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It is known for its berry that, when eaten, causes sour foods (such as lemons and limes) subsequently consumed to taste sweet. This effect is due to miraculin . Common names for this species and its berry include miracle fruit , [ 3 ] miracle berry , miraculous berry , [ 3 ] sweet berry , [ 4 ] [ 5 ] [ 6 ] and in West Africa , where the species ...
Like other sweet proteins discovered in plants, such as monellin and thaumatin, brazzein is extremely sweet compared to commonly used sweeteners. [4] The fruit tastes sweet to humans, monkeys, and bonobos , but gorillas have mutations in their sweetness receptors so that they do not find brazzein sweet, and they are not known to eat the fruit.
Symphoricarpos is a small genus of about 15 species of deciduous shrubs in the family Caprifoliaceae.With the exception of the Chinese coralberry, S. sinensis, which is indigenous to western China, all species are native to North and Central America.
Billardiera cymosa, commonly known as sweet apple-berry or love fruit, [2] is a species of flowering plant in the family Pittosporaceae and is endemic to south-eastern continental Australia. It is usually a slender climber that has narrowly egg-shaped leaves and pale blue or pale purplish flowers arranged in groups of about five to twelve.
It produces large red berries, sometimes mottled with grey. It is known from West-Central Tropical Africa, between northern Angola, eastern Nigeria and western Democratic Republic of Congo. The berry is sweet in taste due to the protein, brazzein , which is substantially sweeter than saccharose . [ 3 ]
The fruit is a red berry, 7–20 mm (1 ⁄ 4 – 13 ⁄ 16 in) diameter, spherical in shape with a rough surface. [11] It matures in about 12 months, in autumn, at the same time as the next flowering. It is edible; the fruit is sweet when reddish. Seeds are small, brown and angular [11] and are often dispersed by frugivorous birds. [12]
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Viburnum lentago, the nannyberry, sheepberry, or sweet viburnum, is a species of Viburnum native to North America. Description It is ...