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While researching a topic, a student has taken the following notes:

• The human tongue contains taste receptors for a rich, savory flavor called umami.
• Umami is triggered by the compounds in a variety of foods, including sardines and mushrooms.
• Participants in a study tasted a sample of wakame, a type of brown seaweed.
• They rated its umami intensity as moderate.
• The participants tasted a sample of ma-kombu, another type of brown seaweed.
• They rated its umami intensity as high.

The student wants to emphasize a difference between the two seaweeds. Which choice most effectively uses relevant information from the notes to accomplish this goal?

A

While wakame and ma-kombu contain umami flavor, umami [is also] found in sardines and mushrooms.

B

Some types of brown seaweed, like wakame and ma-kombu, tr[igger] umami flavor in human taste buds.

C

After tasting two types of brown seaweed, wakame and ma-ko[mbu], participants in a study found ma-kombu’s umami flavor to be [the more] intense of the two.

D

Wakame is a type of brown seaweed, but so is ma-kombu.