National Geographic

MSG is making a comeback. But was it ever really that bad for you?

For years, advertising and media connected the ingredient to “Chinese Restaurant Syndrome.” Here’s what led to the misconception—and how MSG is being reclaimed today. Monosodium glutamate, or MSG, is ...
Yahoo

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 ...