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 ...

The snacks were distributed in the state of New York and have been recalled due to undeclared additives and flavor enhancers.

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 ...

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 ...