Most people outside Alola, accustomed as they are to seeing Bounsweet flavored candies and Bounsweet juice in grocery stores, imagine that Bounsweet themselves are equally delicious. Even foreign newspapers have often spread this impression, referencing these pokemon as "local delicacies" or "Alola's most popular fruit", much to the amusement of the Alolans. Bounsweet, as many children in Alola have learned the hard way, is too sugary for even the sweetest of human teeth. Legends abound about what will happen should one consume a whole Bounsweet – some say superpowers, others deep despair, a few eternal life – and they continue to circulate, unproven, for no human can finish one.
Indeed, if one wants to enjoy the taste of Bounsweet, it is better to have no teeth at all. Bounsweet's main predator is not Man, but Toucannon, and the Bounsweet orchards set up across Alola are not planted to eat the Bounsweet, but to extract their juice. Although Bounsweet do sweat trace amounts of juice in hot weather, most juice is collected when the Toucannon feed, for Toucannon crush their prey in their long beaks and are notoriously messy eaters. Bounsweet farmers set out special cups below the trees where these pokemon grow, and must routinely reposition and empty them, carrying the juice from their orchards multiple times a day during feeding season.
Before the outside world discovered Alola, Bounsweet juice was the only alternative to water, and was consumed regularly at every festival and poured out in honor of the Tapu guardians. Alolans today have a wider palette, but the Bounsweet farmers have compensated with wider markets, who prize the juice as much for its health benefits as its flavor. After all, as the advertising jingle goes, "Toucannon live long and you can too, if Bounsweet makes your life sweet!"