Japanese scientist Kikunae Ikeda first proposed umami as a basic taste—in addition to sweet, sour, salty and bitter—in the early 1900s. About eight decades later, the scientific community officially agreed with him.
  • Quokka@quokk.auEnglish
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    2 years ago

    It is weird that we have a word to describe it, yet instead used a different languages word for something we already have a word for.