Consensus meeting: monosodium glutamate – an update

Monosodium Glutamate: The Distinct Flavor

The food industry is a business of mass production and consumption. Plants and animals that are grown in bulk in farmlands nationwide are processed later at large factories. It is no surprise that some of the most popular snack foods have a lengthy list of ingredients. The various chemicals found in food serve to enhance the color, texture, flavor, and shelf life. There are hundreds of food add...

Does Monosodium Glutamate Induce Obesity in Female Mice?

Objective: Female metabolism is highly responding towards diet associated changes. Monosodium glutamate is a popular flavor enhancer, which is widely used to develop umami taste. Young female generation nowadays deals with more issues related to metabolism and fertility. Present study is an effort to monitor the effect of monosodium glutamate oral consumption on female mice health and obesity. ...

Natural products as safeguards against monosodium glutamate-induced toxicity

Monosodium glutamate is a sodium salt of a nonessential amino acid, L-glutamic acid, which is widely used in food industry. Glutamate plays an important role in principal brain functions including formation and stabilization of synapses, memory, cognition, learning, as well as cellular metabolism. However, ingestion of foodstuffs rich in monosodium glutamate can result in the outbreak of severa...

Monosodium glutamate 'allergy': menace or myth?

Monosodium glutamate (MSG) is a salt form of a non-essential amino acid commonly used as a food additive for its unique flavour enhancing qualities. Since the first description of the 'Monosodium glutamate symptom complex', originally described in 1968 as the 'Chinese restaurant syndrome', a number of anecdotal reports and small clinical studies of variable quality have attributed a variety of ...

Monosodium glutamate: specific brain lesion questioned.