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If you're wondering why your go-to order tastes so good, it's maybe not just the fry sauce. Find out if your chain taps MSG ...
Experts talk about how MSG, a controversial food substance linked to obesity and migraines, could actually solve the world's ...
Still, MSG is classified by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) as a safe food ingredient, but personally, I feel the jury’s still out on that one.
MSG by any other name would still be as harmful. When most people hear the name monosodium glutamate, or MSG, they immediately think of Chinese food. And while the chemical is used in many Chinese ...
MSG has, as you know, earned a bad reputation and companies who add it to food have come up with new names for it and it's put in food more often than you might think. I talked about MSG with Sara ...
MSG is one of the most misunderstood food additives out there. Best known as a component of Chinese-American food, it’s actually a lot more prevalent than you think, and there are a bunch of ...
MSG has been branded as a dangerous food ingredient for decades, especially associated with Chinese cuisine. The problematic controversy isn't rooted in science, but instead, racism. Chefs of ...
Anti-MSG sentiment, widely considered to have xenophobic origins, dates back to the late 1960s, when reports of diners reacting badly after consuming food containing the much-misunderstood ...
Long ago, in a land called the 1990s, our food fears were very different than they are now. Sure, we've been worried about MSG on some level for ages. But back in the '90's, it was all about ...
It's found in many foods, including meat, dairy, and vegetables, and it's even produced in our own bodies naturally when we process food. MSG's name tells us the key difference between glutamate ...
The use of MSG spread, in Asia and beyond. Then in 1968, the New England Journal of Medicine published a letter from a Chinese-American physician describing symptoms he’d experienced subsequent ...