On 2/10/2010 10:12 AM, 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.

Yummy! - I think I'll stick with Ajinomoto. :-)