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MSG - Making a PR Push - Your Take? (1 Viewer)

Your Opinion On MSG

  • Love it

    Votes: 4 15.4%

  • Like it - no problem at all

    Votes: 13 50.0%

  • On the fence

    Votes: 2 7.7%

  • Leery - don't really like it

    Votes: 2 7.7%

  • Don't like it - Actively avoid it

    Votes: 3 11.5%

  • Hate it

    Votes: 2 7.7%
  • Total voters
    26
Joe Bryant

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https://www.wsj.com/articles/rescuing-msgs-unsavory-reputation-11556337610

The FDA Says It’s Safe, So Feel Free to Say ‘Yes’ to MSG

Ajinomoto is trying to convince Americans that its seasoning is good to eat—and maybe even healthy

TOKYO—When restaurants across America put signs in their windows vowing never to use your company’s flagship product, you might have a problem.

That realization has dawned on Ajinomoto Co. AJINY -1.00% of Tokyo, founded more than a century ago to make the seasoning monosodium glutamate, or MSG. The company is in the middle of a $10 million, three-year campaign to persuade Americans that MSG is safe--and maybe even good for you, if it helps you eat less salt.
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I keep msg in my spice cabinet and use it when appropriate. People will come around eventually, it is not healthy, but it is the same unhealthiness as table salt 

 
The case against MSG was proved to be an intentional fraud.  Great podcast out there on this -- the guy who did it (way back when) was a character.

 
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I don’t have an opinion.  I’ve never tasted MSG straight nor had a taste comparison of a food with and without it.  

 
Yet another anti-NYC thing put out by the mass media. The Garden is completely...well,...mostly healthy.

 
My mother was Japanese and put Ajinomoto in everything.  Aji no moto translates to "the essence of taste" in English and monosodium glutamate in Chemistry.

I prefer using fish sauce as a source of umami but have a bottle of Ajinomoto in my spice rack for old time's sake.

 
When I am cooking for guests I always use a pinch of MSG..just brings out more flavor in the food.

 
MSG is completely harmless.

It’s sodium and glutamate.  Sodium is, well, duh.

Glutamate is an amino acid.  People intake a bunch of it every day without even knowing.  Like 15 grams.

 
I don't really have an option in the pole that fits.  I don't really think about MSG much at all.  I don't seek it out.  I don't try to avoid int.  I don't use it in any of my own cooking, but that isn't because of dislike or fear.  It is just something I have no experience cooking with and only seem to encounter it eating Chinese take out.  Seems OK there  :shrug:   I need a "meh" pole choice.

 
Dinsy Ejotuz said:
The case against MSG was proved to be an intentional fraud.  Great podcast out there on this -- the guy who did it (way back when) was a character.
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And he was lying about being the guy who started the whole thing.

This American Life did a piece on it. The letter to the editor that sparked the whole scare was not fake, the guy who claimed credit was lying.

 
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McJose said:
MSG is completely harmless.

It’s sodium and glutamate.  Sodium is, well, duh.

Glutamate is an amino acid.  People intake a bunch of it every day without even knowing.  Like 15 grams.
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Not sure reductive biochemistry is a valid way to assess safety. Carbon monoxide is just carbon and oxygen, after all.

But I agree that MSG is no more harmful than regular salt.

 
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