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想让难吃的东西变好吃？你需要的是一把神奇的叉子

Did you know electricity can alter the way we taste food? Proving this fact is a revolutionary electric fork designed by Japanese researchers that can make any dish taste salty, thus acting as a substitute for the popular seasoning.

你知道电可以改变人类饮食的方式吗？由日本研究人员设计的电动餐叉证实了这一点，这种革新性的餐叉能够使食物变咸，成为常用调料的替代品。

According to Hiromi Nakamura, a Post Doc Research Fellow at Tokyo’s Meiji University, the technology can be very useful for people on special diets. Patients with low blood pressure, for instance, can easily go on a low-salt diet and still enjoy delicious food. And with the fork, there’s absolutely no risk of over-salting your food. Luckily, the voltage is so small that there is no risk of electrocution either.

东京的明治大学的博士后研究员中村博美称，这项技术尤其适用于特殊饮食的人群。例如，低血压患者在轻松保持低盐膳食的同时，亦可享用美味佳肴。用了电动餐叉，即使过度调味也绝对毫无危害，而且好在电压很小，所以也不存在触电的风险。

The idea of adding electricity to food was first revealed as an experiment at the Computer Human Interaction Conference in Austin, Texas, in 2012. Nakamura and her team connected a wire to a 9-volt battery and threaded it through a straw placed in a cup of sweet lemonade. Volunteers (who were asked to sign a waiver) reported that the charged lemonade tasted ‘blander’, because the electricity simulated the taste of salt.