The Flavor Explorer: Street Heat
You thrive on excitement and love exploring diverse flavors. This bold blend, inspired by the super-savory quesabirria taco, embodies the spirit of Latin American cuisine while showing how umami can deliver deep, meaty richness with less sodium. You’re all about turning up the flavor—without turning up the salt. Perfect for tortilla chips, tostadas, and culinary adventures.
This seasoning is vegetarian and contains milk.
Try With These Items
- Avocado Toast
- Tortilla Chips
- Mac & Cheese
- Marinades for Meat or Tofu
- Scrambled Eggs
Avocado Toast
Tortilla Chips
Mac & Cheese
Marinades for Meat or Tofu
Scrambled Eggs
Featured Solutions
Salt Answer™ CZ
Part of our Salt Answer™ line of solutions that leverage umami and kokumi for reducing sodium, Salt Answer™ CZ works best to improve the salt taste and cheese flavor in cheese-flavored applications.
Palate Perfect™ FL-TM
Our Palate Perfect™ portfolio focuses on improving flavor quality and sensory experience in response to increased supply chain volatility. Palate Perfect™ FL-TM imparts a burst of fresh tomato flavor to add complexity and intensity to tomato-based applications such as tomato-based sauces and soups.
Savorboost™ UM
Our Savorboost™ line of highly functional, technologically advanced yeast-based flavor enhancement systems adds targeted flavor impact across a variety of applications. Savorboost™ UM delivers high umami through glutamate and nucleotide synergy.
Why We Made This
Birria Taco Trends
Birria tacos have experienced a meteoric rise and have a predicted 100+% growth on US restaurant menus over the next four years.
(Datassential)
Sodium Innovation
Consumers are unaware of how much sodium they are consuming or should be consuming, which pushes the industry to lead with innovation, improving nutrition without compromising taste.
(International Food Information Council, 2024)
Taste Technologies
Research demonstrates that you can reduce salt by using taste sensations other than saltiness, such as adding umami, enhancing flavor and aroma with spices, and increasing taste contrast with sourness.
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Learn More About Umami
Dr. Kikunae Ikeda discovered glutamate, one of the twenty amino acids, as the source of this savory taste, founding Ajinomoto Co. in 1909 and launching the first umami seasoning, MSG.
