umami

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umami

Summary

umami is a basic taste[1]. umami draws 3,581 Wikipedia views per month (basic_taste category, ranking #1 of 5).[2]

Key Facts

  • umami is credited with the discovery of Kikunae Ikeda[3].
  • umami's instance of is recorded as basic taste[4].
  • umami's GND ID is recorded as 4263279-1[5].
  • umami's Library of Congress authority ID is recorded as sh2007007220[6].
  • umami's Bibliothèque nationale de France ID is recorded as 165543689[7].
  • umami's IdRef ID is recorded as 15715727X[8].
  • umami's subclass of is recorded as taste[9].
  • umami's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/0gwgw[10].
  • umami's has cause is recorded as monosodium L-glutamate[11].
  • umami's topic's main category is recorded as Category:Umami enhancers[12].
  • umami's described at URL is recorded as https://www.treccani.it/magazine/atlante/societa/Nuovi_sapori_Dolce_o_salato_No_umami.html[13].
  • umami's Gran Enciclopèdia Catalana ID is recorded as 0149170[14].
  • umami's Encyclopædia Britannica Online ID is recorded as topic/umami[15].
  • umami's FAST ID is recorded as 1744164[16].
  • umami's YSO ID is recorded as 20989[17].
  • umami's Treccani ID is recorded as umami[18].
  • umami's Quora topic ID is recorded as Umami[19].
  • umami's JSTOR topic ID is recorded as umami[20].
  • umami's YSA ID is recorded as Y164110[21].
  • umami's Microsoft Academic ID is recorded as 2776946002[22].
  • umami's related image is recorded as Umami Snack (41957534).jpeg[23].
  • umami's National Library of Israel J9U ID is recorded as 987007540018805171[24].
  • umami's Lex ID is recorded as umami[25].
  • umami's OpenAlex ID is recorded as C2776946002[26].
  • umami's ScienceDirect topic ID is recorded as agricultural-and-biological-sciences/umami[27].

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Works and Contributions

umami is credited with the discovery of Kikunae Ikeda[3].

Why It Matters

umami draws 3,581 Wikipedia views per month (basic_taste category, ranking #1 of 5).[2] umami has Wikipedia articles in 29 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[28] umami is known by 20 alternative names across languages and contexts.[29]

References

Programmatic citations — every numbered marker resolves to a verifiable graph row below.

Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [4] . wikidata.org.
  2. [3] . wikidata.org.
  3. [5] . wikidata.org.
  4. [6] . github.com. Retrieved . github.com. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  5. [7] . wikidata.org.
  6. [8] . wikidata.org.
  7. [9] . wikidata.org.
  8. [10] . Freebase Data Dumps. wikidata.org.
  9. [11] . wikidata.org.
  10. [12] . wikidata.org.
  11. [13] . wikidata.org.
  12. [14] . wikidata.org.
  13. [15] . wikidata.org.
  14. [16] . wikidata.org.
  15. [17] . YSO-Wikidata mapping project. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  16. [18] . wikidata.org.
  17. [19] . Quora. wikidata.org.
  18. [20] . wikidata.org.
  19. [21] . wikidata.org.
  20. [22] . wikidata.org.
  21. [23] . wikidata.org.
  22. [24] . National Library of Israel Names and Subjects Authority File. wikidata.org.
  23. [25] . wikidata.org.
  24. [26] . OpenAlex. Retrieved . docs.openalex.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  25. [27] . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [28] . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [29] . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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APA 4ort.xyz Knowledge Graph. (2026). umami. Retrieved May 3, 2026, from https://4ort.xyz/entity/umami
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BibTeX @misc{4ortxyz_umami_2026, author = {{4ort.xyz Knowledge Graph}}, title = {{umami}}, year = {2026}, url = {https://4ort.xyz/entity/umami}, note = {Accessed: 2026-05-03}}
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