MSG - what exactly is it?
#47670 - 03/03/04 06:55 AM
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Bethany
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I have been reading several posts that discourage any product that has MSG in it. What exactly does MSG stand for and why is it bad?
I tried finding an answer on several posts but couldn't really find what I was looking for.
Can anyone answer this for me and any others who may be curious?
Thanks!!!
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#47677 - 03/03/04 07:19 AM
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Bevvy
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MSG is Monosodium Glutimate. It has been used as a seasoning, like salt, but there was so much negative publicity about it back in the 70's I'm surprised it's still being put in our food. There was a time when you could actually buy it in the seasoning aisle of the supermarket. I believe it's put in a lot of Chinese food, but I wouldn't know because I don't like Chinese food and never eat the stuff (except for those occasional yummy egg rolls).
Heather says, on page 33, "MSG has aquired lots of ugly anecdotal evidence against it regarding all sorts of digestive upsets."
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Bev is right on this. Its used in a lot of food to provide flavour. You'd be surprised at what its in (like crisps! - no chips, right?).
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Re: MSG
#48140 - 03/05/04 04:29 AM
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sugar
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Loc: Calistoga, CA
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Quote:
because I don't like Chinese food and never eat the stuff (except for those occasional yummy egg rolls).
LOL...there is more MSG in egg rolls than any other
kind of chinese food I can think of. They will tell
you when you go to a good restaurant that there is no msg
in their food except for the egg rolls because they
have to make them ahead of time. Also they are fried.
I love them but had to give them up.
I'm with you Bev. I thought they had banned MSG in
the 70's and I've been astonished in recent months
to see how many things it is in. I think the most
surprising one was seeing it was in almost all the
canned soups I read the labels on. Life just isn't
fair.
My dad was a chef and he used MSG all the time. He
especially put it on his beef (steak etc.). It's a
meat tenderizer. If it tenderizes the meat you
can just imagine what it does to your insides.
Yuck! Gee now that I think of it maybe thats
why I've had stomach problems ALL my life. Hmmm....
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I never knew you could actually buy it to put it in things until I came across it here last year: web page . I never knew it used to be sold at the store. I was shocked when I saw it at American Spice - I'm always trying to avoid it, why actually willingly put it in something? 
Edited by Mags2003 (03/05/04 10:11 AM)
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Still hanging out in the food aisle. 
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I didn't know Accent was MSG!!! The things ya learn! Glad I don't use it!
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Hey Val!
#48284 - 03/05/04 12:34 PM
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Bevvy
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Where you been, Girlfriend?!? I've been thinkin' 'boutcha -- did you go on vacation?
You were missed.
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Accent
#48422 - 03/05/04 07:43 PM
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Bevvy
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I remember buying the stuff back in the '70's. Everyone did. You put it on everything, just like salt. In fact, as I recall, you had the Accent shaker on the table next to the salt shaker.
Kinda like the way we cooked in the good ole days when we were kids. On the stove were porcelain salt & pepper shakers and matching "drippings" crock. It was a set -- all 3. After you fried the bacon, you poured the grease into the crock, put on the matching lid, and that's where it stayed -- on the stove. Then, whenever you fixed a meal, whatever it was, you spooned out a big glob of the grease into the pan, then threw your chicken in there -- or your eggs -- or hamburger -- whatever. Everything was cooked in your old bacon drippings.
Makes you wonder how we're still alive . . .
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