Tablets made from miracle fruit, which makes sour food taste sweet, are now for sale on the Internet, the developer of the technology said.
Mitsuharu Shimamura, a 31-year-old horticulturist based in Chita, Aichi Prefecture, said that after a joint study with a Taiwanese agricultural firm, he established the world's first technology to make tablets out of the tropical fruit, native to west Africa, which contains a sweet-inducing protein called miraculin.
An Osaka-based trading company began selling the tablets online at a price of 3,990 yen for a package of 10.