Contrary to what you\u2019ll hear from industry (which includes the majority of Internet and news stories as well as YouTube videos), monosodium glutamate (a.k.a. MSG) isn\u2019t made from natural products like sugar cane and tapioca, corn starch, sugar beets or molasses. That\u2019s not how Ajinomoto \u2013 the world\u2019s largest producer of MSG \u2013 has been making it in the U.S. since 1957. For over 60 years MSG has been produced using carefully selected genetically modified bacteria that excrete glutamic acid through their cell walls.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
And, contrary to Glute propaganda, that\u2019s not how wine, beer, vinegar and yogurt are made. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Glutamic acid (a.k.a. glutamate) is the active ingredient in MSG. It\u2019s glutamate that triggers glutamate receptors in the mouth and on the tongue, causing them to swell, so to speak, giving the food with which the MSG is ingested a bigger, more robust, taste, than it would have without it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
There\u2019s nothing natural about MSG. It\u2019s manufactured.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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