No more salting your dishes, this spoon does it for you (and without using salt)

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It's the new year, and as usual, the world's largest tech show is taking place in Las Vegas. While the biggest brands are making announcements at CES 2025, this new edition is also an opportunity to discover products that are a little less expected.

This is the case of a rather unusual spoon designed by the Japanese company Kirin. The promise: No longer needing to salt your dishes since this ingenious spoon “salts” your food in an incongruous way. It is ideal for those who follow a specific diet or who have to be careful, without having to deprive themselves and eat tasteless meals.

An electric shock to salt your dishes ?

Today, the WHO (World Health Organization) recommends a consumption of less than 5 grams of salt per day, the equivalent of a teaspoon. However, the average global consumption of salt is estimated at almost 11 grams. While excessive salt consumption is the leading risk factor for death related to diet and nutrition, the Japanese company Kirin has found a solution.

Specializing in beverages, Kirin recently launched its electric spoon that salts your dishes… Without using a gram of salt. This new edition of CES in Las Vegas was an opportunity to highlight this innovation.

This electric spoon is not like the others. To give you the impression of enjoying a delicious salty meal as you like it, without using salt, it sends you a (very small) electric shock. This will stimulate your taste buds and gather the sodium ions present in the food. As a result, the dish seems salty even if it is, in reality, quite bland. According to Kirin, the perceived salty taste would be 1.5 to 2.3 times greater. This somewhat special spoon also allows you to multiply the sensation of umami, which is found in mushrooms, green tea or even soy sauce.

Equipped with a button to increase the intensity of the electrical signal (and therefore the sensation of salt in your dish), Kirin's electric spoon promises to address a real societal problem. It has benefited from limited marketing in Japan. Thanks to CES 2025, Kirin hopes to expand its target and market its electric spoon elsewhere in the world, at a price of around 120 euros.

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