Food Science & Cooking · Recorded milestone
MSG flavour enhancer
Recorded year1909
Kikunae Ikeda isolates glutamate from kombu as the source of umami taste, and Ajinomoto sells it as a seasoning from 1909.
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Dataset updated 2026-10-18. This individual record has not been separately re-reviewed.