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Example sentences for: umami
How can you use “umami” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:
Zuker and Ryba's recent work strongly suggests that taste-coding for bitter, sweet, and umami fits the labelled-line model in the periphery of the taste system.
Zuker, however, believes that the one and only umami receptor is a heterodimer of T1R1 and T1R3.
And umami (the taste of the amino acid glutamate) may flag up protein-rich foods.
The five qualities that Lindemann refers to are salty, sour, bitter, sweet, and umami, the last being the Japanese term for a savoury sensation.
Salts, acids and umami compounds