Exempel på umami

• In order to obtain a rich, umami flavor, the ingredients should be simmered for many hours.

• Its taste is rich in umami due to its high content of various free amino acids, such as glycine, alanine, and glutamic acid.

• These structures are involved in detecting the five (known) elements of taste perception: salty, sour, bitter, sweet, and umami.

• Salts, sweet, sour and umami tastes causes depolarization of the taste cells, although different mechanisms are applied.

• This has a rich feel and sweet umami taste.

• It is known to play a large role in the transduction of bitter, sweet and umami stimuli.

• The gustatory system is responsible for differentiation between sweet, sour, salty, bitter, and umami.

• Soy sauce has a distinct yet basic taste of umami, due to naturally occurring free glutamates.

• The most common salty condiment was "garum," the fermented fish sauce that added the flavor dimension now called umami.

• Many people prefer dried shiitake to fresh, considering that the sun-drying process draws out the umami flavour from the dried mushrooms.

• The taste of umami is thought to signal protein-rich food.

• Additional ingredients that provide umami flavouring can be also added.

• He discovered the common component that produced the flavor of meat, seaweed and tomatoes was glutamate, which produces the sensation of "umami".

• Five basic tastes are recognized today: salty, sweet, bitter, sour, and umami.

• Some umami taste buds respond specifically to glutamate in the same way that sweet ones respond to sugar.