That means they may not have “added” MSG to the food, but the food already arrives to their stores from manufacturers that have the MSG already processed into it. It is deliberately deceiving and unethical to imply there is no MSG in the food when they know full and well it’s in there!

The distinction between having MSG poured into an ingredient and processed into an ingredient is important because the glutamate industry plays on this distinction in their efforts to hide the presence of MSG. One of their favorite ways of hiding MSG is to claim that there is “no added MSG” in a product. If MSG is processed into a product instead of being poured into a product, they can legally declare that there is “no MSG added” or “no added MSG” because they didn’t “add it”, it was simply already in there when it arrived. But shhhh, they won’t tell you that.