Good grief, how do you manage to get out of bed in the morning possessing so much chemicalphobia? Your body, at any given time, probably has about 4 lbs. of glutamate in it. Without glutamate, your brain won't function and your central nervous system would never have developed. You consume 10 times more glutamate from natural sources than you do from added sources. Glutamate is found in nearly all foods. You can't avoid it. Yet here you are fearing something you eat every day.
Why is it the people who know the least about something are always the ones who fear it?
Ahh nice straw man argument.
Nothing wrong with naturally occurring glutamate.
But see that is not what we are talking about.
MSG is added to processed foods in levels far above that which occurs naturally say like in a tomato.
The reason is it enhances the flavor of processed foods. BUT like anything one eats or ingests way too much of something is far more harmful than not eating it at all.
When researchers want fat mice they get ones that have been fed high levels of MSG.
Its not rocket science Sparky...
Anyone with an IQ above 70 can figure out that food you grow in your garden is better for you health-wise than the slop that is brewed in some factory that has all manner of crap added to it so it won't spoil or taste bad when it gets to the consumer.