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The miracle fruit or miracle fruit (Synsepalum dulcificum) is a tree species of the family of Sapotaceae native to West Africa. Its fruit, the "miracle fruit", has the effect of suppressing the sensations of acidity and bitterness for 30 to 60 minutes.
The berry itself has a low sugar content and a slightly sweet taste.
The growth of the tree is slow. It can reach 6 meters.
Its leaves, oval, are dark green.
Its flowering lasts from August to December and its small white flowers give rise to numerous red fruits of oval form 2 to 3 cm long, ripe from October to April. Their white and tart pulp contains a single seed.
The pulp of the "fruit miracle" has the property of covering the taste buds of the tongue which neutralizes the acidity of any other food, lemon for example, for about an hour, because it contains a glycoprotein called miraculin.
Miraculin is starting to be used to soften bitter medicines especially in oncology since late 2005, a Japanese researcher found the way to preserve this fruit very quickly perishable by freeze-drying fruit.
In Accra, Ghana, farmers make tablets from fruit juice, first frozen and dehydrated.