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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 Five Basic Tastes. Taste is one of the five traditional senses. It is the feeling we perceive when food touches are tongue, and chemicals in the food set off receptors on the taste buds of our tongue and other mouth surfaces. It gives our body information about the chemical contents of the food. There are only five basic tastes sweetness, saltiness, bitterness, sourness, and umami. The differences in flavor other then those very basic tastes, come from the aroma of the food, and the mouth feel (temperature, and texture) of the food.