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TASTE BUDDIES: The Origins Of Umami

Umami, the savory fifth taste, remained unrecognized by the global scientific community for nearly a century after Japanese chemist Kikunai Ikeda first identified it in 1908. While Ikeda successfully isolated glutamate from kombu seaweed and commercialized it as monosodium glutamate (MSG), Western scientists initially ...

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