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Umami Mama
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Is Umami a Taste?
Taste is just really hard to study, in large part because taste is so incredibly difficult to isolate. A lot of what we think we're tasting is actually a smelling food from inside our mouths. And even when you take the nose out of the equation entirely and just focus on sensing chemicals in the mouth, the borders of taste are still fuzzy. But by the nineties, researchers were pretty sure that umami wasn't an aroma or a touch, though it did have an interesting mouth feel. The human genome project was a multi billion dollar international collaboration to map out all the billions of d na base pairs in the human genuThe thought was that this would unlock the blueprints for understanding
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