How does MSG enhance the flavor of whatever it is added to?
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Meaty things taste savory.
Meaty things have protein.
Protein is too complicated of a molecule for your tongue to taste, but it can taste a part of the structure of the protein.
That structure is an amino acid called Glutamate.
MSG is a molecule containing Glutamate.
MSG tastes savory.
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