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Why MSG panic survived despite its everyday sources

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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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