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2025 MSG Brand Rankings

【2025 MSG Brand Ranking】Relying on the big data of the whole network, MSG brands selected according to MSG brand awareness, brand strength, word-of-mouth evaluation and sales popularity (in no particular order): AJINOMOTO Ajinomoto, FUFENG Fufeng, Weiquan, MEIHUA Meihua, EPPEN Yipin, Linghua Linghua, Qilu, Wuyi, Buddha's hand, Pegasus, Daqiao, Hongmei, Shuangqiao, If you are querying what brand of MSG is good? This MSG brand ranking list is for your reference only.

  • TOP.1 AJINOMOTO 味之素

    AJINOMOTO 味之素 Japan

    In 1908, Kikunae Ikeda, a professor at Tokyo Imperial University in Japan, discovered a special taste in kelp, which is different from the four tastes of sweet, sour, bitter and salty, and he used chemical methods to isolate it, namely monosodium glutamate, which changed the cooking methods of the Oriental world and swept the food world with the condiment was invented. The following year, Ikeda co-founded Ajinomoto Corporation, a registered trademark of MSG and a company name. For more than 100 years, Ajinomoto has been one of the world's top 10 food companies, one of the world's largest amino acid manufacturers, and also uses amino acid technology to produce chemicals and medical products, including the cosmetics brand Jino. For the Tokyo 2020 Olympics, Ajinomoto signed an official partnership agreement with it to provide cooking condiments, dehydrated soup powder, amino acid granules, frozen foods, coffee beans, and instant coffee. However, in 2015, Ajinomoto announced that it would stop producing Ajinomoto MSG in Japan due to the contraction of the market and the increase in the price of raw materials, and that the production of seasoning products would be integrated in Indonesia and Brazil, including refining, and then exported...

    1
    Score
    85
    popularity
    17411
  • TOP.2 FUFENG Fufeng

    FUFENG Fufeng Shandong

    In the 80s of the 20th century, China's monosodium glutamate production entered a stage of rapid development, and in 1992, it became the world's largest monosodium glutamate producer. Since 2002, due to the high pollution and high energy consumption of the monosodium glutamate industry, the state has led several rounds of industry integration and eliminated more than 100 monosodium glutamate enterprises. Fufeng Group has gained a firm foothold in this integration, and Meihua Biotechnology and Yipin Biotechnology have ranked among the top three in the domestic monosodium glutamate industry, with the total output of the three monosodium glutamate accounting for 92.6% of the industry, and an oligopoly pattern has been formed. Fufeng Group, which is now a leading enterprise in China's monosodium glutamate industry and the world's largest producer of monosodium glutamate and glutamic acid, has been successfully listed on the main board of the Hong Kong Stock Exchange. It has been awarded a well-known brand of condiments in China, and has been rated as a national outstanding leading food enterprise by the China Food Industry Association, and the Fufeng trademark has been rated as a well-known trademark in China. In the monosodium glutamate industry, Fufeng relies on a keen sense of smell for technological transformation and an innovative circular economy development model. The production process of monosodium glutamate (sodium glutamate) is fermentation, and the fermentation waste liquid produced in the process is very polluting to the environment.

    2
    Score
    84
    popularity
    22191
  • TOP.3 Flavor full

    Flavor full Taiwan

    In 2013 and 2014, Dingxin Group broke out twice in oil safety incidents, which inevitably affected its Weiquan, and it was not until May 2017 that Weiquan, which had lost money for ten consecutive quarters, began to make a profit. During this period, Weiquan has also been actively reversing its image. Tens of millions of yuan were invested to upgrade the three major factories of Longtan, Taichung and Douliu, and cut off industries other than the food business, and strive to specialize in the scope of business. In the Chinese mainland market, yogurt, juice and lactic acid bacteria are the three major products of Weiquan, in fact, Weiquan is also the old man of the MSG industry, since the 50s of the last century, Weiquan began to produce MSG in large quantities, and by 2014, the market share of MSG and other condiments in Taiwan reached 34%. MSG products are only one high-umami monosodium glutamate, which is different from the general transparent crystal monosodium glutamate, which adds a variety of fruit and vegetable powders, so the appearance is similar to chicken essence. Its price is also higher than that of general MSG, and 200g canned MSG costs more than 20 yuan. After the scandal, Weiquan increased its food safety expenditure, upgraded its production line, obtained SQF (Safe Quality Food) certification, and won the crown of China's transparent factory in 2018. Add to...

    3
    Score
    83
    popularity
    17980
  • TOP.4 MEIHUA

    MEIHUA Hebei

    Fufeng's biggest competitor in the MSG industry in East China is Meihua. Meihua Biotechnology was established in 2002, with a production capacity of 700,000 tons of monosodium glutamate, accounting for 23.65%, ranking second in China. It is also one of the drafting units of the national standard for monosodium glutamate, and can have a place in the fiercely competitive domestic market. Both are developing to a diversified layout according to their own production and manufacturing technologies. Fufeng has laid out a high-tech fermentation industry represented by xanthogen (a food additive widely used in the food industry) and is the world's largest xanthan gum producer. Another business is high-grade amino acids, which are widely used in daily chemicals, medical and other fields. Meihua's industrial chain also involves the field of medicine, monosodium glutamate, lysine, threonine is its three main businesses. The discharge of fermentation odor is a common problem in the monosodium glutamate industry, and even if the discharge meets the standard, it will still have an impact on the surrounding people. From 2009 to 2014, Meihua was reported 6 times in 6 years due to odor nuisance, and paid more attention to investment in energy conservation, emission reduction and environmental protection. Meihua environmental protection investment has accounted for a quarter of the fixed assets,...

    4
    Score
    81
    popularity
    7202
  • TOP.5 EPPEN Eppen

    EPPEN Eppen Ningxia

    Eppen Biotech and Meihua Biotech belong to the same industry, established a little later a year, mainly engaged in amino acids, monosodium glutamate and compound fertilizer, etc., ranking third in the domestic monosodium glutamate industry. However, Meihua biology is mainly monosodium glutamate products, supplemented by amino acid products, while Yipin is the opposite, and the two have strong complementarity in product structure. In order to further expand the production capacity and business coverage of monosodium glutamate and amino acids, Yipin and Meihua had a period of unhealthy karma. At the end of 2014, Meihua announced that it would purchase a total of 100% of the shares of Eppen Biotech for 3.8 billion yuan. At that time, the MSG industry had overcapacity, and the market was very sluggish. Meihua tries to reduce the risk of relatively concentrated sales areas of its main business, and threonine is an important source of its profit growth, such as the acquisition of Eppen, which is mainly based on amino acid business, and its threonine production capacity can reach the world's first. Unexpectedly, the amino acid industry is also struggling with overcapacity. Eppen Biotech posted huge net profit losses in both 2013 and the first seven months of 2014. He was sued by the global amino acid giant CJ CheilJedang Co., Ltd. for patent infringement.

    5
    Score
    80
    popularity
    18423
  • TOP.6 Linghua Linghua

    Linghua Linghua Shandong

    North China, Huanghuai, Northeast and Northwest China are the main corn producing areas in China, and they are also the regions with the highest concentration of corn starch production capacity. Corn starch is the main raw material for the production of monosodium glutamate, and the factory is built in the raw material area, the supply is abundant and the transportation cost is greatly reduced, which is also the reason why there are many monosodium glutamate enterprises in Shandong and other places. Linghua was born in Jining, Shandong, from the production of corn starch, to overcome microbial fermentation technology, and then to the deep processing and production of glutamic acid technology leap, Linghua step by step to go steadily. Linghua was founded in 1979 as a township enterprise making starch. Taking advantage of the spring breeze of reform and opening up, Linghua carried out large-scale product structure adjustment and began to produce monosodium glutamate products in 1991. In 1993, Linghua brand monosodium glutamate won the honor of banquet in the Great Hall of the People with excellent quality, and was rated as China's well-known trademark and China's famous brand product. Linghua has successively merged and reorganized 8 state-owned enterprises, and its products have also expanded to condiments, amino acids, organic fertilizers and other fields. Because Jining's freshwater resources account for one-sixth of Shandong Province, it is an important water source and transit point for the South-to-North Water Diversion, so the water environment in the region is strictly required...

    6
    Score
    79
    popularity
    18170
  • TOP.7 Qilu

    Qilu Shandong

    Although China is the world's largest monosodium glutamate country, the monosodium glutamate market has been sluggish for a long time, and the reason for this is that in addition to overcapacity, rumors of toxic monosodium glutamate and the trend of healthy eating have also played a role in fueling the situation. According to consulting firm Euromonitor International, China's MSG consumption fell from 1.146 million tonnes in 2013 to 922,000 tonnes in 2017, and more and more people are abandoning the condiment, and the downward trend will continue. This important monosodium glutamate production base in East China is located in Liaocheng, Shandong, not far from Jining, where Linghua is located, and is one of the top ten condiment enterprises in China's fermentation industry, which is inevitably affected by the downturn. The national monosodium glutamate output has been in excess of demand for a long time, and the environmental protection supervision is strict, and many enterprises have chosen to stop production or limit production, and the operating rate of enterprises has declined. Qilu is one of the few enterprises that is functioning normally, but the benefits are not good. Senior catering industry insiders in Shandong cuisine said that there are many small-scale high-end restaurants in Jinan that rarely use monosodium glutamate, and it is not difficult for Lu cuisine chefs to cook without monosodium glutamate. Although hanging...

    7
    Score
    76
    popularity
    14342
  • TOP.8 Wuyi

    Wuyi Fujian

    As the largest MSG production base south of the Yangtze River, Wuyi's rice MSG is a household name. From a small factory to today's scale, and has won the provincial key leading enterprises in Fujian Province brand agricultural enterprise gold medal and other honorary titles, has been recognized as a well-known trademark in China, products in Europe, America and Southeast Asia and other countries. In the sluggish MSG market, it is not easy for Wuyi to have such achievements. Jiangnan has been considered the granary of the world since ancient times. Unlike Shandong and Hebei, which are fond of corn and wheat, rice is abundant here, and the raw material for making monosodium glutamate is also rice. Whether rice or corn is used as raw material, the MSG production process has always been through chemical methods to extract monosodium glutamate, and its main component remains unchanged, so the taste of MSG produced is no different. Wuyi rice monosodium glutamate is divided into general monosodium glutamate and umami monosodium glutamate with different purities. Different from the previous local brands, Wuyi MSG pays more attention to packaging, and has launched several versions such as landscape version, rice ear version, sketch version, etc., although the body MSG is no different, but it gives consumers a reason to buy. Wuyi increases the name of umami monosodium glutamate, which is called umami treasure. ...

    8
    Score
    72
    popularity
    8585
  • TOP.9 Buddha's hand

    Buddha's hand Shanghai

    Ajinomoto is the world's first MSG brand, while Bergamot is China's first MSG brand. Buddha's hand brand monosodium glutamate is inseparable from a person's name Wu Yunchu, he is known as the king of monosodium glutamate, and the origin of the name of monosodium glutamate is also related to him. Wu Yunchu is a chemical engineer based in Shanghai. In 1922, he became interested in Ajinomoto because of its prevalence in China. After research, Wu Yunchu used the hydrolysis method to extract glutamic acid from grains to make monosodium glutamate. He gave the product a new name, Essence MSG. The following year, Wu Yunchu founded the Tianchu MSG Factory to produce Buddha's hand MSG. The packaging design of bergamot MSG was also a must at the time. Because MSG is not meat and can be eaten by vegetarian lovers, Wu Yunchu asked someone to design the packaging bottle into the shape of Guanyin and Luohan. In previous years, China's exhibits were mostly silk and tea, and at the 1926 Philadelphia World Fair, bergamot monosodium glutamate won the highest award for its first high-profile appearance as a modern industrial product in China. Bergamot MSG has participated in the World Expo three times, and all three times won this award. In just a few years, the sales of bergamot monosodium glutamate have expanded from China to Southeast Asian countries...

    9
    Score
    70
    popularity
    13661
  • TOP.10 Pegasus

    Pegasus Taiwan

    Chongqing Feiya Industry's Pegasus is the largest monosodium glutamate brand in southwest China, has won the gold medal of international and domestic quality evaluation for many times, and is also a well-known trademark in China, and its position in the Chongqing market is self-evident. Feiya Industry is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Chongqing Salt Industry Group, which is more than one monosodium glutamate brand. The original Shanghai Tianchu MSG Factory once founded Chongqing Tianchu MSG Factory in Chongqing, which is now renamed Chongqing Tianchu Tianyan Food Co., Ltd., which also belongs to the Salt Industry Group, and the MSG of these two manufacturers is a necessary seasoning for many Chongqing people to cook. Today, Feiya has transformed from a single monosodium glutamate production enterprise, producing monosodium glutamate, chicken essence and other commodities, and also providing customized services to the catering industry, such as customized dishes, according to the taste of local consumers, preparation of relevant seasonings. It has cooperative relations with Yum Little Sheep, Chongqing Dezhuang, Chongqing Liu Yishou, Beijing Xianyangcheng, Shanghai Ziyan Baiwei Chicken, Sichuan Yidingwang and other enterprises. Pegasus MSG is inexpensive, and the price of a 400g package does not exceed 10 yuan. There are common general monosodium glutamate, as well as powdered monosodium glutamate that is rare in the market, sodium glutamate content...

    10
    Score
    68
    popularity
    16318
  • TOP.11 Bridge

    Bridge Hubei

    The bridge's position in Hubei is similar to Pegasus' status in Chongqing, with a share of more than 80% in Hubei. Foodies' favorite Zhou Black Duck, Jingwu Duck Neck, Xinnong Beef and other special products are indispensable behind the bridge condiments. Daqiao MSG originated in the 50s of the last century, and its name is derived from the Wuhan Yangtze River Bridge, which belongs to Asia-Pacific Flavor, a market leader in condiments in Central China. Unlike brands such as Fufeng that insist on the main business of MSG, Daqiao aims at the emerging chicken essence market. Previously, Ohashi monosodium glutamate has been the main product of the Asia-Pacific condiment company, and then when Totole entered the chicken essence market, Ohashi also adjusted the main product to chicken essence. Ohashi was also involved in the drafting of China's bouillon on chicken industry standard. As a result of the successful transformation, Asia Pacific achieved 10% growth in 2012 despite the continued downturn. The sales volume of Daqiao chicken essence in the country is second only to Shanghai's Totole. Due to the good development momentum, Asia-Pacific was favored by McCormick in the United States, and reached an acquisition in 2013. Many people lamented that Wuhan has lost another time-honored Chinese brand. However, Ohashi monosodium glutamate has not disappeared, and the original taste...

    11
    Score
    65
    popularity
    9466
  • TOP.12 Red plums

    Red plums Liaoning

    Hongmei monosodium glutamate is one of the drafting units of the national standard for monosodium glutamate. Founded in 1939, it is the most familiar MSG brand in Shenyang, carrying the memories of several generations. It is the earliest enterprise to produce monosodium glutamate in China, and it is also the first well-known trademark in China in the monosodium glutamate industry, filling the gap that there is no well-known trademark in Northeast China, and its strength can be seen in that year. If the monosodium glutamate industry, which is in a disgrace and downturn, is a boulder that crushes Hongmei, then the general environment of the economic collapse of Northeast China has cut off the wings of Hongmei to take off again. In the past ten years, despite its resounding name, there has been a hidden crisis within Hongmei. After many industry rectifications, Hongmei was finally overwhelmed and filed for bankruptcy in 2012, and was ruled bankrupt two years later. Hongmei monosodium glutamate was once a good product for Shenyang people to give to relatives and friends, because it left a lot of memories for a generation, and it was once on Weibo hot search when it went bankrupt. Fortunately, the Hongmei brand did not die, but was bought by Huanyu Group.

    12
    Score
    64
    popularity
    22438
  • TOP.13 Twin bridges

    Twin bridges Guangdong

    Shuangqiao MSG, a time-honored brand in Guangzhou, won the National Gold Award for Quality Products in 1988. Like Pegasus and Daqiao, they are all strong regional MSG brands, and Shuangqiao is well-known in Guangdong, Guizhou, Shanghai and other places. In 1993, Shuangqiao entered the Shanghai market and was represented by Shanghai Haohao Enterprise Development Co., Ltd., which was given full freedom. It was also because the freedom was too high and there was a problem with profit sharing, and after 14 years of cooperation, the old partners finally broke up and went to court for trademark packaging infringement. In the end, Aosang bought the copyright and other related rights of Shuangqiao MSG Shanghai Packaging for tens of millions of yuan, and the Shuangqiao brand was affected by this, and its influence was not as good as before. In order to cope with the shock of the MSG industry, Shuangqiao specially invested in the establishment of a company controlled by Shuangqiao to produce Shuangqiao monosodium glutamate, namely Aosang Company, and Shuangqiao itself transformed into the production of starch sugar products. Shuangqiao and Guangzhou Aosang MSG Food Co., Ltd. hold about 20% of each other's shares and have a close relationship. Even so, in the context of oligopoly and sluggish market in the monosodium glutamate industry, the flavor south of the Yangtze River...

    13
    Score
    62
    popularity
    13054
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  • 1 22438 Red plums

    Red plums

    Hongmei monosodium glutamate is one of the drafting units of the national standard for monosodium glutamate. Founded in 1939, it is the most familiar MSG brand in Shenyang, carrying the memories of several generations. It is the earliest enterprise to produce monosodium glutamate in China, and it is also the first well-known trademark in China in the monosodium glutamate industry, which has been filled

  • 2 22191 FUFENG Fufeng

    FUFENG Fufeng

    In the 80s of the 20th century, China's monosodium glutamate production entered a stage of rapid development, and in 1992, it became the world's largest monosodium glutamate producer. Since 2002, due to the high pollution and high energy consumption of the monosodium glutamate industry, the state has led several rounds of industry integration and eliminated more than 100 monosodium glutamate enterprises

  • 3 18423 EPPEN Eppen

    EPPEN Eppen

    Eppen Biotech and Meihua Biotech belong to the same industry, established a little later a year, mainly engaged in amino acids, monosodium glutamate and compound fertilizer, etc., ranking third in the domestic monosodium glutamate industry. However, Meihua Bio mainly uses monosodium glutamate products and amino acid products as supplements, while Yipin is the opposite, and the two are in production

  • 4 18170 Linghua Linghua

    Linghua Linghua

    North China, Huanghuai, Northeast and Northwest China are the main corn producing areas in China, and they are also the regions with the highest concentration of corn starch production capacity. Corn starch is the main raw material for the production of monosodium glutamate, and the factory is built in the raw material area, the supply is abundant and the transportation cost is greatly reduced, which is also the most monosodium glutamate in Shandong and other places

  • 5 17980 Flavor full

    Flavor full

    In 2013 and 2014, Dingxin Group broke out twice in oil safety incidents, which inevitably affected its Weiquan, and it was not until May 2017 that Weiquan, which had lost money for ten consecutive quarters, began to make a profit. During this period, Weiquan has also been actively reversing its image. Tens of millions of yuan have been invested in Longtan and Taiwan

  • 6 17411 AJINOMOTO 味之素

    AJINOMOTO 味之素

    In 1908, Kikunae Ikeda, a professor at Tokyo Imperial University in Japan, discovered a special taste in kelp, which is different from the four tastes of sweet, sour, bitter and salty, and he used chemical methods to isolate it, namely monosodium glutamate, which changed the cooking methods of the Oriental world and swept the food world

  • 7 16318 Pegasus

    Pegasus

    Chongqing Feiya Industry's Pegasus is the largest monosodium glutamate brand in southwest China, has won the gold medal of international and domestic quality evaluation for many times, and is also a well-known trademark in China, and its position in the Chongqing market is self-evident. Feiya Industry is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Chongqing Salt Industry Group, Chongqing

  • 8 14342 Qilu

    Qilu

    Although China is the world's largest monosodium glutamate country, the monosodium glutamate market has been sluggish for a long time, and the reason for this is that in addition to overcapacity, rumors of toxic monosodium glutamate and the trend of healthy eating have also played a role in fueling the situation. According to the consulting firm Euromonitor

  • 9 13661 Buddha's hand

    Buddha's hand

    Ajinomoto is the world's first MSG brand, while Bergamot is China's first MSG brand. Buddha's hand brand monosodium glutamate is inseparable from a person's name Wu Yunchu, he is known as the king of monosodium glutamate, and the origin of the name of monosodium glutamate is also related to him. Wu Yunchu is a chemistry in Shanghai

  • 10 13054 Twin bridges

    Twin bridges

    Shuangqiao MSG, a time-honored brand in Guangzhou, won the National Gold Award for Quality Products in 1988. Like Pegasus and Daqiao, they are all strong regional MSG brands, and Shuangqiao is well-known in Guangdong, Guizhou, Shanghai and other places. In 1993, Shuangqiao entered the Shanghai market.

  • 11 9466 Bridge

    Bridge

    The bridge's position in Hubei is similar to Pegasus' status in Chongqing, with a share of more than 80% in Hubei. Foodies' favorite Zhou Black Duck, Jingwu Duck Neck, Xinnong Beef and other special products are indispensable behind the bridge condiments. Ohashi MSG originated in the 50s of the last century

  • 12 8585 Wuyi

    Wuyi

    As the largest MSG production base south of the Yangtze River, Wuyi's rice MSG is a household name. It has grown from a small factory to today's scale, and has successively won the honorary titles of Fujian Provincial Brand Agricultural Enterprise Gold Award for Provincial Key Leading Enterprises, and has been recognized as well-known in China

  • 13 7202 MEIHUA

    MEIHUA

    Fufeng's biggest competitor in the MSG industry in East China is Meihua. Meihua Biotechnology was established in 2002, with a production capacity of 700,000 tons of monosodium glutamate, accounting for 23.65%, ranking second in China. It is also one of the drafting units of the national standard for monosodium glutamate, which can be in the highly competitive country

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