A sixth basic taste may join sweet, salty, sour, bitter and umami on the tongue (dornsife.usc.edu) 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....
A sixth basic taste may join sweet, salty, sour, bitter and umami on the tongue (dornsife.usc.edu)
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....