Tomato

I cooked sauce bolognaise and bread with tomato and basil today. Both include tomato. Tomato has glutamic acid. Glutamic acid is important factor of Umami which means fifth category taste. Kombu is the one of famous food includes glutamic acid. Washoku, Japanese cuisine is characterized by Umami. The most famous Umami food is Kombu or dried bonito. Kombu has Glutamic acid and dried bonito has Inosinic acid. Dashi which is based on Washoku is made from Kombu, Glutamic acid and dried bonito, Inosinic acid. Tomato has Glutamic acid as Kombu. So I think sometimes Italian cuisine may have the same root of Japanes cuisine.