Cup Noodles is Nissin’s second best-selling brand in the U.S. Top Ramen, the No. 1 brand, isn’t packaged as a single serving and doesn’t come with its own cup.

Despite the fact that the FDA first recognized MSG as safe in 1959—1959!—56 years later in 2015, $9.2 billion worth of food products were labeled as being MSG-free.

On Wednesday, the fast-food giant launches a global ad campaign showing the iconic Whopper sandwich covered in furry blue-gray mold. Its message: The brand has achieved a milestone by removing ...

MSG also can help reduce the amount of sodium in foods and beverages, Rains said. MSG is “a very effective way to reduce sodium in different food products, somewhere on the order of 20% to 50% ...

Though it has become popular to market products as MSG-free, that may not be a good thing for many people — at least according to a study recently published in the Journal of Food Science.

Also, plenty of foods contain natural MSG in the form of an amino acid called glutamic acid, like soy sauce, parmigiano, and even yogurt, so folks are eating a lot more MSG than they even realize.

ADAMS: Okay, how about MSG? BRAND: MSG? Headache, Chinese food. ADAMS: Yeah, you got it, MSG. And those products I mentioned, the other ones, are roughly the same as MSG.