Vitamin C, Why Our Body Needs It and How Richberry Alleviates The Sour Taste Without Adding Sugar

Maharlika Lobaton
Mar 21, 2020
3 min read

Updated: Feb 15, 2021

Vitamin C known as ascorbic acid is an immunity booster. It is necessary for the growth, development, and repair of all body tissues. It is involved in many body functions, including the formation of collagen, absorption of iron, the immune system, wound healing, and the maintenance of cartilage, bones, and teeth.

According to webmd.com, Vitamin C is one of the safest and most effective nutrients. It may not be the cure for the common cold (though it's thought to help prevent more serious complications). But the benefits of vitamin C may include protection against immune system deficiencies, cardiovascular disease, prenatal health problems, eye disease, and even skin wrinkling.

It is, in short, the best vitamin to boost our immune system which gives us a bigger chance of living longer.

INTRODUCTION

The sour taste is one that mainly bothers most consumers of fruits rich in vitamin C. The food that we eat has some percentage level of Vitamin C especially the fruits and vegetables. Great sources of vitamin C are mostly citrus fruits and berries which undeniably possess a sour taste. However, this sour taste is what most people are concerned about because most of us prefer a less strong taste in anything that we eat or drink. The higher the vitamin C content the stronger the taste of the source.

With this, the course of a search for a taste modifier fruit was discovered. It is famously known as the Miracle Fruit (Synsepalum dulcificum). A glycoprotein that is extracted from this fruit is called MIRACULIN.

Miraculin was first extracted in 1968, from a berry that grows in West Africa. The local population knew about the effects of the berry for much longer. They chewed on the pulp of the fruit to make stale and sour maize bread tastier, for example. At the time, scientists didn't know exactly how miraculin worked, but they did have a hunch. "It is believed that the protein binds to receptors of the taste buds and modifies their function", is what they wrote. Now, forty years after the initial isolation of miraculin, researchers from Japan and France have proved them right.

VITAMIN C Absorption

The intestinal absorption of vitamin C is regulated by at least one specific dose-dependent, active transporter. Cells accumulate vitamin C via a second specific transport protein. In vitro studies have found that oxidized vitamin C, or dehydroascorbic acid, enters cells via some facilitated glucose transporters and is then reduced internally to ascorbic acid.

How can the body absorb nutrients from the food we eat if there is a hindrance in the taste which blocks our desire to eat and drink because the taste is strong. Richberry which is made of freeze-dried miracle fruit is produced to help people adjust their taste buds against strong sour taste which is normally and usually found in food rich in vitamin C.

This miracle of natural alteration in the taste has been of great help to most patients, kids, and old individuals in the palatability of the vitamin C and also the rest of the medicines they are taking in.

Even in chemotherapy, taste changes in patients undergoing chemotherapy are common and can be of long duration, are associated with poor nutrition, and can reduce the quality of life. A pilot study of the "miracle fruit"-as a novel supportive intervention was conducted with eight patients with cancer who were being treated with chemotherapy and reporting taste changes. Miraculin, a naturally occurring protein in miracle fruit, has the unusual ability to transduce a sweet signal in an acidic environment.

Fortunately, Richberry has it. It has become the best partner to help not just the patients but all the people who absorb their medicines, their vitamin Cs.

RICHBERRY ALLEVIATES THE SOUR TASTE

Miraculin sits on your sweet receptors for an hour or so. For most of that time, it silences the receptors, which is why the fruit itself tastes very little. Whenever you take a bite or swig of something acidic, miraculin gains a few extra protons and changes shape. In doing so, it also changes the shape of the sweet receptors it has stuck to, sending them into a signaling frenzy.

richberry has come up with the product to help people reach out with the miracle fruit. Our product, a natural sugar-free sweetener will surely amaze you how miraculous richberry is to your tongue. Besides, how did it come from the name MIRACULIN, right? The miraculous effect takes off as soon as it reaches your tongue.

richberry the freeze-dried miracle berries is now in the market to mitigate and ease your taste buds, thus, easing you up in taking your favorite drinks and food without worrying about the strong taste of sourness.

Ever wonder how to reach miracles? Try Richberry and be a raving fan.