethal, 8 ~ 10 degrees Celsius can be safe over the winter. degrees Celsius can be safe over winter.
The main insect pests of mystery fruit are round shield mealybugs, blowing mealybugs, green stinkbugs, etc., which are more concentrated in the flowering period, and should be prevented and controlled in time when the buds are formed.
Mystic fruit's marvelous effect has attracted people's attention and development and utilization.
Mystic fruit belongs to the mysterious genus of Sapotaceae, evergreen shrubs, native to West Africa, natural distribution in West Africa to the Congo, the jungles of Indonesia is also found. 60 years introduced into China Hainan, Guangdong, Guangxi, Fujian planting.
Mystic fruit tree 2 ~ 4 meters high, branches, stems gray-brown, and branches with irregular reticulated gray-white stripes, leaf surface green, leaf back grass green, pipa-shaped or obovate, small, axillary, white flowers; single fruit, ellipsoid, mature pericarp bright red, thin flesh, milky white, slightly sweet taste, less juice, 1 seed, brown. Fruits ripen in July to August. Mystic fruit flesh contains mysticin, can change the human sense of taste, eat acidic food within a few hours after eating mystic fruit, taste significantly sweeter.
Mystic fruit can be eaten fresh, but also can be made into acidic food additives, made of diabetics need the sweetness of the flavor changer. Mystic Fruit is also an interesting ornamental plant, suitable for planting in China's high temperature, high humidity subtropical and tropical regions.
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