Health Benefits of 'Umami' Taste

Umami taste is one of the five basic tastes and is now found to 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, the researchers showed that some elderly ...