Ramachandran

The foods present worldwide fall into these six tastes- sweet, salt, spicy, bitter, sour, and umami. There must be a balance in the six tastes to keep the body in balance. Our ancestors used to have a diet that had all those six tastes in harmony, which could be a reason for them being healthy. On the contrary, the younger generation tends to like and have only three tastes: sweet, salt, spicy, and even sometimes sour. Most of the children in this generation would not have even experienced all the six tastes. Most of them would not know how umami tastes, and they would have known it through study.