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I Hacked My Tongue Into Thinking This Lemon Was Sweet
WORKED)

Did you know you can trick your tongue into tasting sour foods as sweet? It’s all thanks to miraculin, a fascinating protein found in the Synsepalum dulcificum fruit, native to Ghana and Kenya.
Here’s how it works: Miraculin binds to your sweet receptors but stays dormant
—until you eat something sour! Sour foods, like lemons, have a low pH that activates miraculin, causing it to alter your taste perception. It fits into your sweet receptor’s activation site, overpowering the usual signals and making your brain think sour foods are sweet.

Taste is all about receptors and molecules fitting together like a lock and key. Miraculin temporarily rewires this system and I had to see if it worked! It does #science #tasteperception #miriclefruit #africa