Definitions

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  • noun biochemistry A natural sugar substitute, a glycoprotein extracted from the fruit of Synsepalum dulcificum.

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Examples

  • 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

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  • miraculin is a glycoprotein extracted from the miracle fruit plant, a shrub native to west africa. the human tongue, once exposed to miraculin, perceives ordinarily sour foods as sweet for up to an hour afterwards. (wikipedia)

    July 26, 2008