I remember the day in the late 1980s when I went out for Chinese food with friends, got a headache and blamed MSG. After all, everyone knew that MSG (aka monosodium glutamate) was the culprit behind ...

Chef Calvin Eng at Bonnie's, a popular Cantonese American restaurant in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, is an outspoken advocate for the use of Monosodium Glutamate in cooking; MSG is already found in popular ...

Ajinomoto has defended the safety of flavor enhancer MSG against claims made in a citizen's petition filed by the nonprofit Truth in Labeling Campaign that urges the FDA to rescind the ingredient's ...

There are certain ingredients that are a scapegoat for developing uncomfortable symptoms after you eat—and MSG is one of them. The flavor enhancer has such a bad reputation that some foods even say on ...

If you’re still afraid of the seasoning MSG giving you headaches, you’ve bought into a decades-old myth: MSG isn’t causing it, and it’s not actually “bad for you” the way you were told. And now that ...