Salty vs. Umami — What's the Difference?

Of, containing, or seasoned with salt.

Umami ( from Japanese: 旨味 Japanese pronunciation: [ɯmami]), or savoriness, is one of the five basic tastes. It has been described as savory and is characteristic of broths and cooked meats.People taste umami through taste receptors that typically respond to glutamates and nucleotides, which are widely present in meat broths and fermented products.

Suggestive of the sea or sailing life.

A taste sensation produced by the presence of glutamates and nucleotides and associated with meats and other high-protein foods. It is sometimes considered to be a fifth basic taste along with the tastes sweet, sour, salty, and bitter.

Witty; pungent; earthy

One of the five basic tastes, the savory taste of foods such as seaweed, cured fish, aged cheeses and meats.

Tasting of salt.

Containing salt.

; provocative; earthy.

(figuratively) Experienced, especially used to indicate a veteran of the naval services; salty dog (from salt of the sea).

(slang) Irritated, annoyed, angry, bitter, bitchy.

(linguistics) Pertaining to the Sardinian language and those dialects of Catalan, spoken in the Balearic Islands and along the coast of Catalonia, that use definitive articles descended from the Latin self instead of the Latin that.

Somewhat salt; saltish.

Engagingly stimulating or provocative;

Containing salt;

One of the four basic taste sensations; like the taste of sea water