{"id":1814,"date":"2021-09-28T16:24:14","date_gmt":"2021-09-28T16:24:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.truthinlabeling.org\/blog\/?p=1814"},"modified":"2021-09-28T16:24:38","modified_gmt":"2021-09-28T16:24:38","slug":"calling-msg-umami-doesnt-make-it-any-less-poisonous","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/truthinlabeling.org\/blog\/2021\/09\/28\/calling-msg-umami-doesnt-make-it-any-less-poisonous\/","title":{"rendered":"Calling MSG \u2018umami\u2019 doesn\u2019t make it any less poisonous"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Have <strong>you<\/strong> caught on yet?&nbsp; Since the world is beginning to catch on to the fact that monosodium glutamate (MSG) causes brain damage along with migraine headaches, asthma, seizures and more, and neuroscientists are looking at the role it plays in neurodegenerative diseases like Alzheimer\u2019s, Parkinson\u2019s and ALS, MS, autism, and depression, its producer Ajinomoto is busy (you might say shrewdly) referring to it by the pleasant-sounding name umami, while keeping its poisonous properties intact.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Here\u2019s the latest \u201cMSG-is-safe\u201d advertisement, disguised as an article, received by the Truth in Labeling Campaign: <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.popsci.com\/science\/umami-flavor\/\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/www.popsci.com\/science\/umami-flavor\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><br><br><em class=\"\">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&nbsp;<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/Truth-in-Labeling-Campaign-114093959577\/\" target=\"_blank\">Facebook.<\/a>&nbsp;Or you can reach us at&nbsp;<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" class=\"\" href=\"mailto:questionsaboutmsg@gmail.com\" target=\"_blank\">questionsaboutmsg@gmail.com<\/a>&nbsp;and follow us on&nbsp;<\/em><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/truthlabeling\" target=\"_blank\"><em class=\"\">Twitter @truthlabeling<\/em><\/a><em class=\"\">.<\/em><\/p>\n<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Have you caught on yet?&nbsp; Since the world is beginning to catch on to the fact that monosodium glutamate (MSG) causes brain damage along with migraine headaches, asthma, seizures and more, and neuroscientists are looking at the role it plays in neurodegenerative diseases like Alzheimer\u2019s, Parkinson\u2019s and ALS, MS, autism, and depression, its producer Ajinomoto &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/truthinlabeling.org\/blog\/2021\/09\/28\/calling-msg-umami-doesnt-make-it-any-less-poisonous\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Calling MSG \u2018umami\u2019 doesn\u2019t make it any less poisonous&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1815,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[8,325,4,37],"class_list":["post-1814","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-ajinomoto","tag-monosodium-glutamate","tag-msg","tag-umami"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/truthinlabeling.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1814","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=1814"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/truthinlabeling.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1814\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1818,"href":"http:\/\/truthinlabeling.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1814\/revisions\/1818"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/truthinlabeling.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1815"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/truthinlabeling.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1814"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/truthinlabeling.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1814"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/truthinlabeling.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1814"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}