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Larry Walters hosts tasting parties on the rooftop terrace of his New York apartment where guests are served an unusual fruit known as the miracle fruit. The small red berry has the amazing effect of making sour or bitter foods taste sweet when chewed and consumed before eating other foods. At the party, guests are skeptical at first but declare that lemon juice tastes like "grandma's lemonade" after eating the miracle fruit. The fruit is native to West Africa and was first discovered by Western explorers in the 1700s to have this distinctive sweetening property.

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Larry Walters hosts tasting parties on the rooftop terrace of his New York apartment where guests are served an unusual fruit known as the miracle fruit. The small red berry has the amazing effect of making sour or bitter foods taste sweet when chewed and consumed before eating other foods. At the party, guests are skeptical at first but declare that lemon juice tastes like "grandma's lemonade" after eating the miracle fruit. The fruit is native to West Africa and was first discovered by Western explorers in the 1700s to have this distinctive sweetening property.

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You are going to read a magazine article about a type of fruit.

Six sentences have been


removed from the article on the left. Choose the most suitable sentence from the list A-G on
the right for each part (1-6) of the article. There is one extra sentence which you do not need to
use.

Imagine drinking a glass of pure, freshly-squeezed lemon juice with


nothing added. It’s enough to turn your stomach.

1._____________________ A. These range from wedges of fruit,


strong cheeses and pickles to plates
I watch as one-by-one they down the drink, tentative at first, and of Brussel sprouts.
then smiling broadly as they declare, “It tastes just like grandma’s
lemonade.” Fifty or so people crowd around a table on the rooftop B. It’s like I’ve been transported back
terrace of Larry’s small but swish apartment. I edge my way forward to childhood, sitting on the porch with
and arrive at the table that positively groans with the array of food Grandma and her delicious
piled high. homemade pop.

2.______________ C. According to scientists the result


happens because of a protein called
My host appears at my shoulder, and says, “Here, have this.” This miraculin.
turns out to be a small red berry about the size of a blueberry, but
slightly elongated, the shape of a coffee bean. He looks at the D. Then push it around your mouth
expression on my face. “It’s known as the miracle fruit. Just put it in like you’d do with a piece of gum for
your mouth,” he instructs, “and chew it slightly to separate the pulp about sixty seconds.
from its seed.
E. Yet that is what the guests of host,
3. _____________ Larry Walters, are given on their
arrival at one of his tasting parties in
I obey his command and then discreetly spit the remains into my an upmarket district of New York.
handkerchief while his glance is averted.
F. Not everyone is a fan of the berry’s
“Done?” he asks, turning back to me. I nod. He grabs a glass of the strange effect, however.
lemon juice from a passing waiter and offers it to me. “Now drink.” I
take a small sip, and close my eyes. The guests are right. G. They first noticed its distinctive
property when they saw local people
4. ____________ chewing the berry before a meal.

My host states knowingly I have experienced first-hand the Answers:


phenomenon of the Synsepalum Dulcificum, or the Miracle Fruit. 1. E
This small berry has the amazing effect of causing bitter or sour 2. A
foods to taste as sweet as sugar candy. 3. D
4. B
5.______________ 5. C
6. G
When it comes into contact with acidic foods, like vinegar, it starts
to behave like a sweetener. A native fruit of West Africa, the fruit
was discovered by western explorers around 1725.

6. _____________

Left uncultivated, the miracle fruit grows in bushes reaching six


metres in height. It produces crops twice yearly, usually after the
rainy season, and has attractive white flowers. Despite being
around for centuries it is only in recent years that the miracle fruit
has been cultivated as a potential sweetener. There has been some
albeit limited interest from the diet food industy. Not only that – the
fruit can aid patients receiving medical treatment that may leave an
unpleasant taste in the mouth.

GLT1009/1-1718/kir

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