I do not understand why this fruit has been called smelly berry, I feel there has been unfairness in naming it. The fruit has a pleasant smell and it’s very sweet.
As I am writing, I am actually enjoying the fruit. It’s abundant this season. I make sure I buy a packet every day. The fruit is sold by vendors who collect them from villages. This fruit will make me think of my village, ooh my village and my childhood.
I grew up a fearless child who loved walking alone. I could go in the forest to gather smellyberries for my family.
Now I am grown up I do not have the time to go round looking for fruits ,I have to buy, imagine! The pain of buying something that you know it occurs naturally and the sellers are gathering them for free.
Guess what I did this year! I went to my village , I gathered a bucket full of black ripe tsubvus/hubva as they are called in my mother language. Here comes the problem, how to preserve.
I have found so many ways that I am using Tsubvu in my kitchen. So here are some of the ways.
- Make smellyberry smoothies
- Make smellyberry porridge
- make smellyberry yoghurt
so if you want to try this you can write to us and learn how to extract smellyberry pulp from it’s stone seed.
If you can easily access Tsubvu I tell you do not just eat the fruit with out adding value, be explorative, innovative and ambitious do not be rigid imagine new recipes, currently as I am writing I am imagining a black queen cake made from smellyberries.
Even though smellyberries are packed with phytonutrients, eating them raw will temporarily blacken your teeth, fear not it’snot permanent. A quick brush of your teeth will make them white again, that is why I recommend value addition.
Do not eat too much lest you will suffer from constipation. I wouldn’t like you to blame our African wild fruits. Only a few is okay for the day. Eating too much will make you have problems also when trying to empty the bowel so quantity matters.
cheers!