It's no secret that fast food restaurants don't always have the most balanced menus, but many have taken steps to offer more ...

Does the flavor enhancer called MSG make some people feel sick? Chinese egg fried rice, Vietnamese chicken noddle soup, even salads and popcorn — there is a proliferation of recipes on TikTok ...

What Is MSG. Monosodium glutamate – better known as MSG – is a type of amino acid that has been tapped as a food additive due to its ability to enhance the essence of umami, or savoriness, in ...

MSG recipes have persisted under the radar in newspapers and cookbooks, albeit in a much lower proportion. Long after the fear campaign of the late 1960s took hold, ...

We season our food with MSG a little bit – it’s different from heating water and adding MSG and serving it with noodles,” he says. The cha siu bkrib sandwich, which ...

Monosodium glutamate, or MSG — a food additive that is often found in Asian cuisine — has had something of a negative reputation over the last 60 years. Some food experts insist that's unfair.

What food science actually reveals. Despite its controversial reputation, major food safety authorities have extensively studied MSG and classified it as safe for general consumption.

Anti-MSG sentiment, widely considered to have xenophobic origins, dates back to the late 1960s, when reports of diners reacting badly after consuming food containing the much-misunderstood ...

Is MSG truly to blame for post-meal sickness? An Alberta food scientist explains the science behind MSG and its safe use, ...

For my cookbook of the week I reviewed Calvin Eng's 'Salt, Sugar, MSG.' Here's what you can expect from the cookbook and my thoughts on the recipes I made this week.