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Maybe you’ve heard of the Miracle Fruit. If you have not (which might mean you just don’t pay much attention to pop culture), it is a small berry that grows on an obscure tree in the middle of nowhere. And like every tree that grows in the middle of nowhere, it has a set of interesting properties about it. In this case, the “mutant power” of the Miracle Fruit (or Miracle Berry, if you prefer) is that it makes some foods become sweeter than they otherwise would be. The Miracle Berry can turn salt and vinegar chips into a substantially sweeter little snack, and make lemon juice taste like a delicious lemonade.
Nobody really has any clue why Miracle Fruit works. It’s the kind of topic that even has Wikipedia pretty much stumped about it. And that is the kind of thing that just does not happen very often. After all, when Wikipedia doesn’t know something, that particular thing might not even exist at all. So for the sake of argument, it is possible that this fruit (and the tabs that they make out of it) may have some properties that could theoretically be considered miraculous. At least, to the limited understanding we humans bring to everything that’s new to us.
The following are a few items that Miracle Berries can make tastier through adding sweetness to them. You must try lemon juice with this stuff. It definitely gives sauerkraut a lift in the taste department. It gives plain (healthy and boring) yogurt a serious shot of sweet without sugaring it down. It turns goat cheese into a seriously tasty delight, and upgrades the taste of swiss cheese (mostly by removing the “feet-like” taste they tend to have). And it tones down the less savory aspects of grapefruits.
Just a warning, though; unless you want to figure out what happens if they inject gamma rays into an orange and produce a Hulk Orange, don’t eat oranges while you’re “on” Miracle Berry.
