; Monosodium glutamate and auto parts: from Santos via Cape of Good Hope and Singapore (on board Aquitania, IMO9178288, Callsign A8HJ6)
In 1968, because of the declining economic viability of skipjack tuna fishing (partly due to decreased consumption of katsuobushi due to the use of MSG in its stead), katsuobushi (dried and smoked skipjack tuna) processing facilities on the island were shut down, but the demographic decline started well before this.
Their Last Minute Chef products have no MSG, preservatives, or flavor-enhancing synthetic chemicals.
Not long after Art arrives, Helen Hu, an MSG (Monosodium glutamate) dealing (portrayed like a cocaine dealer) restaurant owner forces Art's stereotypical uncle into buying more MSG, Art intervenes and tries to fight Helen's muscle, the overweight and strong One Ton (perhaps a play on the Chinese dish wonton soup), the wise cracking "brains" of the outfit Lo Fat and the Kung-Fu fighter Non Fat.
During fermentation, selected bacteria (coryneform bacteria) cultured with ammonia and carbohydrates from sugar beets, sugar cane, tapioca or molasses, excrete amino acids into the culture broth from where L-glutamate is isolated.
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Kikunae Ikeda from the Tokyo Imperial University isolated glutamic acid as a new taste substance in 1908 from the seaweed Laminaria japonica, kombu, by aqueous extraction and crystallization, and named its taste "umami".
Contact with such foods as chocolate, peanuts, and Monosodium glutamate can be potentially lethal.
Monosodium glutamate | metabotropic glutamate receptor | Metabotropic glutamate receptor 5 | Metabotropic glutamate receptor 2 | monosodium glutamate | Glutamate decarboxylase | Glutamate-cysteine ligase | glutamate |
As with the previous volume, each track is named after a herb or similar flora, with the possibly ironic exceptions of mass-produced food additives monosodium glutamate and Red #40.
Fufeng Group (阜丰集团), monosodium glutamate and xanthan gum producer in mainland China