Sourness vs Umami - What's the difference?
sourness | umami |
The quality or condition of being sour, usually said of human personalities.
One of the five basic tastes, the savory taste of foods such as seaweed, cured fish, aged cheeses and meats
*2011 , (Caitlin Moran), How to be a Woman :
*:But we are, of course, sweaty, fleshy lady-animals – all fur and umami .
The taste of flavor enhancers added to food to accentuate savoriness, notably monosodium glutamate
Sourness is a see also of umami.
As nouns the difference between sourness and umami
is that sourness is the quality or condition of being sour, usually said of human personalities while umami is one of the five basic tastes, the savory taste of foods such as seaweed, cured fish, aged cheeses and meats.sourness
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(es)- 1811' ''Mrs. Ferrars was a little, thin woman, upright, even to formality, in her figure, and serious, even to '''sourness , in her aspect.'' — Jane Austen, ''Sense and Sensibility ,
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