A visit to the lab of Ig Nobel Prize winner Homei Miyashita

Titled “Shingo Fujimori has a shocking taste experience! What is the laboratory of Professor Homei Miyashita, who won the Ig Nobel Prize?”, this video shows a visit to the lab at Meiji University.

Homei Miyashita and Hiromi Nakamura were awarded the 2023 Ig Nobel Nutrition Prize, for experiments to determine how electrified chopsticks and drinking straws can change the taste of food.

They documented that research in the study “Augmented Gustation Using Electricity,” Hiromi Nakamura and Homei Miyashita, Proceedings of the 2nd Augmented Human International Conference, March 2011, article 34.

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