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The Fifth Taste....

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[–] [email protected] 23 points 11 months ago

Is this news? I've heard of it regularly for at least 15 years now, from school to casual conversation as well as on TV.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 11 months ago (2 children)

Weird to not see mushrooms on this chart ; I've always assumed it was within the Umami spectrum

[–] [email protected] 8 points 11 months ago

It definitely is. Mushrooms are huge on umami. This chart is not very detailed.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago

Chart kind of sucks. They article does talk about mushrooms being a major source.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Funny that the map includes garum, a food that hasn't been popular in a couple millennia

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago

Worcestershire sauce is sort of a descendant of it.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 11 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago
[–] [email protected] 7 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

Isn't parmesan cheese also a source of Umami?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago

Aged cheese are cited among the European sources of umami

[–] [email protected] 7 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Cod in Brazil rather than Portugal will make some people angry 🤣🤣

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago

I'm fuming, actually.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Tomatos are und umami? I am confused. For me they are more... sour?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Tomatoes are sour to you? Definitely rich and earthy to me.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I definitely think it depends on the state of your tomato. A store bought tomato has a more sour, acidic taste due to how they're harvested and ripen off the vine. If you get them more locally sourced, and they ripen on the vine longer, they definitely develope the flavors you've mentioned.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

Born and raised within shipping distance of Arkansas, which, as far as I'm concerned, produces the tastiest store-bought tomatoes.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago

Fish & Tomato & Cheese & Meat*

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago (2 children)

What's the British beef extract? I've never heard of such a thing. I know Marmite, though..

[–] [email protected] 5 points 11 months ago (2 children)

Bovril, often consumed in liquid form at football matches, because this country's food food culture has come a long way, but still needs to remember it's roots

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Is that part of their "brown sauce" or whatever it is? I'm fairly inexperienced in British cuisine.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago

No, brown sauce is kinda like ketchup without tomatoes

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

Interesting. I've heard of drinking buillon, it used to be a thing around these parts.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

During the BSE scare, Bovril temporarily switched to a beef-free product. It was Marmite in a Bovril jar.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago (3 children)

What tf happened to Spicy?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 11 months ago

Capsaicin doesn't interact with your taste buds, it reacts with your pain receptors. Spicy isn't a taste it's a "feeling"

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago

I guess it ain't a taste... It is an experience?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Spicy can be several things. I associate it mostly with chili heat (capsaicin fucking with your vanillin receptors for heat and pain) but people also call black pepper, onion and garlic spicy. They all have different "mechanisms of action". I have no idea why e.g. chili heat isn't considered a "taste", but apparently it's not.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Wasabi is its own type of spicy too (apparently the same type as radishes!)

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago (1 children)

That makes sense given that Wasabi is an extra-spicy green type of horseradish. (Mustard and radishes are similar too btw.)

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago (1 children)

You know, somehow I never connected the dots that horseradishes must be related to radishes... 🤦‍♂️

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago

Good to see that I'm not the only braindead one in here

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

Das ist doch jedem bekannt.

Was aber wohl unwahr ist, sind die Geschmackszonen auf der Zunge. Ich kann mich auch noch erinnern, wie die Klasse in der Schule etwas ungläubig war, die Lehrerin das aber als Fakt durchgesetzt hat.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

Maybe it’s a west coast Canada thing I dunno, but people around me talk about umami when it’s context appropriate.

Oh, look, it’s in the fucking dictionary: https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/umami

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

Jägerschnitzel.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 11 months ago

Jägerschnitzel 🤤

[–] [email protected] -1 points 11 months ago

The proper english term is "savory".