Kirin is introducing the Electric Salt Spoon Taste at CES 2025
On the first night of CES 2025, Kirin Holdings, a Japanese company known for its beer and beverage products, showcased New electronic spoon Which makes your food taste more salty. The company says its spoon uses a weak electrical current to concentrate sodium ion molecules in your food, adding umami and a stronger salt flavor to low-sodium foods.
A limited quantity of the electronic salt spoon goes on sale in Japan in 2024 for approximately $127 in US dollars, but Kirin hopes to sell the device worldwide in the coming years. The company claims that this device can significantly increase the “saltiness” of your food, without adding any additional sodium.
A crowd of people sampled some soup using a Kirin spoon at the CES unveiling in Las Vegas. TechCrunch We haven’t tried this ourselves, because there’s something about a spoonful of shared tech conferences that just isn’t that appetizing.
While the spoon sounds too good to be true, there is some convincing research behind it that suggests it may be legit. The Kirin Spoon product launch marked the first commercialization of the technology He won the 2023 Ig Nobel Prizea satirical award for extraordinary scientific research. The researchers behind the idea first published their thesis in 2011, but have since created spoons, forks and chopsticks that pass electrical currents to food.
Keren says she created the spoon to help people consume less salt. This problem is particularly important in Japan, where the country’s adult population eats more than twice the amount recommended by the World Health Organization.
