{"id":38065,"date":"2019-04-05T01:00:26","date_gmt":"2019-04-05T05:00:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=38065"},"modified":"2019-04-04T09:13:33","modified_gmt":"2019-04-04T13:13:33","slug":"qotd-debunking-the-msg-is-harmful-myth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2019\/04\/05\/qotd-debunking-the-msg-is-harmful-myth\/","title":{"rendered":"QotD: Debunking the &#8220;MSG is harmful&#8221; myth"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>The story of MSG is a true tragedy. The negativity associated with this delicious amino acid is due to a spurious study from 1968 that <a href=\"http:\/\/luckypeach.com\/on-msg-and-chinese-restaurant-syndrome\/\" target=\"_blank\">linked MSG with the \u201cChinese Restaurant Syndrome<\/a>.\u201d This study connected that gut-bomb feeling you sometimes get after eating Chinese food to MSG, despite the fact that the typically cheap Chinese food prepared in American restaurants is fatty and served in large portions, and (like any restaurant), the food can be spoiled. My mom theorizes that lots of MSG was used to cover up the fact that, say, shrimp was a day past its prime, and that the sick feeling was due to the food but got blamed on the MSG. There\u2019s never been a scientifically rigorous study that\u2019s linked MSG with any negative effects. MSG should be used frequently and added to anything that needs the flavor drawn out, especially soups. But it enhances virtually anything it touches: Once, eating pizza at home, a friend scanned my spice rack and saw a jar with white powder whose label, in my grandfather\u2019s messy scrawl, read what looked like \u201cMS6.\u201d He sprinkled it on his pizza and came to find me, telling me that whatever MS6 was, it was the most amazing thing he\u2019d ever tasted. Yes, MSG makes even pizza better.<\/p>\n<p>Caitlin PenzeyMoog, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.avclub.com\/article\/salt-grinders-are-bullshit-and-other-lessons-growi-253193\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;Salt grinders are bullshit, and other lessons from growing up in the spice trade&#8221;, <em>The A.V. Club<\/em><\/a>, 2017-04-06.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The story of MSG is a true tragedy. The negativity associated with this delicious amino acid is due to a spurious study from 1968 that linked MSG with the \u201cChinese Restaurant Syndrome.\u201d This study connected that gut-bomb feeling you sometimes get after eating Chinese food to MSG, despite the fact that the typically cheap Chinese [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":35193,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[831,74,66,41,16],"tags":[872,347],"class_list":["post-38065","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business","category-food","category-health-science","category-quotations","category-science","tag-chemistry","tag-debunking"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/favicon.png","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-9TX","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38065","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38065"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38065\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":47662,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38065\/revisions\/47662"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35193"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38065"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38065"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38065"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}