MSG is good and gets too much of a bad rap for being bad for you because of xenophobes. That's it, that's the post.
Yeah, wasn't he one of the bookers at Wrestlemania X? Great ladder match.
I'm reminded of how, in the early days of colonialism, it was believed that corn was incredibly bad for you and that it would turn you into a savage, and the only thing that broke people of this belief was enough of them being subjected to tough winters and being forced to eat it until their cognitive dissonance forced them to retroactively decide that they never believed in that silly superstition anyway.
Corn is super fucking bad for you though, when it was introduced to the Mississipian culture in the 700s they had a huge long term health decline until they got beans.
Corn needs to be chemically processed to be nutritional. Indigenous cultures learned this. People got really painfully sick on unprocessed corn.
MSG is amazing and i put it on everything, but eating a mouthful of MSG tastes exactly like good pussy ngl
GOOD post.
No seriously MSG occurs naturally in a lot of stuff, like mushrooms. You're not going to get cancer or anything for putting a bit of it in your fried rice or anything. It's probably less harmful than salt. MSG is good folks.
... I thought it was a salt?
Kinda wondered if that was why it gives me headaches. Its the same thing that happens when I gorge on salted popcorn or eat a bag of salted potato chips in one sitting.
It is. It's the sodium in the MSG that gives that effect of dehydrating you.
There's been a relatively recent resurgence in antiMSG propaganda in "health" influencers and sinophobic propaganda because it's common in chinese takeout food.
Love me some anchovy, tomato paste, soy sauce, mushroom stew with a shake of msg
I can imagine citric acid's flavor but how does mushroom powder taste?
Is mushroom powder like a certain kind of mushroom or a melange?
Seems like the MSG headache thing is real for some people, but yeah otherwise just bury me in that shit.
And as other people pointed out, the sodium in it can dehydrate you, so wouldn't surprise me if that related to the headache stuff.
From the research I've seen, the headaches are because of the excess sodium, which is the same as with salt.
i eat salty shit constantly and don't get headaches, but there's certain fast food places i go to where i'll get a migraine from just a few bites, specifically kfc. it's not just salt.
Does KFC have msg in the chicken? Apparently there is an upside to KFC being on every street corner in China!
it's loaded with it in everything. secret blend of herbs and spices my ass
Msg can contribute to seizures in sensitive people, but so can anything containing glutamates, like cured meat, aged cheese and even some vegetables.
MSG is so good it almost feels like cheating adding it to food. Like I picked the "easy mode" in the game of cooking and I'm just a filthy casual
The flavor enhancer!
Yeah seriously you should get your self a big ol bag of it and put a dash of it in pretty much every savory dish you make. Game changer.
100% of people who consumed Dihydrogen Monoxide have died
I was just joking about scary chemical names. Glutamate is an amino acid which are molecules that combine to form proteins in our cells. Because amino acids are good for us our tongue tells us it tastes yummy. Sodium also tastes good to us which makes monosodium glutamate delicious.
You ever have a delicious mushroom or aged cheese? Glutamates make them taste that way.
