NileBlue's skull candy hits every taste at once, but no flavor

A sweetener thousands of times stronger than sugar, a famously bitter compound and pure capsaicin go into the brass-molded drops, and the verdict surprises even Nile.

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Making the world's most extreme candy

Warheads go after your tongue with sour. Hot candies go after it with heat. Nile's complaint, in the description of "Making the world's most extreme candy," is that each one only attacks a single sense. His goal is a candy that does all of it together: sweet, sour, salty, bitter, umami, spicy and icy.

The ingredient list reads more like a stockroom order than a recipe. Sweetness comes from advantame, which he says is "supposed to be 20,000 times sweeter than regular table sugar." The dose he measures out matches about 20 kilos of sugar. Bitterness comes from Bitrex, "potentially one of the most bitter compounds ever discovered." There is MSG for umami, malic and citric acid for sour, pickling salt, and two liquids dissolved in ethanol: capsaicin for heat and WS-23, a cooling agent he chose because "we just want it to be pure sensation," with no mint flavor in the way. A test drop of that liquid on a wooden stick is enough to stop him. "Right now, it's just pain."

The sugar is cooked to hard crack, dyed red and fed through a roller fitted with custom brass skull molds. The first batch stays soft and stretchy before it finally sets. Then Reggie steps in to taste it alongside him, and the capsaicin takes over completely. "It got in the driver's seat of this candy," the off-camera voice says.

The second batch cuts the capsaicin to 50 milligrams and adds half again as much Bitrex. This time the balance holds, and Nile names the strange result: "It literally is all the tastes at the same time." Every receptor fires, it leaves them slightly nauseous, and there is nothing recognizable to taste. Taste, it turns out, is not the same thing as flavor.

It follows a run of tongue experiments on the channel, from a mushroom that tastes like chicken to a flower that numbs the mouth, and it fits the food chemistry behind "Making the World's Purest Cookie," one of his most watched videos. Viewers keep comparing the candy to an overloaded computer and joking that it needs a safety data sheet instead of a nutrition label.

Nile calls the batch a proof of concept. For phase two, he plans to add real flavor, with cinnamaldehyde and ginger extract on the list. The video ends with a segment sponsored by Brilliant.

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