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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 tastes usually given are: Bitterness, Sourness, Sweetness, Saltiness, and Umami. In the west, the umami taste has only recently been included, and a number of other possible tastes, notably one for fattiness and one for metallic or calcium tastes, have also been proposed.