Wow, that's very (berry) interesting! I've never heard of such a thing until now, and reading up on it makes it sound like something that is very fun to try out. Especially for someone like me that doesn't like the tastes of many kinds of foods. I can just imagine how many things would taste better just by having some of that miracle fruit first.

I read lots of examples for how things taste, and was wondering, do these tastes last for a long time after eating the miracle fruit? Or can you feel it working less and less as you eat?

i've been reading this thread and didn't find information about how this fruit works. Suppose miraculin can harm your tongue after some time. I don't think we can play with our nervous system without getting dangerous risks. After all, this "active ingredient" is like a drug, that has active effect on nervous receptors, i mean, neurons, like the ones from the brain, you know! chemicals travel inside your body, we should all notice that, i think.
I don't want to be unpleasant to nobody's feelings, i'm only concerned about the lack of caution about this new drugs. Of course, you could say that it's not new and that it's a natural fruit being consumed for thousands of years by African people, but that it's apliccable to other dangerous plants, like Tobacco!

Greetings, Yakazulu

This post has been edited by yakazulu: Jul 3 2008, 12:15 AM

I recently read an article about this berry at the New York Times (there's also a little video clip to go along with it):

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/28/dining/2...amp;oref=slogin

It was quite interesting! Apparantly this guy has parties where you eat a berry, and then you eat all kinds of "normal" foods which now taste different. I thought it would be such a weird exeperience...I've never tried this "miracle fruit," but I'm very curious about it.

I wonder what this means for the world of food science...pretty soon companies could start making sugar-free foods that taste sweet, depending on the interactions between the berry and certain acids and such. It'd probably take a lot of research beforehand though. The effects may be different for different people.

If I get that berry I'll give it to someone an put her taste my c*** mmm sweeet, lol...
or I can start a business with not so tasty food, with that everybody will agree my cheap food is awesome

Replying to yakazulu

This really is amazing, I got some Miracle Fruit tabs and tried them with all sorts of sour foods (used this list: www.Miraclefruitworld.Com/recipes.Html). Freaky!


-reply by Jennifer