Flavour enhancers in food, are they harmful?

If you look at the list of ingredients in industrially produced foods, you will discover the addition of flavour enhancers in many of them, mostly sodium glutamate or monosodium glutamate.
Flavour enhancers are added because industrially manufactured products often lose a lot of flavour due to the complex processing procedures, which is to be restored with the addition of flavour enhancers.
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