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Paleo Flavour Boosters

You Deserve Better Than Dull

Appears in
Well Fed 2: More Paleo Recipes for People Who Love to Eat
Well Fed 2

By Melissa Joulwan

Published 2013

  • About
Anyone with a dark history of dieting knows all too well that keeping our food simple can sometimes wander dangerously close to boring – and boring leads to binging. That’s why it’s essential to amp up the flavor of your food whenever possible. A first step to that is understanding how our tasting mechanism works.

Humans can recognize five basic tastes: sweet, bitter, sour, salty, and umami. Oooooh, umami!

That’s a Japanese word, defined by scientist Dr. Kikunae Ikeda, who discovered this unique taste. It’s based on the words uami (delicious or savory but not meaty) and mi (taste). In practical terms, it’s that almost undefinable thing that makes certain foods so luscious. Think about a Thai coconut curry and that little something extra underlying it all. That’s the umami of the fish sauce. (Is it a coincidence that umami and yummy kinda sound the same? I think not.)

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