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| | Go Ask Alice!: MSG: Troublesome food additive or fantastic flavor enhancer? |
 | | MSG has since become more commonly associated with Chinese fast food (unless you ask for it to be omitted, which people often do). |
 | | This flavor enhancer, used for almost a century, is made by fermenting starch, corn, sugar beets, molasses, or sugar cane to free naturally occurring glutamate; sodium salts of glutamate are then created that can be used to make certain foods (mostly meat dishes) more intensely flavorful. |
 | | Glutamate itself is a naturally occurring amino acid found in many protein-rich foods, including cheese, milk, meat, walnuts, and mushrooms. |
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