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 ...

The FDA has been notified over the years of symptoms like headache and nausea following consumption of MSG-containing foods. We were never able to verify, nevertheless, that the MSG was the cause of ...