Miracle Fruit Tasting Parties

Miracle Fruit Tasting Parties

Have a taste-altering adventure
Would you like to find out what it's like to have your taste buds turned upside down, inside out, and flipped out? What if we could take a sour lemon and turn it into the sweetest, most delicious lemon candy you've ever tasted, make sour cream taste like cake frosting, dark beer taste like chocolate, and then switch it all back and make sugar taste like sand, dried fruit tastes like stale chewing gum, and honey tastes like oil? Believe it or not, there are natural plant substances from the West African Miracle Fruit and Indian Sugar Destroyer that can do all this and you can experience them and all the interesting and delectable things they do to your taste buds with ethnobotanist Dr. Nat Bletter. Don't worry, you won't wind up like Violet Beauregarde in Willy Wonka! We'll have you and your taste buds back to normal in an hour.

Please contact Nat at if you would like to have a miracle fruit and taste-altering tasting party in Honolulu, Hawaii and surrounds. Prices are between $10-15 per person depending on the food incorporated.

We have done miracle fruit tasting parties for local businesses as holiday entertainment, private dinners, scientific talks, and a filming for the Food Network show Food Detectives. They can be tailored to any number of people and different budgets. You can watch the Food Detectives segment here:

Dr. Nat Bletter has 10 years of experience in botany, taste-altering plants, documenting exotic fruits and vegetables, gathering food in the wild, herbal and traditional medicine, and exploring Asia, South America, Central America, and Africa. He has a Ph.D. in Ethnobotany from the City University of New York and New York Botanical Garden, where he researched medicinal plants of Peru, Mali, and the Guatemalan Mayans, ethnobotany, taste-modifying plants, and stimulant plants such as cacao, which has spurred him to start a traditional-ingredient, high-antioxidant chocolate company Madre Chocolate.
He will co-lead a culinary, medicinal plant, and music tour of Bali in late August 2009, where he has spent many months exploring the landscape, music, fruits, food and medicine since 1994. More info at here.