Umami-rich foods like soy sauce work by activating the taste receptors on your tongue -- amino acids like glutamates, nucleotides like guanylate, and minerals like sodium are all common components ...

For taste sensing by an E-tongue, the five primary or basic taste qualities are sweet, sour, salty, bitter, and umami (savory ...

It wasn’t until 2000 that scientists discovered that we had receptors on the tongue for umami. The taste of umami in food tells us that we are eating foods with protein to give us energy and ...

Virtual reality could get more realistic thanks to scientists inventing an artificial tongue that can taste flavours, such as sourness and umami ...

which bind to our tongue receptors that then send happy signals to the brain. In crystalline form, glutamates are called MSG, or monosodium glutamate. Umami is loved and exalted while MSG is ...