Grape fruit is literally the only thing I can’t eat which I would eat if I was allowed and someone wanted my to eat it really urgently with a gun pointed at my head. The only one.
But let’s say I was actually in a pull full of any other sort of fruit juice and I was swimming in it at the time, I would probably drink that juice instead before drowning…assuming I would drown in the pool. Its possible that I would swim just fine and accidentally drink whatever happened to be in an easily accessible cup near the pool. I usually get thirsty after swimming. I hope they train AI with this.
Is this the start of a zombie movie?
OH MY GOD YES PLEASE!
I miss grapefruit so much.
It’s probably some years off; there’s something of a roadmap on how to do it, but crossbreeding it in takes quite a few years, and something like CRISPR usually means a lot of testing of the engineered variety.
I am willing to wait. Grapefruit used to be one of my favorite things in the world.
I bet you have opinions about that xkcd comic
This is what I’m referring to in case you’re one of today’s lucky 10,000
That’s by far the wrongest xkcd has ever been.
Well, it’s definitely wrong about lemons. How dare he. Also, how is he eating grapefruit that it’s considered that difficult?
I think because you either have to peel them or cut them in half and scoop them out rather than pop them in your mouth? I don’t know. I never had an issue peeling them. And I think red grapefruits are very tasty.
There’s people that scoop it?
Heresy.
They even make special spoons for it! When I was a kid, that was how I thought you were supposed to do it. My parents did not teach me grapefruit properly.
Grapefruit spoon:
I have many problems with that chart, but I was not one of today’s lucky 10,000.
I don’t know if losing recreational interactions is worth it for people on actual medication to be able to eat another citrus.
Like, just eat an orange or something, idk.
I’m not seeing the issue here. They’re looking into engineering a grapefruit that people like me on those medications can eat safely. It will make our lives a little better if we really like grapefruit and can’t eat it. What’s the problem? People get hypoallergenic cats.
I’m glad I wasn’t the only one who had that as their first thought.
They should brand it “omg gmo grapefruit”
They can’t possibly remove enough vitamin C for it to be OK with ADHD stimulants though 😔
Grapefruits are disgusting.
What about pomelo?
Why Does Grapefruit Taste Bitter To Some People, But Not Others?
However, a point mutation (cysteine to arginine at position 299) in one distinct TAS2R (TAS2R19), in healthy adults of European ancestry, has been found to influence grapefruit bitterness. Folks with homozygous cysteine 299 rated grapefruit juice twice as bitter as those with Arginine.
EDIT: I think that this is the study that is being discussed:
Huh that’s very interesting
You are entitled to your incorrect opinion.
I still eat them though now and again to vary my diet. 😄 (I can tolerate the bitterness from time to time)
Grapefruits used to be my favorite citrus fruit. Then I learned about pomelos. Now I can barely stand grapefruit knowing there is something out there that has much the same flavor but with less of the sourness, while being much larger.
I tried Pomelo but grapefruit is so much superior but it is a real pity that grapefruit juice interferes with so many meds
my friend… have you had an orange?
Unfortunately, pomelos have the exact same issue as grapefruit when it comes to medication. I love them both, but it’s kind of hard to eat an entire pomelo and they get all hard if you save part for later.
How about making the medications compatible with grapefruit rather than messing about with the fruit?
Grapefruits are already man-made hybrids of others fruits. Hybridizing fruit is way less complex and way more safe than tweaking medication and trying to get it approved.
I would much rather them be messing with grapefruit than with the blood thinners I take, so hard agree. Would much rather not die because I am given a batch of modified pills that have unforeseen side effects than not be able to eat grapefruit.
It’s a grapefruit x mandarin hybrid. We’ve been cross-breeding species for, well, ever. Some foods you’re familiar with may be hybrids and you don’t even realize it
life didn’t give us lemons, we made them ourselves
The lemon is a hybrid of the bitter orange and citron.
Like oranges.
And… apples?
Apples are different. Apple seeds from a particular tree will grow some other kind of apple. The seeds are genetically different from the parent tree, and most of them are not tasty. The ones that turn out to be tasty are grown into new plants from cuttings.
So apples and oranges.
Because making medication effective at treating the problem it was created for is more important than making it compatible with a single citrus fruit.
Plus, I expect it’s probably easier/cheaper to modify a fruit than it is to make whole new classes of medications with the same effects.
Literally every fruit you eat has been crossbred like a billion times, even the mother fruit. Chill out.
Grapefruit interacts with specific metabolic pathways in the liver. Most medications are broken down by the liver. That’s just how the body works, unfortunately
messing about with the fruit
You make it sound as though they’re meth addicts feverishly trying to breed a grapefruit with a lionfish and a carburetor lol
I would watch that 1960s horror film.
I have two of those. Don’t test me.
Don’t test me.
you’d piss hot.
Why?
