Let's You & I Talk About Miracle Berries.
So I randomly saw this thing called "mberry" on Amazon a few weeks ago.
They said that the product was made from dried, ground Miracle Fruit, formed into tablets that dissolve on the tongue. These tablets were guaranteed to totally change the way you taste for several hours, making sour foods taste amazing.
I was skeptical, but there were a lot of reviews on it and similar products, the majority of which were good.
So, I figured, what the hell? Worth a shot. Dropped $14 on it. I'll try any food once.
They came only a couple of days later. The tablets themselves are small. They looked very similar to my 10MG dexedrine tablets. It comes with a little "checklist" of things to try with it.
My fiance and I went out to buy some of the stuff on the list.
Our experience was, in a word, AWESOME.
How do they work?
It sounds hokey and made-up as hell. But they express a glycoprotein called "Miraculin". This modifies the sweetness receptors in your tastebuds to become stimulated by sour flavors, so you perceive all sours AND sweets as sweet. It doesn't really affect your perception of bitters or savory or saltiness. Sweet things become ULTRA sweet, and sour things become the most delicious concoctions you've ever experienced.
How do you use them?
You're supposed to put one on your tongue, and suck on it until it dissolves. Do not chew it. Try to have the tablet touch all the parts of your tongue for best results.
Once it's dissolved, you're done. Your tastebuds will be altered for the next 1-2 hours.
Some people prefer to use only 1/2 of a tablet but they're wusses.
What's so great about the experience?
Have you ever eaten a strawberry, apple, orange, kiwi, blackberry, or other fruit, which was SO PERFECTLY RIPE that you could never really find another one THAT amazing again?
With miracle berries, every. single. fruit. will be that fruit.
You can even squeeze a plain lemon or lime, and drink the juice straight up, with no sugar or water to dilute it, and have it taste like the most perfect lemonade you've ever had.
I tried very under-ripe (like, still whitish/greenish and hard) strawberries and tomatoes, and they tasted like they were succulent, sun-ripened labors of love.
(I should mention again though, that sweet things will be sweeter. So steer towards trying sour foods. I tried a banana with miraculin and oh god it was like, diabetes time. TOO sweet.)
Does it work for everyone?
I'm not sure, but I don't think so. I think that people with really stunted senses of taste (like heavy smokers) will experience nothing.
Also, according to reviews, some people just are not receptive to it. I don't know what would cause that. I am a "supertaster" and have the trait that allows me to taste potassium cyanide, and it works. But my fiance doesn't have a very strong sense of taste, and doesn't have the trait, and it also works for him. So IDK.
So long as you ingest the tablet correctly, I'd personally predict that your chances are very good that they will work for you.
$14 for 10 tablets?? Is it really worth it??
I was impressed enough that I'm going to buy more of them. So, in my opinion, yeah, they're worth it. I mean, hell, I made a whole thread about them.
I especially want to make a "miracle berry party" and pass them out, so people can flip out over platters of berries and fruit and such.
If you're piss broke then yeah obviously don't bother. But if you have $14 kicking around, why not? It's fun as shit.
I want to buy some of the plants and grow them so I can just HAVE these things around. Only problem is that the plant takes like 5 years to grow to fruiting age >:O
Do they affect you permanently somehow?
Nope. After 1-2 hours, the effect is totally gone, and you go back to normal. 100% normal.
The fruit grows natively in South Africa. People there are able to eat the things as often as they like, and they experience no side effects whatsoever. AFAIK, you can't even build up a tolerance to it, so it will always work just as well, every time.
It's all 100% natural and non-toxic.
What do the berries or tablets taste like?
Not much. Sort of like an apple rind. Nothing special. They also don't modify the taste of your mouth.
If you ate a tablet, then didn't eat anything sour or sweet for 1-2 hours after, you'd never know that anything had changed.
Why buy tablets, and not just the berries themselves?
The plants that fruit the berries are somewhat rare outside of southern Africa. The berries themselves decay very quickly; it only takes a day or two for them to go bad.
When they're picked, they're immediately freeze-dried, or dried into miracle raisins. The dried versions are sometimes ground into tablets.
The difference is that the effect is a little stronger, the more ripe the berry. So a dried berry will be a little stronger than a tablet.
From what I've heard, it's not a BIG difference though, and the tablets are significantly cheaper.
Anyway,
If you've tried Miracle Berries, tell me what you experienced!
What'd you try with them?
What did you like/what didn't you like?
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