> especially relevant in Japan, where the country’s adult population eats more than double the World Health Organization’s recommended intake<p>Japan is also the country with the second highest life expectancy in the world. Is salt really that bad? How long would they live if they followed WHO's recommendations?
This idea has been around for a long time:
<a href="https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg22429935-000-food-bland-electric-spoon-zaps-taste-into-every-bite/" rel="nofollow">https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg22429935-000-food-bla...</a>
But does it work?<p>This is the third report I’ve seen in recent days and none of them mention if the spoon delivers on its promise. Reporters may be reluctant to share a spoon with dozens of other attendees, but might they practice some journalism by surveying folks who did try it?
When I heard about this, I couldn't help but think of the taste of a 9-volt battery on the tongue, but from what I understood/guessed from TFA, this does something more like pulling dissolved sodium ions to the outer surface of the food to make them more readily encountered by taste buds? So, the food would need to have a decent salt content to begin with and not be too dry probably?
Say what you will about salt consumption, but my wife suffered thyroid issues until we added a shaker of iodized salt back into our kitchen/eating area.
How about a fork, <i>actually</i> made of salt [0]?<p>[0] <a href="https://youtu.be/4FPwNkkMPrE?si=IqgSHPIHyFVfeXu7" rel="nofollow">https://youtu.be/4FPwNkkMPrE?si=IqgSHPIHyFVfeXu7</a>
I read about this the other day. The main thing I remember was the weird grip required...a fist grip? I'd be curious to hear more about that aspect...
speaking as a health conscious foodie ,with gagetaholism, this will press all of my "got to have the shiny thing" buttons, in an upscale retail enviroment
a version built right into a bowl would be the way to intruduce it into resturaunts and build retail demand in places big on soup, Vietnam....china
FFS, can humans not just keep creating plastic crap that'll ruin the planet. Make your own wooden spoon and you have a beautiful object created with your own hands.