hie again! it's these siao girls again. well, we found out more. it's these:It is said that there are basically five flavours namely sweet, sour, bitter, salt and savoury. What we experience as flavours is a combination of these with the odours. A flavour can in other terms be called the essence of food. Earlier it was considered that there are just four flavours. It was just in the recent years the fifth flavour, that of natural amino acid glutamic acid and certain nucleotides was observed. This flavour is best noticed in Monosodium Glutamate. The Japanese named this flavour umami and it was translated as savoury in English.so the two of us learnt that there were actually only 4 flavours. but they added another one. cool! haha. but we both knew that monosodium glutamate or better known as MSG, can do a lot of damage to our bodies. coz it is an artificial addictive. so... not good lah.
