Growing up, my mother flavored her food with Accent (MSG). When she was diagnosed with hypertension, she ditched the Accent because of its sodium content. In those days it appeared that MSG didn’t bother me.
Then some years later I had dinner with friends at a Chinese restaurant. Sometime during the night, I woke up with a massive headache. I tried to get to the bathroom, but I couldn’t walk. Felt like I was having a stroke.
Fortunately, the symptoms subsided, but they scared the tar our of me. No more Asian food and I scour ingredient labels looking for MSG. If MSG is listed, I put the product back.
Names of ingredients that contain processed free glutamic acid (MSG)