MSG

Feb 15, 2006 16:23

what is it?

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jwgh February 15 2006, 21:45:10 UTC
Monosodium glutamate. This food additive enhances the flavor of food that it's added to, although it doesn't have a distinctive flavor of its own. It was originally derived from seaweed (kombu) but now is made chemically. You can buy containers of it; it basically looks like salt or sugar.

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saucypunk February 15 2006, 22:33:00 UTC
it's also pretty gross and bad for you. a lot of people i know have bad reactions to it, and even if you don't it's pretty hard to digest. best avoided if possible...

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jwgh February 15 2006, 22:41:14 UTC
Also not unlike salt and sugar.

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alexandrahawk February 16 2006, 14:05:16 UTC
Yeah, my friend Susan was just saying, "The MSG in the Chinese food made me feel like shit last night." And I thought she meant that her food had been drugged with GHB. And then, she went on about this MSG and how it is not a date rape drug, but a food additive. I thought she was lying, but I guess she wasn't.

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femme_liqueur February 16 2006, 00:30:21 UTC
mono - sodium - glutamate

it's stuff that actually ends up making you hungrier when you have it in food - hence the reason you get hungry so soon after eating a CRAPload of chinese food.

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