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Is MSG a new food ingredient?

April 26, 2017food ingredient MSG

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Is MSG a new food ingredient?

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No, MSG has nearly 100 years of safe use. A Japanese professor and researcher, Dr. Kikunae Ikeda first discovered the flavor-enhancing properties of glutamate in 1908. He then went on to develop monosodium glutamate so that consumers would have an easy way to use glutamate in cooking.