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单词 umami
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Definition of umami in English:

umami

noun uːˈmɑːmio͞oˈmämē
mass noun
  • A category of taste in food (besides sweet, sour, salt, and bitter), corresponding to the flavour of glutamates, especially monosodium glutamate.

    (食物的)鲜味

    Example sentencesExamples
    • ‘The fifth taste’, or umami as it's becoming known, is now broadly recognised as a distinct taste, alongside the traditional quartet of sweet, sour, salty and bitter.
    • This categorizes umami as a basic taste, not a flavor.
    • The foods represent basic tastes: sweet, salty, sour, bitter, and umami (the fifth taste, savoriness).
    • In 1909, shortly after the discovery of umami, monosodium glutamate, or MSG, began to be produced commercially.
    • Professor Kikunae Ikeda officially discovers umami and identifies glutamate as the main cause of the sensation.
    • In Japan, glutamate is known as umami, or the ‘fifth taste’.
    • Mammals can basically sense tastes of sweet, sour, bitterness, salt, and umami (the taste of monosodium glutamate).
    • Saltiness in foods high in umami neutralizes the bitter or metallic tastes in the wine you drink with these foods.
    • The mouth senses five basic flavors: sweet, salty, sour, bitter, and umami.
    • Fish sauce is high in umami, one of the five basic tastes recognized by the human tongue, along with saltiness, sourness, sweetness, and bitterness.
    • But in recent years, food scientists have been studying a fifth taste, umami, which roughly translates into ‘delicious’ or ‘meaty.’
    • These ingredients are high in natural umami tastes and make a nice ‘meaty’ stock with great color.
    • Some may play with salty and umami, but sweet, bitter and sour dominate, with sweet and bitter being the two we want to examine.
    • Mammals are able to perceive five basic tastes: sweet, salty, sour, bitter, and umami.
    • These recipes stem from my obsession with taste - or rather with the five tastes: sour, salty, umami, bitter, sweet.
    • Babies have very basic taste buds: it's believed that mother's milk offers two taste enhancements - sugar (as lactose) and umami (as glutamate) in the hope that one or other will get the little blighters drinking.
    • Researchers from the University of Miami have isolated a receptor that binds glutamate and have proposed that it underlies the umami taste.
    • There is one integral component in Lee's food that other boys often miss - umami.
    • Bitter, sweet, and umami flavours in food make the wine seem more bitter.
    • It will add both a salt and an umami taste to this salad.

Origin

Japanese, literally 'deliciousness'.

Definition of umami in US English:

umami

nouno͞oˈmämē
  • A category of taste in food (besides sweet, sour, salt, and bitter), corresponding to the flavor of glutamates, especially monosodium glutamate.

    (食物的)鲜味

    Example sentencesExamples
    • The mouth senses five basic flavors: sweet, salty, sour, bitter, and umami.
    • Babies have very basic taste buds: it's believed that mother's milk offers two taste enhancements - sugar (as lactose) and umami (as glutamate) in the hope that one or other will get the little blighters drinking.
    • Some may play with salty and umami, but sweet, bitter and sour dominate, with sweet and bitter being the two we want to examine.
    • ‘The fifth taste’, or umami as it's becoming known, is now broadly recognised as a distinct taste, alongside the traditional quartet of sweet, sour, salty and bitter.
    • Mammals can basically sense tastes of sweet, sour, bitterness, salt, and umami (the taste of monosodium glutamate).
    • Researchers from the University of Miami have isolated a receptor that binds glutamate and have proposed that it underlies the umami taste.
    • Saltiness in foods high in umami neutralizes the bitter or metallic tastes in the wine you drink with these foods.
    • These recipes stem from my obsession with taste - or rather with the five tastes: sour, salty, umami, bitter, sweet.
    • In 1909, shortly after the discovery of umami, monosodium glutamate, or MSG, began to be produced commercially.
    • But in recent years, food scientists have been studying a fifth taste, umami, which roughly translates into ‘delicious’ or ‘meaty.’
    • It will add both a salt and an umami taste to this salad.
    • In Japan, glutamate is known as umami, or the ‘fifth taste’.
    • Fish sauce is high in umami, one of the five basic tastes recognized by the human tongue, along with saltiness, sourness, sweetness, and bitterness.
    • The foods represent basic tastes: sweet, salty, sour, bitter, and umami (the fifth taste, savoriness).
    • This categorizes umami as a basic taste, not a flavor.
    • These ingredients are high in natural umami tastes and make a nice ‘meaty’ stock with great color.
    • Mammals are able to perceive five basic tastes: sweet, salty, sour, bitter, and umami.
    • Bitter, sweet, and umami flavours in food make the wine seem more bitter.
    • There is one integral component in Lee's food that other boys often miss - umami.
    • Professor Kikunae Ikeda officially discovers umami and identifies glutamate as the main cause of the sensation.

Origin

Japanese, literally ‘deliciousness’.

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