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Side Effects: Sour Mouth, Lower BP

Acidic gum beat sugar-free at cranking out nitric oxide from beetroot juice — exactly backward from what test-tube studies predicted. Also this week: a sleep gene that ignores amyloid, and jackfruit sap moonlighting as a bone-building drug delivery system.

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  • Kerri Miller

  • June 23, 2026

  • 7 min

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Side Effects: Sour Mouth, Lower BP

  • by Kerri Miller

  • June 23, 2026

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