イグノーベル賞 栄養学部門 受賞者一覧
イグノーベル賞の栄養学部門では、2025年「あるトカゲがどのピザを好むか」、2023年「電気を使う箸やストローと味の変化」、2018年「人肉食から得られる熱量は他の伝統食より低いという計算」などを扱っています。
受賞研究
あるトカゲがどのピザを好むか
餌の好みを観察する研究が、なぜかピザの種類に行き着いた例。
Daniele Dendi, Gabriel H. Segniagbeto, Roger Meek, and Luca Luiselli, for studying the extent to which a certain kind of lizard chooses to eat certain kinds of pizza. REFERENCE: “Opportunistic Foraging Strategy of Rainbow Lizards at a Seaside Resort in Togo,” Daniele Dendi, Gabriel H. Segniagbeto, Roger Meek, and Luca Luiselli, African Journal of Ecology, vol. 61, no. 1, 2023, pp. 226-227. <doi.org/10.1111/aje.13100>
- 受賞者
- Daniele Dendi, Gabriel H. Segniagbeto, Roger Meek, Luca Luiselli
電気を使う箸やストローと味の変化
食器側から味覚を変えられるかを調べた、食体験の研究。
Homei Miyashita and Hiromi Nakamura, for experiments to determine how electrified chopsticks and drinking straws can change the taste of food. REFERENCE: “Augmented Gustation Using Electricity,” Hiromi Nakamura and Homei Miyashita, Proceedings of the 2nd Augmented Human International Conference, March 2011, article 34. <doi.org/10.1145/1959826.1959860> WHO TOOK PART IN THE CEREMONY: Homei Miyashita, Hiromi Nakamura
- 受賞者
- Homei Miyashita, Hiromi Nakamura
人肉食から得られる熱量は他の伝統食より低いという計算
James Cole, for calculating that the caloric intake from a human-cannibalism diet is significantly lower than the caloric intake from most other traditional meat diets.
- 受賞者
- James Cole
ケブカチスイコウモリが人の血を吸う初の科学的報告
Fernanda Ito, Enrico Bernard, and Rodrigo Torres, for the first scientific report of human blood in the diet of the hairy-legged vampire bat
- 受賞者
- Fernanda Ito, Enrico Bernard, and Rodrigo Torres
乳児の便から取った乳酸菌をソーセージの発酵に使う研究
: Raquel Rubio, Anna Jofré, Belén Martín, Teresa Aymerich, and Margarita Garriga, for their study titled “Characterization of Lactic Acid Bacteria Isolated from Infant Faeces as Potential Probiotic Starter Cultures for Fermented Sausages.”
- 受賞者
- : Raquel Rubio, Anna Jofré, Belén Martín, Teresa Aymerich, and Margarita Garriga
ポテトチップスの音を加工して食感を変えた実験
Massimiliano Zampini of the University of Trento, Italy and Charles Spence of Oxford University, UK, for electronically modifying the sound of a potato chip to make the person chewing the chip believe it to be crisper and fresher than it really is.
- 受賞者
- Massimiliano Zampini of the University of Trento, Italy and Charles Spence of Oxford University, UK
自動で継ぎ足されるスープ皿で食欲を測った実験
Brian Wansink, for exploring the seemingly boundless appetites of human beings, by feeding them with a self-refilling, bottomless bowl of soup.
- 受賞者
- Brian Wansink
フンコロガシは食べ物の好みにうるさいという証明
Wasmia Al-Houty of Kuwait University and Faten Al-Mussalam of the Kuwait Environment Public Authority, for showing that dung beetles are finicky eaters.
- 受賞者
- Wasmia Al-Houty of Kuwait University and Faten Al-Mussalam of the Kuwait Environment Public Authority
34年間の全食事を撮影して事後分析したこと
Dr. Yoshiro Nakamats of Tokyo, Japan, for photographing and retrospectively analyzing every meal he has consumed during a period of 34 years (and counting).[See the movie “The Invention of Dr. Nakamats“, 2009]
- 受賞者
- Dr. Yoshiro Nakamats of Tokyo, Japan
ジャコウネコの糞から作る世界一高価なコーヒー
John Martinez of J. Martinez & Company in Atlanta, Georgia, for educating the world about Luak Coffee, the world’s most expensive coffee, which is made from coffee beans ingested and excreted by the luak (aka, the palm civet), a bobcat-like animal native to Indonesia.
- 受賞者
- John Martinez of J. Martinez & Company in Atlanta, Georgia
54年間スパムを食べ続けた消費者たち
The utilizers of Spam, courageous consumers of canned comestibles, for 54 years of undiscriminating digestion.
- 受賞者
- The utilizers of Spam, courageous consumers of canned comestibles, for 54 years