This spoon makes food salty. Without the use of salt
The Japanese surprised the market once again. The Kirin salt spoon successfully replaces a salt shaker, tricking the brain into thinking that we are eating a salted dish.
This spoon makes food salty
Or rather, it's not so much that they actually become salty, but rather that we perceive them as such. The spoon delivers weak electric currents through the tip of the device, thus stimulating sodium ions on the tongue. This creates the impression of a salty taste without the actual delivery of sodium ions from table salt.
The salt spoon is manufactured and sold by Kirin. The device can operate in 4 intensity modes to provide users with the desired salt taste and is powered by a CR2 battery. The manufacturer does not yet distribute the equipment outside Japan, the price is not low, it is approximately PLN 500.
The creator of the technology won the Ig Nobel Prize
The spoon was developed in cooperation with Professor Homei Miyashita from Meiji University. Professor Miyashita had previously worked on a prototype of electric chopsticks that use similar currents, and won the Ig Nobel Prize in Nutrition last year. As a reminder, this is the humorous equivalent of the Nobel Prize for scientific works that first make you laugh and then make you think.
The aim of the project is to help people reduce the amount of salt they consume without having to eat “tasteless” food. Japanese people consume an average of 10 grams of table salt a day – twice the amount recommended by the WHO.
