If you’ve ever eaten sauteed mushrooms, fresh tomatoes or Parmesan cheese, then your taste buds have experienced the wonderful taste known as umami. This unique taste is due to the amounts of MSG ...

Despite its use as a common flavour enhancer in many types of food, monosodium glutamate has been the focus of several campaigns in recent years that claim the substance can cause unwanted physical ...

If you've heard of the term "MSG," you might have also heard of its common -- but inaccurate -- connotations. For years, monosodium glutamate, a food additive known as MSG, has been branded as an ...

The term "Chinese restaurant syndrome" derives from a letter from a physician to the New England Journal of Medicine in 1968 speculating that certain physical symptoms — numbness in the limbs, heart ...

For more than five decades, MSG has been cast as a food additive that can make you sick, despite repeated studies proving otherwise. Monosodium glutamate, also known as MSG, is in almost every ...

MSG, or monosodium glutamate, got a bad rap in the 1960s when people started complaining of "Chinese Restaurant Syndrome," ...

MSG is making a comeback. The internet's favorite cucumber salad recipe includes fish sauce, cucumber, garlic, and—as the video's creator Logan tells us with a generous sprinkle from the bag—"MSG, ...

In a recent study, female subjects consumed chicken broth with or without monosodium glutamine ("MSG") to see if this flavoring ingredient might alter their appetite. State of the art electronic ...

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Chef Calvin Eng at Bonnie's, a popular Cantonese American restaurant in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, is an outspoken advocate for the use of Monosodium Glutamate in cooking; MSG is already found in popular ...