Miracle Fruit
maddi
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When I lost my taste buds on Taxol, I didn’t much care if things tasted sweet or sour, as long as they tasted of something! Worth trying anything if your taste is affected, just don’t expect too much!0
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I’d say any food/fruit that you can get past your tongue during chemo is a miracle!!1
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The only miracle fruit I had during chemo was frozen fresh pineapple. Brilliant.2
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Dear @maddi and others, What is this 'miracle fruit' about? Christmas is the only time of the year that I eat a lot of fruit. I have been feasting on grapes, rockmelon, mangoes and watermelon. Pink Lady apples I eat throughout the year. Oranges are too hit and miss. My dear mother in law is into blueberries; but I think they are a bit of a swizz - tasteless little bullets.2
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Here's a link to the story
https://www.sbs.com.au/food/article/2019/05/13/miracle-berry-may-help-chemotherapy-patients-regain-their-sense-taste
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It's very important to distinguish between 'miracles' that have been properly tested and found to be effective and a pitch for a reality TV show which might get your idea into a 'proper real time clinical trial.' That Charlie Te'o is on the selection committee doesn't make any difference to the fact this stuff has not been properly investigated. The person providing the 'scientific' commentary is the bloody farmer who has the only crop. Impartial? Yah reckon? The trials mentioned lack rigor.
Yes, I know, I sound like a grumpy old kill joy, but the word miracle attached to anything that is not some form of divine intervention grinds my gears.
If something helps and is demonstrated, proven, to cause no harm, have at it. If you think something makes you feel better, I'm pretty much in favour of that too. But don't be fooled by marketing or quasi scientific dribble about miracle fruit.8 -
The fruit they are talking about is actually called "miracle berry," (Synsepalum dulcificum) . It's little red berry fruit that changes your taste receptors temporarily like for an hour or so. What ever you eat will have a sweeter taste to it, especially if sour or bitter. My work colleague had this tree in his yard and gave me some to try as my taste changed during chemo had that bitter metallic taste to most things. I tried this berry before eating and just gave a sweeter tinge to what I ate. So it's not a "miracle" cure as such for cancer patients something to help make food more tolerable to eat and variety not limited to certain foods while you on chemo.4
