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Why a teaspoon of Marmite makes everything taste better: the umami multiplier

Why a teaspoon of Marmite makes everything taste better: the umami multiplier

There is a real reason a teaspoon of Marmite turns a flat stew into something with depth. It is umami synergy, discovered in 1957: glutamates and certain nucleotides multiply each other rather than add. Marmite is pure glutamate looking for a partner.

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