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Is there a sixth taste?

The LRB Podcast · The London Review of Books

September 7, 202140m 8s

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Show Notes


Daniel Soar talks to Thomas Jones about the sixth taste, variously translated as ‘mouthfulness’, ‘thickness’ and ‘lingeringness’, apparently discovered by the Japanese company Ajinomoto, and its origins in the twisty and opaque story of MSG in North America.

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