Scientists have just caught up with something that Scandinavians have suspected strongly for over a century: Ammonium chloride (NH 4 Cl) may be a basic taste, joining sweet, salty, sour, bitter, and ...

Japanese scientist Kikunae Ikeda first proposed umami as a basic taste — in addition to sweet, sour, salty and bitter — in the early 1900s. About eight decades later, the scientific community ...

Liman and her team of researchers published their findings earlier this month in the journal “Nature Communications.” They wrote in the introduction to the study that ammonium — and its gas, ammonia — ...