{"id":3010,"date":"2010-12-09T18:04:16","date_gmt":"2010-12-10T00:04:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/royceeddington.com\/?p=3010"},"modified":"2010-12-09T18:05:11","modified_gmt":"2010-12-10T00:05:11","slug":"kokumi-wants-to-be-a-flavor-along-with-sweet-salty-bitter-sour-and-umami","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/royceeddington.com\/?p=3010","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Kokumi&#8221; wants to be a flavor along with sweet, salty, bitter, sour and &#8220;umami&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So I was reading the latest Food Business News magazine from my <a href=\"https:\/\/royceeddington.com\/?p=259\">monthly reading pile<\/a> when I saw an article that said &#8220;Kokumi Strives To Become New Flavor&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Apparently I&#8217;m a platinum member of the old fart club now, because the only tastes I knew of were sweet, salty, bitter and sour. Somewhere along the way, something called Umami got in the door, and now Kokumi wants to join the party.<\/p>\n<p>According to the article, Kokumi is &#8220;the rich, strong taste in food&#8221;, while another website defines <a href=\"http:\/\/www.edinformatics.com\/math_science\/science_of_cooking\/about_taste.htm\">Umami<\/a> as the &#8220;savouriness&#8221; of food.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s the best part. The article says &#8220;By human sensory analysis, we found that various extracellular calcium-sensing receptors (CaSR) agonists enhance sweet, salty, and Umami tastes, although <strong><em>they have no taste themselves<\/em><\/strong>&#8230; these characteristics are known as &#8220;kokumi taste&#8221; and often appear in traditional Japanese cuisine.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Soooo it&#8217;s a taste that has no taste.<\/p>\n<p>Right.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s the <span style=\"text-decoration: line-through;\">link to<\/span> iPhone <a href=\"http:\/\/itunes.apple.com\/us\/app\/genius-scan\/id377672876?mt=8\">Genius Scan<\/a> of the article&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><center><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/royceeddington\/5247885866\/\" title=\"Kokumi - New Flavor by Royce Eddington, on Flickr\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/farm6.static.flickr.com\/5129\/5247885866_28fa5592c3.jpg?resize=276%2C500\" width=\"276\" height=\"500\" alt=\"Kokumi - New Flavor\" \/><\/a><\/center><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So I was reading the latest Food Business News magazine from my monthly reading pile when I saw an article that said &#8220;Kokumi Strives To Become New Flavor&#8221;. 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