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Offline Polpolion

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Monosodium Glutamate
Name everything that you can find that has MSG in it. I'll start.

Ramen (sp)
Doritos

(I'd have more, but these are the only things I'm currently eating).

 

Offline Goober5000

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Re: Monosodium Glutamate
Chinese food!

(I'd have more, but I'm full at the moment.)
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Re: Monosodium Glutamate
It's easier to name things that DONT have MSG.  I'll start.

Bread
Orange Juice

(I'd have more, but these are the only things I can think of)
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Humans...

What?! Nobody said it had to be food.
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Humans are food...It just depends on your palate... :nervous:

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Re: Monosodium Glutamate
mmmmm people meat

i long for a world that is so hostile that people have to eat eachother to survive. muhahahaha!
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Would a world so hostile people ate each other not because they needed to, but for fun, be even more hostile?

 

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Re: Monosodium Glutamate
soy sauce (unfortunately!)

 

Offline Wanderer

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Anything with 'E621' (in europe) stamped onto it.. Any food that has any considerable amount of proteins..
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Offline S-99

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What the **** is msg, why is it bad?
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Offline Polpolion

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It's not bad. In fact, it's orgasmic really tasty.

 

Offline S-99

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Oh, well i always see packages of food with big labels on them that say no msg. So i assume maybe it was bad or something :p
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Offline Herra Tohtori

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Re: Monosodium Glutamate
What it is: a sodium salt of glutamic acid. Tells a lot doesn't it... :drevil:

What it's used for: to enhance tastes in tasteless micro food products sold in market. Also some other stuff. It tastes umami, which is the fifth basic taste in addition to sweetness, sourness, bitterness, and saltiness.

Why is it bad (possibly):

It allegedly can cause brain damage among other negative health effects.

More specifically, it can in large quantities spike the glutamic acid concentration of the bloodstream.  Glutamic acid, or glutamate, is an important part of cellular metabolism and also a neurotransmitter, but if the amount of it gets too high it can apparently cause cell deaths and stuff in nervous system. Normally, the brain is protected by blood-brain barrier which only lets specific chemicals to pass, but not all parts of the brain are equally protected, and the "strength" of this barrier also varies by, most importantly, age. Young children tend to have somewhat less effective blood-brain barrier than adults AFAIK, and also their brain are more sensitive in general.

Effects in experiments have been brain damage to infant mice (apparently with pretty high dosages though) and obesity to lab rats.


Yum. :)


Note that none of these effects on humans have been proven in any recognized research, and I suspect it will eventually fall into the same category as oat porridge. It kills you if someone shoots you with projectiles made of it with sufficient velocity, or drops a sufficient load of it at you. Or if you decide to eat a kilogram of salt, it likely kills you. Or if you eat a liver of a polar bear (Ursus maritimus) you will die on overdosage of vitamin A. Doesn't mean it's dangerous in itself... :rolleyes:


The health hazard label MSG is commonly associated with is mostly a result of a combination of carefully constructed stuff that has created a myth of MSG being a killer chemical.

Note that I don't think there should be any sane reason to add "flavour enhancers" to a food. Even if the chemical is completely safe, it does tell something about the food itself. If it does need chemical enhancement to taste like something, I think there's a problem somewhere... :rolleyes:
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Offline S-99

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Very informative. Lol, flavor enhancers, what ever happened to using the spice rack at home? That's all that gourmet chefs do :)
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Offline Polpolion

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Herra:

You're too smart.


:p

 

Offline Wanderer

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You shouldnt really complain about 'chemicals' being added to foods.. The whole meaning of that word is so easily twisted when applied to food additives. On same basis you could call water or sugar as chemical. And MSG is found from normal spice racks.. Or am i the only with soy sauze there?

On personal experience... pure (if diluted) MSG tastes rather bad though (and i dont mean soy sauze)
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Offline vyper

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I think most people understand what you mean when you say "added chemicals".

MSG is the biggest sin of all those committed by the food industry, but I'm quite sure there are plenty more we could do without.
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Offline Nuke

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if its name is so long that it requires an akronym to fit on a spice lable then it doesnt belong in a spice rack.
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Offline Wanderer

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Nuke.. you really haven't got a clue of the 'true' names of the spice compounds do you?

Most of the stuff just has a commonly used 'trivial name' that is used instead of its true chemical name.. and most, if not all, chemical names are intimidating.

Sort of like the good old 'dihydrogen monoxide' thing
http://www.dhmo.org/
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Offline Nuke

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well yes you got sodium clhoride and fructose, but they usually go by the ancient terms salt and sugar respectively. but msg is different in that it has no other name besides its chemical name.

then you got your actual spices which are actual freeze dried and crushed plant matter. being organic those would require a couple pages of chemical names associated with it.

but chems in food dont scare me nearly as much as what im calling hippie food. organic produce for example. why, do they need to tag things we know organic with the buzzword organic. like i saw an ad for organic strawberries, i said no, how much are the inorganic ones. so they use real poo for fertilizer and dont kill the bugs, why is that different that what was farmed 200 years ago? then we got no carbs, no msg, no trans fat, hell i dont even know what im buying anymore. cage free eggs? what the ****? why are theese eggs better than eggs laid by birds in a cage. i figure life in a cage would be better than perhaps being slaughtered for meat. at least for a chicken anyway. theres a whole isle of hippie food theese days. some of it looks rather disgusting. i avoid that row like the plague.
« Last Edit: June 01, 2007, 06:11:27 pm by Nuke »
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