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We can feel sour taste when we eat foods with a certain level of acidity. Like when we eat lemons, or even foods that contain vinegar. But do you know, there is a kind of berry that is able to change all the sour foods that taste sweet like sugar?
Miracle Berry / Magic Fruit
This fruit has the scientific name Synsepalun dulcificum. Miracle fruit is classified as a shrub, with a maximum height of only 1 meter and a small size. Originating in West Africa, this fruit has the title agbayun, taami, asaa, or ledidi. Westerners call it Miracle Fruit or Miracle Berry, which means magic fruit.Of course this magical designation is not without reason. This fruit is able to change the taste perception in our tongue which is sour to sweet. All this thanks to the content of a protein called miraculin in fruit that can stimulate sweetness on the tongue.
Or it can be referred to as "tricking" the tongue with sweetness for 1-2 hours. So any food we eat, especially acidic, will taste sweet, after consuming this fruit. And take it easy, the nutrients in food will not change at all even though the taste turns sweet.
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Physical form
At a glance, the shape of this miracle berry is like a half-cooked jamblang fruit. Small oval with a bright red color. If cut, the texture of the meat is like a grape, but with one large green seed in the middle.In terms of taste, at the beginning you bite this magical fruit will feel a little sour. But miraculously, slowly the sour taste will change to sweet and fresh.
Benefits
The most famous benefit of this miracle berry is to make the sugar diet successful for the general public. Or diabetics, because he can suggest sweet taste even though the food eaten feels tasteless or sour. This magical fruit is perfect for those of you who want to lose weight by reducing sugar intake.This fruit can also be an alternative for those of you who don't like the taste of certain fruits and vegetables. For those of you who don't like the bitter taste of drugs, of course this can also be a solution. Eat a miracle berry before eating foods that are less sugar, sugar free, or a taste you don't like.
Apart from the benefits above, this fruit is also high in antioxidants. So that it can help ward off free radicals that are one of the causes of cancer. How, are you interested in trying out this unique and magical fruit?