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 ...

Monosodium Glutamate (MSG) is a common food additive that enhances the savory taste in foods. MSG is a compound formed by sodium and glutamate (or glutamic acid), a naturally occurring non-essential ...

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 ...

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 ...

Monosodium glutamate, known as MSG, is a flavor enhancer that consists of sodium, glutamate and water. MSG is typically produced “by the fermentation of starch, sugar beets, sugar cane or molasses,” ...