Miracle rejected by the FDA

Miracle fruit is a fruit that contains the protein miraculin which can disable your sour taste buds. In effect, for about an hour after you consume a miracle fruit or a miracle fruit pill, sour fruits such as lime or lemon will taste deliciously sweet and beer will taste like coke. Vivian and Paul brought back some of this crazy stuff from Taiwan for us to try and it worked wonderfully. Although this fruit, which has proven not to have any health related drawbacks, would make a great business idea, in fact one company wanted to market this as an sugar alternative, the FDA responded with a resounding no claiming safety issues because of mysteries behind how miraculin worked. We think the multi-billion dollar sugar industry that lobbied against it may have something to do with the miracle fruit's ultimate demise. Oh well... next time you're in Taiwan or wherever else that sells this stuff, bring back some for me!