Cerrato Umami is a cheese full of the fifth taste, the most pleasant of all tastes.
It is the first cheese whose taste is 100% umami.
Cerrato Umami is a new cheese.
Cerrato Umami is a different cheese.
● There has never been another cheese like this before.
Cerrato Umami is a cheese adapted to the tastes of today's consumers.
Professor Kikunae Ikeda discovered that there is a taste that cannot be related to the 4 classic tastes. He realized that it was a common flavor, tasty and present in many foods. He called it: Umami, a Japanese word that comes from the combination of the terms umai meaning "delicious" and mi meaning "flavor", that is to say a delicious flavor. To the traditional basic tastes: sweet, salty, sour and bitter, he added the umami taste, also called the fifth taste.
Umami promotes final digestion, as the brain receives pleasant and succulent taste sensations. It also triggers increased salivation in the mouth, which improves digestion and heightens the taste experience. Including umami in our diet can be fundamental to creating tastier meals by reducing salt content.
Cerrato Umami is a cheese made from a mixture of sheep's and cow's milk, pasteurized, pressed semi-cooked and matured under special ripening conditions. The cheese is firm and compact, light yellow in color, the result of mixing cow's and sheep's milk and maturing time. When cut, it has small, unevenly distributed eyes.
Succulent and intense aroma with milky and sweet notes. The texture in the mouth is firm, slightly elastic and with good solubility. Intense flavor where the umami taste stands out, accompanied by notes of sweet nuts, which offers a very round bouquet. Great persistence in the mouth. Umami aftertaste. Undoubtedly, a cheese with a very “personal” taste profile.