The Science of Food

March 31, 2025

Quick Bite: How salt enhances the flavour of our food

In my recent post on MSG and our taste perception I was going to include a bit about salt and how it works as a flavour enhancer but, as usual, I went on a bit so I couldn’t fit it in. So I wanted to do this short post while it was all fresh in Continue reading

Bitter, MSG, salt, Sweet, Taste, Taste buds, Taste perception, Umami

#cooking, flavour enhancers, Food, food science, health, MSG, nutrition, salt, Taste, Taste buds
March 30, 2025

The science behind umami: Understanding the way we perceive taste

Most of us have now heard of umami and we probably all know that umami is now recognised as the fifth of our primary tastes, formerly limited to sweet, sour, bitter and salty. You might also know that Western societies were a bit slow to the umami party. Despite being recognised in the East for Continue reading

Bitter, Sweet, Taste, Taste buds, Taste perception, Umami

Bitter, evolution, flavour, Food, food science, monosodium glutamate, MSG, salt, Science, sour, Sweet, Taste, Taste buds, Taste perception, Umami