Consensus meeting: monosodium glutamate – an update

Update of the Hohenheim consensus on monosodium glutamate from 1997: Summary and evaluation of recent knowledge with respect to physiology and safety of monosodium glutamate.Experts from a range of relevant disciplines received and considered a series of questions related to aspects of the topic.University of Hohenheim, Stuttgart, Germany.The experts met and discussed the questions and arrived at a consensus.Total intake of glutamate from food in European countries is generally stable and ranged from 5 to 12 g/day (free: ca. 1 g, protein-bound: ca. 10 g, added as flavor: ca. 0.4 g). L-Glutamate (GLU) from all sources is mainly used as energy fuel in enterocytes. A maximum intake of 6.000 [c…