Why MSG panic survived despite its everyday sources
Monosodium glutamate (MSG) is just sodium and glutamate, an amino acid your body naturally produces by the pound. The panic over MSG causing headaches was entirely based on a single, anecdotal letter written to a medical journal in 1968 with zero scientific backing, mixed with a heavy dose of xenophobia. If you eat a pizza with tomato sauce and parmesan cheese, you are happily consuming massive amounts of MSG.

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