{"id":1013,"date":"2020-08-02T14:44:09","date_gmt":"2020-08-02T14:44:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.truthinlabeling.org\/blog\/?p=1013"},"modified":"2020-08-02T14:44:26","modified_gmt":"2020-08-02T14:44:26","slug":"the-art-of-hiding-mfg","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/truthinlabeling.org\/blog\/2020\/08\/02\/the-art-of-hiding-mfg\/","title":{"rendered":"The art of hiding MfG"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Artists don\u2019t just paint, sing, play an instrument or act. Some of the best artists out there utilize their talents to deceive you.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>At the Truth in Labeling Campaign we\u2019ve run into many great artists working in public relations firms. They understand human nature and can paint word pictures to sell you almost anything.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We\u2019ve met men and women who have elevated lying to an art form. And rarely do their targets know that they\u2019re being deceived. Then there are the marketing people who often employ a variety of specialized artists to push their products.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Some who hide manufactured free glutamate (MfG), the toxic ingredient in MSG, do it cleverly but not creatively. They use distraction to draw your focus away from the dangers of their product, talking about the benefits of low salt, muscle building, or the umami flavor. And they\u2019ll very likely use ingredients that you\u2019re not going to recognize as containing MfG.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"alignleft size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/truthinlabeling.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/braggs_bottle2.gif\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1015\" width=\"53\" height=\"144\"\/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>Ingredients called \u201cglutamic acid\u201d and \u201cdisodium inosinate\u201d are prime examples. You\u2019ll find them in flavor enhancers like Braggs Aminos and soups and bouillon like Minor\u2019s soup bases.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"alignright size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/truthinlabeling.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/minorsgiff.gif\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1018\" width=\"147\" height=\"147\"\/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>Not to be overlooked are those who sell products containing MfG to bakeries and restaurants claiming that their products are free of MSG, and the bakeries and restaurants that use those products as though they contained no MfG. Those businesses don\u2019t routinely display the names of ingredients used in their products, and some are proud to make the misleading claim that they don\u2019t use MSG (the name that most consumers give to all ingredients that contain MfG). That\u2019s not even artful lying. It\u2019s just a subterfuge.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><br><br><br><em>If you have questions or comments, we\u2019d love to hear from you. If you have hints for others on how to avoid exposure to MfG, send them along, too, and we\u2019ll put them up on\u00a0<\/em><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/Truth-in-Labeling-Campaign-114093959577\/\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Facebook<\/em><\/a><em>. Or you can reach us at questionsaboutmsg@gmail.com and follow us on\u00a0<\/em><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/truthlabeling\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Twitter @truthlabeling<\/em><\/a><em>.<\/em><\/p>\n<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Artists don\u2019t just paint, sing, play an instrument or act. Some of the best artists out there utilize their talents to deceive you. At the Truth in Labeling Campaign we\u2019ve run into many great artists working in public relations firms. They understand human nature and can paint word pictures to sell you almost anything. We\u2019ve &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/truthinlabeling.org\/blog\/2020\/08\/02\/the-art-of-hiding-mfg\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The art of hiding MfG&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1014,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[131,84,31,4],"class_list":["post-1013","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-hiddenmsg","tag-manufacturedfreeglutamate","tag-mfg","tag-msg"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/truthinlabeling.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1013","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/truthinlabeling.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/truthinlabeling.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/truthinlabeling.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/truthinlabeling.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1013"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"http:\/\/truthinlabeling.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1013\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1023,"href":"http:\/\/truthinlabeling.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1013\/revisions\/1023"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/truthinlabeling.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1014"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/truthinlabeling.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1013"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/truthinlabeling.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1013"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/truthinlabeling.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1013"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}