Umami: a delicious flavor formed by convergence of taste and olfactory pathways in the human brain.
Umami taste is produced by glutamate acting on a fifth taste system. However, glutamate presented alone as a taste stimulus is not highly pleasant, and does not act synergistically with other tastes (sweet, salt, bitter and sour). We show here that when glutamate is given in combination with a conso...
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| Format: | Journal article |
| Language: | English |
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2007
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