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L-glutamate, said Ikeda, is a fifth taste. When Escoffier created veal stock, he was concentrating umami. When Japanese made their dashi, they were doing the same thing. When you bite into an anchovy, they are like glutamate speedballs. They are pure umami, Jonah writes. Aristotle was wrong. Plato was wrong.
The taste is now fully recognised in the west. It is because of the popularity of Asian cuisine over the last couple of years. Now people have started identifying this taste. That is why it is now accepted that there are five instead of four tastes. Flavor is also a combination of five different senses and it is a hedonic sense.