Glutamate

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Broader Terms

excitatory aminoacid, neurotransmitter, primary aminoacid

Facts (generated by robot; please edit if you find it inaccurate)

• What is monosodium glutamate and where is it found?Monosodium glutamate is the sodium salt of glutamic acid.
• The fact that monosodium glutamate is used extensively in Asian recipes might lead others to believe it is an ancient Chinese herb.
• Glutamate Outside the community of biomedical scientists, glutamate is probably best known as "monosodium glutamate" or "MSG" which is used as a flavor or taste enhancer in food.
• Glutamate is present in meat extracts (such as Bovril) in western countries and in the seaweed and dried fish which are used to make soup stocks and soy sauce in Japan.
• Glutamate is a neurotransmitter that is used to pass messages along from one nerve cell to another.

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