Scientists have found that the tongue responds to ammonium chloride as a sixth basic taste, in addition to detecting sweet, sour, salty, bitter, and umami flavours. Research published on Thursday in ...

Sweet, savory, sour, bitter, and umami are the five classic tastes our tongues are trained to detect. But lurking on the edge of this flavorful lineup is a lesser-known sensation: ammonium chloride.

Liman and her team of researchers published their findings earlier this month in the journal “Nature Communications.” They wrote in the introduction to the study that ammonium — and its gas, ammonia — ...

Japanese scientist Kikunae Ikeda first proposed umami as a basic taste — in addition to sweet, sour, salty and bitter — in the early 1900s. About eight decades later, the scientific community ...

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