Umami vs Flavour - What's the difference?
umami | flavour |
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
The quality produced by the sensation of taste or, especially, of taste and smell in combined effect.
A substance used to produce a taste. Flavouring.
A variety (of taste) attributed to an object.
The characteristic quality of something.
(informal) A kind or type.
(physics) One of the six types of quarks (top, bottom, strange, charmed, up, and down) or three types of leptons (electron, muon, and tauon).
(archaic) The quality produced by the sensation of smell; odour; fragrance.
As nouns the difference between umami and flavour
is that umami is one of the five basic tastes, the savory taste of foods such as seaweed, cured fish, aged cheeses and meats while flavour is the quality produced by the sensation of taste or, especially, of taste and smell in combined effect.As a verb flavour is
to add flavouring to something.umami
English
(wikipedia umami)Noun
(-)Synonyms
* (as one of five basic tastes) savoriness, deliciousness, meatiness, brothinessSee also
* bitterness * osmazome * saltiness * sourness * sweetness ----flavour
English
(wikipedia flavour)Alternative forms
* flavor (American spelling)Noun
(en noun)- The flavour of this apple pie is delicious.
- Flavour was added to the pudding.
- What flavour of bubble gum do you enjoy?
- the flavour of an experience
- Debian is one flavour of the Linux operating system.
- the flavour of a rose
