Thomas E. Billings wrote:
>
> no - it is not available in the US. No common English name; the Yoroba
> tribe calls it "katemfe". The article says the plant is simple to
> grow outside West Africa BUT no one has produced sweet fruit
> outside of Africa. There are plants at Botanical gardens in Britain
> but no fruit.

How could protein turn sweet on chewing?? Sounds like the sweet taste
would come from starch, which is hydrolyzed to sugar by salivary
amylase??

My best, Ellie