AEscoffier, a famous French____, discovered a fifth taste when he___ meat at a very high heat until it was brown. This was the way he made stock to use in this famous___.
A Japanese____ named Kikunea Ikeda was eating a delicious soup that his wife had made. One of the main___ of the stock was dried___. As he ate, it___ to him that the soup had a fifth taste. Ikeda did experiments in this laboratory. He found that the taste came from glutamate. He was able to____ glutamate and add sodium to it. He created a/an ____called MSG that people use to___ food.
Almost 100 years later, scientists found____ proof that both Escoffier and Ikeda were right. The tongue has receptors that___ only to this fifth taste.