Strictly speaking, MSG has gotten a bad rap. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
No, not because it\u2019s safe to eat. When ingested in quantity (and there\u2019s plenty of it around to create that quantity), it causes brain damage, obesity, infertility, a-fib, fibromyalgia, migraine headaches, seizures, asthma and more. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
MSG has a bad rap because it\u2019s actually the manufactured free glutamate (MfG) in MSG that causes all those terrible reactions — and there are 40+ food ingredients besides MSG that contain MfG<\/a>, which are just as toxic as MSG. But no one except the Truth in Labeling Campaign is talking about those excitotoxic ingredients being brain damaging, endocrine disrupting, reaction-causing food additives. It\u2019s just MSG that\u2019s being publicly exposed for being toxic.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Guilty as MSG is for causing disease and disability, there are numerous other ingredients that should be sharing MSG\u2019s negative notoriety. Those are the MfG-containing ingredients you\u2019ll find in most processed foods claiming \u201cNo MSG Added\u201d or \u201cNo added MSG.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n 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 <\/em>Facebook<\/em><\/a>. Or you can reach us at questionsaboutmsg@gmail.com and follow us on <\/em>Twitter @truthlabeling<\/em><\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n