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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...