A normal heart rate is 60 to 100 beats per minute at rest. Ventricular tachycardia is a regular, faster-than-normal heart rate that begins in the heart's lower chambers.
Umami (pronounced oo-MAH-mee) has been called the fifth taste, joining the traditional quartet of salty, sweet, bitter and sour. The word umami derives from the Japanese umai, which roughly translates as deliciousness [source: Umami Information Center]. Chefs have described it as everything from delicate and subtle to earthy, musty and mushroom-like [source: Ninomiya].
He called his product âmonosodium glutamateâ and said it exhibited a taste called âumamiâ â which means âpleasant and savouryâ. Umami is classified as the fifth basic flavour that the human palate can detect, besides sweet, salty, tasty and bitter. Ikeda filed a patent to produce MSG as an additive to enhance flavours of other foods and began to market it as a table condiment called Ajinomoto (âessence of tasteâ) in 1909.