Vapid sentence is vapid

[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.

Comments

[conuly]

That's... not even a little my experience?

[crystalpyramid]

I feel like there's definitely a prickliness to too much salt though.