Umami vs Salty - What's the difference?
umami | salty |
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
Tasting of salt.
Containing salt.
(figuratively) Coarse, provocative, earthy; said of language.
(figuratively) Experienced, especially used to indicate a veteran of the naval services; salty dog (from salt of the sea).
Irritated, annoyed; from sharp, spicy flavor of salt.
* 1946 , Mezz Mezzrow and Bernard Wolfe, Really the Blues , Payback Press 1999, page 61:
* 1969 , Iceberg Slim, Pimp: The Story of My Life , Holloway House Publishing, page 162:
(linguistics) Pertaining to those dialects of Catalan, spoken in the Balearic Islands and along the coast of Catalonia, that use definitive articles descended from the Latin .
As a noun umami
is one of the five basic tastes, the savory taste of foods such as seaweed, cured fish, aged cheeses and meats.As an adjective salty is
tasting of salt.umami
English
(wikipedia umami)Noun
(-)Synonyms
* (as one of five basic tastes) savoriness, deliciousness, meatiness, brothinessSee also
* bitterness * osmazome * saltiness * sourness * sweetness ----salty
English
Adjective
(er)- Ray and Fuzzy were salty with our unhip no-playing piano player, because she broke time on the piano so bad that the strings yelled whoa to the hammers.
- I want to beg your pardon for making you salty that night.
