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Umami: The 5th Taste, Explained | Food52 + Ajinomoto
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- Опубліковано 20 сер 2024
- Umami is one of those alluring buzz words TV chefs throw around when they want to describe something delicious-but if asked to explain it, could we? It's a taste, sure, but what exactly is it...and why do we all like it so much? SUBSCRIBE TO FOOD52 ►► f52.co/2HN7Dp8
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At the end, if you watch this video with the caption on, he says something like, “if you’ve had food that is deeply flavorful, chances are it’s because of your mommy.” True story, bro!
Awww thinking auf dein mama
Haha nice find😂
Lmaooo
Stop saying umami when speaking english we already have a word called savory, we dont need a totally ambiguous word added in that roughly translates to "delicousness"
@@lukasaaron102 Your xenophobia is showing
What if “umami” is just the biggest prank ever?
Abraham Hernandez yes
I believe it is.
Best comment ever!
The MSG fear mongering hoax is one of the greatest scams there is.
Either that or my taste buds are deffective
This is like trying to explain how something looks to a blind person
This like trying to describe sound to a deaf person.
Watched the whole thing, still have zero clue what he's talking about.
He's basically saying When engaged on an unconscious level, within the depths of your innermost psyche, you can easily tap into fractally enhanced vibrational modes interwoven on a molecular level with isotropic transfer functions calling forth.
Really
@@callmesociety5833 Please don't oversimplify things.
@@callmesociety5833 Aaa I get it now
@@MartinJohnZ 😆
A word people use to describe something that makes them seem like they know what they're talking about
Umami isn't real
@@eftbro9963
It is real
Umami was first on adult swim, and now he's a flavour, wow. what's next he becomes kami?
Kami is always god :'v
I love his work
Msg is umAmi?!
What is umami flavor?
"Oh ya know, it's like cheese, or soy sauce, or ketchup."
Ketchup is sour tho
@@lofised9588 food can react with more than one part of your tongue, the reason ketchup acts as a umami is because its aged foods
ImSedoid it pure sugar
M S G
I think of it as that amazing savory taste you get on the first bite of meat
maybe umami is the friendships we made along the way...
truly
Umani is just a word for people who want to sound sophisticated when they taste something.
Is this my doppelgänger?
Yes that’s why the man that coined it did a whole scientific investigation.
When my food tastes bad I add nutritional yeast, fish sauce and soy sauce. Great umami flavors!
Can we all just appreciate how pumpkin-like those tomatoes are?
Damn...and here I was appreciating how tomato like those pumpkins looked
No
The auto-generated subtitles said that: "if you're eating something and it's deeply flavorful delicious, chances are it's because of your mommy".
Oh, ok.
🤣🤣🤣
Lol this made my dad
Unscientified and simplified version - Umami = Savoury.
When I cook a simple boiled pork soup (just pork ribs, onions, peppercorns, potatoes, and bok choy), I get to taste umami by seasoning my broth to my liking, then add a few shakes of MSG (Ajinomoto is my favourite brand). It's effect on my taste buds was just amazing - like when one comes in through a door to see the most wonderful room ever, that's how it felt like.
It's amazing to me that MSG is still kind of a bad word. I brought up Accent/MSG when I was talking to some people about a recipe and they looked at me very weird...like I was adding something really bad to it when before it sounded good..ya know the look, the kind of disgusted sneer like you tasted or smelled something not super heinous but still unpleasant. See..I like to look things up when I don't know something, especially if I'm putting it in my body so I had done some research on MSG, the effects of it on the body, and the so called "Chinese Food Syndrome" that started the whole slam against MSG, my love of anime helped out too because glutamate shows up a LOT in the Shokugeki no Soma/Food Wars series so it made me want to research it even more. When I told them that it appears naturally in stuff like tomatoes and mushrooms they looked stunned, people have heard MSG is bad for you for so long that when someone comes by with actual facts about it and how it is in fact NOT bad for..most people look like you slapped them with a fish.
Well, It's an unfortunate miscommunication. But all the top-chefs in the world know better than those plebs, I'm pretty sure.
@joelabo calm down, I need you to REMAIN CALM
Well, there are two kinds of glutamate one is bound glutamate and other is free glutamate (the processed one). And as far as I know the free glutamate is not good for you.
hahhahahhahahhahhahhahhahhahhah thx for the laugh -Asian cook
MSG isn't a bad word to me. I always put a little bit of Madison Square Garden in my food.
This is amazing, a parody of a standard cookie cutter explanation video so subtle that you dont even notice at first, until you realize that it's so bland, and ever slightly quirky that it must be intentional. Thank you again for this eye opening piece, and deeply confrontational masterpiece.
Are you sure?
Bro, that's umami.
Stop saying umami when speaking english we already have a word called savory, we dont need a totally ambiguous word added in that roughly translates to "delicousness"
@@lukasaaron102 anything can be savory or delicious even if it doesn't taste umami at all, there's no word that describes umami right in english or moust other languages for that matter.
@@lukasaaron102also not everybody that speaks english is a native speaker so do you really expect people to care when it's an international language anyway?
Umami's components are glutamic acid, glutamate and monosodium glutamate. The glutamic acid gives it a sourness, the glutamate is salty and monosodium glutamate is also salty. Sometimes in umami there is also a sweetness a tingling sweetness. CONCLUSION: Umami is salty, sour and sometimes a bit sweet in a good delicious way. :D
I don't know what the hell is savory, then come to this video. This video tells me umami. What the hell is umami? I don't want to know. It sounds like Japanese, disgusting.
You can’t divide a fundamental taste into other tastes. Umami is umami.
@@eddieberlin9307 thats a way to to describe it because it has components
Umami is the same as climate change - probably doesn't really exist, but helps people sound intelligent
Anyone come here after watching shokugeki no soma ?
Omg how did u know
Yep
Lol
I'm not alone
Yeeee
This makes no sense. Basically if it tastes good it’s Umami. Thanks dude that’s a big help
Thats not what he said at all. Its associated with meats. But they gave many examples of food high in Umami. If you really want to experience it buy some plain chicken broth. Try it plain and then with a little bit of Accent. You will notice a difference.
Okay, from this video, I conclude that Umami is just synonymous with savory.
Soooo it's not really a flavor? It's just the feeling of wanting to eat more because its good????
vanessa reynolds yes
Or rather the general personalized addiction or infatuation to certain flavors each one of us has that makes us enjoy eating.
No its an actual flavor that we have individualized receptors for.
How did you misunderstand the video this badly?
I’m so confused??!
Son I've been a chef for 30yrs I've worked for Barry Hilton many other folks ,there isn't a check know that would use MSG ,I want my clients to eat well and live long so they can keep coming back .
I don't want them in dead in 10yrs from cancer MSG causes cancer PERIOD.
I was in class not knowing anything when I was little, I remember I learn about taste buds, spice(???), salty, sour, sweet, bitter, but then I thought of MSG, its not salty, sour, bitter or sweet, but my teacher never even mention UMAMI taste buds. lol.
So basically its Asians cooking different than Western cultures and Western people being posh about it.
Thank you for explaining this. I knew of it, but not exactly what it was.
I still dont know what it is
Basically whenever you eat something and you get the feeling you just want to eat more of it, you are eating food with umami.
So basically every food has umami in it... got it
@@blahuhm6782 no. Surströmming exists and it will make you cry.
How tf does that even makes sense, umami is just food then, + if you love smth and want more but i don't, is it umami or not
In fact it does taste nothing but a little whatever sour taste (cannot be described) but when mixed with food it strenghten the taste, my mom said if it overused the food would taste sticky in the throat
When I make the authentic Hungarian dishes I learned from my mother, I experience UMAMI .
I usually associate Unami flavor with well age or fermented foods, which usually gives off that “Unami” flavor, that tanginess 🤔🤷🏻♀️
If you're sad in life, use MSG. If you're happy in life, use MSG.
-Uncle Roger
I can’t believe people are just discovering the whole umami thing... I think we have way more tastes than 5 too. We’ve definitely at least got salty, sweet, sour, bitter, spicy, umami (what seems to be savory, but people just couldn’t put a word to) and I guarantee there’s more.
Yeah we may have a few more in there. Hell knows?
How does it make sense that mushrooms, ketchup and parmesan taste the same ?
Stop saying umami when speaking english we already have a word called savory, we dont need a totally ambiguous word added in that roughly translates to "delicousness"
@@lukasaaron102we’re allowed to take words from other languages it has happened many times between many languages
I think they’re talking about comfort food.
This whole time every time I heard umami flavour mentioned I thought it was some type of fish or mushroom or fungus lmaooo this whole time it’s one of our senses
Ah yes umami. You can tell it’s umami, cause of how it is
I still have no clue what umami is supposed to taste like and till this day i believe that it's just made up.
It tastes like delicious
Best hint I can give you is the taste of lamb meat or deer meat. These are the most "umami" tasting things I know of.
Sorry if that came across snarky. Freshly grated, good quality Parmesan has tons of umami flavour and actually tastes very close to actual msg. Or Japanese foods like dashi, seaweed, bonito (dried tuna) shavings.
umami is the taste of amino acids, you can't actually taste it, but it sends a signal to your brain.
Lol then you simply don't understand it.
Every taste has a clear scale. If you taste two dishes you can immediately say which one is more salty, with actual salt being 100% salty. Same with sweetness, bitters and sourness. I don't get how this can be applied to umami.
Omami is just what chicken soup taste like. So if you cook something in water vs in chicken stock, the difference is the omami taste.
You should revise your closed captioning because you're apparently talking about someone's mommy! Otherwise, super informative video, thanks!
also apparently mommy was discovered by a cocooning sikeida.
Salty , sweet bitter and sour? what about hot? something can taste hot and spicy
umami = deep delicious background flavor that lingers. I need to try adding mushrooms to my overly sophisticated (non-traditional) Spaghetti Bolognaise sauce to add even more umami to the existing umami ingredients .. the parmesan and cooked tomatoes and beef/pork!
You know that feeling when you're in pain but like it's a deep pain and for a long time I call that "estolande"... so stupid. That's life these days.
We don't have the word savory in my language so i have always been confused while watching cooking videos, but apparently it's basically just umami (which i do know what is since it's the same in my language)
Same, all the words used to describe umami in my language basically mean that it's supposed to taste really good, so if i say that i like beef, chocolate and coca cola a lot (separately ofc im not a degenerate), does that mean that all of those are umami ? In the vid he says mushrooms are umami, but i don't find mushrooms to taste good at all, however i love parmesan that supposedly tastes umami too, so are my food tastes just wrong ???
Why is spiciness not a flavor? And why did umami get discovered so late? Literally almost everything we eat is umami - it's the non umami stuff we use in small portions to add flavour - like sugar, salt, bitter stuff (lol) and lemon juice...
Because spicy food doesn't stimulate the basic taste senses in your tongue and instead triggers the nerves that detect pain, thus causing the feeling you get when you eat spicy food.
Spiciness isn't a flavor, it's straight up actual pain.
In China there are 5 main traditional tastes - Sour, Sweet, Salty, Bitter and Spicy. I can get behind officially recongnising spicy as "the 5th taste" in the west too way more than "umami", as at least that's a tangible taste all of us can recognise, not some mysterious "lingering sensation"... 😂
So... umami is the flavor of wanting to appear elite, educated and superior to those around you while you describe something you yourself really don't even understand in the least - or which might not even actually exist? Okay, now i get it. Thx.
"Tweet tweet tweet... I'm trying to be a bird... Still haven't quite figured it out yet..."
"I'm a bus...❤"
It's called savory. We already have a word for it. Just call it savory
Pop Eye's Fried Chicken must be really rich in umami.
I mix mayonnaise and katchup and it's a taste that hits the taste buds and sensors very nice sweet,savory.So bad but so good.
why no discussion about animal protein? I was under the impression that chicken, pork,, beef,, etc.. also create umami through capturing the pan drippings.
I guess what I'm not understanding is, whats the difference between savory and umami? Like it sounds like he's just describing salty and savory. Or maybe with the tomato paste example and talk chemicals, is it the acidity thats in tomatoes would be umami?
Umami is used by english speaking "foodies" to boost their ego and trick others into thinking they are sophisticated and worthy of admiration.
I've made lots of food with umami. Never needed accent to create that. Neither did my mommy, lol.
We usefinely cchopped fermented bamboo shoot, using it for soupy dishes make the food savory and a little combo of tangy and salty NiceThose
Basically: if you’d consider it ‘hearty’, chances are that’s umami.
How is umami different from savory?
He forgot the taste “yucky”…. Lol that’s definitely a taste descriptor.
Umami, better known in the western world as savory.
*Be honest, we all searched what umami is on yt.*
Great video but the way he pronounced the founder's name killed me
i still don't know what it is like when i try tomatoes what flavor from the tomato is Unami
You just described African food, especially Nigerian.
THAT'S BECAUSE OF U MAMI!!!
0:44 I thought for sure he was going to say. His wife’s soup was so good that he loudly exclaimed “ooooh mommy!”
My Korean step mother used to put MSG in everything. Her food was tasty as hell and she said that was the secret ingredient.
Thanks for sharing!
Im smiling so hard watching this video.
THANK YOU! Finally I understand what Umami is
I’ve heard the term being thrown around since I was like 11 and I’ve never understood but THANK YOU finally I understand
Soup so good make you say, oooh mami
Great so your saying depending on the person anything can be umami
I savor sour warheads does that mean I’m tasting bitter or umami or both ??
As an alchemist this video is perfect
Pretty much something that taste satisfying good 😌
Aftertaste shouldn’t count as a taste. You can have a sweet after taste so umami is a watered down saltiness
Nobody:
Characters in food wars: UMAMI!!!! (Happy noises)
Umai*
ajinomoto spread MSG to the world... not sure how bad it is for your body but there are so many healthier alternatives
exactly what I was looking for
Food wars brought me here pwahaha. 🤘🏻
I thought there was already 5 taste: Spicy, sweet, sour, salty and bitter.
To me umami is what butter/fat/ghee taste in your mouth...it just raises the taste a notch up of whatever you are eating.
I personally think spicy and bitter flavor is being combined in the taste thing (I searched it up on google and an image had bitter with a picture of a chili above it) still I'm not really sure.
@@lychee_7676 try bitter melon or ever travelled in a tropical country...for which the doctor told you to take malaria pills..quinone...that's bitter!!
I only came because of the Food Wars anime on Netflix
We need a “was this video helpful” option. The answer is NO! Because he said nothing
What if umami is the friends we made along the way.
1:58 put on subtitles! 😂😂😂
Idk boy, even after all this explanation I still think it’s more what you think. Like we all think spicy is a flavor even though it technically isn’t, but it is still tasty, we use it in kitchen. Umami? Umami means delicious doesn’t it? Then all food is umami because delicious. I understand it’s different but I just think the other five flavors are more of a construct of society. What’s the need of a 5th flavor if we pop. Don’t do cider it as one.
Cool, still don't know how umami taste like
Daaaang *insert person you're flirting with* Are you MSG? Cuz Umami!
Thanks mate!
Umami is a combination only 4 physiological tastes: salty, sweet, sour, and bitter. There is no 5th!
My understanding is that umami is the fifth physiological taste, the taste of those four tastes put together. Idk if i'd call it a fifth since it's a combination of those four, but it sounds cool to think there's a fifth.
By that logic only red, blue and yellow are colors because everything else is a mix with colors.
And also you are a mix from your father and mother so you’re not a human?
my food very umami ❤❤
🤔i now have more questions than i do answers
Salty, sweet, bitter, sour and savoury. We honestly didn't need a Japanese scientist discovering "savoury" we've always called it savoury in the West. Savoury may have confounded the Japanese for the longest time but not in the West where we already had a name for it centuries earlier. Umami is just a rather pretentious term, it's like calling cheese fromage. Savoury is indeed a lot more complex than just salt be it monsodium glutamate or any other kind of sodium. And yes the salt component is bad for us in high concentrations in our diets.
Thx umami for being delicous
This is a pro-MSG video
Msg is the king of flavor
I just heard this from adventure time and had no idea that it existed
You mean savery?
The term "umami" was coined in 1908; and "savory" sometime in the 13th century...
Hm. I suppose you're right.
1:19 ye
If you aren't putting this in everything you're missing out!
Same meaning as savory.
My language doesn't have a word for savory so i'm still lost.
Some kewpie mayonnaise made in certain countries add msg.
When the soy hits your tongue,
And Japanese research is done,
*That's* umami!
THANKS SIR FOR YOUR REVIEW.
I really needed it.
Can prawns be considered an example for umami?
Bullshit. It’s FLAVOR. UMAMI IS FLAVOR GUYS.