Umami/Dashi in cooking?

My gran and I saw a couple of chefs talking about this food enhancer on the telly and have been on the search for it ever since and haven't been able to find it. It wasn't until i dont a little more research (http://www.umamiinfo.com/) that it confused me, we thought it was just a stock like thing that we added to food for better flavour and i tried looking at some recipes to understand further but couldn't. Is dashi/umami a set thing you can buy? Or is it more a TYPE of food you can make rather than an ingredient you can add to food. Anyone with experience with this could you help and explain it for us?Umami/Dashi in cooking?
Umami means savoriness - flavored by MSG

Dashi is a soup stock made with kombu - seaweed. It can be purchased dried and dissolved in water to make bases for miso soup and other Japanese dishes.Umami/Dashi in cooking?
Im a School Science Technician and we do blind taste testing.There used to be four flavours.Salty,Sweet.Sour and Bitter there is now a new fifth flavour Umami.In a lesson I would do the following for the lesson.



SWEET ....SUGAR AND WATER.

SOUR.......LEMON JUICE IN WATER.

SALTY......SALT IN WATER

BITTER......TONIC WATER.

UMAMI.......SOY SAUCE.



UMAMI is a flavour



UMAMI No5 is for sale in waitrose if you live in uk.Its in a container like toothpaste.

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