Doug Freyburger wrote:
>
> ImStillMags wrote:
> >
> > How can you have a tube of umami? Umami is another dimension of
> > taste, not a thing.
>
> Salt is both a taste and an item. Sweet is also both a taste and an
> item. Umami is detection of a set of amino acids mostly glutamate. The
> paste should be made of a mixture of animo acids primarily glutamic acid.
>
> More likely it's a reduced soy and mushroom mush.

I'd guess hydrolyzed vegetable protein. That would have
a lot of umami flavor. In addition to free glutamate,
it would have other amino acids like proline which
also contribute umami flavor.

I don't see any advantage over pure MSG.