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Temporarily losing the ability to taste sweetness

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Chewing the leaves of the Gymnema sylvestre plant executes a flawless, targeted strike on your sweet receptors. The gymnemic acids physically block the sugar receptors on your tongue for a few hours. You can drink a can of sugary soda, and it will taste exactly like plain, bitter carbonated water. It is a highly specific, totally reversible biological mute button for candy.

Temporarily losing the ability to taste sweetness
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