It’s the new year, and as usual, the biggest tech show in the world is being held 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 need to salt your dishes since this ingenious spoon “dirt” your food in an incongruous way. It is ideal for those who follow a specific diet or who need to be careful, without the need to deprive themselves and eat bland meals.
An electric shock to salt your dishes?
Today, the WHO (World Health Organization) recommends consuming less than 5 grams of salt per day, the equivalent of one teaspoon. However, the average global salt consumption is estimated at almost 11 grams. While excessive salt consumption represents the main risk factor for death related to food and nutrition, the Japanese company Kirin has found a solution.
Specializing in drinks, Kirin recently launched its electric spoon which 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 like no other. To give you the impression of enjoying a delicious savory meal just the way you like it, without using salt, it sends you a (very small) electric shock. This will stimulate your taste buds and bring together the sodium ions present in food. As a result, the dish appears salty even though 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 we find 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 respond to a real social problem. It 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.
