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The use of food additives to enhance the palatability of food has been on for decades. Monosodium glutamate (MSG), also known as sodium glutamate, is one of the commonly used additives in processed food and Asian cuisine to increase palatability. It is one of the most abundant naturally occurring non-essential amino acids, which has been in used for more than 100 years to season food (Tawfik and Al-Badr, 2012). Trade names of monosodium glutamate include Ac’cent, Aji-No-Moto and Ve-Tsin. The L-glutamate form of MSG confers the same taste of free L-glutamate naturally found in foods(Ikeda, 2002).