Glutamates or Ajinomoto is a salt widely used in Chinese cuisine to enhance flavors hence popularly called the 'flavor enhancer'. It can be used in a wide variety of industries including: food production beverage and various other industries.lutamates occur naturally in protein foods such as meat fish poultry and vegetables. Freelutamates are found in foods like tomatoes tomato paste cheese and mushrooms. So many natural foods which we add to dishes to make them tasty are high in freelutamate.lutamates are added to food to enhance its flavour. They are added in the form of MSG in vegetable protein yeast extracts flavors and fermented soy products such as soy sauce. Common foods that can contain added MSG include savoury foods such as stocks seasonings soup sauces and savoury snacks/meals.