Savory is the English term for the fifth flavor, often called umami. Savory foods have a distinct flavor different from salt, sour, bitter, and sweet. Sometimes described as “meaty.” Other high umami foods include soy-based foods and mushrooms.
One definition: food “belonging to the category that is salty or spicy rather than sweet.”
It’s a bit of an odd definition but it gets the gist across. An example of using savory: differentiating between pies with savory filling (meats, vegetables, etc) and sweet filling (fruits, custard).
To add to the other explanations, if you’ve ever had MSG it is literally THE savory flavor distilled. If you’ve ever had Cool ranch Doritos, the aftertaste is kind of savory.
I don’t even know what “savory” means. What does that mean. I see it all the time but it means nothing to me.
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Savory is the English term for the fifth flavor, often called umami. Savory foods have a distinct flavor different from salt, sour, bitter, and sweet. Sometimes described as “meaty.” Other high umami foods include soy-based foods and mushrooms.
One definition: food “belonging to the category that is salty or spicy rather than sweet.”
It’s a bit of an odd definition but it gets the gist across. An example of using savory: differentiating between pies with savory filling (meats, vegetables, etc) and sweet filling (fruits, custard).
To add to the other explanations, if you’ve ever had MSG it is literally THE savory flavor distilled. If you’ve ever had Cool ranch Doritos, the aftertaste is kind of savory.