A Japanese company has started selling an electric salt spoon that can trick your mind into thinking food is saltier than it really is.
An electric salt spoon is making waves in Japan. The spoon is designed to deliver weak electrical currents through the tip of the device to concentrated sodium ion molecules found on the tongue. This allows for food eaten with the spoon to taste saltier without having to actually add more sodium to it. The idea might seem like a crazy one.
The company says that the spoon can be customized between four different intensity levels to provide users with the salty flavor that they desire. The spoon was developed alongside professor Homei Miyashita of Meiji University, Sky News reports. Miyashita has previously worked on a prototype pair of electric chopsticks capable of using the same currents, and he won the Ig Nobel Nutrition prize last year.
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