Umami: or why bacon tastes nice

[tahnee]

I just read about this, it explains why MSG is so tasty! although bad for you, but tasty!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Umami

Comments

[ashes_rant]

is MSG actually bad?

all the websites who say it is bad are citing a letter to the editor of a medical journal written in 1968...

On the other side of the coin, there are a whole lot of medical studies that can't find much of a problem with it. It's possible that salt is actually more dangerous.

[tahnee]

You are right, there is no definitive evidence that MSG is bad. Whee more for me!

[ashes_rant]

it's actually kind of crazy, in a google search I found about 20 sites saying how horrible MSG was...

but none of them actually had any medical research info

and only 2 sites that actually had research info (that's where the study that found salt was worse for you is)

[ashes_rant]

it's actually kind of crazy, in a google search I found about 20 sites saying how horrible MSG was...

but none of them actually had any medical research info

and only 2 sites that actually had research info (that's where the study that found salt was worse for you is)

[coreyihow]

Great post! I want to see a follow up to this topic