It can be described as a shortcut to umami, the so-called fifth flavor (in addition to sweet, sour, bitter and salt), which in turn is often described as savory or meaty.
In addition to radioactive contaminants, the material also removes salt and heavy metals from water making it ideal for use in treating water after natural disasters.
It would take another three years before the addition of Chivas USA in Los Angeles and Real Salt Lake took the league back to an even dozen but still the pessimists out-numbered the optimists.
He started trading commodities more than 30 years ago after receiving a business loan from his uncle, and eventually built the Dangote Group, which in addition to cement owns sugar refineries, flour milling and salt processing facilities.