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Who Killed the Miracle Berry?

Proof

America's Test Kitchen

Society & Culture, Food, Arts

4.41.8K Ratings

🗓️ 23 May 2019

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Summary

In the 1970s, the Miracle Berry was poised to become the sugar replacement of choice. It was hailed as the solution to the diabetes epidemic, and was preferred to every other sugar alternative in blind taste tests. The fruit contains a taste-altering protein, miraculin, that makes sour foods taste sweet. So why haven't you heard of it? Did "big sugar" engineer its downfall? And can modern food entrepreneurs reposition the miracle berry as the future of sweet? See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

Oxo's good grips handle is unique. It's easy to hold in control no matter the hand.

0:06.0

Now it doesn't exactly win beauty pageants, but Karen Schnauwar, who heads up branding for Oxo thinks the

0:12.3

handles beauty is more than skin deep.

0:14.8

And it's the kind of beauty that, you know, when you realize how beneficial it is and how great

0:19.4

it feels in your hand, it grows on you.

0:21.8

Because when you realize something is designed beautifully

0:24.1

it starts to look incredibly attractive. You could say the same thing for humans if you

0:28.6

love someone's personality they're more and more and more attractive to you.

0:31.6

Fall in love with your kitchen tools.

0:34.3

Shop all products at oxo.com.

0:36.8

That's oXo.com.

0:38.8

Oxo, better guaranteed.

0:49.0

Hey thanks to our presenting sponsor Bob's Red Mill. Stay tuned at the break for their quiz.

0:58.9

On a late summer evening in August of 1974, Dr. Robert Harvey and his business partner, Don Emory, were heading to Dr. Harvey's home for dinner.

1:05.0

The arrangement I had with my family was that on evenings I had to work late,

1:10.0

my wife and I really agreed that rather than stay and work late and skip dinner

1:14.6

what she'd prefer is that I would come home I could bring anybody with me and we

1:19.6

would have dinner and then we could go back to work and the kids could go

1:22.3

do their homework and go to bed.

1:25.4

They had a long night of work ahead of them.

1:27.4

Robert Harvey and Don Emory were in the process of securing a big investment from Colgate

1:31.6

Palm Olive, who wanted in on their product, a sweetening a

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