Assertion: msg's food | /r/MadeOf | glutamate
Facets:
value: naturally
type: MANNER
Source sentences:
text: Consumption and manufacture of high-salt and high-glutamate foods, which contain both sodium and glutamate, stretch back far longer, with evidence of cheese manufacture as early as 5,500 BCE.
text: “umami“; a taste attributed to foods containing glutamate, an amino acid that is one of the building blocks of protein.
text: Consumption and manufacture of high-salt and high-glutamate foods, which contain both sodium and glutamate, stretch back far longer, with evidence of cheese manufacture as early as 5,500 BCE.
text: Perhaps you are noticing what has been coined as the fifth taste, “umami”; a taste attributed to foods containing glutamate, an amino acid that is one of the building blocks of protein.
text: Which foods contain MSG or glutamate?
text: Even if you have heard of umami, I wonder if you were aware that the taste is attributed to foods containing glutamate, an amino acid in food.
text: Once in the small intestine (part of the gastrointestinal (GI) tract), MSG is broken down into sodium and glutamate the same way other foods that contain sodium and glutamate are.
text: Also, foods such as Parmesan cheese and tomatoes contain glutamate that occurs naturally, but no reactions have been reported to those foods.
text: However, some foods such as tomatoes, soybeans, and seaweed naturally contain glutamate, and some researchers suggests that glutamate, also known as umami, is the another essential flavor that our taste buds can detect, in addition to sweet, salty, bitter, and sour.