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One thing I didn't know prior to reading the article is that one of the major suppliers of aspartame is the same company that first commercialized MSG -- anothe
by commandar 3y ago
One thing I didn't know prior to reading the article is that one of the major suppliers of aspartame is the same company that first commercialized MSG -- another compound that has been unfairly maligned and exhaustively studied as a result.
Despite decades of research and hundreds upon hundreds of studies, there's never been a definitive link shown between MSG and its claimed negative effects. In fact, I've seen studies where subjects responded to placebo at a higher rate than they did actual MSG.
Yet it's still very common to run into people that are absolutely convinced they have a sensitivity to MSG despite the fact that all evidence suggests that no such sensitivity actually exists.
- hhnhandgga7282 3y agoYep, it's also naturally occurring in all sorts of Asian food (due to soy or something) if I understood what I read correctly. That's why "no msg" Asian food tastes so awful.
- JohnBooty 3y agoYet it's still very common to run into people that are absolutely convinced they have a sensitivity to MSG despite the fact that all evidence suggests that no such sensitivity actually exists. Here's a pattern I've seen in at least two people here in America. I suspect it's probably pretty widespread. 1. Subject is a person who does not eat Asian/Asian-American food very often 2. Subject eats some Asian/Asian-American food, full of many ingredients they don't typically consume 3. Food does not agree with subject in some way or another 4. Subject then decides it "must be the MSG" when of course it might be just be high sodium content that is common in takeout/delivery food, or any of the other ingredients they don't normally consume, or perhaps they just got some spoiled food or something
- fbdab103 3y agoWhat is most upsetting is that I have trouble biochemically believing there could be anything at all on which to act. MSG = mono sodium glutamate meaning one sodium ion (thing in table salt) + gluatamic acid (1 of the 20 standard amino acids). Every protein in your body, plants, and animals will be ~5% glutamic acid. The instant MSG touches your tongue, it will immediately dissociate into sodium + glutamic acid and would be indistinguishable from another protein source.