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 ...

Few ingredients inspire as much fear as MSG, or monosodium glutamate. While an overtly chemical name and a similarity in appearance to salt certainly don’t help its case, the food additive is ...

These days, there is a lot of concern over what goes into our food, how safe different additives may be for our health, and how they may impact metabolism and weight. One of the earliest ingredients ...

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 ...

If you’re still afraid of the seasoning MSG giving you headaches, you’ve bought into a decades-old myth: MSG isn’t causing it, and it’s not actually “bad for you” the way you were told. And now that ...

Is the often reviled cooking ingredient monosodium glutamate (MSG) making a comeback? Slate contributor Sara Dickerman explains why some chefs now say they favor the much-maligned MSG. BRAND: MSG?

When you eat your way through eastern Asia, as so many food lovers are wont to do, you end up spoiled by dishes that burst with flavor. There’s a depth that seems almost supernatural — the sweet is ...

It’s a common food additive that delivers umami flavor. You can find MSG in plenty of common items: bottled sauces, packaged snacks, a crinkly bag of instant noodles, fast-food items. But MSG isn’t ...