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Tropical Vegetables and Other Edibles / Re: It's a Miracle... What's you favorite sour experience?
« on: December 07, 2019, 04:53:25 PM »
This is how it works:
If someone didn't get the effect they may have swallowed too fast or not separated the pulp from the seed and swished the pulp around in the mouth enough to coat the taste buds on the tongue.
https://people.howstuffworks.com/flavor-tripping1.htm
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In 1968, scientists isolated the active protein responsible for making things taste sweet. Because of its miraculous way of making things taste so good, the protein was dubbed miraculin. When miracle fruit is consumed, the miraculin in the berry binds to the taste buds on the tongue. A person has receptors on their taste buds that identify sweet, sour, bitter and savory tastes. Normally, if you were to eat a lemon, your sour receptors would start firing. You can learn more about what happens in How Taste Works. Under the influence of miraculin, however, the sweet receptors start signaling and suppress the sour tastes. The miraculin rewires the sweet receptors to temporarily identify acids as sugars.
If someone didn't get the effect they may have swallowed too fast or not separated the pulp from the seed and swished the pulp around in the mouth enough to coat the taste buds on the tongue.
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When the berry is consumed, it may not taste like much; it's been compared to a less flavorful cranberry [source: Farrell, Bracken]. Much of the berry is a bitter seed, but the little pulp that's there packs a big punch. To get the full effect, the berry's pulp should be held in the mouth for a minute and spread all over the tongue.
https://people.howstuffworks.com/flavor-tripping1.htm