[Yuki75]

http://calorielab.com/news/2005/12/02/afri...nese-on-a-diet/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miracle_fruit
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/28/dining/2...ruit&st=cse

Tokyo dieters with a sweet tooth can enjoy cakes and fruit ices with minimal sugar and no artificial sweeteners at a new cafe that opened last week. The desserts are unpalatably sour in taste, but customers are instructed to chew on an African berry, called “miracle fruit,” which contains a protein that causes the taste buds to temporarily sense sour as sweet.

The berry contains an active glycoprotein molecule, with some trailing carbohydrate chains, called miraculin.[5][6] When the fleshy part of the fruit is eaten, this molecule binds to the tongue's taste buds, causing sour foods to taste sweet. While the exact cause for this change is unknown, one hypothesis is that the effect may be caused if miraculin works by distorting the shape of sweetness receptors "so that they become responsive to acids, instead of sugar and other sweet things".[3] This effect lasts between thirty minutes and two hours.

[smartypantalon]

Oh this is so cool. I'd love to see how things taste after eating one of the berries.

I remember reading an article about this on the New York Times here

[joyceshine]

i wonder how the berry itself taste like P:
but this is wicked.

[LeahSJC]

Ooh that's so cool.
I need these to eat sourkeys, theyre so yummy but I hate sour things XD

[Honey.bee]

I think I've heard of that before, sounds so familiar..or am I just imagining things again? xD

I'd love to try that.

[Psychotic Otaku]

... wasn't there something like this on Suju's show about the human body? except that it had no taste?
lol I wanna try this though.. sounds interesting xDD

[Angel88]

Whoa.. how would sugar taste after eating the berry then.
Like..sour-ish sand? 0.0

[chinger]

Haha yeah it works. I tried one of those then had a lemon it was sweet!. Though the 'miracle fruit' taste bad to me >.<

[bojmenyek]

i wonder if its available in our place.. i wanna try it badly... TT TT

[xx-]

this look like a brinjal or whatever it is called.
wonder how it taste like. hmm...

[Meenuh]

Oh I remember hearing about this. I hear that the only thing it doesn't change the taste of is bananas right?