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What Is MSG—and How to Use It to Enhance Your Cooking, According to a Chef

MSG is a naturally occurring compound that enhances umami flavor and is widely used in global cuisines. It can be used in various recipes to deepen taste, making it a versatile ingredient for home ...
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From misunderstood to mainstream: How MSG is powering the 2026 umami trend

For more than a century, umami—the fifth basic taste alongside sweet, salty, sour, and bitter—has helped shape how people ...
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Every Home Cook Should Be Using MSG — and the World's Largest MSG Producer Is on a Mission to Prove It

In 1968, the New England Journal of Medicine published a letter to the editor with the headline, “Chinese-Restaurant Syndrome.” The letter detailed the numbness and weakness the letter-writer would ...
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Why You Should Start Cooking With MSG, According To A Professional Chef

MSG has been an ingrediente non grata with American diners for decades, but over the last several years, it’s been making a comeback. Once unjustly accused of making people ill, it has recently gained ...
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The MSG Scare Of Chinese Food — Is Monosodium Glutamate Or ‘Aji-no-moto’ Harmful Or Not?

“The great MSG myth exposed: it’s not bad for you” screams a headline in the UK daily ‘The Sunday Times’. Now, that is news, because one has repeatedly heard elders make this claim about Chinese or ...