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.
Excitotoxicity due to glutamate occurs as part of the ischemic cascade and is associated with stroke and diseases like amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, lathyrism, and Alzheimer’s disease. glutamic acid has been implicated in epileptic seizure
http://www.hmdb.ca/metabolites/HMDB00148
safe as milk...yep!!
a bit of “non scientific news:
My MOM who LOVED Chinese “fast food”.....heavily dosed with MSG...died from ALZHIEMERS btw