Turn on the cutlery, and the meal will taste good, drink white water and taste lemon.
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As a standard "dry rice man", what I am most afraid of on the way to work is that "the food is not delicious". However, nothing can stop the dry rice workers, the food is not delicious, maybe change a pair of chopsticks!
Nothing can stop the dry diners.
Don't believe it, this may really be a way to change the taste of food. We all know that taste is a chemical stimulation of food and taste buds, but the brain's perception of taste is a very complex process.
In addition to the taste of the meal itself, the environment in which you eat, the mood and even the posture in which you eat and the electrical stimulation you receive can change the taste you perceive. The rice is not delicious, in addition to changing a bowl of rice, the researchers also gave other unexpected solutions.
Taste is a chemical reaction between food and taste buds, but many factors affect our perception of taste. | | Wiki |
If you change a pair of electric chopsticks, you can make the meal more delicious.
Several young people from the National University of Singapore, the University of Maine and the University of Colorado at Boulder say that with their special chopsticks and soup bowls, the meal can be delicious!
They even have two switches: blue is a salty button and green is a sour button. Users will perceive salty and sour differently at two different current ranges.
According to the experiment, the researchers really found that this method is useful. They recruited 31 participants. When you eat salt-free mashed potatoes with live chopsticks, you will obviously feel more salty and sour. When using the charged soup bowl to drink the soup, the effect of electric current on the salty taste is not obvious, but the feeling of sour and bitter taste is increased.
In 2017, a research team made a cup of "virtual lemonade" through electrical pulse stimulation. When someone wants to drink a glass of lemonade, they only need to drink the white water and accept the electric pulse of the cup to taste the lemonade.
Virtual lemonade allows friends who are far away to share the taste. | | youtube/ |
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This method even allows friends who are far away to share the taste of the same glass of water. If A gets a good drink, the machine interprets the taste of the drink and sends the signal to B's live cup filled with white water.
Another group of researchers simulated the skin temperature of people when they were happy and unhappy by heating the skin around their noses, when the taste of their drinks changed.
Electrical and thermal stimulation can change the way we feel about taste. | | Pixabay |
This also shows that in our real life, the taste experience is very complex, through different ways of adjustment, may be able to produce interesting results. In addition, the behavior in your daily life is likely to change the taste of food.
Eating sitting tastes better than eating standing up.
Eating together tastes better than eating alone.
A group of researchers investigated how posture affects taste perception.
As a result, they found that people who stood seemed to be more insensitive to taste than those who were sitting. In other words, when it is delicious, it will not be so delicious, and the bad food will not be so bad.
If you eat standing up, you will feel more slowly about the taste of the food. | | Giphy |
This is because the vestibular sensory system associated with posture affects the taste of food, the researchers explained. Standing posture puts more pressure on the body than sitting, resulting in insensitivity to taste.
You can also try the difference in the taste of standing / sitting next time.
According to this characteristic, the researchers even suggest that you can use this little skill in every aspect of your life. For example, take medicine standing up; children who don't like to eat may eat more when standing up. Or when you want to control your diet, you can try eating standing up, not only eating less, but also improving blood circulation.
Another method also seems to change the taste of food, which is called the "social promotion" of food.
Social behavior changes the taste of food. | | Pixabay |
In our daily life, our behavior will be influenced by others. Since 1989, researchers have found that when a group of people eat together, people tend to eat more and have a higher opinion of food.
This may be because people usually communicate with each other during dinners, and the atmosphere is usually positive and friendly, which makes people feel comfortable and relaxed, and this emotional change will in turn affect the taste of your diet. Therefore, eating with family and friends will not only be very happy, but also become delicious.
Work together and eat more. | | Giphy |
But in 2015, the researchers found another strange phenomenon: when strangers An and B ate chocolate together, they thought chocolate tasted better even if they didn't communicate at all. A 2017 study found that people who ate popcorn in front of a mirror or in front of a picture found that popcorn tasted better and ate more, even without company.
Although researchers do not know the exact reason for this "social promotion", it seems that "eating together" can really change our experience of food. After all, we are social animals, and our behavior and feelings are influenced by others, and so is eating. Maybe you also have a trick to "eat better."
So, when I sit and eat with my friends with electric chopsticks, can I eat three bowls at a time?
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