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Black-and-white portrait of Japanese chemist Ikeda Kikunae

Umami

Umami is a basic taste elicited chiefly by glutamate and enhanced by nucleotides such as inosinate and guanylate in many foods and stocks.

A mound of pale pink and tan katsuobushi shavings

Katsuobushi

Katsuobushi is preserved skipjack tuna prepared by cooking, smoking, drying, and sometimes repeated mold-assisted maturation before shaving for food and dashi.

Several firm brown pieces of dried and smoked katsuobushi

Dashi

Dashi is a family of Japanese stocks that extracts savoury compounds from kombu, dried fish, mushrooms, or other ingredients for soups and seasoning.