There’s an electric salt spoon that adds umami flavor
by Wes Davis from The Verge - All Posts on (#6MZCD)
A chunky electric spoon for your chunky low-sodium foods. | Image: Kirin If you're cutting salt out of your diet, either for medical reasons or just trying to be healthy, low-sodium foods can be a letdown. But don't despair - Japanese company Kirin claims to have a solution in its Electric Salt Spoon, which uses electrodes to electrify your tongue to give you a little salty shock.
The idea, as Reuters puts it, is that it passes a small electric current to concentrate sodium ion molecules on the tongue," enhancing salty flavor. It's like techno-umami. The company says the goal is to get people to eat healthier by letting them eat low-sodium food without being sad about how unsalty it is.
Image: KirinKirin partnered with Professor Homei Miyashita from Japan's Meiji University School of...