MSG

[MDS]

As the OP I think it's time to put this subject to bed. I know how I am effected and those who have responded saying they know others or are themselves effected understand.

For you guys in the vast majority that are not effected then consider yourselves lucky, or us minority unlucky, but don't try to tell us that are effected that we are imagining it or try to blame it on something else.

[impulse]

MSG, despite the fuss created by some, has never been proven to be harmful.

Millions of idiots were absolutely convinced they were addicted to smoking, even when every bit of publicly released scientific data showed no indication that smoking was addictive.

Thousands of food products representing billions of dollars of revenue require the addition of MSG to make them palatable. Leave out the MSG and sales will drop like a rock.

Forgive us if we trust our experiences and not the "publicly released scientific data."

[h90]

MSG, despite the fuss created by some, has never been proven to be harmful.

Millions of idiots were absolutely convinced they were addicted to smoking, even when every bit of publicly released scientific data showed no indication that smoking was addictive.

Thousands of food products representing billions of dollars of revenue require the addition of MSG to make them palatable. Leave out the MSG and sales will drop like a rock.

Forgive us if we trust our experiences and not the "publicly released scientific data."

The MSG are mainly used to mask the use of cheap low quality products. Typical example is not enough meat in the soup....Add some MSG and it tastes as it would be a real soup....

[wilcopops]

MSG, despite the fuss created by some, has never been proven to be harmful.

Millions of idiots were absolutely convinced they were addicted to smoking, even when every bit of publicly released scientific data showed no indication that smoking was addictive.

Thousands of food products representing billions of dollars of revenue require the addition of MSG to make them palatable. Leave out the MSG and sales will drop like a rock.

Forgive us if we trust our experiences and not the "publicly released scientific data."

The MSG are mainly used to mask the use of cheap low quality products. Typical example is not enough meat in the soup....Add some MSG and it tastes as it would be a real soup....

THat's a bit of a misconception as in most Asian cooking it is omni-present.

Broccoli, mushrooms, tomatoes, autolyzed yeast extract? are all sources of monosodium glutamate.

"Enough meat"???? - Of course their are other flavour enhancers too that come from meat..........

[wilcopops]

As the OP I think it's time to put this subject to bed. I know how I am effected and those who have responded saying they know others or are themselves effected understand.

For you guys in the vast majority that are not effected then consider yourselves lucky, or us minority unlucky, but don't try to tell us that are effected that we are imagining it or try to blame it on something else.

The problem is that by jumping into one "minority" you may well be avoiding the real solution to the problem.

take for instance the young boys "sensitivity" - are we to assume he NEVER ate anything apart from his mother's cooking...e.g. pizza, or any kind of Thai take home or restaurant food?....al of which will have MSG in it.

Edited May 2, 2014 by wilcopops

[sirineou]

I have heard of MSG causing some peoples Blood Pressure to spike, could this be the OP problem with it?

What is MSG's relation to Blood Pressure?

[partington]

I have heard of MSG causing some peoples Blood Pressure to spike, could this be the OP problem with it?

What is MSG's relation to Blood Pressure?

Don't know any connection, but blood pressure spikes are symptomless. There is a reason high blood pressure is called the silent killer. This is because it cannot be felt.

[wilcopops]

This is part of the problem....we've all "heard" of problems caused by MSG....in reality the problems are down to the media.

[partington]

Totally aside from the problems of the minority of people, like the OP, who have an intolerance to large amounts of MSG in food, there are some legitimate health concerns for the population in general regarding the overuse of MSG in processed foods and, in SE Asia, in just about all food preparation - these however are not with the glutamine aspect but simply the sodium, which is the "s" in MSG.

Not trying to be pedantic, but this is a typo. It isn't glutamine, as I mentioned before, it's glutamate, the ion of glutamic acid, which is a different chemical to glutamine.

Thus people searching on glutamine won't find information relevant to MSG: they are not related.

[delgarcon]

Before you start worrying about MSG, ask yourself these questions:

Do you smoke, take drugs,drink too much, have sex without using a

condom, drive a motorbike without using a crash helmet, are you overweight and out of shape, do you have high blood pressure?

If the answer to any of these is yes, don't worry about MSG. As a betting man I'd bet long odds on that it wont be MSG that gets you!

Edited May 3, 2014 by delgarcon

[Sheryl]

As the OP I think it's time to put this subject to bed. I know how I am effected and those who have responded saying they know others or are themselves effected understand.

For you guys in the vast majority that are not effected then consider yourselves lucky, or us minority unlucky, but don't try to tell us that are effected that we are imagining it or try to blame it on something else.

Agree.

The topic was about what people who experience unpleasant symptoms after ingesting a lot of MSG could do about it -- not about what "hidden" risks MSG might have.

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