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Umami – The Fifth Taste

Umami is widely accepted as the fifth basic taste, along with the more commonly recognized sweet, sour, bitter and salty. Umami can best be described as “savoury”, and while it has been studied for over 100 years in Asia, only about 15 % of North Americans recognize the term. It is an important word to…