Cooks everywhere have been using the taste of umami in their food for millennia without even knowing it. From the Roman use of fermented fish sauce to modern French stocks, umami-rich ingredients give their dishes an extra depth and a fuller flavour. However, it is only in the past 100 years that the source of this savouriness has been properly identified as umami, the fifth basic human taste. This is thanks to Professor
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