Magic Fruit Change Bitter Taste To Sweet

Magic Fruit Change Bitter Taste  To Sweet- Miracle fruit that looks like cranberries have the ability to change food taste sour or bitter to sweet. The mystery of how the fruit is able to change the flavor scientists have successfully solved recently.

Miracle fruit is the fruit of Synsepalum dulcificum plant that grows naturally in western Africa. Properties that can alter food taste sour or bitter for sweet has long been known to local residents. However, a team of researchers from Japan and France who could only explain it scientifically.

To test this, the team of human kidney cells growing in a cup that is designed to produce the sweet taste receptor protein. They then added a chemical that causes the receptor cells light up when activated. After that miraculin, a protein that functions in the fruit magically transform into sweet flavor, are added into the cup. Finally, ditambahkanlah some substances that have high levels of acidity (pH) are different.

Once observed, miraculin proved to have three different effects on receptors. At low acidity, very small effects on receptors. While the acidity level was, pushing miraculin receptors to react. And, at high acidity levels, receptors actively react automatically.

According to the researchers, the difference was due to the impact of miraculin protein changes shape when exposed to acid. The higher level of acidity, the shape will be getting changed. Because the protein is bound very strongly to the receptors in the human tongue, changes in the form of the protein miraculin change how the tongue reacts when resptor acid into the mouth. In short, the higher the pH of a substance, a person would feel it to be more sweet.

The results of research published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences opens the possibility of the creation of new artificial sweeteners. After miraculin workings exposed, the researchers tried to make the protein in the laboratory, rather than just relying on its source in nature.