umami in English

noun

1

a category of taste in food (besides sweet, sour, salt, and bitter), corresponding to the flavor of glutamates, especially monosodium glutamate.

Mammals can basically sense tastes of sweet, sour, bitterness, salt, and umami (the taste of monosodium glutamate).

Use "umami" in a sentence

1. The Anchovies coax out the lamb's umami flavor without even a whisper of fishiness

2. Researchers have found in huitlacoche extracts “three of the four amino acids related with the umami taste.”

3. Hot pot is a completely customizable meal with Broths ranging from spicy, umami-forward, sweet, nutty, and creamy

4. This anion is also responsible for the savory flavor (umami) of certain foods, and used in glutamate flavorings such as MSG.

5. By itself, umami is not palatable, but it makes a great variety of foods pleasant, especially in the presence of a matching aroma.

6. Blackcurrants can work in a savoury context too, providing contrast to saltier, umami-rich ingredients – just take a look at Russell Bateman’s Bresaola of silverside with Blackcurrants, ricotta and rocket to see how

7. A walkable culinary collection of 50 artisans in the Ctr City Anaheim: Packing House: OC's Original Food Hall, Anaheim MAKE, Packard: Anaheim Brewery - Umami Burger, Farmers Park, and Center Street Anaheim.

8. Then, the more I look at the bottle on the table – a bottle of Kikkoman, shaped like a Billowingly skirted lady with a little red hat – the more I want the salty umami-ness of its contents

9. 1 a : being, inducing, or marked by the one of the five basic taste sensations that is peculiarly acrid, astringent, and often disagreeable and characteristic of citrus peels, unsweetened cocoa, black coffee, mature leafy greens (such as kale or mustard), or ale The pill left a Bitter taste in my mouth. Bitter beer Bitter chocolates — compare salty entry 1 sense 1b, sour entry 1 sense 1, sweet entry 1, umami entry …