Food Network host and restaurateur Guy Fieri once told Success, "Food is maybe the only universal thing that really has the ...

Wondering what might cause a big pileup during vacation? Not sure what taste was first identified by Japanese chemist Kikunae Ikeda in 1908? Don’t worry, because I'm here to help you with the ...

The predecessor of Ajinomoto was founded in 1907 as a subsidiary of a pharmaceutical company by Saburosuke Suzuki (1867-1931) to enable his business partner, Kikunae Ikeda (1864-1936), a professor ...

It was first discovered in 1908 when Japanese scientist Kikunae Ikeda identified glutamate as the amino acid that gives kombu — a type of kelp — its umami flavour. Glutamate is also an umami ...