Does anyone else get these? I've found that any free-glutamate food causes me to twitch (in moderate doses) and fatigue (in high doses)

The worst offender so far was a packet of chips (yeast), and a very MSG-laden Italian restaurant meal.

I realize that the mayo-MSG myth is half based off racism, but I think there's a kernel of truth, which is that too much free-glutamate just causes cellular excitation. Meaning the cell is expending energy faster than it can create it.

  • sooper_dooper_roofer [none/use name]
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    2 years ago

    but it's not racist if it's against :lmayo: and :anti-italian-action:

    the racist part is mayos assuming that ONLY East Asian restaurants ever use MSG. Tons of Italian places, maybe even most, also do it. Any white wine sauce, if lacking in cream, is definitely flavored with MSG because otherwise it would taste like nothing (or require very labor-intensive cooking to make it taste good, which obvs doesn't happen)