?Suitable For Both Vegan And Meat Dishes?Dried shiitake mushrooms are used as an essential ingredient for umami in Japanese vegetarian food, and are also recommended for vegan cuisine. Sprinkle the shiitake powder on salads, soups and miso soup to enhance the umami. Of course, it also goes well with meat and fish dishes, and enhances the deliciousness of various dishes from beef and chicken stews, steaks, oil grills, stir-fries, pasta, pizza, udon, ochazuke to vanilla ice cream. ?Can Be Used Directly For Cooking?It is a powder that condenses the fragrance, umami and nutrients of dried shiitake mushrooms without destroying them by instant high-temperature and high-pressure processing, which is instantaneously baked (about 1 to 3 seconds) at a temperature of 200 C or more and pressed. Not only used for soup stock and seasoning for cooking, but it can also be used as a dressing or condiment for various dishes without heating to make the food even more delicious. ?Umami Boosters?Shiitake Mushroom Powder is an easy way to enhance umami by adding it to your cooking. The guanylic acid contained in dried shiitake mushrooms dramatically enhances the umami taste when combined with glutamic acid and inosinic acid. Dried shiitake mushrooms are the best umami ingredients because they make a umami-rich broth that is delicious to eat, and they enhance the umami of other ingredients too. ?Umami?Umami is one of the basic tastes of cooking, along with sweetness, sourness, saltiness, and bitterness. Umami, named by Japanese teacher Kikunae Ikeda in 1908, plays an important role in creating delicious dishes. About 110 years later, umami is enjoyed not only in Japan, but around the world. Typical umami components include glutamic acid from kelp, inosinic acid from bonito flakes, and guanylic acid from shiitake mushrooms. ?100 Dried Shiitake Mushrooms Additive-free?This Shiitake Mushroom Powder using Japanese log wood cultivated shiitake mushrooms and without using any pesticides, preservatives or chemical seasonings. It is in powder form so it is easy to use for cooking. Adding it to your food will easily enhance the umami.