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What is the miracle behind the Miracle fruit?
Miracle Fruit, synsepalum dulcificum
What is the miracle behind the Miracle fruit?
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How to make sour taste sweet and what causes the miracle?
Everyday Miracle - Grow the Dream!
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- 🍭 Miracle Fruit, synsepalum dulcificum is a small, red berry that can temporarily make sour foods taste sweet. The berry contains a protein called miraculin, which binds to taste buds and alters the way sour foods are perceived. Sour turns into sweet!
- 🍭 Native to West Africa, this fruit has been used for centuries as a natural sweetener and is often enjoyed at "flavor-tripping" parties.
- 🍭 It's also used by chemotherapy patients to help improve their sense of taste, as it can make bitter or metallic-tasting foods more palatable.
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How to make sour taste sweet and what causes the miracle?
Everyday Miracle - Grow the Dream!
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What is the secret of Mameys popularity
Pouteria sapota, Mamey Sapote fruit
Pouteria sapota, Mamey Sapote fruit on a branch
Pouteria sapota, Mamey Sapote fruit on a branch
Pouteria sapota, Mamey Sapote fruit
😎 What is the secret of Mamey's popularity
🍊 It's eaten fresh, blended into smoothies, or used in desserts like ice cream and shakes.
🍊 National fruit of Cuba, native to the Caribbean and Central America, Mamey has been cultivated for centuries and is valued for its rich flavor and high nutritional content.
Flowers emerge in clusters in the axils of fallen leaves along the branches, followed by the showy fruit. This is called cauliflory - when plants flower and fruit from their main stems or woody trunks. Other examples of cauliflory are Cucumber tree and Jaboticaba.
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Why exotic Mamey is so much wanted
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Flowers emerge in clusters in the axils of fallen leaves along the branches, followed by the showy fruit. This is called cauliflory - when plants flower and fruit from their main stems or woody trunks. Other examples of cauliflory are Cucumber tree and Jaboticaba.
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Why exotic Mamey is so much wanted
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Did you know which two trees are behind the creation of Eggnog?
Nutmeg tree (Myristica fragrans)
Cinnamon (Cinnamomum verum or Cinnamomum cassia).
☕️ Did you know which two trees are behind the creation of Eggnog?
☕️ Eggnog is made from milk, cream, sugar, beaten eggs, and two spices: Nutmeg and Cinnamon. Both nutmeg and cinnamon come from spice trees:
Nutmeg is made from the seed of the Nutmeg tree (Myristica fragrans).
🔥Cinnamon comes from the bark of the Cinnamon tree (Cinnamomum verum or Cinnamomum cassia).
These spices add the classic, warming flavors that make eggnog so popular during the holiday season.
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☕️ Eggnog is made from milk, cream, sugar, beaten eggs, and two spices: Nutmeg and Cinnamon. Both nutmeg and cinnamon come from spice trees:
Nutmeg is made from the seed of the Nutmeg tree (Myristica fragrans).
🔥Cinnamon comes from the bark of the Cinnamon tree (Cinnamomum verum or Cinnamomum cassia).
These spices add the classic, warming flavors that make eggnog so popular during the holiday season.
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What is the most popular Christmas plant?
Christmas Orchid Cactus - Schlumbergera
😂 What is the most popular Christmas plant?
💕 Do you have Christmas cactus at home? What colors? Share your pictures!
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"New Deal" - a remarkable Christmas cactus
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- Every one knows Christmas Orchid Cactus - Schlumbergera. But this rare variety is exceptional - it is called New Deal.
- New Deal is completely lost to the trade today, but we have it at Top Tropicals for the first time after it was originally offered for purchase at the Brooklyn Botanic Garden over 90 years ago while having a special rare plant sale on the day of the famous presidential election on November 8, 1932 when F.D.R. was historically voted in as the next American president.
- The plants we are offering are all 3rd generation vegetative propagation from an original specimen (still alive btw). Its name New Deal - is identical to President Franklin D. Roosevel main campaign slogan
- Not only is New Deal an exceptionally obscure, heirloom cultivar especially easy to grow under average house plant conditions,
- It reliably produces almost an overabundance of brilliant violet-pink and white flowers which are easily an inch larger than any other variety.
This remarkable Christmas cactus hybrid has spectacular, large-flowers and blooms twice a season.
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Whats the smelliest fruit on Earth?
Durian (Durio zibethinus)
Durian (Durio zibethinus)
Durian (Durio zibethinus)
Durian (Durio zibethinus)
😷 What's the smelliest fruit on Earth? The King of Fruits: Durian!
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- 😶�️ Durian (Durio zibethinus) is a tropical fruit tree known for its prickly, spiny fruit, which is famous for its distinctive, highly pervasive aroma - often described as unpleasant by many.
- 😶�️ Despite the powerful scent, which can deter some from trying it, durian is celebrated in Southeast Asia as the "king of fruits." To many, the strong odor is actually a welcome signal of the fruit's rich, creamy golden flesh, which has a sweet, custard-like flavor that's likened to almond and vanilla.
- 😶�️ Its creamy texture and unique taste make it a beloved delicacy, often commanding a high price in the market.
- 😶�️ As naturalist Alfred Russell Wallace noted after trying durian on Borneo in the 19th century, "The more you eat of it, the less you feel inclined to stop".
- 😶�️ Other varieties, like the red and yellow-fleshed Durio graveolans, are available in Southeast Asia and even in regions like South Florida, offering a peanut butter-like taste and greater tolerance to local conditions.
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