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Most of the things you list as MSG alternatives actually contain MSG; like tomatoes, konbu dashi, and many fermented products.
by dEnigma 9y ago
Most of the things you list as MSG alternatives actually contain MSG; like tomatoes, konbu dashi, and many fermented products.
- NoGravitas 9y agoYeah, a lot of times you'll see MSG in ingredients lists as "hydrolysed vegetable protein", or "hydrolysed soy protein". And that's exactly what you're getting in soy sauce, or tomatoes, or konbu dashi -- naturally produced MSG.
- jlebrech 9y agoOne is L-shaped (artificial and flavour enhancing) the other is natural. http://science.jrank.org/pages/4433/Monosodium-Glutamate-MSG-Characteristics-MSG.html http://science.jrank.org/pages/4433/Monosodium-Glutamate-MSG...
- mustacheemperor 9y agoSince when is "natural vs artificial" evidence of relative healthiness, or even a logical basis for comparison at all? You have numerous comments in this thread all drawing on the same fallacy that some MSG can be "good" and some can be "bad" when that is inherently impossible. Producing a URL with the word "science" in it ending in .org is not sufficient evidence. Find a single empirical datapoint or published study, otherwise stop spreading fearmongering speculation. Do you concern yourself with which table salt to buy because it may be "bad NaCl"?
- dEnigma 9y agoSurely the flavour enhancing one must be the natural one, or else meat wouldn't have the umami taste, or am I missing something?