{"id":288,"date":"2019-06-05T20:52:10","date_gmt":"2019-06-05T20:52:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.truthinlabeling.org\/blog\/?p=288"},"modified":"2019-06-05T22:42:01","modified_gmt":"2019-06-05T22:42:01","slug":"monosodium-glutamate-msg-the-basics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/truthinlabeling.org\/blog\/2019\/06\/05\/monosodium-glutamate-msg-the-basics\/","title":{"rendered":"Monosodium glutamate (MSG): The basics"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>1) It\u2019s manufactured using genetically engineered bacteria. <\/strong><br>The most \u201cnaturally occurring\u201d thing about monosodium glutamate is the genetically modified bacteria that excrete monosodium glutamate\u2019s potentially excitotoxic glutamic acid through their cell walls.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>2) It contains:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>L-glutamic acid (which stimulates taste buds to give the perception of a more exciting or robust taste experience);<\/li><li>unavoidable, undesirable, by-products of L-glutamic acid manufacture which include D-glutamic acid, pyroglutamic acid, and additional impurities depending on the material fed to the bacteria and the exact nature of the bacterial fermentation involved \u2013&#8211; by-products of manufacture that are not found in unadulterated meat, fish, poultry or in the human body;<\/li><li>sodium, and,<\/li><li>moisture.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>3) When present in excess, it turns excitotoxic.   <\/strong><br> When present in excess (amounts greater than needed for normal body function), the glutamic acid in monosodium glutamate becomes excitotoxic, causing neurotransmitters to fire repeatedly until the cells associated with targeted glutamate receptors die &#8212; causing brain damage and endocrine disorders as well as reactions such as a-fib, asthma, irritable bowel syndrome and seizures.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>4) There is more than enough free glutamic acid in processed food to enable humans to accrue the excesses needed to cause brain damage and consequent abnormalities.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>5) To learn more:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>To learn more about monosodium glutamate see: <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"What is monosodium glutamate (opens in a new tab)\" href=\"https:\/\/www.truthinlabeling.org\/whatismonosodiumglutamate.html\" target=\"_blank\">What is monosodium glutamate<\/a>?<br><br>To review the names of ingredients that contain manufactured free glutamic acid see: <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"Ingredient Names Used to Hide MfG (opens in a new tab)\" href=\"https:\/\/www.truthinlabeling.org\/names.html\" target=\"_blank\">Ingredient Names Used to Hide MfG.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>To understand the difference between manufactured free glutamic acid and the glutamic acid found in unadulterated protein and in the human body see: <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"Manufactured vs Natural glutamic acid  (opens in a new tab)\" href=\"https:\/\/www.truthinlabeling.org\/manufacvsnatural.html\" target=\"_blank\">Manufactured vs Natural glutamic acid.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>To read about industry\u2019s denial of the toxicity of MSG see:<\/strong><br><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\" Basic Facts (things the &quot;glutes&quot; don't want you to know (opens in a new tab)\" href=\"https:\/\/www.truthinlabeling.org\/basic.html\" target=\"_blank\"> Basic Facts (things the &#8220;glutes&#8221; don&#8217;t want you to know<\/a>)<br><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"This is How the &quot;MSG is Safe&quot; Game is Played (opens in a new tab)\" href=\"https:\/\/www.truthinlabeling.org\/safe.html\" target=\"_blank\">This is How the &#8220;MSG is Safe&#8221; Game is Played<\/a><br><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"Meet the &quot;Glutes&quot; (opens in a new tab)\" href=\"https:\/\/www.truthinlabeling.org\/glutes.html\" target=\"_blank\">Meet the &#8220;Glutes&#8221;<\/a><br><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"Here's How They Hide MSG (opens in a new tab)\" href=\"https:\/\/www.truthinlabeling.org\/hide.html\" target=\"_blank\">Here&#8217;s How They Hide MSG<\/a><br><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"The Architect of it All (opens in a new tab)\" href=\"https:\/\/www.truthinlabeling.org\/ebert.html\" target=\"_blank\">The Architect of it All<\/a><br><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"Industry's FDA (opens in a new tab)\" href=\"https:\/\/www.truthinlabeling.org\/fda.html\" target=\"_blank\">Industry&#8217;s FDA<\/a><br><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"Six Big Fat Lies (opens in a new tab)\" href=\"https:\/\/www.truthinlabeling.org\/lies.html\" target=\"_blank\">Six Big Fat Lies<\/a><br><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"Propaganda (opens in a new tab)\" href=\"https:\/\/www.truthinlabeling.org\/propaganda.html\" target=\"_blank\">Propaganda<\/a><br><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"Umami (opens in a new tab)\" href=\"https:\/\/www.truthinlabeling.org\/umami.html\" target=\"_blank\">Umami<\/a> <\/p>\n<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>1) It\u2019s manufactured using genetically engineered bacteria. The most \u201cnaturally occurring\u201d thing about monosodium glutamate is the genetically modified bacteria that excrete monosodium glutamate\u2019s potentially excitotoxic glutamic acid through their cell walls. 2) It contains: L-glutamic acid (which stimulates taste buds to give the perception of a more exciting or robust taste experience); unavoidable, undesirable, &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/truthinlabeling.org\/blog\/2019\/06\/05\/monosodium-glutamate-msg-the-basics\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Monosodium glutamate (MSG): The basics&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":294,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[94,71,95,54,92,91,30,25,4,88,61,93,24,37],"class_list":["post-288","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-dglutamicacid","tag-edelmanpr","tag-excessiveglutamate","tag-excitotoxins","tag-gebacteria","tag-geneticallymodified","tag-glutes","tag-monosodiumglutamate","tag-msg","tag-msginduced","tag-propanganda","tag-pyroglutamicacid","tag-truthinlabelingcampaign","tag-umami"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/truthinlabeling.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/288","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=288"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"http:\/\/truthinlabeling.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/288\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":303,"href":"http:\/\/truthinlabeling.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/288\/revisions\/303"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/truthinlabeling.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/294"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/truthinlabeling.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=288"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/truthinlabeling.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=288"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/truthinlabeling.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=288"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}