Kumiko was tasked with getting the scientific community to accept mami as its own basic taste. She launched a multi disciplinary, international, decades long campaign that changed the field of sensory science forever. How many tastes are out there waiting for the scientific establishment to recognine? And how do we even define a taste? All knowledge must come through the senses, says garry beecham.
For thousands of years, there have been four basic tastes recognized across cultures. But thanks to Kumiko Ninomiya (a.k.a. the Umami Mama), scientists finally accepted a fifth. So could there be even more?
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