I love this fruit, but I haven’t been able to try it yet. It turns sour tasting foods sweet and other “trippy” things according to what I’ve read about it. It’s kind of a flavor enhancing fruit. Enhancing is not the right word since it can turn a food you might not like, into one more delicious. For me, that would have to be Kim Chi that I try with it. Recently reminded of it from this New York Times article, I wanted to share it because I think it may have been part of an FDA conspiracy. And I love those kinds of stories where the bad guy wins (sweetener lobbyists), and then the good guy, the fruit Synsepalum dulcificum comes back for the kill through a public relations win.

If the name Synsepalum dulcificum is too annoying to pronounce, you can thank all those characters in early botany showboating their Latin skills as plant naming conventions. Fortunately it’s called the Miracle Fruit under its wikipedia entry. Whew, beans thankfully still hold the title of magical fruit.