Flavor Tripping

[Avatard]

http://healthland.time.com/2011/09/28/flavor-tripping-explained-how-miracle-fruit-turns-sour-into-sweet/

[shmike]

Sounds sweet!

[AquaPython]

my last company sold these for a client.
we got a sample its pretty cool.
you could chew one and then have coffee with no sugar, and it would be sweet. or even eat a lemon raw, with a similar effect.

[OneSickPsycho]

And the FDA banned it for use as a sweetener, why?

[Avatard]

Probably has little to do with safety, and more to do with money.

Every artificial substitute in the USA has been denied, banned, or forced to carry warnings at one time or another. We are only one of two countries (I believe) that still outlaws sodium cyclamate.

The US must have very strong lobbies that protect the sugar industry.

[Kaneman]

The US must have very strong lobbies that protect the corn industry.

Fixed.

[AquaPython]

There's a reason it's called "Big Sugar". Just like "Big Tobacco", just slightly less lethal.

[Avatard]

Fixed.

Corn wasn't in the sugar biz until a decade ago.

[AquaPython]

a decade? try the last 4.

Since Nixon put this 1973 act into play.
http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/ws/index.php?pid=3932#axzz1ZMD4bTWI

[Particle Man]

a decade? try the last 4.

Since Nixon put this 1973 act into play.
http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/ws/index.php?pid=3932#axzz1ZMD4bTWI
But '74 wasn't four-.... Wait.... Fuck. I'm old. :lol:

[askmrjesus]

NIXON!

I knew it.

JC

[Porkchop]

NIXON!

I knew it.

JC

Arrroooooo!!!!

http://images.wikia.com/en.futurama/images/4/40/Nixon.jpg

[TYEster]

And the FDA banned it for use as a sweetener, why?

Also people will say it causes cancer.

[anthonyk]

Why would you want it as a commercial sweetener, when it sticks to your tongue for an hour, sweetening every low-pH concoction it comes in contact with? Neat party trick, but by the time it's be processed enough to be work like sugar, I'd be scared of what they turned it into.

[askmrjesus]

Why would you want it as a commercial sweetener, when it sticks to your tongue for an hour, sweetening every low-pH concoction it comes in contact with? Neat party trick, but by the time it's be processed enough to be work like sugar, I'd be scared of what they turned it into.

Gum that lasts all day?

JC

[Smittie61984]

Also people will say it causes cancer.

But only in California