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Taste of 'umami' may prove beneficial for health

Posted January 27th, 2015, 03:28 PM IST

Taste of 'umami' may prove beneficial for health

Washington: Umami taste, which is one of the five basic tastes, could also prove beneficial for health, says a new research.

Despite the widely held belief that monosodium glutamate (MSG) was an unhealthy addition to food, researchers from Tohoku University Graduate School of Dentistry, Japan, show that the taste it triggers, umami, is important for health, especially in elderly people.

In a small study of 44 elderly patients, researchers showed that some elderly patients suffered a loss of the umami taste sensation, and that all of the patients studied complained of appetite and weight loss, resulting in poor overall health. Umami taste receptors also reportedly exist in the gut, suggesting that the umami taste sensation functions in nutrient sensation and modulating digestion in the gut, which could be important for maintaining a healthy daily life.

The researchers suggest that diseases suffered by elderly patients and side effects from their medications could cause taste disorders and reduced salivation. They also found that treatment to improve salivary flow had a beneficial effect on the patients' taste sensations and could help patients with reduced umami sensitivity.

In a separate review, Kumiko Ninomiya of the Umami Information Center, Japan, discusses umami's discovery and the hundred-year delay in its global recognition as a basic taste. Exploring the differences in culinary culture between Europe and Japan, Ninomiya highlights recent collaborative studies with chefs and researchers on the different taste profiles for Japanese and Western soup stocks, and explains why umami has been more easily accepted by the Japanese. But she said that a recent exchange on cooking methods and diverse types of umami-rich foods in different countries has facilitated a new approach to culinary science and could bring healthier and tastier solutions.

'Kokumi' substances, as found in garlic, onions and scallops, are known to enhance basic tastes when combined with other flavours, despite having no taste themselves. In a study of 29 people, researchers showed that the addition of a kokumi substance significantly enhanced thick flavour, after taste, and oiliness in reduced-fat peanut butter. This suggests that kokumi substances could improve the flavour of low-fat foods.

The study is published in the open access journal Flavour.

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