Virtual reality could get more realistic thanks to scientists inventing an artificial tongue that can taste flavours, such as sourness and umami ...

For taste sensing by an E-tongue, the five primary or basic taste qualities are sweet, sour, salty, bitter, and umami (savory ...

This allows the umami to permeate the entire dish, making each bite activate the savory receptors on your tongue. And when it comes to the power of umami, it's important to remember that a little ...

A VR interface from Ohio can create a digitally transmitted taste in the mouth. e-Taste also analyses and digitizes the taste ...

Umami-rich foods like soy sauce work by activating the taste receptors on your tongue -- amino acids like glutamates, nucleotides like guanylate, and minerals like sodium are all common components ...

The human tongue has separate receptors for detecting five basic tastes, sweet, sour, bitter, salty, and umami. The Taste Display controls varying strengths of electrical current transmitted to ...

The technology works by using five key chemicals that correspond to the basic tastes An electronic tongue that can replicate ... (bitter), and glutamate (umami). "These five flavours already ...

It wasn’t until 2000 that scientists discovered that we had receptors on the tongue for umami. The taste of umami in food tells us that we are eating foods with protein to give us energy and ...