The Miracle Berry resembles the cranberry in appearance, but that is where the similarities end. In fact, the Miracle Berry is unlike any other fruit out there!
Homaro Cantu, chef/owner of Moto and iNG restaurant, wants to tell everyone about miracle berries -- and their power to make sour foods taste sweet. It's easy to be skeptical. Until the berry allows you to bite into the sweetest lemon in the world.
Haven't heard of the miracle berry? You aren't alone. However, there is a good chance that this taste-altering pill could do away with the need for sugar to make things taste sweet and radically change how much sugar we intake.
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Vinegar went down like wine. Goat cheese began to taste like frosting. Guinness tasted like a chocolate malt.
The miracle berry, also known as synsepalum dulcifucum, rewires how your tongue tastes sour foods for roughly an hour. These "tongue trips" are a burgeoning trend in tantalizing tastings.
