Ajinomoto Health & Nutrition North America, Inc.

Ajinomoto Health & Nutrition North America, Inc.

Side Dishes

Our portfolio of ingredients can help you formulate flavorful and nutritious side dishes.

Make your side dish the main event

Consumers want convenient side dishes that are delicious and meet their nutritional needs like low sodium or low sugar. Our culinary experts & diverse portfolio of ingredient solutions can help your product stand out.

Your Support Toolbox

Work with our team to craft the perfect ingredient solution for your side dishes.

Culinary Experts

Our team of chefs & scientists are here to support you through the formulation process.

Diverse Portfolio

Our portfolio of ingredient solutions improve texture, enhance taste, reduce sugar & salt, and more.

Premium Ingredients

We produce the highest quality ingredients possible through advanced fermentation technology.

Side Dish Solutions

Easily achieve delicious taste and texture.

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Delicious Sodium Reduction

Reduce sodium content in your products without sacrificing taste with our portfolio of ingredients.

Texture & Mouthfeel

Texture plays a large role in the enjoyment of ready meals. No matter what texture you’re trying to achieve, we have a solution.

Bold Flavor

Achieve unforgettable flavor with umami & kokumi. In foods, they impart the satisfying, full-bodied flavor consumers crave.

Featured Products

More Than Gourmet Industrial Stock

Stocks, Broths and Sauce Concentrates

More Than Gourmet's Culinary Grade™ products for industrial and food service applications.

Monosodium Glutamate (MSG)

Delicious sodium reduction with the essence of umami.

Food-Grade Amino Acids

The highest quality amino acids to enrich your products.

Consult Our Team of Experts

Let us help you find the right ingredient solution for your project. Chat with a member of our team and request more information today.

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We are thrilled to share that as of January 3, 2023 Ajinomoto Health and Nutrition North America, Inc. (AHN) has acquired the remaining shares of More Than Gourmet (MTG), completing the acquisition.
Gallagher’s Best-in-Class Benchmarking Analysis Identified Ajinomoto Health & Nutrition as an Organization That Excels in Optimizing Employee and Organizational Wellbeing
Is MSG (Monosodium glutamate) finally coming off industry unacceptable ingredients lists? In a major step forward, the Whole30 diet – a popular 30-day food plan known for its strict rules around eating only whole, minimally processed foods – recently announced that MSG is no longer off-limits, citing current science on…

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#IFTFIRST has come and gone, but we’re still thinking about it! We loved getting to interact with other industry professionals, showcase our solutions and ingredients through delicious lunches each day, participate on panels and so much more! Eva Ryan, one of our summer interns, wrapped up our experience at #IFTFIRST in our latest story on ajihealthandnutrition.com! Check
While naturally rich in umami, cheese, especially aged cheeses, also tend to be high in salt. This is especially true of processed cheese products, such as flavored cheese balls. If approached by a leading CPG client to reformulate its flavored spreadable cheddar cheese “party” ball to reduce sodium and enhance flavor, the product support team at Ajinomoto Health and Nutrition would approach the challenge with the goal of attaining a 25% reduction in total sodium chloride levels, while imparting a delicious aged character to the end product.
With millions of consumers expressing a desire to lower the amount of salt—sodium chloride—in their daily diets, stress typically has been placed on cutting out any ingredient with the word “sodium” in it. But strict removal of all things sodium means that those same consumers are missing out on one of the most effective salt-lowering solutions they can get: monosodium glutamate (MSG).

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