Unlocking Secrets of Sour Flavors with Something Found in Your Ears

Re:Unlocking Secrets of Sour Flavors with Something Found in... by kurthr on Monday February 05, 2018 @02:13AM (#16307142)

It's interesting to me that they don't mention Miraculin, which has long known to cause sour things to taste sweet.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miraculin

edit: I didn't find any nice connection between Otopetrin and Miraculin in the literature either... possibly because miraculin operates on the tongue's sweetness detectors which then override the sour taste like sugar in lemonade.

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Re:Unlocking Secrets of Sour Flavors with Something Found in... by Haitischmock on Monday February 05, 2018 @04:18AM (#16307632)

Would it be possible to make low-calorie soda by simply adding Miraculin to carbonated/acidic water ?

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Re:Unlocking Secrets of Sour Flavors with Something Found in... by kurthr on Monday February 05, 2018 @12:17PM (#16310261)

It takes 30sec to 1min for Miraculin to "bond" to your tongue, but generally yes people do exactly this and you can find the book on Amazon. The advantage is that the effect lasts an hour or two, but comes with the problem that it costs $0.5-1.0 for each effect. You can find that in the same store.

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