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 — ...

For years, monosodium glutamate, a food additive known as MSG, has been branded as an unhealthy processed ingredient mainly found in Chinese food, despite a lack of supporting scientific evidence.

Monosodium glutamate, more commonly known as MSG, gets a bad rap. People claim that it's a toxin that causes headaches and sweating, and that it leaves you feeling lethargic and flushed.

My requisites were pretty straightforward: delicious, cheap and served in bulk. But if I was eating Chinese, I added one more: no MSG. Like many people, I thought MSG — monosodium glutamate ...

The leading maker of MSG started a push to ask Merriam-Webster to change its definition of the term, first added in 1993. By Amelia Nierenberg Merriam-Webster added “Chinese restaurant syndrome ...