Is MSG itself actually bad for you?

[Nonconsentual Pronouns]

I can't seem to get a definitive straight answer from where I've been looking online. All I'm really finding so far is that MSG gets added to foods that are already bad for you, and that MSG makes the food taste better and therefor you'll overeat. But is the MSG itself bad for you when added to otherwise healthy and reasonably portioned food? Supposedly some people report worrying symptoms after consuming MSG that sound like some kind of allergic reaction, but even that apparently has not yet been proven to be true by medical professionals. I'm extra skeptical because I used to know someone who pretended to be allergic to MSG, but he ate tons of processed foods full of the stuff. If the medical community is being silenced about it for market reasons the same way aspartame is, I wouldn't be surprised.

Is MSG just another harmless flavor enhancing ingredient I should add to my spice cabinet? Has it unjustly been demonized by food trendsetters who like to hiss at things like gluten just to sound smart? Or is it the aspartame prequel that should be outlawed for giving people cancer faster than an urban explorer hipster who tunneled into reactor 4?

 

[Skitarii]

Depends, are we talking snake eater or revengeance?

 

[Vecr]

Probably not that bad at least, but it's pretty much impossible to tell if something has a very small adverse effect. I'd only use it if I needed to eat more food for some reason, not less. The stuff I looked at is over 12 years old at this point, though.

 

[cream pie]

People say these days that MSG is not bad for you. Who they are and where they get their information from, I do not know, but I have no choice but to believe them. I keep a shaker of it in my kitchen and put it in almost any Asian food that I get or make. Apparently its just sitting out like salt or pepper in a lot of those countries, it is normal, and they are not fat fucks like in America, so its probably fine

 

[SandyCat]

Adam Regusa did a good in depth video on it:

https://youtu.be/E-POAKKH5IM

In short it sounds like its not good for you but isn't horrible for you either unless you're taking in obscene amounts.

 

[A Gay Retard]

It’s naturally occurring in foods like mushrooms and soy sauce. It’s not a big deal and I’m not convinced msg sensitivity really exists beyond some people being sodium sensitive in general

 

[Retink]

It's probably like anything else, not the best thing to eat but unless you're guzzling it down it probably isn't any worse for you than the majority of shit you eat in your day to day life.

Here's a secret, everything is poisonous, literally everything. The only difference is you've adapted to eat some shit, but not other shit, and if you feed a dog chocolate it will die, while a goat will eat poison ivy like it's candy.

 

[MarvinTheParanoidAndroid]

Studies have shown that it's good for your brain, and it's just a compound extracted from tomatoes that makes the flavors of what you're consuming more pronounced.

 

[Fascist Frederick]

MSG is just as harmful as table salt. So either not at all or extremely, depending on quantity.

 

[Chongqing]

It's actually fine.

 

[𝕺𝖑' 𝕯𝖎𝖗𝖙𝖞 𝕱𝖆𝖙𝖘𝖔]

It's never given me any issue but you have to use it very sparingly if you do cook with it, or else it goes from making food taste better to giving it this weird metallic taste. Also, I feel like it's this catch 22 where people who avoid it tend to be healthy eaters anyway, so when they eat something like Chinese takeout that has msg in it, they attribute feeling bloated and gross to the msg rather than the fact that they ate a plate of fried chicken coated in sugary sauce. If you add a touch to soups, spice rubs for meat, etc. it's fantastic.

 

[Skitarii]

Adam Regusa did a good in depth video on it:

https://youtu.be/E-POAKKH5IM

In short it sounds like its not good for you but isn't horrible for you either unless you're taking in obscene amounts.

>trusting adam fagusa

 

[Nonconsentual Pronouns]

Adam Regusa did a good in depth video on it:

https://youtu.be/E-POAKKH5IM

In short it sounds like its not good for you but isn't horrible for you either unless you're taking in obscene amounts.

I'm skeptical of him because he keeps claiming that the initial issue was just xenophobia, but I'm trying to keep an open mind regardless. The woman he interviewed bringing up that corporate interest concern is bringing me back to the aspartame comparison, though it is just a concern with nothing I know of backing it. But if anyone cites a study where massive, frequent doses of MSG were delivered intravenously, I don't think I could take them seriously at all. I'm not worried about a study over just a tiny fraction of the sample group having a reaction to what looks like an entire buffet line's worth of the stuff, either.

Thanks for the link, fren.