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Making Sense: The Umami Mama

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Umami Is a Taste

In the eighties and nineties, kumiko organized international symposiums on umami taste. She believed that they couldn't fully debate whether mami was a taste if they didn't have the personal experience and vocabulary to talk about it. Garry met neurologists and nutritionists, molecular biologists and medical doctors who were all studying glutomate. He thought gludamat could be a taste signal for proteins, just like sweetness or salt. And in garry mind's mind there is an evolutionary explanation as to why people would feel this way.

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