Beefy meaty peptide
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Beefy meaty peptide, also known as delicious peptide and abbreviated as BMP, is an 8-amino acid long peptide
that has been identified as giving a beefy flavor to foods in which it is present. It was isolated from beef soup by Yamasaki and Maekawa.
Peptide
Peptides are short polymers of amino acid monomers linked by peptide bonds. They are distinguished from proteins on the basis of size, typically containing less than 50 monomer units. The shortest peptides are dipeptides, consisting of two amino acids joined by a single peptide bond...
that has been identified as giving a beefy flavor to foods in which it is present. It was isolated from beef soup by Yamasaki and Maekawa.