It’s taken over 100 years but the idea of using umami or glutamate-rich foods is now really taking hold. In fact, many people ...

Japanese cuisine wouldn’t be the same without miso — but astronauts wanting use the fermented soybean staple in space one day ...

This marks the first time scientists deliberately fermented food in space, opening up new possibilities for future astronauts ...

It is hard to see what all of these foods have in common, but Japanese people would recognise them all as having the umami taste. It wasn’t until 2000 that scientists discovered that we had ...

Beyond proving that miso can ferment in microgravity, the study opens doors to new possibilities in space food systems. For ...

The evening commenced with a deep dive into the history and science behind umami. “We are born to like sweet taste and also umami,” a speaker noted. “It’s a subtle taste, not something you ...

and umami, whose "mi" is written in the kanji character meaning "taste." Umami, when written in hiragana, is a noun derived from "umai" (meaning tasty. Some say it is the origin of the word "amai ...