Why couldn't Westerners detect it?
Why did it take a Jap to identify umami?
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Doesn't exist
It's a made up bullshit
Yeah, that's why we dont put tomatoes and parmesan to pizza
>Since umami has its own receptors rather than arising out of a combination of the traditionally recognized taste receptors, scientists now consider umami to be a distinct taste.
Try again, brainlets.
They probably know since forever but don't come up with the word for it. But seriously using the word umami (deliciousness) to describe one of the basic taste is fucking stupid. Maybe a reason no one come up with the word until very recently
Of course they knew about it, they could taste it. But it's the fact that they never attempted to identify or classify it.
They still don't have a better word for it than the Japanese though. Savory isn't exactly any different from umami.
We can't do everything for everyone.
I really don't know what's umami like
It's tasting glutamate.