{"id":14916,"date":"2016-12-30T09:00:07","date_gmt":"2016-12-30T14:00:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/?p=14916"},"modified":"2016-12-28T02:21:49","modified_gmt":"2016-12-28T07:21:49","slug":"a-salt-flavoured-fork","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/2016\/a-salt-flavoured-fork\/","title":{"rendered":"A Salt Flavoured Fork"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/122816_0718_ASaltFlavou1.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"332\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Andrew Liszewski looked at how technology could be used to improve nutrition without compromising taste:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Researchers in Japan have built a fork that delivers electric shocks that are interpreted as different flavours by the tongue.<\/li>\n<li>Currently the fork is able to transmit a sensation of saltiness and sourness.<\/li>\n<li>The salt sensation is particularly intriguing since restaurants who supply the fork could cut down on the amount of salt in food, without affecting taste, improving blood pressure.<\/li>\n<li>Researchers managed to build the fork with just $18 worth of electronics.<\/li>\n<li>\n<div>Each tongue is different and the fork can be calibrated to an individual&#8217;s taste buds.<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Read more about the fork on <a href=\"http:\/\/gizmodo.com\/this-electric-fork-simulates-a-salty-flavor-by-shocking-1767695828\">Gizmodo<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Andrew Liszewski looked at how technology could be used to improve nutrition without compromising taste: Researchers in Japan have built a fork that delivers electric shocks that are interpreted as different flavours by the tongue. Currently the fork is able to transmit a sensation of saltiness and sourness. The salt sensation is particularly intriguing since [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":14915,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14916","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-daily-bulletin"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/122816_0718_ASaltFlavou1.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14916","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14916"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14916\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14919,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14916\/revisions\/14919"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14915"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14916"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14916"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14916"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}