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noun The tree and fruit of Phyllanthus acidus. The intermediate sized tree produces small, flattened, multi-lobed, berries with a high acid content. The tart yellow berries are edible raw, but most often stewed with sugar, ginger and other spices.
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Letel Prek
12 years ago

This is called goose berries in Guyana. Use for making jams and is also preserved and pickled.

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Zenaida Cora-Bowers
7 years ago

These are also called goose berries in the USVI. You can eat them raw but they're very bitter/tart that way. Most of the time they are boiled in water and sugar to make gooseberry stew. When you boil them, they turn red and get very tender; the sugar helps to make them more edible. Our neighbor had a tree in her yard and she would make gooseberry stew and share it with us.

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Bejue
6 years ago

This is referred to as Sour Cherry in Trinidad and Tobago. Not many eat it because it's sour. Most people make preservatives with it here.

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CoeurC
4 years ago

We call them in Martinique "Surette", or "Sirèt". We make Jam with because it's too sour to eat naturally "Surette cochon".