Vapid sentence is vapid
Feb. 18th, 2021 01:07 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
conuly"MSG can give foods a savory, hard-to-define flavor called umami."
(Emphasis mine)
Quick! Without listing off foods that taste sweet or simply referring to the presence of a sugar, define "sweet". Don't like that assignment? Then do the same for "salty", "bitter", or "sour". I'll wait.
Actually, "savory" is enough of a definition on its own. Therefore, we could more accurately say simply that "Glutamates such as MSG give foods the savory flavor known as umami". Because that's what umami is - it's the detection of a glutamate by our tastebuds, in the same way that sweetness is the detection of sugar by our tastebuds and so on.
(Emphasis mine)
Quick! Without listing off foods that taste sweet or simply referring to the presence of a sugar, define "sweet". Don't like that assignment? Then do the same for "salty", "bitter", or "sour". I'll wait.
Actually, "savory" is enough of a definition on its own. Therefore, we could more accurately say simply that "Glutamates such as MSG give foods the savory flavor known as umami". Because that's what umami is - it's the detection of a glutamate by our tastebuds, in the same way that sweetness is the detection of sugar by our tastebuds and so on.
