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Applied Exercises 5.29 Tomato as a taste modifier. Miraculin-a protein naturally produced in a rare tropical fruit-can convert a sour taste into a sweet taste. Consequently, miraculin has the poten tial to be an alternative low-calorie sweetener. In Plant Science (May, 2010), a group of Japanese environmental engineers investigated the ability of a hybrid tomato plant to produce miraculin. For a particular generation of the tomato plant, the amount Y of miraculin produced (meas ured in micro-grams per gram of fresh weight) had a mean

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