While factors like the best cut of steak, grade, and cooking method certainly matter, there's one ingredient that can take ...

A group of chefs, dieticians, and food professionals is demanding the New England Journal of Medicine reconsider its use of ...

For decades scientists agreed on four basic food tastes: sweet, salty, sour and bitter. In recent years, scientists also have agreed on a fifth sense, umami, which is evoked by monosodium glutamate ...

Ajinomoto, a Japanese company, is not a household name in the West - but a product it makes, monosodium glutamate, is notorious. Commonly referred to as MSG, the flavouring agent conjures up ...

One the most well-known food additives is MSG, which is used for its flavour-enhancing properties. And it has a bit of a reputation: many people claim that it causes allergies - bringing them out ...

There's often that one ingredient you can't stand, yet many others seem to love it. Picking it out from a dish can spark a ...

Dr. Olney gave infant mice and a rhesus monkey a highly concentrated dosage of MSG and found cell damage in the hypothalamus. Gerber Criticizes Research Representatives of the three baby food ...