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Diane Sawyer tries mberry on ABC World News

charles — Fri, 20 Jan 2012 08:31:30 +0000

Tonight was a nice suprise as we got to see Diane Sawyer cover Chef Homaro Cantu’s recent TED talk on ABC’s World News. The beginning of story brings you through a tour of moto and what’s going on in their kitchen. Keeping to tradition we’re not going to ruin it for you so we hope you enjoy the segment the way it was intended. What I will say is that the miracle berry is finally getting the attention it deserves thanks to Chef Cantu and people who dare to change the way we think about food.

ABC WORLD NEWS with Diane Sawyer

Top Chef S09E09 BBQ Pit Wars with mberry?

charles — Thu, 05 Jan 2012 06:33:29 +0000

Chef Chris Jones’ miracle berry dish makes history on Top Chef

Tonight’s episode of Bravo’s season 9 Top Chef’ offered Moto and iNg Restaurant fans a special treat. Chef Chris Jones pulled out all the stops on his latest challenge using you guessed it, mberry. Guest judge and author of Modernist Cuisine, Nathan Myhrvold inspires the chefs to get creative with delivering traditional flavors in a very modern way. There won’t be any spoilers here however we will say we agree with Mr. Myhrvold that Chef Jones represented his talents well and that was one heck of a dish. We like to wish the best to all the remaining chefs on the show.

Letter To Our Valued Customers

charles — Thu, 29 Dec 2011 06:37:43 +0000

Dear Valued Customer,

My name is Charles Lee and I’m the founder and CEO of mberry. Today I writing to inform you that during this very busy holiday season we experienced a problem with USPS not scanning and misplacing a batch of our orders that were expected to be delivered before the holiday.

This matter was brought to my attention this morning we’ve been working hard all day to identify and resend all lost orders. We have upgraded the shipping on these orders to Priority Mail (2-3 days delivery) and made sure no lost order was over looked.

Unfortunately this situation has inconvenienced and upset some of our amazing customers and several of you have reached out to our team sharing your fustration. I would like to apologize and assure you that your concerns are important to us.

As a young startup, mberry is committed to solving real social problems by changing the way we think about food and we recognize this could only be possible with your continued support and belief in our product.

In addition to our attempt to fix this problem I would personally like to offer those affected by this mistake a full, unconditional refund if you decide to return/ cancel the order even after you receive the product this week.

Regardless of what you choose I’d wish you would keep the mberry we sent you as a sign of our appreciation for your tremendous patience and understanding.

Lastly, I like to thank you, our customers, and our wonderful mberry team for helping us make 2011 unforgettable. Speaking for the entire mberry family we wish you and yours a Happy New Year.

Sincerely,

Charles Lee
CEO, Founder

Homaro Cantu and Ben Roche TED Talk

charles — Thu, 15 Dec 2011 22:07:42 +0000

Today TED released Chef Homaro Cantu’s TED2011 Long Beach, CA talk about his creative work with food at Moto Restaurant in Chicago. On stage Homaro and Ben went back and forth in a very dynamic style of telling the TED audience their solutions to addressing food miles, obesity, and world hunger. The chefs brought along with them a surprise box which allowed the crowd to try mberry while they shared their ideas for using the miracle berry from eliminating sugar to helping chemo patients.

Check out out the video below and see how they’re using food to solve some important social problems.

Homaro Cantu + Ben Roche: Cooking as alchemy

Miracle berry and Dr Oz with Adam Gollner

charles — Fri, 11 Nov 2011 06:55:31 +0000

Today’s episode of Dr Oz he interview author of Fruit Hunters, Adam Goller about the miracle berry or Synsepalum dulcificum. This wasn’t the first time they talked about the berry’s benefits however this time they did use the fresh fruit.

Another thing that was new on the show was Dr. Oz had an audience member who loves candy try a strawberry after mberry. She described the experience as delicious and even felt shocked that the lemon face wasn’t needed when it came to the lemon test.

The final test for the audience member was vinegar and to everyone’s surprise it went down rather well with both people saying it tasted pretty good.

We love seeing the miracle berry’s benefits being shared and hopefully one day there will be a practical way to use this amazing natural product everyday. We’re talking to you Chef Homaro Cantu

How “Flavor Tripping” and Miraculin Works

charles — Sat, 05 Nov 2011 09:03:36 +0000

Recently scientists in Japan have figured out how the active glycoprotien in miracle berry, Miraculin, transforms sour foods into tasting deliciously sweet. The study finds that Miraculin binds strongly to the sweet receptors on your tongue but it does not activate the receptors at neutral pH.

Once sour foods are eaten miraculin changes shape in such a way that it turns on the sweet receptors it is bound to. This creates the perception of an ultra-sweet sensation without affecting the other flavors in the food.

After the sour food is swallowed, miraculin returns back into it’s original shape, but it remains bound to the sweet receptor for hours. They believe this strong binding relationship explains the molecule’s lasting effect.

Too bad the new findings don’t explain how improve the shelf life of the miracle berry but stay tuned as we are working hard on changing that.

TED 2011 – Miracle Berry and World Hunger Redux

charles — Thu, 03 Mar 2011 05:38:29 +0000

Miracle Berry with Homaro Cantu @ TED 2011

Yesterday Chef Homaro Cantu and Ben Roche of Moto (also newly opened iNG Restaurant) spoke about their experiences using miracle berry in Long Beach for TED 2011 . For those of us who couldn’t attend in person or cough up the $500 fee for a webcast, Wired Magazine and The Wall Street Journal were nice enough to give us a preview of what we’re to expect for their exciting TED speech.

The TED talk blew up our Twitter feed and we want to share some of the live chatter from yesterday.

For those looking for the articles the links are below and the TED videos should be up in a few weeks so stay tuned.

Wired Magazine

http://www.wired.com/epicenter/2011/03/miracle-berry/

WSJ

http://blogs.wsj.com/health/2011/03/02/ted2011-tricking-the-mouth-to-feed-the-world/

mberry.us is proud to support Chef Cantu’s humanitarian efforts in raising awareness for world hunger.

Miracle Food on Dr. Oz

charles — Fri, 18 Feb 2011 22:12:56 +0000

Is Miracle Fruit the Miracle Food?

So this morning I received some wonderful emails about people seeing mberry on the Dr. Oz Show. So I decided to rolled out and check to see if our sales manager heard anything. With a shocked look on her face the first thing she said to me was “what just happened?!?”.

Minutes later even our family and friends started calling us to place orders. Lets just say now we’ve stopped counting the number of orders and we’re quickly running out of mberry

If you want to see how Dr. Oz managed to give our girl Lauren an anxiety attack check the link below to get your latest miracle berry update.

http://www.doctoroz.com/videos/miracle-food-cures-pt-2

New York Times talks Miracle berry and iNG

charles — Fri, 11 Feb 2011 17:42:10 +0000

Miracle berry and iNG

Today a writer for the New York Times, Debra Weiner, released an article talking about Homaro Cantu’s newest idea for Chicago; the “miracle berry“. Chef Cantu plans to make the berry the main feature at the newly opened iNG restaurant right next to the very popular Moto.

Credit John Konstantaras

At mberry we’re always excited to see what Chef Cantu has planned next but we believe we caught a little preview of it in this recent article “inhalable miracle berries” sounds like Cantu has done it again. The article also mentions the life changing potential that berry might have and amazing research that is being done.

“My goal is to spread ideas,” Mr. Cantu said. “Trends always start at the top. If people accept what’s happening at iNG’s kitchen table, it could be a game changer, altering the way we eat.”

Miracle Fruit Myths: Frozen miracle berry Vs mberry

charles — Wed, 07 Jul 2010 07:47:09 +0000

Frozen miracle berry Vs mberry

Today I saw Rachael Ray talking about miracle berries with Ted Allen on her morning show. I loved the reaction of her test group which did the lemon test after trying the berry and I thought Ted Allen did a good job of explaining the back-story behind the miracle fruit. There was one thing that was briefly mentioned that I want to talk about and have everyone help me set the record straight.

So the L.A. Times did a comparison of our miracle fruit tablets last year with an article titled “Miracle fruit taste test: berry vs. tablet” and the results was both the berry and the tablet were equally intense. So what do we really know now after hearing that the tablets are not as effective as the frozen fruit? You be the judge and tell us if Ted Allen was right for saying the frozen berries are better.

On a side note since we’ve been receiving complaints about other brands of miracle berry products please beware of cheap imitation tablets and continue to enjoy mberry responsibly. If you want to check out the Rachael Ray clips on miracle berry just click the link below.

Rachelrayshow.com