It is an excellent flavor enhancer. It is just one of many flavor enhancers the food industry uses in very small amounts. It also occurs naturally. It's what gives a tomato its flavor. It's rife in chicken, shrimp, Parmesan cheese, and many other things I hope you don't eat. That stuff could really be unhealthy for you.
The fact that we get 10 times more glutamate from naturally occurring sources than from added sources makes your fear of it totally irrational. But people fear the things they don't understand. Yeah, I'm talking about you.
I'd be happy to give you a lesson in flavor chemistry, but it would probably hurt your brain. You know, just like when you eat too much MSG.
BTW I noticed you glossed right over the MSG Obese Mouse thing.
Clearly, you didn't grasp what I wrote in response to your mindless Googling. Read it again and then I'd be happy to clear up any misunderstandings you have. If you get a chance though, please eat a couple of pounds of MSG every day next week and then let us know how you feel. I'm guessing you're going to feel just like those lab rodents you are so quick to offer up as proof of something. What that something is remains unclear, but to you I'm sure it really means something important.
If you had taken any chemistry, nutrition or biology in whatever passed for "education" in your earlier life, you'd have learned that bad health will result when you continuously overwhelm the body with anything. The only way for a blockhead like you to learn this fact is to experience it for yourself. Now get started on eating all that MSG, and get back to us in a week with a description of how you feel.
Standing by....
LOLOL!
Yeah, there is that part of it.
/johnny
Oh no I grasped it fine. The problem is it's another straw man argument.
Lets us review:
I said that MSG is used to make mice fat for scientific studies on obesity. You said in post 94 : "Scientists don't feed rodents MSG to make them fat.....unless they happen to be looking for grant money from scientific illiterates."
Well apparently you are wrong being that MSG Obesity Induced Mice are available for purchase from laboratory suppliers. See this is the bit you glossed over. Then you poo poo the numerous research studies that uses these mice. I guess its just a grand conspiracy to make you look like you don't know what you are talking about. hahahah
Further if such mice are indeed as you say only available because of government grants then apparently the government pays people to make mice fat using MSG even though the FDA says there is no known detrimental effects from ingesting MSG. And we all know that the FDA would never allow something on the market that is detrimental to humans when ingested... Right?