Have you ever bit into something only to realize in horror that it was way spicier than you imagined? Well, science is now here to help.
According to a study published by ACS Publications, researchers have developed an artificial tongue to measure spiciness.
“Inspired by the fact that milk can relieve the pungent taste on the tongue, we introduced a soft gel-based artificial tongue as a flexible chemiresistive sensor for pungency detection,” the study reads.
The researchers continue, “Our work could enable both pungent compound detection and spicy sensation estimation, making a powerful platform for future applications involving movable humanoid robots and portable spicy taste monitoring devices.”
A portable spicy taste monitoring device? They could call it the iSpice.