February Flavours - Umami

Umami is not a "thing", it's a type of flavour like sweet, sour, bitter and salty. It's generally translated as "savoury" and is said to be the flavour of things like Marmite, soy sauce, fish sauce, anchovies... perhaps "tangy" would be more descriptive. Whatever, our Coop has now started promoting a range of foods labelled Umami and one of them is a packet of young bean and vegetable sprouts which do have a strong, tangy flavour.

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