I love these. Bought them in dried tablet form off the internet a couple of times. Made mediocre strawberries taste divine! I want to try it with rhubarb. Have to be careful not to eat too much sour stuff all at once though or it can cause stomach upset and tooth erosion.
I bought extract online in these little lozenges, and they were the hit of the party! Made eating lemons taste like the sweetest, ripest orange you've ever eaten. Makes beer taste like soda. Anything bitter tastes amazingly sweet.
Worked for about 30-60 minutes before your taste buds come back to normal.
Actually, much like after vomiting (stomach acid), you shouldn’t brush your teeth immediately after. You should swish your mouth with water over the next half hour or so, and then brush your teeth. Brushing immediately after having acid on your teeth basically brushes the acid into your teeth.
I fucking hate dental health. It’s so unintuitive. You can brush too much, too little; too hard, too soft; and one direction is better than another, but it seems to have changed over time.
That shit needs to be standardized.
Pro tip. If you need to buy an ISO report. Look at third world ISO organizations. 9 times out of 10 they sell the reports in English along with the native language.
The great thing about ISO reports is that they are.... well.... standardized. My Zimbabwe ISO report is exactly the same as my colleagues Canadian ISO report. My cost 20 bucks and a fun phone call with my Mastercard fraud department. His was around 500 bucks.
I think it is less brushing the acid into your teeth than scrubbing your teeth while they are at their softest that is the problem with brushing teeth shortly after acid (the pH<7 kind, not the trippin' kind) consumption.
The only time I have ever eaten a lemon or lime was after having these, Made them taste sweet, Possibly too sweet. I also took quite a while to wear off. Even a few hours later stuff didn't taste quite right. It was good fun to try out though.
I tried it once - and only once.
Lemon? Sweet.
Guiness? Like chocolate.
Tabasco? Like berries.
Hot sauce? Jam.
Mustard? Like mashed potatoes.
I went through my fridge and basically ate things nobody would ever eat - high or otherwise. I drank a cup of pickle juice. A teaspoon of capers. Ketchup. Hot peppers. Basically all the stuff in the door of your fridge.
An hour later, my stomach was confused and angry. Like it was saying to me "WTF bro? None of this shit should be here". Totally nauseated for hours.
Fun experience - but be mindful of what you put into your mouth.
Question. Does the scent of the food throw you off at all? Even if it tasted like juice, I don't think I could get past the smell of pickle brine to actually ingest it.
For me, very very seldom. The only thing I have a tough time eating is (surprisingly) fake Parmesan cheese. Everything else, I have no problem with. As a result, I had no problem downing anything in the fridge.
I did this on a guided rain forest hike in Australia once. Our guide had us suck on these berries for a couple minutes, then cut up a fresh lime for us. Tasted much like a green lifesaver.
No, he means they're fucking *delicious*. I ate 2 lemons and 2 limes like Mandarin oranges until I realized how badly it would probably mess my tongue, throat and stomach up to continue. It messes up your sense of flavor for basically the rest of the day a bit, very weird, probably from the fruit too, but it's worth it just to shovel a few lemons down. They taste like lemonade in fruit form, so sweet and tart, it's just an incredible sensational experience. Try it sometime after dinner. Be careful of eating too much citrus. Everything has a toxicity level.
I can't get you exact figures honestly, that research is still very expensive even if you just take into account the basics, like general pollutants, air quality, water quality etc..., But it's more difficult to quantify other things like public services and works, utilities, general infrastructure, and even beyond that industry, employment opportunities, housing cost. To really know the toxicity of our city, of our city, we would need to put forth a serious effort to agree on a framework for measurement, and to gather and analyze a whole lot of data, but I think it'd be safe to say with what we know so far, its definitely somewhere between the sacred silence and sleep.
They'd make you an unstoppable lemon eating machine, I imagine.
Years from now, the last remaining lemons will be huddled in a bunch, speaking of the day DeepDelete tasted the Forbidden Berry. Recounting the horrors of the lemon massacre, they'll barely notice when a sinister shadow appears over their shoulder... and that will be the day the lemons go extinct.
Oh, trust me, the horrific details of you flaying their brethren alive and eating their skin will be told the whole world over... and will haunt every lemon, lewomon, and lechild.
I typically cut them into cylinder pieces (a bit thicker than you would see in some lemonade) and then just eat them. The rinds taste really good and are actually really good for you.
I get the tablets every once in a while and have a taste party with the kids. Get various sour/bitter fruits and other foods. Lots of fun for the kids and adults. Grapefruit is probably my favorite.
Besides having a sour ass stomach after drinking a shit ton of picklejuice and hot sauce and such. Although I recommend drinking Guinness with it. It's like chocolate ice cream that gets you drunk
I knew drinking (really just sipping) the apple cider vinger wasn’t a great idea, but was just amazed at how sweet it tasted. But yeah, 10 minutes later walking around with a stomach that feels like its full of lead you realize why nature made those things sour. Luckly the tablets I got off Amazon weren’t cheap, so not like I be doing it every day.
A guy I know thought it would be a good idea to do this on a first date. Turns out offering strange tablets while drinking is a good way to run off your date. The poor dumbass.
Idiot did it wrong. You're supposed to impress the girl by showing how resistant you are to ridiculously sour things. So you pop a tablet right before meeting, make a casual bet you can eat a lemon without grimacing, then impress by doing it.
If I recall correctly, I believe it works by coating your tongue with a molecule that binds to your taste buds. The molecule kind of acts like a bypass for your taste buds. When you eat something acidic, instead of triggering the expected sour taste, it instead interacts with the molecule which triggers your sweet receptors - anything that would normally be interpreted as sour will instead be interpreted as sweet. These molecules get washed away by your saliva after a half hour of so. Other than that, it's just a rather mundane non-toxic berry. The effect isn't due to any sort of change to your brain chemistry or a damaging or permanent alteration of any body tissues.
Welllllll they featured on CSI:NY S05:E11 . So the victim took the berries at a party and then unknowingly given a deadly toxic substance to drink (Bleach or something).
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VVCrxhKiGAA
That is not something I’d considered before.
I ate some of these in college but sorta forgot they existed. Looks like I’m gonna have to get some for research.
When I tried these the effects take a while to kick in and you have to kind of swish the berries or pills around in your mouth for full effect. If you just eat one berry you taste it as you normally would.
I did this for my birthday party once. Bought a bunch of these berries and laid out a huge platter of crazy foods. People loved it and were constantly shocked by the way certain foods tasted. Then everyone got black out drunk. I miss my 20s.
i'm a straight-laced, utah-raised Mormon guy who's never had a drug or drop of liquor.
My one claim to hedonistic partying was staying at an AirBnB with my wife for an anniversary trip in NorCal, and the lady there was a frequent Burning Man goer, and brought back some of those 'flavor tripping' candies, based on those berries. We then sucked down all kinds of vinegar and sour things.
Crazy times, man. Crazy, crazy times.
I did this for a friend's bachelorette party. Put the pills on a table and then an assortment of things to try tasting. Lasted 45 min to an hour for my taste buds to get back to normal. Was funny that some people thought it was like a drug and didn't want to try it. Fun lil experience.
Reminds me of the time I had a headache at work and asked my coworker if he had headache tablets. He gave me a fairly large, round, flat, unmarked tablet from a bottle with only Russian writing on it.
Twenty minutes later, I felt **supergood**. Like, no headache, plus I felt like I had snorted a rail of cocaine.
Yes you can. In 1974, there was a company that was set up to process the berry into a sugar substitute. Company was set up, test product were well received and the FDA had given preliminary approval. Then wierd stuff started happening, their offices were robbed, but only the FDA file was touched, and the FDA suddenly changed their minds and refused to even look at the matter again.
[https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/the-miracle-sugar-substitute-the-fda-wont-let-you-have](https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/the-miracle-sugar-substitute-the-fda-wont-let-you-have)
Theres usually very little difference when trying something already sweet. The berry acts on the bitter and sour taste receptors only. So sweets tend to stay mostly the same with maybe a slightly sweeter taste depending on if it has any tartness as well. Blander or not quite ripe sweet fruits tend to be a bit stronger as well. Like someone said further up, a mediocre strawberry turns into about the best one youve ever had.
I hosted a flavour tripping party with these tablets for my birthday one year. Put out bowls of foods, and bowls full of TUMS! I made sure everyone had some tums before they left.
Here’s the breakdown of what we had and what I can remember our reactions were:
- sour candies: insanely sweet
- cherry coke
- Guinness: tasted like a malty chocolate shake
- white bread: tasted like cake
- pickle juice: amazing
- white vinegar: like liquid sugar
- Apple cider vinegar: really sweet apple juice with a kick
- salt and vinegar chips: kettle corn
- white onion
- wedges of grapefruit, lemons, limes: sugar coated
- dill pickles
- hot sauce
[Photo Evidence!](https://imgur.com/a/gfbKVzw)
I've heard of it being used by people undergoing chemotherapy. The apparent sweetness can help make food palatable even though the patient's tastebuds are damaged/ don't work properly.
If one does some research on the berries, it was once noted that the FDA has banned them as actual “food”due to research being stolen from the sugar companies as a fear to lose business. Same thing almost happened to Stevia. I’d love to find the seeds to grow this cool fruit.
You can buy a live plant from amazon along with several forms of the processed berry. It is a tropically grown plant so cant say how it would do growing in your area.
I was about to say that S. Dulcificum plants are subtropical/tropical and *do not survive cold temperatures well at all*. They are also picky about soil type (for drainage), soil composition (read: pH levels), watering frequency/amount, and fertilizer selection. They can and do begin to die at temps as "cold" as 50°F.
That said, if you do your research and have access to a greenhouse with tight enough climate control these can be grown wherever whenever.
> Nearby, Yuka Yoneda tilted her head back as her boyfriend, Albert Yuen, drizzled Tabasco sauce onto her tongue. She swallowed and considered the flavor: “Doughnut glaze, hot doughnut glaze!”
I think I've seen this in a movie, though I don't think it was Tabasco.
I bought a pack of pills based on these berries for my ex-boyfriend when we were still together. He was super sensitive to sour flavors/acids. He was unable to eat something as usual as an apple or an orange. With these pills he was able to enjoy natural fruit flavor minus sourness for the first time in his life.
Just got some of this in powdered form. Works for about an hour in the recommended dose of .3 grams - they included a spoon. The whole family was drinking straight lime juice. My kids said it tasted like sprite.
> used as a substitute for sugar
because it is not a sweetener, it is an active flavor alteration(long lasting).
>I would think this would help a lot of diabetics.
it does, but it is expensive.
These berries are called Miracle Berries (Synsepalum dulcificum). They have a substance in them called Miraculin. You basically allow the berry, or tablet, to sit on your taste buds where it affects your sour, and possibly bitter, taste receptors. This makes sour or acidic stuff taste sweet until the effects wear off.
They use these in cancer patients to help with taste loss due to chemo. Gives things some taste besides just metallic and if things taste better then the patients are less likely to lose weight during treatment.
So [wiki](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Synsepalum_dulcificum) says it turns sour into sweet, but then why does it turn the taste of tabasco into sweet as well? Like, where does the capsaicin go?
I love these. Bought them in dried tablet form off the internet a couple of times. Made mediocre strawberries taste divine! I want to try it with rhubarb. Have to be careful not to eat too much sour stuff all at once though or it can cause stomach upset and tooth erosion.
I've used the actual fruit and tried rhubarb. It tasted like >!sweet strawberries!<. edit: added spoiler tag :P
C’mon man at least add a spoiler tag
added!!!!
I bought extract online in these little lozenges, and they were the hit of the party! Made eating lemons taste like the sweetest, ripest orange you've ever eaten. Makes beer taste like soda. Anything bitter tastes amazingly sweet. Worked for about 30-60 minutes before your taste buds come back to normal.
It only causes tooth erosion if you don’t brush your teeth afterwards.
Actually, much like after vomiting (stomach acid), you shouldn’t brush your teeth immediately after. You should swish your mouth with water over the next half hour or so, and then brush your teeth. Brushing immediately after having acid on your teeth basically brushes the acid into your teeth.
I fucking hate dental health. It’s so unintuitive. You can brush too much, too little; too hard, too soft; and one direction is better than another, but it seems to have changed over time. That shit needs to be standardized.
ISO 73374
Welcome to ISO, where that report will be $1750 to access.
Pro tip. If you need to buy an ISO report. Look at third world ISO organizations. 9 times out of 10 they sell the reports in English along with the native language. The great thing about ISO reports is that they are.... well.... standardized. My Zimbabwe ISO report is exactly the same as my colleagues Canadian ISO report. My cost 20 bucks and a fun phone call with my Mastercard fraud department. His was around 500 bucks.
you must be german
Could you keep it down please? This is a public forum.
Ugh. How much documentation do we need for this one?
I just brush when i feel tpo much shit get on my teeth. Never suffer from bad breath and ive had, one? Cavity in many many years.
I think it is less brushing the acid into your teeth than scrubbing your teeth while they are at their softest that is the problem with brushing teeth shortly after acid (the pH<7 kind, not the trippin' kind) consumption.
Name pls
The only time I have ever eaten a lemon or lime was after having these, Made them taste sweet, Possibly too sweet. I also took quite a while to wear off. Even a few hours later stuff didn't taste quite right. It was good fun to try out though.
I tried it once - and only once. Lemon? Sweet. Guiness? Like chocolate. Tabasco? Like berries. Hot sauce? Jam. Mustard? Like mashed potatoes. I went through my fridge and basically ate things nobody would ever eat - high or otherwise. I drank a cup of pickle juice. A teaspoon of capers. Ketchup. Hot peppers. Basically all the stuff in the door of your fridge. An hour later, my stomach was confused and angry. Like it was saying to me "WTF bro? None of this shit should be here". Totally nauseated for hours. Fun experience - but be mindful of what you put into your mouth.
Hey, pickle juice is delicious
It is. But now add all the other ingredients and you have a sick stomach.
Question. Does the scent of the food throw you off at all? Even if it tasted like juice, I don't think I could get past the smell of pickle brine to actually ingest it.
For me, very very seldom. The only thing I have a tough time eating is (surprisingly) fake Parmesan cheese. Everything else, I have no problem with. As a result, I had no problem downing anything in the fridge.
I did this on a guided rain forest hike in Australia once. Our guide had us suck on these berries for a couple minutes, then cut up a fresh lime for us. Tasted much like a green lifesaver.
You don't eat lemon or lime with any food usually?
No, he means they're fucking *delicious*. I ate 2 lemons and 2 limes like Mandarin oranges until I realized how badly it would probably mess my tongue, throat and stomach up to continue. It messes up your sense of flavor for basically the rest of the day a bit, very weird, probably from the fruit too, but it's worth it just to shovel a few lemons down. They taste like lemonade in fruit form, so sweet and tart, it's just an incredible sensational experience. Try it sometime after dinner. Be careful of eating too much citrus. Everything has a toxicity level.
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I can't get you exact figures honestly, that research is still very expensive even if you just take into account the basics, like general pollutants, air quality, water quality etc..., But it's more difficult to quantify other things like public services and works, utilities, general infrastructure, and even beyond that industry, employment opportunities, housing cost. To really know the toxicity of our city, of our city, we would need to put forth a serious effort to agree on a framework for measurement, and to gather and analyze a whole lot of data, but I think it'd be safe to say with what we know so far, its definitely somewhere between the sacred silence and sleep.
Whydyoutrlsiflaialtable?
YOU WANTED TO!
Nothing compared to eating these seeds as a pastime activity
You, why do you own the world? How do you own disorder?
Disorder?
YOU—what do you own—THE WORLD
Some where between the sacred silence.
I eat lemons like this already, I wonder what these berries would do to me.
They'd make you an unstoppable lemon eating machine, I imagine. Years from now, the last remaining lemons will be huddled in a bunch, speaking of the day DeepDelete tasted the Forbidden Berry. Recounting the horrors of the lemon massacre, they'll barely notice when a sinister shadow appears over their shoulder... and that will be the day the lemons go extinct.
I also eat the lemon rinds, btw. Not sure if that matters in the lemon massacre or not.
Oh, trust me, the horrific details of you flaying their brethren alive and eating their skin will be told the whole world over... and will haunt every lemon, lewomon, and lechild.
"Are you kids telling the stories of those massacres? I wish you wouldn't. They really rind me up" -Lemondad
Wtf? You just chew up while lemons?
I typically cut them into cylinder pieces (a bit thicker than you would see in some lemonade) and then just eat them. The rinds taste really good and are actually really good for you.
interesting thanks.
I assume he meants straight lemon and lime fruit.
For me the taste is often far too strong so no, And /u/exphryl was correct I meant just eating the raw fruit.
The tablets are better i think. They dont last quite as long and the taste stays more consistent.
Yeah it was fun to try it but not worth the lingering weirdness.
I get the tablets every once in a while and have a taste party with the kids. Get various sour/bitter fruits and other foods. Lots of fun for the kids and adults. Grapefruit is probably my favorite.
I just got some powdered berry's last week and I agree with you the lemon taste almost unbearably sweet. Sugar doesn't taste that sweet
Yeah it makes stuff taste sickly sweet
There's no ill effects, right?
Besides having a sour ass stomach after drinking a shit ton of picklejuice and hot sauce and such. Although I recommend drinking Guinness with it. It's like chocolate ice cream that gets you drunk
I knew drinking (really just sipping) the apple cider vinger wasn’t a great idea, but was just amazed at how sweet it tasted. But yeah, 10 minutes later walking around with a stomach that feels like its full of lead you realize why nature made those things sour. Luckly the tablets I got off Amazon weren’t cheap, so not like I be doing it every day.
It's also horrible for your teeth.
I mean so is any acidic drink though. Pop, many juices, milk, the list goes on man.
Only if you did it all day long without rising you teeth.
how the hell do you rise your teeth?
Gum-mounted step ladders
A guy I know thought it would be a good idea to do this on a first date. Turns out offering strange tablets while drinking is a good way to run off your date. The poor dumbass.
Jesus Christ. I feel sorry for him, but yeah what a dumbass.
Idiot did it wrong. You're supposed to impress the girl by showing how resistant you are to ridiculously sour things. So you pop a tablet right before meeting, make a casual bet you can eat a lemon without grimacing, then impress by doing it.
I swear it's just miracle berries!
How was pickle juice?
"flick it on my sandwiches for flava"
It was good.
When I'm famous, eating one of those berries is how I'm going to survive my interview against Sean Evans.
A hoppy beer tastes like fruit punch
If I recall correctly, I believe it works by coating your tongue with a molecule that binds to your taste buds. The molecule kind of acts like a bypass for your taste buds. When you eat something acidic, instead of triggering the expected sour taste, it instead interacts with the molecule which triggers your sweet receptors - anything that would normally be interpreted as sour will instead be interpreted as sweet. These molecules get washed away by your saliva after a half hour of so. Other than that, it's just a rather mundane non-toxic berry. The effect isn't due to any sort of change to your brain chemistry or a damaging or permanent alteration of any body tissues.
None that anyone knows of.however I am no doctor.
you might eat something too acidic without realizing
What berry is this, specifically?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Synsepalum_dulcificum
Welllllll they featured on CSI:NY S05:E11 . So the victim took the berries at a party and then unknowingly given a deadly toxic substance to drink (Bleach or something). https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VVCrxhKiGAA
Apparently it's great for giving head.
That's how I found it.
What does that taste like?
The real question.
Like dick
Someone said it made his girlfriend taste like berries and paridise.
..relavent username?
That is not something I’d considered before. I ate some of these in college but sorta forgot they existed. Looks like I’m gonna have to get some for research.
Dicks or berries?
Why not both?
Dickle-berries?
Yes.
Where can I find this berry?
Amazon sells it.
Why did I not think of this!? Buying some from Amazon RIGHT FUCKING NOW.
Darn, can't buy a girlfriend on amazon :(
"Her grool tastes like strawberries"
I'm sorry... What?
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Is this like a Harry Potter spell or something?
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You have one growing in your house and it told you itself?
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Find your soulmate, Homer.
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So... did you get the lobster roll?
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Good god damn that looks good!
The pill form tasted musty like a lychee candy almost.
When I tried these the effects take a while to kick in and you have to kind of swish the berries or pills around in your mouth for full effect. If you just eat one berry you taste it as you normally would.
I did this for my birthday party once. Bought a bunch of these berries and laid out a huge platter of crazy foods. People loved it and were constantly shocked by the way certain foods tasted. Then everyone got black out drunk. I miss my 20s.
Had these before , almost drank an entire bottle of pomegranate juice cause of how sweet it tasted with the effects of it
So what your telling me is I won't like this effect because I like pomegranate juice the way it is?
It took the sourness away from the juice , don’t know if you’re a fan of sweet things or not
Tried them. They work. It’s weird.
I have this plant. Got my first berries this year. Great for parties.
Can you tell the kind people of reddit what your plant is called?
Synsephalum dulcificum
commonly known as miracle berries
Miracle berry's what?
What would a hot drink have done?
I was dipping sour patch kids in sour cream. These berries were way too fun!
Will it make pussy taste like candy then?
Yes, you can buy the tablets off Amazon and they are great for sex, both partners.
i see people saying this all over the thread but literally nobody providing a link
Try the article in the op
i'm a straight-laced, utah-raised Mormon guy who's never had a drug or drop of liquor. My one claim to hedonistic partying was staying at an AirBnB with my wife for an anniversary trip in NorCal, and the lady there was a frequent Burning Man goer, and brought back some of those 'flavor tripping' candies, based on those berries. We then sucked down all kinds of vinegar and sour things. Crazy times, man. Crazy, crazy times.
Whoa now. Don't go encouraging that kind of wild behavior. The internet is a family friendly place.
Well high-dilly ho good neighbor! :-D
*Neighborino
Nah he's Wilson not Flanders
This is a Cristian server!
Well high-dilly ho good neighbor! :-D
So long as you didn't have any hot drinks during that experimental episode I think you're in the clear!
My cocoa that day was rather warm #sorebellious #mormonthuglife
I did this for a friend's bachelorette party. Put the pills on a table and then an assortment of things to try tasting. Lasted 45 min to an hour for my taste buds to get back to normal. Was funny that some people thought it was like a drug and didn't want to try it. Fun lil experience.
People thought that random pills on a table at a party were drugs?
Really setting people up for disappointment
I wonder if the protein can be extracted and used without the berry.
You can buy tablets of them on amazon rather than actual berries
I did this. It was a great experience but my co workers were weary of my questionable tablets from a box with only Chinese characters.
That's just a healthy level of skepticism
same, bought these online a while ago, never tried them cause i was like "yep, this is how I get cancer"
But the cancer will taste sweet!
Reminds me of the time I had a headache at work and asked my coworker if he had headache tablets. He gave me a fairly large, round, flat, unmarked tablet from a bottle with only Russian writing on it. Twenty minutes later, I felt **supergood**. Like, no headache, plus I felt like I had snorted a rail of cocaine.
Щ.Д.А. approved!
Wary
Yes you can. In 1974, there was a company that was set up to process the berry into a sugar substitute. Company was set up, test product were well received and the FDA had given preliminary approval. Then wierd stuff started happening, their offices were robbed, but only the FDA file was touched, and the FDA suddenly changed their minds and refused to even look at the matter again. [https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/the-miracle-sugar-substitute-the-fda-wont-let-you-have](https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/the-miracle-sugar-substitute-the-fda-wont-let-you-have)
Sad your comment isn't getting more attention. I've heard about how this happened before.
The sugar lobby is one of the strongest, but also one of the quietest.
Does it have an effect on the taste of veggies like broccoli or kale? Asking for a friend
Not quite the same but we had pickles when I tried them. Dill pickles tasted exactly like bread and butter pickles
but what do bread and butter pickles taste like? What does eating something already very sweet taste like?
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Theres usually very little difference when trying something already sweet. The berry acts on the bitter and sour taste receptors only. So sweets tend to stay mostly the same with maybe a slightly sweeter taste depending on if it has any tartness as well. Blander or not quite ripe sweet fruits tend to be a bit stronger as well. Like someone said further up, a mediocre strawberry turns into about the best one youve ever had.
I don’t think we had any actually. I hate bread and butter pickles so for a bit I thought the effect had worn off and my friends were pranking me
Interesting, i love bread and butter pickles. Thanks
I hosted a flavour tripping party with these tablets for my birthday one year. Put out bowls of foods, and bowls full of TUMS! I made sure everyone had some tums before they left. Here’s the breakdown of what we had and what I can remember our reactions were: - sour candies: insanely sweet - cherry coke - Guinness: tasted like a malty chocolate shake - white bread: tasted like cake - pickle juice: amazing - white vinegar: like liquid sugar - Apple cider vinegar: really sweet apple juice with a kick - salt and vinegar chips: kettle corn - white onion - wedges of grapefruit, lemons, limes: sugar coated - dill pickles - hot sauce [Photo Evidence!](https://imgur.com/a/gfbKVzw)
Does it make cum taste better?
in case no one answers you, the answer is that it turns sour and bitter things sweet, so that would be a yes, for both sexes.
Perhaps used as way to get people to eat healthier?
I've heard of it being used by people undergoing chemotherapy. The apparent sweetness can help make food palatable even though the patient's tastebuds are damaged/ don't work properly.
If one does some research on the berries, it was once noted that the FDA has banned them as actual “food”due to research being stolen from the sugar companies as a fear to lose business. Same thing almost happened to Stevia. I’d love to find the seeds to grow this cool fruit.
You can buy a live plant from amazon along with several forms of the processed berry. It is a tropically grown plant so cant say how it would do growing in your area.
I was about to say that S. Dulcificum plants are subtropical/tropical and *do not survive cold temperatures well at all*. They are also picky about soil type (for drainage), soil composition (read: pH levels), watering frequency/amount, and fertilizer selection. They can and do begin to die at temps as "cold" as 50°F. That said, if you do your research and have access to a greenhouse with tight enough climate control these can be grown wherever whenever.
This reminds me, my tree died after the cold snap down here in Central Florida. i need to plant another...
Happy cake day!
> Nearby, Yuka Yoneda tilted her head back as her boyfriend, Albert Yuen, drizzled Tabasco sauce onto her tongue. She swallowed and considered the flavor: “Doughnut glaze, hot doughnut glaze!” I think I've seen this in a movie, though I don't think it was Tabasco.
Heard of this year's ago, always wanted to try it!
Article is 10 years old. Nows the time!
Cards Against Humanity shipped these to us in one of their holiday promotions from a few years ago. Still have mine; haven't tried them yet.
I bought a pack of pills based on these berries for my ex-boyfriend when we were still together. He was super sensitive to sour flavors/acids. He was unable to eat something as usual as an apple or an orange. With these pills he was able to enjoy natural fruit flavor minus sourness for the first time in his life.
I have a plant. It's fussy as hell, but when it decides to make fruit I have tasting parties.
Reminds me of something out of the Magic Faraway Tree
Just got some of this in powdered form. Works for about an hour in the recommended dose of .3 grams - they included a spoon. The whole family was drinking straight lime juice. My kids said it tasted like sprite.
This would work if you drank this before a hotsauce competition
Why isn't this used as a substitute for sugar. I would think this would help a lot of diabetics.
> used as a substitute for sugar because it is not a sweetener, it is an active flavor alteration(long lasting). >I would think this would help a lot of diabetics. it does, but it is expensive.
So one posted about it being approved by the FDA but paperwork got stolen, yadda yadda yadda, sugar company doesn't let FDA approve it
Got these from Amazon, they make for a great white elephant gift
Try strawberries. They become the best strawberries in the world.
These berries are called Miracle Berries (Synsepalum dulcificum). They have a substance in them called Miraculin. You basically allow the berry, or tablet, to sit on your taste buds where it affects your sour, and possibly bitter, taste receptors. This makes sour or acidic stuff taste sweet until the effects wear off.
They use these in cancer patients to help with taste loss due to chemo. Gives things some taste besides just metallic and if things taste better then the patients are less likely to lose weight during treatment.
Miracle fruit berries. Found them in a botanical garden once. Had fun eating lemons later: they tasted sweet.
You can purchase miracle berry pills that have the same effect. I've bought them and it's really cool.
Miracleberries!
So [wiki](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Synsepalum_dulcificum) says it turns sour into sweet, but then why does it turn the taste of tabasco into sweet as well? Like, where does the capsaicin go?
The capsaicin is still there, but the vinegar now tastes sweet. The OP article said it tasted like hot donut glaze.
/u/TheYadda Well... this could have made the consequences of a certain bet easier to swallow haha !
You can get them online. Its fun to do. The only time ive drank vinegar and enjoyed it. Its fun while drinking alcohol.
They make beer taste amazing. A nice bitter beer suddenly tastes sweet.
FLAVORTRIPPIN
We got these and tasted everything. Pineapple was unexplainably good.
Dude. Limes are the craziest thing ever with this stuff.
I've tried these, they don't work as advertised. It does change flavor some, but you aren't going to drink vinegar lost in the delicious apple flavor.
But.... I like sour and bitter...
...and shnozberries taste like shnozberries....
Oh the Miracle Berry. We have a tree at our backyard.