{"id":746,"date":"2019-05-22T18:46:57","date_gmt":"2019-05-22T18:46:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.zindafoods.com\/blog\/?p=746"},"modified":"2021-07-23T14:06:23","modified_gmt":"2021-07-23T14:06:23","slug":"science-behind-sandwich","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/zindafoods.com\/blog\/science-behind-sandwich\/","title":{"rendered":"The Science Behind The Sandwich – Importance of Umami"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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What makes sandwiches or wraps taste good? Did you know that our tastebuds are affected by factors such as heat, cold and even high altitude? We look at the science behind the sandwich.<\/p>\n

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Food expert Barry Smith has been working with\u00a0London Stansted Airport and luxury food outlet, Not Always Caviar<\/a> to create a sandwich that\u00a0tastes as good at 35,000ft as it does on the ground. Taste buds can be less receptive at high altitude and chilling food also has an effect on our taste buds. All food producers should recognise the importance of food science when it comes to naturally making food flavourful.<\/p>\n

The Sky High Sandwich<\/em> at London Stansted includes an umami blend spice ingredient, to give\u00a0punchy flavors that trigger key receptors in the mouth.\u00a0 What is umami? It’s that\u00a0fifth taste after sweet, sour, salty and bitter.\u00a0We taste it\u00a0through taste receptors that typically respond to glutamate. This element is\u00a0is widely present in fermented dishes and broths\u00a0and enhances flavor.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cFoods rich in umami provide depth of flavor and boost other basic tastes like salt, sweet and sour. Umami is also immune to the effects of white noise on our perception of taste.” explains\u00a0Professor Barry C. Smith<\/a>, director of the Centre of the Study of the Senses<\/a> at the University of London.\u00a0“Another way of boosting flavour mid-flight \u2013 where the altitude and white noise levels are high \u2013 is to combine different types of umami-rich foods \u2013 creating synergistic umami. This occurs when foods with naturally occurring glutamates are combined with others that contain nucleotides. Foods that combine these ingredients will produce a product that\u2019s packed with flavour \u2013 even at 35,000ft\u201d.<\/p>\n

At Zinda Foods<\/a> we believe the key in Professor Smith’s quote is finding ingredients with “naturally occuring glutamates<\/strong>“. That’s why we choose ingredients such as olives, feta and apricots in our Mediterranean Feta AirWraps<\/a> pictured above.\u00a0Each filling & flavour profile in our AirWraps <\/a>have been carefully created to meet 3 main criterion – nutrition, taste & authenticity. Getting that umami balance\u00a0right is so crucial\u00a0for the taste.<\/p>\n

As with sandwiches sold at London Stansted Airport, we want all our wraps to be naturally tasty and not enhanced with synthetic flavourings, preservatives or additives. This lack of preservatives and additives in our wrap base itself, also means the umami flavours can stand up more with no interference. Next time you choose a sandwich or wrap look at the ingredients on the label and think about all those sweet, sour, salty and bitter flavours. That combination of flavours will make the difference between a flat & disappointing\u00a0tasting lunch to one you’ll remember.\u00a0 You have food science and umami to thank for that!<\/p>\n

Our AirWraps are available in over 70 Tesco stores across London<\/a> so you can discover the difference yourself.<\/p>\n

Discover where on this store locator<\/a>.<\/b><\/p>\n

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What makes sandwiches or wraps taste good? Did you know that our tastebuds are affected by factors such as heat, cold and even high altitude? We look at the science behind the sandwich. \u00a0 \u00a0 Food expert Barry Smith has been working with\u00a0London Stansted Airport and luxury food outlet, Not Always Caviar to create a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":748,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[44,13,17,15,29,41,30,16,18],"class_list":["post-746","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-latest-news","tag-airwrap","tag-airwraps","tag-chicken-caesar","tag-chicken-wraps","tag-healthy-breakfast","tag-healthy-diet","tag-healthy-lunch","tag-moroccan-chicken","tag-tesco"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/zindafoods.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/746","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/zindafoods.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/zindafoods.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zindafoods.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zindafoods.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=746"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/zindafoods.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/746\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1497,"href":"https:\/\/zindafoods.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/746\/revisions\/1497"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zindafoods.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/748"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/zindafoods.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=746"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zindafoods.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=746"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zindafoods.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=746"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}