The headline is broadly defensible, but the qualifications matter. Effect sizes vary by population, the strongest claims rest on shorter trials, and credible voices push back on how it's typically framed.
And something that when I started writing about cooking in the '70s, no one believed it existed except for the Japanese scientists who were living in the country where it was discovered in the first place. - That's right. They were the first to molecularly clone the umami receptor, as far as I know.
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Bookmarking — the dossier-vs-overview split is the right call. Most of the time I want overview; sometimes I want receipts.
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The Japanese were shown to be correct by Western standards. They always knew they were correct, but by Western standards, they were proved to be correct when a receptor for glutamate was discovered in the 2000s.