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Aug 27, 2008 at 10:21 AM
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The tiny berry is originally from West Africa. It contains a special protein that coats the taste buds of the tongue, changing the way things taste. Scientists are studying it—hoping it can be used on a wide scale to help people eat healthier.
Right now, the berries are used in ‘Flavor Tripping Parties’ where people eat a berry—and taste all kinds of oddities. Attendees say vinegar will taste like syrup—and hot sauce becomes a delicious elixir. Radishes and beer are also commonly sampled while under the influence of the miracle fruit.
Interested? You can find the little berries online, at http://www.miraclefruitman.com 
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Aug 27, 2008 at 11:55 AM Eli Says:
So the goji scam has been exposed, now they renamed it, huh?
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Aug 27, 2008 at 12:12 PM Enough Says:
If this berry makes people healthier, can I squirt the juice out of this fruit, directly onto my paycheck? A fatter paycheck is what I need! I tried it with the goji fruit, but it didnt work. But I still BELIEVE.
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Aug 27, 2008 at 01:12 PM Anonymous Says:
PLEASE DON'T SIGN UP TO ANY PYRAMIDS THAT YOU NEED TO PAY TO JOIN.
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Aug 27, 2008 at 01:28 PM murray Says:
I see another Ponzi scheme in the making.
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Aug 27, 2008 at 01:40 PM Anonymous Says:
Nobody is writing any FACTS here. Can someone with expertise give us an opinion? 10 jews, thrity opinions but not one person that knows what they are talking about!
This blog can be very confusing!
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Aug 27, 2008 at 01:51 PM deepthinker Says:
IF YOU'RE LOOKING FOR A JUICE WITH REAL RESEARCH BEHIND IT, GET POMEGRANTE JUICE.
IT WAS TESTED BY THE WEITZMAN INSTITUTE IN ISRAEL AND FOUND TO BE A VERY EFFECTIVE ANTIOXIDANT THAT ALSO LOWERS CHOLESTROL.
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Aug 27, 2008 at 02:16 PM Gefilte Fish Says:
This article says nothing about the healthyness of the fruit, the only good thing about it is that it makes everything sweet. Sorry $120 for thirty berries is a little too much to spend right now.
p.s. go buy it fast before they come out that you cant eat it because it has worms...
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Aug 27, 2008 at 02:22 PM Anonymous Says:
This has nothing to do with "health" or "wealth", it's just an interesting type of fruit that makes everything "taste" sweeter, so perhaps it's the spoonfull of sugar "for" the medicine, not "the" medicine itself.
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Aug 27, 2008 at 02:34 PM Eli Says:
I agree on POMEGRANTE and I have some respect for it, being that its mentioned so many times in the Torah.
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Aug 27, 2008 at 03:28 PM Milhouse Says:
No, this is not another goji. Nobody is making any health claims for it, and nobody is recruiting people to sell it.
I've known about this for years. I've never tried it myself but I know people who have, and it works exactly as described - you chew a berry and then you bite into a lemon and it tastes sweet. It doesn't make the lemon any healthier, it won't cure what ails you, and it won't make you rich, but it does increase your dessert options.
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Aug 27, 2008 at 04:49 PM murray Says:
Milhouse- are you implying that a Sephardic individual can now have gifilte fish (for desert no less!)and they will think they are eating sufganiot? ( Wasn't the manna supossed to look like coriander but taste like anything you wanted it to?)
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Aug 27, 2008 at 07:02 PM a freind of montreal Says:
Check out a documentry on cbc by wendy mesley on goji juice you'll be shocked
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Aug 27, 2008 at 08:13 PM Milhouse Says:
Murray, yes, and I have wondered whether the mon contained a similar chemical to the one that gives miracle fruit this property. (Note, though, that the fruit itself is not sweet, it's tasteless, but it makes your mouth think that everything you eat until it wears off is sweet. Also note that the mon could produce many non-sweet flavours, while miracle fruit causes only sweetness.)
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Aug 27, 2008 at 11:52 PM Anonymous Says:
You should be aware that while the fruit makes anything "taste" sweet, the heat of a spice food will still burn your mouth. So be careful
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Aug 28, 2008 at 01:25 AM guchi berry Says:
Ya ya ya let them make a DNA test ...
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Aug 28, 2008 at 08:51 AM Matzahlocal101 Says:
Looks like a plain ordinary tomato tree to me.
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Aug 28, 2008 at 09:50 AM Milhouse Says:
Chochom, tomatoes don't grow on trees.
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Aug 29, 2008 at 01:08 PM murray Says:
So to sum it up- its uses are 1. a novelty/parlor trick, or 2. way to get the kids to eat their brussel sprouts., like in Mary Poppins " a teaspoon of sugar helps the medicine go down"