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A fruit that punishes impatience with a mouthful of cotton, rewards waiting with honey.
unripe trapTannins literally pucker your mouth into chalk
name originFrom Algonquian 'putchamin,' a dried-fruit word
two typesAstringent versus non-astringent decides everything
frozen trickFreezing breaks tannins, fakes ripeness fast
ancient cropCultivated in China over 2,000 years