Miracle Fruit for Cancer & Chemotherapy Patients
MiraBurst miracle berry is the world’s only taste-modifying and taste-masking superfruit that works in different ways to help mask and manage chemotherapy-associated taste disturbances while helping to maximize the power of nutrition to fight the cancer itself.
Are taste disturbances due to chemotherapy affecting your eating habits?
Taste Changes During Chemotherapy
Chemotherapy can negatively affect taste buds and reduce saliva production which is key to tasting food flavors. Patients may have dry mouth and develop taste disturbances including “metal mouth”. When this happens, food may seem to lack flavor or taste more salty, bitter, or metallic. About 20% to 86% of patients undergoing chemotherapy experience taste disturbances which persist throughout treatment.
These distortions often lead to food aversions during meals and can lead to reduced food intake and risk of malnutrition.
Malnutrition negatively impacts quality of life and oncologic treatment. It is associated with increase in complications and toxicity of treatment. It leads to worse treatment efficacy, poor disease prognosis, reduced functional status, reduced quality of life and utimately, increased mortality of oncologic patients.
Miracle berry (Synsepalum dulcificum) has been found in clinical trials to be beneficial in masking and managing chemotherapy associated taste disturbances leading to improvement in food taste perception. This improvement translates into increased food intake, thereby improving nutritional status and mitigating associated risks.
Benefits of the MiraBurst Mini Squares to Cancer Patients in General Including Cancer Survivors
Besides helping to manage chemotherapy-associated taste disturbances, MiraBurst Mini Squares works in different ways to help cancer patients maximize the power of nutrition to help fight the cancer itself and help reduce the risk of cachexia (weight loss and muscle wasting).As a superfruit, it is rich in anti-cancer bioactive compounds with cancer-fighting properties.
Regular consumption of the miracle berry has been found in a clinical trial to contribute to reducing biomarkers of inflammation and cachexia (weight loss and muscle wasting) in malnourished patients with cancer and taste disorders.
Finally, the unique taste-modifying properties of the miracle berry help improve taste perceptions without the need to add sugar or sweetener. This helps reduce consumption of sugar and processed foods while helping to enjoy healthy, low-sugar fruits and vegetables with cancer-fighting properties. Please refer to MiraBurst smoothie recipes. In addition, MiraBurst Mini Squares helps everyone enjoy unsweetened fermented foods and drinks which act as natural probiotics and enjoy healthy low sugar fruits and vegetables which act as prebiotics. Combined, they help improve gut microbiome.
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