Synsepalum Dulcificum or Miracle Fruit Makes Acidic Foods Sweet
The Synsepalum Dulcificum or Miracle Fruit Makes Acidic Foods Sweet and I saw that on the food channel.
This small fruit has the color of a cranberry, the shape of an almond and tastes like a flavorless gummy…but chew it and for about 15 to 30 minutes and the “miracle fruit” will make anything with an acid base or acidic foods, such as lemons and grapefruits and even vinegar taste sweet and candy like.
So, after chewing the fruit and rubbing the pulp against the tongue, the berry releases a sweetening potency that alters the taste buds.
EXAMPLES:
Lemons and Limes become sweet.
Oranges become sickeningly sweet.
Hot sauce that usually burns the tongue tastes like honey barbecue sauce that scorches as it trickles down the throat.
Vinegar is sweet.
The Miracle Fruit or Synsepalum Dulcificum are from West Africa and recently have been under a new study to help get cancer patients to increase their appetite.
Having Chemotherapy leave most with dulled taste buds or food has a metallic taste. For 5 months a hospital in Miami Florida has been testing to see if this little fruit can help cancer survivors with their diet, weight loss and electrolyte imbalance.
Dr. Mike Cusnir, a lead researcher on the project and oncologist at Mount Sinai Medical Center caught word about the Miracle Fruit and now a new study is underway to see if it actually can improve a chemotherapy patients appetite.
Cusnir filed for an investigational new drug application, which is required by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration to use an unapproved product in a new patient population. His study seeks 40 cancer patients.
Cusnir also said that, “The majority have given good feedback that it did improve taste. A few patients felt there wasn’t much change. The feedback is mixed as it usually is in any situation. It’s been encouraging, but we haven’t analyzed the data so far.”
“If the results show promise of helping cancer patients to maintain a healthy body weight and appetite, there will be bigger studies (the study is expected to take several years) and if this doesn’t work, we move on and spend resources on something else instead,” Cusnir said.
Many other people are using the Miracle Fruit to eat and drink with other foods that they don’t particularly care for to give them a better taste.
“This new resurgence of interest is fascinating,” said Linda Bartoshuk, a professor at the University of Florida’s Center for Smell and Taste. “It popped on the scene and people are having fun with it. It motivated us to go back and do research.” Bartoshuk seeks to better understand how the berry works and has been working with the berry or miracle fruit since the 1970’s. She studied the fruit while working for the U.S. Navy and Army labs.
WHAT MAKES THE MIRACLE FRUIT WORK?
The miracle fruit contains a natural protein, called miraculin, which has sugar molecules that bind to the tongue, she said. When acid enters the mouth, the sugar molecules press into the sweet receptors and that is just haw easy and simply they work.
A lot of people are really excited about the miracle fruit because of its potential for diabetes and those who are obese. Unlike sugar, the miracle fruit has very few calories and unlike artificial sweeteners, the berries are natural and not harmful.
So far, there have been no negative reports of dangers from eating the berries, but be warn against premature health benefit claims.
Fresh Miracle Fruit
After the FDA in 1974 declared that miraculin was a food additive, the miracle fruit grew in obscurity in South Florida and remained a local treat, but there are individual farmers, like Curtis Mozie, a retired post office employee, that raise the berries. So, you can get fresh miracle fruit.
Synsepalum Dulcificum or Miracle Fruit Makes Acidic Foods Sweet and just think of all the things that you need to eat that you don’t like and with the help of the miracle fruit will taste good. I can see it given before liver or radishes, right now…
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