[MozarkDawg]

Personally I find I get a headache whenever I eat something with monosodium glutamate in it.

You get headaches from eating tomatoes, shrimp, milk, cheese, eggs, corn etc?

Mase, I remember back a couple of decades ago, the MSG barrage, my mother read something, sorry, I can't quote you, but it said MSG was made from or derived from papaya enzyme, is this accurate? Does my memory serve me, MSG is more or less a food product rather than created chemical something-or-other in a lab?

[Mase]

I don't recall anything about glutamate being made from papaya. In the old days MSG was made from seaweed but today most of it comes fermenting starch, corn sugar or molasses. Glutamate is an amino acid found in every protein containing food. MSG is the sodium salt of glutamate. MSG is glutamate, sodium and water.

Glutamate can be made and it occurs naturally. It's what gives a tomato flavor. Glutamate is also produced by your body and you couldn't function without it. Like with anything, if you consume too much of it bad things can happen. People die from drinking too much water.