{"id":43666,"date":"2022-04-19T14:04:47","date_gmt":"2022-04-19T05:04:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/apr\/19\/saline-solution-japan-invents-electric-chopsticks-that-make-food-seem-more-salty"},"modified":"2022-04-19T14:04:47","modified_gmt":"2022-04-19T05:04:47","slug":"saline-solution-japan-invents-electric-chopsticks-that-make-food-seem-more-salty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=43666","title":{"rendered":"Saline solution: Japan invents \u2018electric\u2019 chopsticks that make food seem more salty"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Device uses a weak current to artificially amplify the taste of salt, as part of efforts to reduce sodium levels in popular dishes<\/p>\n<p>Diners in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/japan\">Japan<\/a> could soon be able to savour the <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/lifeandstyle\/wordofmouth\/2013\/apr\/09\/umami-fifth-taste\">umami<\/a><\/em> of a bowl of ramen or miso soup without having to worry about their salt intake.<\/p>\n<p>In what they claim is a world first, researchers have developed chopsticks that artificially create the taste of salt, as part of efforts to reduce sodium levels in some of the country\u2019s most popular dishes.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/apr\/19\/saline-solution-japan-invents-electric-chopsticks-that-make-food-seem-more-salty\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Device uses a weak current to artificially amplify the taste of salt, as part of efforts to reduce sodium levels in popular dishesDiners in Japan could soon be able to savour the umami of a bowl of ramen or miso soup without having to worry about their&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":151,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,311,88],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-43666","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-food","category-japan"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43666","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/151"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=43666"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43666\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43667,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43666\/revisions\/43667"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=43666"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=43666"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=43666"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}