■Scientific name:Richardella dulcifica（Synsepalum dulcificum Daniell）
■Origin: West Africa
■This red fruit contains the protein called miraculin. If you eat a sour food immediately after eating the red fruit, an electrical signal of sweetness will be transmitted to your brain even though you taste a sour food. It is because the miraculin is bound with a key hole of sweetness.
■Effect duration: about 2 hours( about 1 hour in a frozen fruit)
■Miraculin is vulnerable to heat because it is protein. Accordingly, miraculin is required to be preserved in frozen. Miraculin is approved as a harmless additive (an existing additive) by the Ministry of Health and Welfare.
Advances in taste: Japanese horticulturalist develops taste-modifying tablets.
Tablets made from 'miracle fruit', a berry native to west Africa that makes sour things taste sweet, have been made available for public sale in Japan.
According to Japanese press sources, Mitsuharu Shimamura, a 31-year-old horticulturist, established the world's first technology to make tablets out of the tropical berries, which contain a sweet-inducing protein called miraculin.
"One pink-colored tablet is made of three miracle fruit berries", Mr Shimamura told Japan Today. "When people eat or lick the fruit's red berries, any sour thing they eat or drink a minute later tastes sweet for about two hours."
The modification in taste occurs when the miraculin protein firmly binds to sweet receptor cells in a person's tongue when sour substances are present. The protein then transmits a false message to the brain, resulting in a strong, sweet taste.
【The Constituent of Miracle Fruit Tablet】
(per 10 tablet/3500mg)
Calorific Value------12.8kacl
Protein--------------78.0mg
Lipid----------------260.4mg
Carbohydrate---------2282.0mg
Water----------------394.1mg
Sodium---------------1.4mg
Vitamin C------------3.8mg
Vitamin K1-----------0.368ug
Citric Acid----------264.6mg
Malic Acid-----------58.5mg
Fiber----------------24.0mg
Thank you for your interest in our products"Miracle Fruit Tablet".
If you live in Japan, please ask us for order by e-mail.
shop@miracle-fruit.net
Now we sell them in only Japanese market, and do not plan to find distributor and export them in large quantity to overseas.
If you want to buy them, we could send them to overseas on the terms stipulated below:
Payment : PayPal by Japanese yen in advance
Minimum Order : 10 boxes
Estimate : 3,800 Japanese yen / one box / FOB Japan
Shipment : EMS
We could give some discount if you buy more than 100 boxes per order.
We are sorry, but we would not send any samples.
Please ask shop@miracle-fruit.net
6-1-108, Sakurazono-cho, Kayajima, Neyagawa-City,
Osaka, JAPAN
Zip Cord:572-0828
Tel:072-811-3065 Fax:072-811-3066
Onishikatumi-Shokai Corp.
Mr. Kazuo Tabata
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