Homei Miyashita, a professor at Meiji University, has developed a set of electric chopsticks that he says can enhance the taste of food, and is expanding beyond TVs that allow you to taste what you are watching.
The chopsticks are designed to give people who follow a low-sodium diet an enhanced perception of saltiness. It is the first ever demonstration ofalty taste enhancement via electrical stimulation.
Too much salt in the diet has been linked to a variety of diseases.
This technology may prove helpful for people trying to maintain a low-sodium diet.
That is relevant in Japan. The average Japanese adult consumes 10 grams of salt a day, twice the amount recommended by the World Health Organization.
The chopsticks have a wire connected to a wrist-mounted power source. Miyashita and his team found that the weakly electrified chopsticks were able to increase the perception of saltiness by 1.5 in a number of test subjects between the ages of 40 and 65.
Those trying to keep their sodium intake low could use the chopsticks.
To prevent diseases, we need to reduce the amount of salt we take.
The stakes are real.
If we try to avoid taking less salt in a conventional way, we would need to endure the pain of cutting our favorite food from our diet or eating bland food.
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