NEW TASTE ADOPTED. “Humans do have receptors for L-glutamate and when something is really, really yummy in a non-sweet, sour, bitter or salty way, that’s what you’re tasting. In 2002, this became the new view. It’s in the textbooks now and scientists decided to call this “new” taste, in Ikeda’s honor, “umami.”
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