Flavors of Controversy
Tuesday, January 16, 2001
In Indonesia, Ajinomoto’s MSG has come under fire over its credentials as a ‘halal’ food for Muslims. But in the United States, its monosodium glutamate is controversial for another reason: there are widespread suggestions that it can damage your health.
It was Kikunae Ikeda, a professor of physical chemistry at the Imperial University of Tokyo, who discovered monosodium glutamate in 1908. Now known widely just as MSG, the food
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