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Because savory has other meanings in cooking and umami is a essentially a pure concept in English. Umami means one and exactly one thing.



Exactly. Essentially English co-opted umami as a stand-in for glutamate-y which, we can probably agree is an aesthetic improvement. It's at least arguably a subset of savory but as I commented earlier there are clearly meanings of savory in cooking/baking that have no relationship to umami as the term is used in English.




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