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A bit sad that they confuse umami with salt in the opener but this does sound like a great invention. An acquaintance suffers from kidney disease and due to th
by JimBlackwood 5y ago
A bit sad that they confuse umami with salt in the opener but this does sound like a great invention.
An acquaintance suffers from kidney disease and due to the zero salt intake has lost much appetite for food. A lot is still possible when cooking with tomato or mushroom rich foods but it’s hard. Something like this would be welcomed!
- DennisP 5y agoThey say it works the same way on sodium glutamate ions, so I guess it boosts umami too. I'm wondering whether it'd work to make something like this myself.
- starfallg 5y agoThe article states that this device works on Sodium Chloride and Sodium Glutamate, so technically both tastes apply.
- itcrowd 5y agoThey don't conflate the two. They say you can taste the umami without the downside of ingesting too much salt in the process (due to the high salinity of typical dishes with umami flavor)
- djrogers 5y agoYou're confusing salt with sodium - this enhances sodium ions, so it affects salt as well as MSG, which is tied to umami. Umami != salty.
- pvaldes 5y agoI suspect that eating every day with this chopsticks could made people to eat more salt than before They are shocking with electricity their own taste buds... maybe destroying them, or reducing their density?. After some time people with a numb scorched tongue could find the food bland, and would start adding more and more salt to reach the same level of tastiness again. So I wonder if this would be sustainable in the long term (but is just an opinion, and I could be wrong).