How to Make Tabasco Taste Like Doughnut Glaze: The Miracle Berry
Known to westerners since the 18th century, synsepalum dulcificum, or the miracle fruit, is a popular food that contains a mysterious protein that turns sour into sweet. The miracle berry contains a protein called miraculin and comes from West Africa. The miracle berry seems like something Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle would've used on a child that would only eat sweet things. The protein causes a sour-to-sweet reaction in any kind of food or drink. Flavor-tripping parties use this berry to turn on the taste buds. Most people gobble up anything they can with the berry and few don't take to it quite as well. Regardless, eating the miracle berry has no dangers and is a food that will expand cuisine horizons. Discovered by French cartographer Cavalier des Marchais, the miracle berry was eaten by locals in West Africa before meals. Some people are trying to use the berry's "miraculous" powers for diets and diabetics. As a diet plan, eating vegetables that tasted like churros an...