miraculin

You dissolve half a tablet on your tongue and the protein miraculin bonds with your taste buds turn things sweet.

Miracle Berries 2009

This is because the protein miraculin firmly binds to sweet receptor cells in a person's tongue when sour substances are present.

Archive 2006-01-15 Edward Willett 2006

For those of you not in the know, miracle berry is a fruit containing a chemical called miraculin – no joke – that coats your tongue, and for a half hour makes everything tart taste sweet instead.

Miracle Berries Are Awesome! « Tai-Chi Policy 2009

As Fairchild wrote, the berry itself isn’t very flavorful; the fruit’s active ingredient is a glycoprotein called miraculin.

The Fruit Hunters Adam Leith Gollner 2008

As Fairchild wrote, the berry itself isn’t very flavorful; the fruit’s active ingredient is a glycoprotein called miraculin.

The Fruit Hunters Adam Leith Gollner 2008

As Fairchild wrote, the berry itself isn’t very flavorful; the fruit’s active ingredient is a glycoprotein called miraculin.

The Fruit Hunters Adam Leith Gollner 2008

There is a deepness to the miraculin flavor that is hard to convey with words.

The Fruit Hunters Adam Leith Gollner 2008

It contains curculin, a protein that, similarly to miraculin, converts sourness to sweetness.

The Fruit Hunters Adam Leith Gollner 2008

Dr. Linda Bartoshuk, a taste physiologist who studied the miracle fruit for the U.S. Army, explains that there are little sugars attached to the miraculin protein.

The Fruit Hunters Adam Leith Gollner 2008

Many pointless messages and conversations later, all I could establish with any certainty is that miraculin is banned and the actual miracle fruit occupies a gray area.

The Fruit Hunters Adam Leith Gollner 2008