Flavour Enhancer 621...

tijn01

What do you know about MSG? (in Australia it is marked on packaging as Flavor Enhancer 621)
I have read that is extremely bad for you. It is kind of addictive and your body reacts badly to the influx of amino acids....
BUT it is nearly all flavoured packaged food! It is in crisps, gravy mixes, canned soup, cup of soup, instant meals, stock cubes...
Can this thing that is really bad for us be in all these foods just because it makes things taste much better and tricks our body's into thinking its good for us, and eventually we become addicted to it so we keep purchasing the food???
It seems crazy that it is accepted and not looked into.
I only started noticing it is in everything because someone said it might be triggering my allergic reactions... which are much better since avoiding MSG...

MeddlingMonk

I am allergic to MSG (mono-sodium-glutamate), in both its artificial and natural versions. As far as I know, artificial MSG is worse than natural MSG. I have also heard that it also kills off brain cells. Unfortunately, they add this substance to a lot of foods to improve the taste (by the way, MSG doesn't only appear under the name Flavour Enhancer 621; Hydrolysed Vegetable Proteins also contain a large amount of MSG).

MSG is not the only chemical additive to our foods, either. Today, foods are laced with a multitude of pesticides (on fruits and vegetables); colours (in the majority of processed foods); and preservatives (also in the majority of processed foods). Some of these additives are not overly nice things and you really don't want to know where they come from if you're planning to keep consuming them...

There are a number of books out there which list all the chemicals in food and describe their effect. Personally, I think it's safer to eat organic foods than processed....

Daisie

As a rule i dont eat anything if in the ingredient's list there is something that I cannot pronouce out loud or has numbers in it...
Which mean that I tend to buy organics food or unprocesed and then make my own dishes (and most of the time it's cheaper that way).

soldeinvierno

no esta mal, a mi m gusta