The ability to taste umami in food (the fifth taste) could be beneficial for overall health, particularly in older people, Japanese researchers suggest. In a new study, published in the…
Published on WebMD.com, February 19, 2019 Author: Sally Kuzemchak, MS, RD "Some nutrition info gets passed around so much that nobody bothers to think about whether it actually makes any…
Published in Men's Health magazine, January 23, 2019 Author: Chris Mohr, PhD, RD "The myth that monosodium glutamate may hurt your heart or give you a migraine originated from shoddy…
Published in Vox, December 10, 2018 Author: Rachel Sugar "A biopsychologist explains what mushrooms, burgers, tomatoes, and aged hard cheese all have in common." “What foods have the umami taste?…
Scientists Have Known MSG Is Safe for Decades. Why Don’t Most Americans?
Published in U.S. News & World Report, October 10, 2018 Author: Toby Amidor, MS, RD, CDN MSG: “You probably know it as that terrible-for-you substance in Chinese and packaged foods…
It’s Time for America to Fall Back in Love With MSG
Published in Esquire magazine, October 5, 2018 Author: Joanna Rothkopf "Forget everything you thought you knew about the needlessly-controversial ingredient." “After decades of junk science, and then good science disproving…
Scientific research continues to document the many benefits of umami, most recently with regard to umami's role in appetite control and potentially weight management. Researchers have found that consuming a…
New Research Shows Little Association between Migraines and Chocolate, Nitrates, MSG
Chocolate, MSG, and other foods commonly thought to trigger migraine were found to have little relationship to headache onset when patients kept systematic track, based on new research presented at the American…
Published in Self magazine, June 20, 2018 Author: Yvette d'Entremont (aka "SciBabe") Thanks to the internet, we have the ability to both debunk old wives’ tales and make up new…
Published in The New Yorker, April 27, 2018 Author: Helen Rosner A few years ago, this affinity for MSG might have made me seem edgy or cool. Monosodium glutamate has…
Why some Americans avoid MSG, even though its ‘health effects’ have been debunked
Published in The Washington Post, March 20, 2018 Author: Caitlin Dewey On April 4, 1968, a biomedical researcher wrote a letter that would forever change how America eats. In it,…
