Tasteless, but a potent "kokumi" & umami flavor enhancer. Kokumi is a food attribute identified by the Japanese. It is sometimes translated as "heartiness" or "mouthfulness" and describes compounds in food that don¡¯t have their own flavor, but enhance the flavors with which they¡¯re combined. See Takeaki Ohsu et al., Involvement of the Calcium-sensing Receptor in Human Taste Perception, Journal of Biological Chemistry, 285, 1016-1022 (2010)..
See also European Patent Application EP2156752 (02/ ...
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