Episode 34: Umami and the Four Senses

2022-05-27

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Many people grew up knowing about the four tastes: sweet, sour, bitter, and salty. But did you know about the fifth taste? It has always been there along with the other four, but most people still don’t know about this fifth one. Most of us can identify something sweet (sugar), sour (lemon), bitter (coffee), and salty (salt). But, the fifth taste is more challenging to describe. It may be because people don’t realize it is there even though they have had this taste for their entire lives....

Many people grew up knowing about the four tastes: sweet, sour, bitter, and salty. But did you know about the fifth taste?

It has always been there along with the other four, but most people still don’t know about this fifth one.

Most of us can identify something sweet (sugar), sour (lemon), bitter (coffee), and salty (salt). But, the fifth taste is more challenging to describe.

It may be because people don’t realize it is there even though they have had this taste for their entire lives.

Savory, otherwise referred to as umami, is the Japanese word meaning “essence of deliciousness.”

Read more: Who’s Umami? https://www.shelleyrael.com/blog/umami

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