Tablet Changes Sour Taste To Sweet

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By David Ponce

This looks like the sort of thing you might use to win drunken contests or something. Happens to be my life’s ambition, so listen up.

A 31 year old Japanese man by the name of Mitsuharu Shimamura has invented a substance that changes anything sour to sweet. The tablets, made from extracts from “miracle fruit”, contain a sweet-inducing protein called miraculin.

The modification in taste occurs when the miraculin protein firmly binds to sweet receptor cells in a person’s tongue when sour substances are present. The protein then transmits a false message to the brain, resulting in a strong, sweet taste. When people eat or lick the fruit’s red berries, any sour thing they eat or drink a minute later tastes sweet for about two hours.

Snake oil? The real deal?

Well, I don’t know but it’s $35 for 190… maybe, perhaps, I’m not sure. See, the site is all Japanese. Can anyone confirm?

[Miracle Fruit] VIA [J-Walkblog]

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