If you've heard of the term "MSG," you might have also heard of its common -- but inaccurate -- connotations. For years, monosodium glutamate, a food additive known as MSG, has been branded as an ...

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 ...

Americans LOVE Chinese food; at one point on election night in 2020, Google searches to find some outnumbered searches for who had won the Presidency. But you’ll still see signs around reading “No MSG ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Think MSG is bad for you? You're wrong. According to The Food Infodemic Report by the Ajinomoto Group, 20% of people in the United ...

Restaurateur and celebrity chef Eddie Huang is calling out the racism surrounding the stigmas tied to Chinese takeout restaurants. Huang, who, along with television personality Jeannie Mai, is ...

Monosodium glutamate, or MSG, might be one of the most widely stigmatized products in the world. What began in the 1960s and ’70s as vague reports of occasional headaches after eating Chinese food — ...

A beautiful Art Deco-style poster depicts a young, happy Asian girl wearing a traditional Chinese dress. Like the Morton Salt Girl, she’s holding an umbrella against the rain in one hand and clutching ...

A–Monosodium glutamate, a flavor enhancing ingredient used widely in many Oriental countries, is produced by a fermentation process using sugar 3.beet molasses. Most Chinese restaurants used it until ...