Miracle fruit

• Miracle fruit is an edible plant with official name of Synsepalum dulcificum.

Uses

• It is known for its abilities to serve as a non-caloric sweetener and change the perception of foods and beverages from sour to sweet.

Habitat

It is a perennial plant that grows natively in Africa.

Artificial sweetener

It has been consumed for more than a century in that continent for its ability to add sweetness to sour of foods.

Miraculin

• It has a fruit pulp that contains a protein called miraculin.
• Miraculin is a taste-modifier.
• It is one of a handful of such naturally occurring molecules in the world that is found in the berries of the plant known as the miracle fruit (Synsepalum dulcificum).

Miracle Fruit

Nutritional information on Miracle fruit

NB:Carbohydrate, by difference(total carbs-fiber) is also called net carbs

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