How to Use glutamate in a Sentence

glutamate

noun

• So the cooks began adding the powder to MSG, or monosodium glutamate, and put it in sauce used by customers.
  — Edward Wong, New York Times, 30 Jan. 2016
• These flavors are enhanced by glutamate, which is an amino acid present in some foods.
  — Lynda Balslev, The Mercury News, 26 Feb. 2024
• The second, glutamate, is an amino acid that gets put to work in all kinds of physical systems.
  — Leslie Nemo, Discover Magazine, 30 Dec. 2020
• Substantial amounts of free glutamate can be found in champagne due to the ageing process.
  — Joanne Shurvell, Forbes, 26 Oct. 2021
• Two foods that are rich in glutamate are miso and mushrooms, which happen to be key ingredients in this recipe.
  — Lynda Balslev, The Mercury News, 26 Feb. 2024
• Foods like tomatoes and cheese even have natural glutamate in them.
  — Maggie Hiufu Wong, CNN, 9 May 2023
• One way to lower glutamate levels is to eat magnesium-rich foods like leafy greens.
  — Allison Futterman, Discover Magazine, 10 May 2022
• In fact, studies have shown that the levels of glutamate were increased in patients with insomnia.
  — Lisa Bain, Good Housekeeping, 12 June 2022
• Foods that contain a lot of glutamate can be called umami: Parmesan cheese, mushrooms, chicken, beef and pork all can take on the rich flavor of umami.
  — Heloise, Washington Post, 15 Aug. 2019
• Pizza toppings are also packed with a compound called glutamate, which can be found in the tomatoes, cheese, pepperoni and sausage.
  — Jeffrey Miller, Washington Post, 4 Nov. 2019
• These drugs either slow the breakdown of the neurotransmitter acetylcholine or block the overproduction of glutamate in the brain, but none have been shown to work very well for very long.
  — Pam Belluck, New York Times, 30 Apr. 2016
• Excessive amounts of glutamate in the brain can overstimulate nerve cells and damage them.
  — Allison Futterman, Discover Magazine, 10 May 2022
• Then the biofilms would stop expanding until the glutamate was replenished.
  — Quanta Magazine, 5 Sep. 2017
• Monosodium glutamate, more commonly known as MSG, has been around for more than a century.
  — Washington Post, 27 Aug. 2021
• Miso is teeming with protein, B vitamins and minerals, and rich in glutamates, which give food that meaty taste known as umami.
  — Carole Kotkin, miamiherald, 24 July 2017
• Riluzole blocks the release of glutamate, which is the message that nerve cells use to communicate with each other in the central nervous system.
  — Andrea K. McDaniels, baltimoresun.com, 28 June 2017
• Enzymes break down its muscle fibers, softening its flesh and releasing the amino acid glutamate.
  — Joseph Hincks / Hong Kong, Time, 30 Aug. 2017
• When combining the amino acids L-glutamate and beta-alanine, Zoll typically dissolves the mixture in high-proof vodka and dries it on a hot plate.
  — Joanna Thompson, Scientific American, 23 Mar. 2022
• Ketamine targets a brain chemical messenger called glutamate, which is thought to play a role in both pain and depression.
  — Matthew Perrone, Fortune Well, 7 Nov. 2023
• Sometimes beta-alanine and L-glutamate form thicker, more textured crystals such as the ones pictured here.
  — Joanna Thompson, Scientific American, 23 Mar. 2022
• Her finding also engendered hope that ketamine, a drug that targets glutamate, might help people in that group.
  — Emily Underwood, Science | AAAS, 20 Aug. 2019
• And what is being sent through those networks are [chemicals] like glutamate, which is an amino acid that also serves as a neurotransmitter in our brain.
  — Richard Schiffman, Scientific American, 4 May 2021
• But when they were injected with a drug that prevented astrocytes from synthesizing glutamate, the birds were unable to remember the bad taste and would peck at the beads again.
  — Carl Zimmer, Discover Magazine, 25 Mar. 2019
• But glutamate can’t work without unlocking what is known as the NDMA receptor.
  — Delaney Nothaft, USA TODAY, 23 Feb. 2024
• Research suggests the drug may help rewire the brain by affecting its production of the amino acid glutamate, which acts as a neurotransmitter.
  — Emily Maloney, STAT, 7 Sep. 2023
• Arora believes the dumplings are dangerous because of the use of ajinomoto, which contains monosodium glutamate, a flavor enhancer used in many street foods.
  — Vidhi Doshi, Washington Post, 9 June 2017
• Hair of the Dog can work because alcohol suppresses a brain chemical called glutamate.
  — Sarah Brookbank, Cincinnati.com, 4 July 2018
• Rapid growth, especially in the last decade, has debased much restaurant cooking, drowning the tastes and textures of dishes like fish-fragrant eggplant in gobs of acrid chile, oil and monosodium glutamate.
  — Chris Buckley Chris Buckley Chris Buckley David Tanis Julia Moskin Florence Fabricant Mark Bittman Mark Bittman, New York Times, 14 June 2016
• With all these ingredients, this burger has supreme levels of glutamate.
  — Steffi Victorioso, Los Angeles Magazine, 23 Oct. 2017
• Scientists believe that the savory taste sensation results when some of our taste receptors respond to foods that contain the amino acid glutamate.
  — Chris Ross, sandiegouniontribune.com, 9 July 2018

Last Updated: 5 Dec 2024