SHANGHAI, 27 November (BelTA - Xinhua) - Chinese scientists have whipped up an artificial tongue that may say, "Yep, that's spicy!" The gel-based "chili-meter" delivers a quick, exact pungency reading ...

It's a well-known fact that if you're trying to cool your mouth after eating spicy food, you should drink milk, not water. Bearing that fact in mind, scientists have developed an "artificial tongue" ...

A gel-based artificial tongue can determine the spiciness of a wide range of foods, from the forgiving bell pepper to the more formidable ‘facing heaven’ chilli of Sichuan cuisine. The device, as the ...

The results were comparable, according to the researchers. “Our flexible artificial tongue holds tremendous potential in spicy sensation estimation for portable taste-monitoring devices, movable ...

A soft and flexible electronic tongue can determine exact concentrations of pungent and spicy compounds in a variety of foods and can detect them at even lower levels than the human tongue. The new ...

Don’t take a licking from spicy food. A team of researchers in China claims to have created an artificial “tongue” that can quickly detect spice levels in their food — and they used a well-known ...

The appearance of a hot sauce or pepper doesn’t reveal whether it’s mild or likely to scorch someone’s taste buds. So, researchers made an artificial tongue to quickly detect spiciness. Inspired by ...

A new artificial tongue uses milk to determine heat levels in spicy food - without anyone having to scorch their taste buds. Chinese researchers developed the device to quickly detect spiciness as the ...

This transparent square acts like an artificial tongue, reacting to capsaicin and similar pungent compounds in proportion to a food’s spiciness. The appearance of a hot sauce or pepper doesn’t reveal ...

For thousands of years traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) practitioners have checked patients’ tongues as part of a full examination, carefully scrutinizing their color, shape and coating in an ...

(NEXSTAR) – Do you have a “geographic tongue”? No, it’s not a nickname for a person who speaks multiple languages, or even a glutton who enjoys a diverse range of worldly cuisines. It’s actually a ...