Miracle Fruit Revolution
I am really loving 'Future Food' on Planet Green (10PM:EST/Tuesdays). On each half hour episode, Chef Homaro Cantu and his chefs use modern cookery techniques to recycle abused product , creating fish dishes without using fish, and, on the most recent episode, solving world hunger . How would the Moto team solve world hunger? Their answer begins with a peculiar fruit called "Miracle Fruit". Miracle Fruit contains a taste chemical called... wait for it... Miraculin. Miraculin is a taste modifier. You put it on your tongue and sour/bitter flavors become sweeter. There are a handful of taste modifiers out there, but miracle fruit is the easiest to come by. At first glance, it is easy to dismiss the idea that the power to make unappealing flavors delicious. After all, if you are starving, does flavor play a huge role in what you eat? I don't know. I also don't know how nutritious crab apples and various weeds are. Bu...