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A tree of miracle fruit I found on the roadside of Brgy. Mambago, Sta. Rosa, Babak, Island Garden City of  Samal (IGACOS) in Samal island, Davao del sur. miracle fruit  - ( Mindanao fruit) [ n. ] calabash (sc.name: Crescentia cujete ) . Miracle fruit, or calabash, is a tree that bears huge fruits that looks like coconut. It is growing abundantly anywhere in Mindanao, and some parts of Bicol region and in the Visayas. Few are also growing in Luzon up to the northern part of Ilocos and Cagayan region. At first glance, you could have mistaken this as a young coconut fruit growing on a small tree. Sad to see that most of the fruits were left to fall and rot on the ground. Our folks do not know what to do to make good use of this wonderful fruit. They dreaded the black color of its flesh and gummy smell. But what they do not realize is that this black juice is sweet and has healing wonders, the reason why our old folks called it miracle fruit. I tried one and yes, it...

The authentic "Cobra Energy Drink." Unlike the commercially bottled cobra energy drink, this snake wine will not cause you to worry of becoming diabetic being this potent drink is sugarless. Here, you will get the real cobra inside the container, not just a drawing on the bottle. snake wine - ( es-nek wayn; Cebuano and Tagalog wine) [ n .] a wine soaked with snake . A freshly killed snake, complete with its skin, scales, flesh, bones, and internal organs, is steeped in wine, usually gin, until the juice from the body of the snake partly become the flavor of the wine. Snake wine is taken as a potent drink and believed to have some medicinal benefits, adds vitality, energy, and boasts one’s sexual appetite or as an aphrodisiac. A snake wine of Philippine king cobra called banakon in Cebuano or ulupong in Tagalog, and the slender Cebuano snake called iliw . Both snakes are known to be extremely venomous The kind of snake often used in making this wine is highly poisonous l...