[LylaJean]

Okay, so last night I threw a surprise birthday for my husband. We had a "taste tripping" party, using Miracle Fruit tablets to alter our taste buds and try all of these citrus and sour fruits. It was great fun but now I have a plethora of lemons, limes, grapes, raspberries and blackberries, blueberries, grapefruit and pineapple. Help! When I woke up this morning I was just like, what in the world am I going to do with all of this. Any ideas? I don't want to wait and let it all get bad, but there's no way that the two of us are going to eat straight grapefruit or lemons and limes. They tasted fantastic last night but, not so much now!

[lynn P.]

using Miracle Fruit tablets to alter our taste buds and try all of these citrus and sour fruits.

What are Miracle Fruit tablets? You can freeze most fruit except the grapefruit and lemons, so go ahead and freeze the grapes and berries. You could juice the lemons or grapefruit - I love grapefruit juice. To freeze berries and grapes - lay them on a cookie sheet or tray until frozen, then pop in a freezer bag - this is so they don't stick together. Frozen grapes are very yummy. If you think freezing means you'll probably throw away later lol, you can make smoothie recipes and freeze 2 size portions or make smoothie popsicles...my girls love these.

http://www.smoothieweb.com/

[LylaJean]

Thank you!!! I'm going to freeze away right now!!

Miracle fruit is a fruit from West Africa (doing this from memory so I may get something wrong) and basically something in the pulp attaches to your receptors on your taste buds that makes anything sour taste sweet. At least that's my understanding. The fruit doesn't keep well enough to get to the US easily, so they dry the fruit and put it in tablets that you can buy offline for super cheap. $15 for 10 tablets or so. You just let the tablet dissolve on your tongue and boom, we all were eating lemon slices like nothing! It made the lemons taste like an awesome Sonic lemonade, and it also made cherry tomatoes taste like ketchup, along with other weird things!! It was a lot of fun and actually probably pretty healthy, since we all ate a ton of fruit!

[jasonslove]

you could also squeeze the citrus fruits and make lemonade, limeade, etc out of them and then pour into ice cube trays and then keep them in a baggie in the freezer and you will have great tasting ice cubes to put in drinks in the summer that won't water them down.