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A Japanese discovery There were long thought to be just four basic tastes: sweet, sour, salty and bitter. Then a scientist in Japan Professor Kikunae Ikeda of Tokyo Imperial University (now the University of Tokyo) noticed the presence of a taste that did not fit into any of these categori...
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in addition to these, we have to include the umami, the taste of monosodium glutamate. For many it may sound like something new or strange, however, it was identified as a flavor by Kikunae Ikeda in 1908.
What does umami mean? “Umami” literally means “essence of deliciousness” in Japanese. Dr. Ikeda eventually found the taste of umami was attributed to glutamate. What foods contain umami? To get technical, umami is the taste of glutamate, an amino acid that is one of the building blocks...
According toAjinomoto, Kikunae Ikeda decided to create a new word for the flavor of his new powdered glutamate invention. Umami is derived from the Japanese word for delicious, "umai." Indeed, all the foods people in the U.S. think of as having an umami flavor are high in natural ...