What is umami?

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What is umami?

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You’re familiar with sweet, sour, and bitter? Umami is like that but for the salty savoury flavour common in meats, cheeses, mushrooms etc. Thus flavour is added to some food with monosodium glutamate (MSG, an acid salt) in the say way you would add sugar to add sweetness.

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