The technology honored with the 2023 Ig Nobel Nutrition Prize is now available in a consumer item: an electrified spoon. This Reuters video report tells about it, with the headline “Can this spoon help Japanese people eat less salt?”: That Ig Nobel Prize was awarded to Homei Miyashita [show in the photo above] and Hiromi […]
Electrified chopsticks, soup bowls, and other eating implements can make bland food taste much saltier — much tastier. The technology was honored with the 2023 Ig Nobel Nutrition Prize. The prize, awarded to Homei Miyashita and Hiromi Nakamura, for their experiments to determine how electrified chopsticks and drinking straws can change the taste of food. […]