They why do I feel like crap when I eat food with MSG added?
It may be safe, but I’ll skip the violent throbbing headaches I get from eating food with MSG, thank you very much.
Like everything, over use causes problems. Places that use cheap meat over use it.
While I only eat Chinese food, take-out, maybe twice a year . . . when I do . . . the first few bites I find it difficult to even swallow . . . I’m guessing a reaction to the MSG and then my very sensitive as in allergies must calm down and then I proceed to eat the rest of it . . . weird. But that is pretty much the only type of food that causes this reaction in my throat.
I think it is largely in people’s heads. MSG shows up in the strangest of places. What some people ascribe to MSG is just simply people responding to the greatly-increased salt and fat in restaurant food.
It’s all food - I just eat it.
Too much of anything and I’m in the recliner saying “Uffdah”.
Total BS. There are many people that don’t efficiently metabolize Glutamates due to an en enzyme deficiency. Glutamates build up in the brain and can cause all sorts of issues. These people should also avoid tomatoes in excess.
Yes, for SOME people MSG is fine, for others it is toxic. ONE SIZE DOES NOT FIT ALL.
My oldest son would get seizures a after eating this stuff.
It’s good in your first aid kit - rub it into athletes foot sores and it’ll kill the fungus.
Since you probably won’t eat at a Chinese food restaurant if you have a peanut allergy, doesn’t it make sense not to eat there if you have an MSG allergy.
My husband is very sensitive to MSG.
It makes me retain water but does not give me a headache.
Also, watch the Chinese buffets. MSG makes your stomach retain
water, which makes you think you’re full and so you eat less.
Is this stuff like L-Glutamine?
Aji-no-moto.
The science has been settled by someone on the internet.
No more debate!
What ever.
When I eat it, I spend the next day “cleaning out.” Not fun - I avoid it.
You can post all the scientific evidence you want, but if I ingest MSG, within a few hours I have a debilitating, vomit-your-socks-up, terrible light-and-noise sensitivity migraine. I figured it out after eating twice, in short order, at an Asian restaurant that used it liberally. A couple of times, I’ve traced an especially vicious headache back to an unsuspected source of MSG. Now that I avoid it (and a couple of other foods that I’m allergic to), I no longer have migraines. It may not be scientific, but it works for me!!
Bull bleeping poop.
I almost need hospitalization after eating MSG. I am so careful, eat very cleanly, don’t eat anything at restaurants that could have it, and if I slip up I know within seconds. It’s a neurotoxin and this article is full of it. It may be right in its description of glutamate etc, but even when a “natural” MSG is formed (concentrated from scratch natural broth or mushrooms etc) I get a gigantic migraine and am sick for hours.
True, most people don’t get that reaction, but since everyone’s brain is poisoned somewhat from it, maybe it’s better too get that reaction. Plus, your chip, cracker, and soup manufacturers are using secrets to get you to “desire” more of their products while they harm your brain cumulatively. I personally would prefer my end of life without alzheimers, ALS, or Parkinson’s.
I have found the following, due to my extreme sensitivity to MSG: 99.9% of every soup or broth in any store has MSG, even if it says “NO MSG ADDED” on the can/carton. 80% of all crackers and chips as well. The only soup that actually has none are the organic vegetable broths in the cartons where the ingredients are the vegetables, water, and sea salt. (This broth has no taste so don’t buy it - just boil any veggies in water for 20 minutes and your broth will be richer.) EVERY OTHER SOUP is MSG and water, with some wilted other ingredients as garnish.
MSG hides under a very many euphemisms and names in ingredient lists. The worst is “spices.” I can’t buy anything that says that on it; it will contain MSG. If the spices are listed: turmeric, oregano, garlic powder, then that is fine.
MSG has the exact same taste always. It is addictive and gets you to prefer it and find other, more subtler tastes dull. But its taste is like taking a cheap, loudmouthed hooker on a date contrasted with taking out the cute pretty girl next door.
To me it is poison and it should be to you as well.
Really? That totally makes the splitting headaches worth it!
Article is total BS. Just because something is “safe”, doesn’t mean it won’t sicken a large percentage of the population or even kill some of them.
Peanuts are “safe” but can instantly kill a child who is allergic.
A significant percentage of Caucasians are genetically unable to metabolize lactose.
Gluten will tremendously sicken those with Celiac disease and mildly sicken even more who are sensitive to the stuff.
Large numbers of people are sickened by sodium metabisulfite.
Really, the list of substances like these is very large.
And MSG is one of them.
Personally, larger amounts of MSG, any amount of aspartame, or any amount of Stevia will instantly give me a vicious headache.