Hello Everyone! Thank you for coming here today. Last time, we brought some miracle fruit from the countryside, also called calabash fruit. Thanks to my partner’s sister, we don’t need to buy this because it's difficult to find this in the local market here in my area. Today, I would like to share with you how we prepare the juice of this fruit.
This fruit looks like a watermelon in size but it has a plain green appearance. As far as I know, this is not common in my region (Visayas). Perhaps this grows more abundantly in Southern part (Mindanao) of the Philippines.
One piece of this fruit is really heavy; it weighs about 4-5 kilos. This fruit has hard shell, my partner uses a tool that looks like a screwdriver just to create that crack then it could be opened completely. Upon opening the fruit, it has thick white flesh but not sticky.
Then the flesh is scraped off from the shell with the use of spoon. They can just be easily scraped off. Then we put the flesh in a big pot.
We need to boil the flesh without adding any water in it. Continuously stirring it until the liquid slowly gets extracted. You may notice that there is soft foamy substance. After just about 10-15 minute of stirring, the foamy substance would appear. Also, some parts, change their color from whitish to blackish. This is will turn into completely black later on.
As it turns to blackish color, more liquid is released. We just need to continue stirring until the white foamy substance disappears.
We stop stirring about 30 minutes or when the white foam has disappeared. We let it cool completely before straining the pulp from the juice. When straining, just gently press the flesh and more juice will be released. Then, that’s the result – black colored juice. The black flesh can then be discarded. We just don’t have a garden where we live but I have thought about making it as a fertilizer. I still need to learn more about that.
What we also do is to transfer the juice in bottles and store it in the refrigerator. One fruit alone can produce about 1.5 Liters to 2 Liters of juice. It has long shelf life if kept in the fridge. We just drink a glass of it two hours after dinner.
Perhaps many people dislike or dread the blackish color of the juice and the strong smell when freshly boiled but this juice has some healing wonders or benefits. Perhaps the reason why our folks call it miracle fruit because of its healing benefits (and the color from white to black).
I started drinking this when I was diagnosed with myoma (I can feel the lump somewhere in my abdomen). I’ve noticed that it improves my energy and helps me release my waste daily (because it also serves as a detoxifier). My partner also drinks this for maintenance. With proper diet and exercise, drinking this juice can help lower blood pressure too. My BP is also high but it may also be affected by sleeping late everyday. We are just grateful that we have something to drink that is prepared naturally without any added chemicals that have helped us improve our physical health throughout these months. This is just speaking from our own experience.
When we run out of this fruit, my partner would go back to his hometown to take some from his sister’s garden. Thanks to my partner also for being so dedicated in bringing this fruit from the countryside to the city for our daily consumption.
Thank you for your time my dear Hiver friends. I hope this post is informative for you. If there's a chance to prepare this, please do try; just think of its healing benefits. Also, many thanks to this wonderful community 
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