No umami is a rich meaty kind of taste (also found in seaweed, cheese, mushrooms, soy sauce, some vegetables, ...) which has nothing to do with sodium chloride.

No umami is a rich meaty kind of taste (also found in seaweed, cheese, mushrooms, soy sauce, some vegetables, ...) which has nothing to do with sodium chloride. Cf. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glutamate_flavoring https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glutamate_flavoring https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Umami https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Umami