{"id":31,"date":"2007-11-19T23:26:32","date_gmt":"2007-11-19T23:26:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/amperzen.com\/blog\/?p=31"},"modified":"2007-11-20T02:12:37","modified_gmt":"2007-11-20T02:12:37","slug":"theres-now-a-fifth-taste-sweet-sour-salty-bitterand-now-umami","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/amperzen.com\/blog\/theres-now-a-fifth-taste-sweet-sour-salty-bitterand-now-umami\/","title":{"rendered":"There&#8217;s now a fifth taste: Sweet, Sour, Salty, Bitter&#8230;and now Umami"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.moleculewear.com\/images\/large_molecule_msg.gif\" title=\"Glutamate\" alt=\"Glutamate\" align=\"right\" border=\"3\" height=\"113\" hspace=\"3\" vspace=\"3\" width=\"240\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I got the automatic newsletter from NPR and found this article <a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/templates\/story\/story.php?storyId=15819485&amp;sc=nl&amp;cc=es-20071118\" title=\"Sweet, Sour, Salty, Bitter...and Umami\" target=\"_blank\">Sweet, Sour, Salty, Bitter&#8230;and Umami<\/a> by Robert Krulwich to be extremely interesting.  It all started with a French chef Auguste Escoffier who made a veal stock that had a new flavor that wasn&#8217;t the taste of sweet, sour, salty, or bitter.  But when this magic ingredient was added to anything it tasted better.  Scientists insisted there was only the 4 tastes but now with new testing they&#8217;ve found that indeed, there is a new taste.  They call it Umami since it&#8217;s what a chemist Kikunae Ikeda, called it when he posited the 5th flavor years ago. So, now that it&#8217;s been proven to exist, Ideda&#8217;s name for it will be the one used for this new flavor.  (The secret ingredient? Glutamate.) Read the article&#8230;it&#8217;s very informative and interesting.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I got the automatic newsletter from NPR and found this article Sweet, Sour, Salty, Bitter&#8230;and Umami by Robert Krulwich to be extremely interesting. 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