substitutes
Msg substitutes
Out of msg? These are its closest flavor matches, ranked by Epicure's flavor-compound model — the percentage is how near each sits to msg in flavor space. Fish Sauce is closest at 58%.
- 01Fish Sauce58% flavor match
- 02Chili Pepper55% flavor match
- 03Sichuan Peppercorn51% flavor match
- 04Chili Sauce48% flavor match
- 05Shaoxing Wine48% flavor match
- 06Five Spice Powder47% flavor match
- 07Pickled Mustard Green47% flavor match
- 08Shacha Sauce46% flavor match
Cooking with msg?
Paste your recipe into Mise — we'll find every ingredient as a real product you can buy, and swap the ones you can't, like msg, for the closest match in stock.
Turn a recipe into a basket →How we choose these
Each match is the nearest neighbour to msg in Epicure, a food-science model mapping the aroma compounds of ~1,790 ingredients across 4 million recipes. The percentage is their flavor-space similarity. Taste as you go — substitutes shift texture and intensity too.
Flavor data: Epicure (Radzikowski & Chen, 2026), arXiv:2605.22391, CC-BY-4.0.