Miracle Fruit Discovered to Help Cancer Patients undergoing Chemotherapy Get their Food Taste Back

Being told that you have cancer is just one of the terrifying things one would not like to hear. Despite cancer patients undergoing the chemotherapy they need, they experience side effects from those treatments as well.

One side effect known to be acquired by cancer patients is the occurrence of the food they eat to taste bad. Undergoing chemotherapy treatment and having the inability to enjoy your food are just some events experienced by cancer patients. Fortunately, a fruit is discovered to help these chemo patients get their accurate taste back and finally enjoy their food.

Her water tasted like rusty pennies while her pizza tasted like a metallic cardboard. Monica Faison-Finch, a cervical cancer patient mentioned on Chicago tribune. The woman undergoing chemotherapy further stated that when she tried the miracle fruit before her meal, her “life changed.” She further added, “It was like the first time I had tasted food in about five or six weeks. It was like I was having my first meal.”

Scientists had also informed that the miracle fruit, Synsepalum dulcificum binds the taste receptors on the tongue. This effect of the fruit then enhances the food’s taste once taken in before an hour a person eats.

More so, this fruit native to Ghana is grown in Miracle Fruit Farm owned by Erik and Kris Tietig is located in Redland, southwest of Miami. Herald Tribune also identified that amid the brothers’ donation of tons of the miracle fruit in local hospitals, charity organizations, and research universities since 1972, the farm was just officially established on 2012 by their own savings.

Erik Tietig stated that the miracle fruit is not a fad. He then clearly points out that it doesn’t help cure or prevent cancer. "But what it does do is help alleviate terrible symptoms of chemotherapy in a very real and a very immediate way," he said.

Hence, the Tietig brothers stated that recently had received funds from the University of Florida, Miami Cancer Institute and the Soroptimist of Homestead. The Tietig brothers are also reported to already develop a miracle fruit tablet which has longer lasting shelf life than that of the fruit itself.