Monosodium glutamate

Quality:

Monosodium L-glutamate - chemical compound, flavor enhancer. Article “Monosodium glutamate” in Simple English Wikipedia has 14.4 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). The article contains 2 references and 1 sections.

This article has the best quality in Malay Wikipedia. However, the most popular language version of this article is English.

Achievements in all the time:

Global Wikipedia:

The 3887^th most popular in all topics.

The 7527^th most popular in AI.

Since the creation of article “Monosodium glutamate”, its content was written by 4 registered users of Simple English Wikipedia and edited by 2952 registered Wikipedia users in all languages (7527^th place).

The article is cited 8 times in Simple English Wikipedia and cited 4411 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Simple English): #1601 in December 2014
• Global: #2871 in March 2012

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Simple English): #15458 in September 2016
• Global: #1738 in June 2015

There are 47 language versions for this article in the WikiRank database (of the considered 55 Wikipedia language editions).

The quality and popularity assessment was based on Wikipédia dumps from July 1, 2026 (including revision history and pageviews for previous years).

The table below shows the language versions of the article with the highest quality.

#	Language	Quality grade	Quality score
1	Malay (ms) Monosodium glutamat		85.9287
2	Chinese (zh) 味精		81.5643
3	German (de) Mononatriumglutamat		66.5627
4	English (en) Monosodium glutamate		64.4455
5	Hindi (hi) मोनोसोडियम ग्लूटामेट		62.2461
6	Turkish (tr) Monosodyum glutamat		56.4625
7	Indonesian (id) Mononatrium glutamat		55.9208
8	Greek (el) Όξινο γλουταμινικό νάτριο		52.9389
9	Norwegian (no) Natriumglutamat		52.0473
10	Hebrew (he) מונוסודיום גלוטמט		45.6679

The following table shows the most popular language versions of the article.

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Monosodium glutamate		24 573 286
2	Spanish (es) Glutamato monosódico		4 049 507
3	Russian (ru) Глутамат натрия		3 128 176
4	German (de) Mononatriumglutamat		2 264 021
5	Japanese (ja) グルタミン酸ナトリウム		1 547 559
6	Chinese (zh) 味精		1 467 591
7	French (fr) Glutamate monosodique		1 343 695
8	Polish (pl) Glutaminian sodu		1 237 328
9	Dutch (nl) Mononatriumglutamaat		1 059 316
10	Portuguese (pt) Glutamato monossódico		941 093

The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest popularity in the last month.

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Monosodium glutamate		48 696
2	German (de) Mononatriumglutamat		6 000
3	Russian (ru) Глутамат натрия		5 621
4	Chinese (zh) 味精		3 385
5	Japanese (ja) グルタミン酸ナトリウム		3 112
6	Spanish (es) Glutamato monosódico		3 014
7	French (fr) Glutamate monosodique		2 810
8	Polish (pl) Glutaminian sodu		2 498
9	Dutch (nl) Mononatriumglutamaat		1 621
10	Italian (it) Glutammato monosodico		1 407

The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest.

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Monosodium glutamate		1 007
2	German (de) Mononatriumglutamat		219
3	Russian (ru) Глутамат натрия		145
4	Dutch (nl) Mononatriumglutamaat		133
5	Chinese (zh) 味精		124
6	Spanish (es) Glutamato monosódico		120
7	French (fr) Glutamate monosodique		120
8	Hebrew (he) מונוסודיום גלוטמט		107
9	Italian (it) Glutammato monosodico		81
10	Polish (pl) Glutaminian sodu		80

The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest in the last month.

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	Dutch (nl) Mononatriumglutamaat		2
2	Arabic (ar) غلوتامات أحادية الصوديوم		1
3	Greek (el) Όξινο γλουταμινικό νάτριο		1
4	Indonesian (id) Mononatrium glutamat		1
5	Japanese (ja) グルタミン酸ナトリウム		1
6	Korean (ko) 글루탐산 나트륨		1
7	Lithuanian (lt) Mononatrio glutamatas		1
8	Russian (ru) Глутамат натрия		1
9	Slovenian (sl) Mononatrijev glutamat		1
10	Vietnamese (vi) Mononatri glutamat		1

The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest number of citations.

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