Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. If you're looking to reduce your intake of sodium, MSG can be a great way to use less salt without leaving your food bland and ...

MSG is my go-to ingredient that adds depth of flavor to my dishes. It should be added in addition to the salt already listed in a recipe, not as a replacement for it. For every teaspoon of Diamond ...

Allie has been Lifehacker’s Food Writer since 2021. She earned her bachelor’s degree at Ithaca College in drama and studied at the Institute of Culinary Education to earn her diploma in Pastry and ...

“I always joke that salt, sugar, MSG is the Chinese trinity seasoning mix,” chef Calvin Eng told me recently. The trio is so integral to his style of Cantonese American cooking that he named his ...

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 ...

We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. It's time to put the biggest misconception about MSG to rest -- it's not a manufactured chemical additive but is derived from an amino acid.

I was recently having lunch with a couple friends and their 7-year-old and we ordered a giant soft pretzel with beer cheese. As we mindlessly broke off pieces of the pretzel during our chatter, I ...