Powerful Natural Sweetener You Probably Know Nothing About

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Bobster — Sat, 28 Mar 2009 06:12:48 GMT

I planted a 'Miracle Fruit' seedling about 5 years ago in our subtropical climate here in Queensland. It's a slow-grower, but this year it produced its first substantial crop: about 20 berries. The berry tastes a bit like Rambutan or a Lychee and is quite delicious on its own. I can't imagine that eating something which tastes so good, in moderation, could possibly be bad for you.

Yes, I agree, it's a good thing to appreciate a range of flavours, but the novelty of enjoying a Miracle Fruit berry, followed by squeezing a bitter lemon or lime straight into your mouth and have it taste as sweet as lemonade is astonishing.

Without debating the pros and cons of chemotherapy treatment, apparently patients praise Miracle Fruit for its ability to eliminate the 'metallic taste' that is one side effect of chemo.

If you would like to know more about this amazing plant, here are a few

www.quisqualis.com/MiracleFruitFlrs.html

www.quisqualis.com/Synsepalum_dulcificum.html

articles.mercola.com/.../powerful-natural-sweetener-you-probably-know-nothing-about.aspx

By the way, I'm not involved in the promotion, marketing or wholesale growing of Miracle Fruit — just an appreciative gardener — but I'm certainly thinking of establishing a grove of Miracle Fruit plants as a crop I could, in future, sell as a novelty at the local Growers Market. Come to think of it, I'd better plant an accompanying grove of Lemon Trees, so I have enough sour fruit

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freesail — Wed, 30 Jul 2008 19:06:02 GMT

Why no mention of erythritol?

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Robubba — Fri, 21 Mar 2008 05:28:18 GMT

I've known about this fruit for a long time. I only heard from the people at tradewinds that the miracle fruit only makes sour substances taste sweet like lemons. Not beer or goat cheese (YUCK).

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remobec_203 — Fri, 20 Jul 2007 02:45:57 GMT

About a year ago I called around to try to buy a plant of my own. I think California has a good climate for growing almost anything, so I don't know how readily available it would be elsewhere.

If I remember, prices started at $50 for a small plant. Some places also sold seeds. I would have bought one for $50, but the nursery close to me didn't have one of that size for sale, and I couldn't afford a larger one. I found these through the California Rare Fruit Growers (http://www.crfg.org/index.html).

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Pat Ormsby — Mon, 30 Apr 2007 13:26:50 GMT

That's funny. None of my friends in Japan has ever heard of Synsepalum dulcificum, or they would have told me. My husband and I counsel a lot of diabetics on reducing starches and sugars in their diet. Perhaps someone got confused between Japan and another country. We do know about another herb, called Gymnema, which if you chew a tablet of, will leave you unable to taste sweetness for about an hour. We use this to demonstrate to people just how ubiquitous sweetness is in the foods they are eating and also how much salt is hidden under all that sugar.

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rebyidel — Sun, 22 Apr 2007 08:33:19 GMT

My first thought, reading the comment:
"Anything you consume for about an hour after eating one tastes sweet, even substances as diverse as goat cheese and rich stout beer"
is that this might have an effect similar to MSG or other excitotoxins. Please refer to the book, "Excitotoxins, The Taste that Kills" by Russell Blaylock, MD. in which he describes how the Japanese discovered that MSG derived from the seaweed Kombu, amplifies flavors by hyperexciting and killing brain cells. Could this "miracle fruit" not also do the same thing?

Yehuda Frischman, L.Ac, CST, SER
www.traditionaljewishmedicine.net

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TriciaB_203 — Sun, 22 Apr 2007 04:45:09 GMT

Hmm! This is interesting.

BUT.... Have you ever brushed your teeth with a mint flavored toothpaste and then eaten a piece of fruit afterwards? It doesn't taste quite the same, usually kind of bitter! You end up puckering and then putting the fruit away to eat later after your tongue has been cleared of the mint. So mint also seems to temporarily make your taste buds taste things differently! Anise does the same thing. So this phenomenon isn't so unusual. This berry seems to make things taste sweet after you eat it...maybe good, maybe not.

For me, I want the food I eat to taste like it should and I want to develop my palate to enjoy the real taste of foods.

We also use our taste buds as well as smell to determine if something is fresh and healthy to eat. What happens if we've eaten a miracle berry and then eat something that would otherwise have an "off" flavor, one that would normally warn us to spit the food out because it's not fresh, ripe, or healthy? Just a thought.

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Lukane — Sat, 21 Apr 2007 20:18:36 GMT

Criminal Conspiracy? Perhaps its about time to stop mincing words and eemand an investigation of certain agro and drug company interest to be investigated for conspiracy to do harm to the public for profit. A single phone call about an illegal drug shipment, underworld hit or income tax evasion came put a badguy in jail why not these punks.
Sugar (even white) fast food, milk etc never cause me and others as many problems as they do now and leads me to wonder if their are other agents in our environment that magnify their harmfulness. Chemists and geneticists have had the technology to "tailor make" specificly targeted noxious agents for decades and it looks like they are in use. Talk to genetically modify Grapefruit, removing helpful enzyme because they interfer with dangerous addictive drugs enslaving a large portion of the unsuspecting public is an example of a criminal conspiracy.

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Dr-Yoga — Sat, 21 Apr 2007 19:14:13 GMT

Are readers aware that the FDA has issued new guidelines for "Complementary and Alternative Medicine Products and Their Regulation by the Food and Drug Administration" that will make the sad case of stevia and miraculin seem inconsequential? For years the FDA has been trying to put CAM and natural products under their regulation, with the stated purpose "to ensure that the existence of dietary supplements on the market does not act as a disincentive for drug development" (The Force Final Report, May 1993). This is completely at odds with its original purpose of protecting consumers from adulterated and fraudulent products and foods.

The agency is soliciting responses to its guidelines until April 30. Natural Solutions Foundation has produced a letter that individuals may sign at www.healthfreedomusa.com . One important concern is that the Guidance document uses "medicine" instead of "modality" and "treat" and "treatment of disease" instead of "therapy" and "therapeutic." By doing so, they sneakily enable the FDA to reclassify everything -- including equipment used in "yoga, relaxation, hypnosis" to fall under their jurisdiction, as long as its intended use is to affect any structure or function of the body.

For years the naturopathic, homeopathic, and non-allopathic community has safely offered alternatives to drugs and all this will be at risk if these guidelines are approved. SPEAK OUT NOW.

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cin_203 — Sat, 21 Apr 2007 19:10:38 GMT

As a current nutritional therapy student, our class has been told by a very knowledgeable and informed instructor, who has Type ! Diabetes, that even the sweet taste of something that is not classified as sugar can trigger the pancreas into releasing insulin, Stevia included. Be aware of this fact if you want to avoid a ride on the Diabetes train.

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Christa H. McTall — Sat, 21 Apr 2007 19:10:08 GMT

OK, where do I get this berry sweetener? I would like some.

Christa

bbokou1@verizon.net

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amicus curiae — Sat, 21 Apr 2007 11:45:26 GMT

hi all, well a few points, i have. Between newstarget.com and dr Mercola there is no excuse not to be informed. if they took 50% of the added sucrose fructose and corn syrup, and then the emulsifiers, anticaking and other additives out of what is being sold..well, we would have what we used to make ourselves, edible food!
i have been tracking the food production, pharma supplies and sales companies, and the result is- I am absolutely horrified at what they are getting away with in the name of profit. a chemical to hide!! the aftertaste of the artificial sweeteners is being lauded just now. another is a totally fake sweet fibre goop that is being included as an Ingredient? not an additive! so the compliance is less "awkward" for the maker to get appro on.
these idiots take real food , stuff it round ,chemically alter it to the point our body could,nt recognise it as a food, and remove any natural taste or benefit there ever was...and Patent it ! and at the same time sledge any more natural choices, and use the FDA and the weirdest laws i ever read to restrict real food! if its in a packet, or plastic wrap chances the wrapper is safer to eat than the "food" in said wrapper.
go to Food navigator or Nutra Ingredients web pages...join for free and if you can read any newsletter without getting angry/worried/concerned..well you,ll be doing better than i am! i am wildly angry!
yes there are some frauds in the health food industry too, (on the whole, i think, less of em, than in Legal companies/pharma)So..do your homework! who owns them? wheres the research to prove safety? how long are they in business? and do a complaint/fraud and company search, before you believe them.
its amazing how a university, funded by companies, +having shares in said company! can provide dubious results (on a 3hr and 3 week test , on a total of 220 people)and its given approval. yet a natural product can,t

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Jackie Bushell — Sat, 21 Apr 2007 10:39:58 GMT

I'm not too keen on the thought that everything you eat during the hour will taste sweet, including the savoury foods (or have I misunderstood the effect of these berries?)

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GrandSlack — Thu, 12 Apr 2007 16:07:49 GMT

Where could one get seeds to this plant to try and grow it at home?

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Russ Bianchi — Tue, 03 Apr 2007 06:21:49 GMT

This sounds VERY SUSPCIOUSLY like previous descriptions for thalmatin, or TALIN brand, busted by the FDA about 10 years ago, trying to end run approval protocol, as a novel high intensity sweetener, and the time consuming/expensive approval process for use, by FDA, by HIDING under flavor law.

At the time, Pfizer Food Science, which ten became Cultor Food Science, was busted on the ploy in the USA.

Irrespective of the similarity of source and claIms, show me the metabolic evidence it's not distilled and concentrated chemically like stevioside/cocaine, and/or indeed safe in human ingestion; let alone regulatory approved for use in food, beverage, dietary supplementation, flavors, cosmetics, or drugs...????!!!!!

As much as I'd LOVE to see a non caloric "natural" sweetener, that is heat stable, for use in applications, I strongly suspect, until I see hard evidence, this is yet another internet SCAM, to make a fast buck on unsuspecting consumers, or naive manufacturers, with potential toxicity issues not advertised.