Monosodium Glutamate

This.
So many retarded fake food allergies these days.
When we were kids, the only thing any of the kids at school were allergic to was bee stings.

>There are quite a few people allergic to it and that is why it is going out of fashion.
These people are 100% lying

I would not believe it if I had not seen it first hand.

Someone ate some popcorn with it and later developed hives.

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>>There are quite a few people allergic to it and that is why it is going out of fashion.
>These people are 100% lying
I think rather that we don't understand why they have symptoms, not that the symptoms don't exist. That's how proof works.

To this day, there are still diseases which are diagnosed by process of eliminating other explanations, aka diagnosis of exclusion, such as MS, fibromyalgia, and nearly every psych disorder. Fever of unknown origin is an diagnosis that can cost thousands of dollars of testing to come up empty, but the fever IS there and persists until it doesn't. There's no reason why someone who gets a slamming headache, tachycardia, or other symptoms from MSG is lying. All that you know is no one has found the mechanism or explanation as to why MSG caused a reaction.

So, try using your brain next time. I could understand being doubtful, but you should know we don't know everything yet in medicine or science.

>fibromyalgia
another BS disease

fivethirtyeight.com/features/how-msg-got-a-bad-rap-flawed-science-and-xenophobia/

>latest article: "What In The Hell Is Trump Doing On Immigration?"

I am not discounting her on the basis she is wrong.

I am discounting her on the basis she does not report medicine.

the controversy is about racism in america. MSG fear is a thing for the same reason wonderbread is.

>Hello /b/
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MSG is fine, but it is possible to be allergic to it. Not a problem for 95+% of people though.

Lol, fuck off, I'm still learning.
I agree, It just makes me angry about how information is often misinterpreted, twisted, and blown out of proportion many times.

All I know is that it makes my meals taste really good. I will continue to use it in moderate amounts. It improves my quality of life, lawl.

A lot of fine dining restaurants use MSG but you wouldn't know because they're not serving chinese food. 99% of people saying they get headaches or are allergic to MSG are straight up lying.

No.

>Someone ate some popcorn with it and later developed hives.

They're called zits. That happens when you eat popcorn coated in fat and hydrogenated oil.

>oh lawdy I just ate 6000 calories and 90g of salt at a buffet and feel like shit as I lay on the couch.
>must be the MSG

its just like the "gluten free" fad. its not bad for you

I use it for fried chicken and in my dumplings. thats about it. First time I used it in my dumplings I didnt notice a difference at all I should do a control.

is this stuff realy safe guys? it seems like every other time I go to a restraunt that has chicken made with it I get realy sick..and I've heard people say it makes it so fat is alot harder to get rid of when u eat it with something b
through some chemical process and it's addictive/stays in u a bit..that may be some conspiracy shit but red pill me on msg Veeky Forums

>without shaking on some chemical
all food contains chemicals

Back to tumblr, retard.

Everything is a chemical you fucking retard.

atoms aren't made of chemicals

Hey Vasquez. Have you ever been confused for a man?

Why do you discriminate between MSG and salt? I don't see why you couldn't use naturally salty ingredients to season your food.

So many people claiming they know they're allergic to MSG, and the reason is that every time a restaurant makes them sick, they assume there was MSG in the food.

light is not, sound is not, quarks are not, shadows are not, the list goes on and on

but atoms are broken apart and re-arranged into chemicals, which our body stores/uses.

I too avoid chemicals put in "for taste".

There have been many studies on the adverse effects of sodium chloride, which everyone seems to rave about, so I simply don't use it at all.

Chemical free ftw

>Be educated individual
>Read up on MSG, including major studies
>Realize all conclusions are shoddy correlations at best
Been eating/cooking it for years with no regrets

it's probably the restaurant, not the MSG, although you may be allergic.
as to it being addictive, it might be, but no more addictive than HFCS.

It can add a very pleasant note to savory food, but is also very noticeable. Use it sparingly, but it's great for seasoning meatballs or gravies and such. I have a jar of seasoning salt with msg in it, and you really don't need much. If you use too much your shit just tastes like bad Chinese food.

>atoms are broken apart
Complete and utter retard.

This makes absolutely no sense.

>MSG contains about one-third of the sodium found in table salt and is commonly added in small amounts to food. According to the European Food Information Council, when MSG is combined with salt, it enhances flavor and lessens the need for salt, potentially reducing your intake of sodium by 20 to 40 percent.

healthyeating.sfgate.com/msg-vs-salt-2990.html

Dehydration would require you to intake MORE sodium, which is what happens if you stick strictly with salt as opposed to a blend of salt and MSG for the same amount of "salty" flavor.

Why are you so retarded?

>but atoms are broken apart and re-arranged into chemicals

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Fuck off, there's literally nothing wrong with using msg when appropriate, it doesn't belong in everything savory. You better stop using salt if you really think this way. Many better chefs than you use MSG.
This, people are fucking retards, their favorite restaurant probably uses msg.

>umami

MSG health risks are overblown, it started with people feeling sick after eating 20 grams of fucking salt in their soy sauce soaked chinese food and blaming it on the spooky chemical name

it's like the gluten free of last decade, the only people still flogging it are oil pulling homeopath alt-medicine """doctors""" and 99.9% of the human race can eat it with no issue

I find if you use it wrong the food gives kind of a "thick" mouth feel after you eat it that is unpleasant

A pinch is GOAT on roast vegetables though

that's nuclear fission, you are thinking of metabolization. nuclear fission is what made Hiroshima a thing, while the other is constantly occurring in our bodies.

There's some glutamate naturally in fish sauces and soy sauce.

My body is a fission reactor

shadows aren't exactly a thing, tho. they're just the absence of light.

They're not lying, they're just wrong. Chinese food does make you dehydrated and can cause you to feel ill afterwards. The problem is just that take-away Chinese food is very salty, and thus causes these symptoms, people wrongly assume it must be the MSG alone, when it's just that they've had way too much sodium.

It's mostly scientifically illiterate people (often women/mothers) who are scared of "chemicals" and MSG.

They are the same people who say things like "so called scientists - what do they know?" and have never looked up at the stars and wondered what's out there.

I worked briefly in a high end restaurant and they had jars of random shit and one was pure MSG crystals and I had a pinch and shiiit nigga it's weird. It does taste meaty. it was like a metallic meaty saltyness, but not quite salty like real salt. Now that I am typing this, it reminded me of the juice from a steak kind of. very interesting, and not at all what I expected.

it can't be worse for you than sugar

this. sugar is one of the worst things you can consume on a regular basis.

What's so bad about sugar? I find it really hard to give up sweets and soda.

Asked and answered.

lol

This.

They are so ignorant. It's the same type of shit as the "if you cant pronounce it, dont eat it" rule. Most retarded thing I have ever heard.

Lots of things cannot be pronounced, it doesnt mean you shouldnt eat it. Take an apple for example. It has tons of scary sounding "chemicals" but nobody bitches about that do they?
The ignorance is real.

>Tomatoes are savory
Honestly, they taste like bitter shit to me.

It increases cancer chances in linfocytes(at least probed in vitro).

sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0278691516300540

And high concentrations can become dangerous for the retina or the nervous system.

How much should you put in a recipe?

Wikipedia says that the margin between "too much and too less" is quite low, so I'm interested.

>Take an apple for example. It has tons of scary sounding "chemicals" but nobody bitches about that do they?

Like cyanide - but it's natural so they don't mind.