Sunday Quiz: on spices and herbs

There is no sincerer love than the love of food: George Bernard Shaw

July 24, 2021 05:00 pm | Updated January 06, 2022 10:29 pm IST

Sunday Quiz on spices and herbs
A woman in Madagascar manually pollinates a complex spice. What is it?
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1 / 10 | On July 25, 1908, Kikunae Ikeda, a chemist at the Tokyo Imperial University discovered a key ingredient in dashi broth. His research started when suddenly one day the broth was more flavourful than usual and he realised it was because of the addition of a microalgae called kombu. He isolated brown crystals of glutamic acid, which conveyed the flavour. He named the characteristic taste ‘umami’, and patented a process for manufacturing it. What had Ikeda discovered that in Japanese means ‘essence of flavour’?
Answer : Ajinomoto
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