For more than 100 years, Japan has claimed the edge over other national cuisines due to a rather unfair advantage. While the rest of the world’s meals rely on the four taste variations of sweet, salty, sour and bitter, Japan claims a unique fifth element which it calls umami.

And chemists have proven it really does exist.

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