Search for crossword answers and clues
Fifth category of taste with a Japanese name
Answer for the clue "Fifth category of taste with a Japanese name ", 5 letters:
umami
Alternative clues for the word umami
- "Fifth taste" found in soy sauce and shiitake mushrooms and cock-a-leekie
- Taste underlying mustard and mace ingredients first of all
- One of the five taste sensations
- Taste that is neither sweet nor salty nor sour nor bitter
- One of the five basic taste sensations
- Taste in kombu kelp
- Soy sauce taste
- Proposed "fifth taste," which means "savory" in Japanese
- On reflection, somewhat grim, a musty taste sensation
Word definitions for umami in dictionaries
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
Umami , a savory taste , is one of the five basic tastes (together with sweetness, sourness, bitterness, and saltiness). A loanword from the Japanese , umami can be translated as "pleasant savory taste". This particular writing was chosen by Japanese chemist ...