I'm wondering if anyone's tried this. It's a wild experience for sure.
In a nutshell, the berry contains a glycoprotein (which is a protein attached to a carbohydrate) called "Miraculin". Miraculin binds to the same receptors on our tongue that normally bind to sugars and sweet things. The protein then causes the receptor to activate when exposed to H+ ions (which are acidic, and thus, normally taste very sour).
So when you eat the miracle berry, you chew it up and let the juices coat your tongue/mouth. It doesn't really taste like much and even though the berries are very small you only need one or two of them. Now the miraculin is bound to your sweet receptors and when a sour chemical enters your mouth it activates them, causing it to taste sweet!
So in lay terms, lemons now taste like lemonade and limes taste like lime-aid. Apple cider vinegar tastes like straight kombucha. Plain unsweetened Greek yogurt tastes like it has sugar in it. Grapefruits taste like some super-sweet candy. Cranberries taste like little pieces of candy too!
This seems like it could be an interesting way to help cut, especially for those who have a sweet tooth (like me, although I only indulge it while I am bulking, otherwise I simply do not buy or cook sweets of any kind OTHER THAN the occasional apple crisp).Then bulk season comes and my girl is making oatmeal raising whoopies with cream cheese frosting in the middle, homemade sourdough cinnamon rolls, lemon bars, pumpkin pies, rice pudding---ALL from scratch by the way, but I digress.
I tried the berries and they worked really well. I could literally just drink apple cider vinegar and it honestly tasted almost exactly like a sweetened kombucha. The only downside is that if you ate a lot of acidic foods you will probably degrade your enamel more.
Anyway, my point is, perhaps these berries (which are pretty damn cheap given you only need to eat 1 or 2). These ones are a very good deal and they're the ones I tried, they are legit.
I just think the idea that one could reduce calorie intake by reducing sugar, by using these berries to make things taste sweeter is a really interesting idea to me.
What do y'all think?
Tagging in @Type-IIx just in case he's interested in the topic
In a nutshell, the berry contains a glycoprotein (which is a protein attached to a carbohydrate) called "Miraculin". Miraculin binds to the same receptors on our tongue that normally bind to sugars and sweet things. The protein then causes the receptor to activate when exposed to H+ ions (which are acidic, and thus, normally taste very sour).
So when you eat the miracle berry, you chew it up and let the juices coat your tongue/mouth. It doesn't really taste like much and even though the berries are very small you only need one or two of them. Now the miraculin is bound to your sweet receptors and when a sour chemical enters your mouth it activates them, causing it to taste sweet!
So in lay terms, lemons now taste like lemonade and limes taste like lime-aid. Apple cider vinegar tastes like straight kombucha. Plain unsweetened Greek yogurt tastes like it has sugar in it. Grapefruits taste like some super-sweet candy. Cranberries taste like little pieces of candy too!
This seems like it could be an interesting way to help cut, especially for those who have a sweet tooth (like me, although I only indulge it while I am bulking, otherwise I simply do not buy or cook sweets of any kind OTHER THAN the occasional apple crisp).Then bulk season comes and my girl is making oatmeal raising whoopies with cream cheese frosting in the middle, homemade sourdough cinnamon rolls, lemon bars, pumpkin pies, rice pudding---ALL from scratch by the way, but I digress.
I tried the berries and they worked really well. I could literally just drink apple cider vinegar and it honestly tasted almost exactly like a sweetened kombucha. The only downside is that if you ate a lot of acidic foods you will probably degrade your enamel more.
Anyway, my point is, perhaps these berries (which are pretty damn cheap given you only need to eat 1 or 2). These ones are a very good deal and they're the ones I tried, they are legit.
I just think the idea that one could reduce calorie intake by reducing sugar, by using these berries to make things taste sweeter is a really interesting idea to me.
What do y'all think?
Tagging in @Type-IIx just in case he's interested in the topic
