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 ...

In 2019, Lucky Lee's, a fast-casual Chinese American restaurant in New York City, closed its doors after less than a year in business. According to a since-deleted Instagram post, the owner vowed to ...

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 ...

MSG is one of the most popular food additives in the world, but is it bad for you? (Getty images; illustrated by Nathalie Cruz) When you hear the initialism MSG, certain connotations and possible red ...

We live in an era of extreme food fear. Scroll through social media for five minutes and you'll see someone swearing off an ...

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 ...

Americans LOVE Chinese food; at one point on election night in 2020, Google searches to find some outnumbered searches for who had won the Presidency. But you’ll still see signs around reading “No MSG ...

Restaurateur and celebrity chef Eddie Huang is calling out the racism surrounding the stigmas tied to Chinese takeout restaurants. Huang, who, along with television personality Jeannie Mai, is ...

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