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If it’s not sweet, sour, bitter or salty; it’s got to be the fifth taste - umami. Merriam-Webster online lists umami as ‘the taste sensation that is produced by several amino acids and nucleotides (such as glutamate and aspartate) and has a rich or meaty flavour characteristic of cheese, cooked meat, mushrooms, soy, and ripe tomatoes.’

Virginia Woolf said ‘One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well’ and George Bernard Shaw said ‘There is no love sincerer than the love of food’. Love and food – two things inextricably and irrevocably linked forever, which is rather fitting seen as it’s Valentine’s Day.

Each year McCormick & Company, a Fortune 1000 company that manufactures spices, flavourings and herbs for retail, commercial and industrial markets across the world, release their Flavour Forecast for the coming year – and this year is no different. So, let’s dive straight in to see what will inspire and entice us in 2018.

Handheld Flavour Fusion