How to Cook Shiitake Mushrooms

The Shiitake mushrooms have a certain chemical component in large amounts called guanosine monophosphate. This is actually the base of the flavor which actually stimulates the taste up to the point they developed a word for it: umami. Up to now it was salty, bitter, sour, sweet, basically what the human mouth could identify.



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