Do you know how much disodium guanylate is in instant ramen? A lot. And guess what?

No one knows what disodium guanylate is. It’s just some mystery ingredient that
some mad scientist named Stanley created in his mother’s basement in April of 1937.
He needed to give the ingredient a name, so he put two semi-nonsensical words
together and he labeled the ingredient “disodium guanylate.” Ramen is chock full of
disodium guanylate—which, by the way, is the cheapest ingredient in the world. The
instant ramen people came across disodium guanylate and said, “Well, we have no
idea what this stuff is and whether or not it’s edible--but we do know that we can
get 28 pounds of it for a nickel.”