It's a potassium-based salt that food manufacturers mostly use to replace sodium chloride, or table salt. In some applications, it can help lower the presence of sodium by as much as 70%.

In the food industry, it’s known as E621. It dissolves easily in water, separating into sodium and free glutamate. It’s made by fermenting carb sources like sugar beet, sugar cane, and molasses.

Industry Insight from Reuters Events, a part of Thomson Reuters. A new factory shows how sodium ion will gain an increasing share of the U.S. energy storage market as developers seek to reduce ...