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7 Lines of Evidence: Line 4

Watch for our fifth Line of Evidence

There are an additional three Lines of Evidence that lead inevitably to the conclusion that manufactured free glutamate (MfG), such as that found in hydrolyzed proteins and monosodium glutamate (MSG) is a well-disguised poison – a poison that may well be hidden in your very own pantry.

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If you have questions or comments, we’d love to hear from you. If you have hints for others on how to avoid exposure to MfG, send them along, too, and we’ll put them up on Facebook. Or you can reach us at questionsaboutmsg@gmail.com and follow us on Twitter @truthlabeling.

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7 Lines of Evidence: Line 3

Watch for our fourth Line of Evidence on Thursday

There are an additional four Lines of Evidence that lead inevitably to the conclusion that manufactured free glutamate (MfG), such as that found in hydrolyzed proteins and monosodium glutamate (MSG) is a well-disguised poison – a poison that may well be hidden in your very own pantry.

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If you have questions or comments, we’d love to hear from you. If you have hints for others on how to avoid exposure to MfG, send them along, too, and we’ll put them up on Facebook. Or you can reach us at questionsaboutmsg@gmail.com and follow us on Twitter @truthlabeling.

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Yeast extract (the new favorite in processed foods) also contains toxic manufactured free glutamate (MfG) just as MSG does

Want to know the latest “market strategies” in making processed food yummy and lower in sodium?

Look no further than a just-out press release on the “salt substitute market size.” If we skip all the boring industry chatter and get right to the point, yeast extract is apparently the new darling of food companies who are making low sodium processed foods, according to this report.

The manufacturing methods in making yeast extract can vary, but the bottom line is that yeast extract contains toxic free glutamate – not as much toxic free glutamate as MSG – but still enough to do damage. That’s especially true when you think about how many sources of MfG there are in foods, snacks and beverages, and how easy it is to consume a large amount.

Our favorite line from this press release, telling why yeast extract is gaining in popularity over MSG is this one: It has replaced Monosodium Glutamate (MSG), which is a sodium salt for glutamic acid. MSG contains 90% of glutamate, which can cause nausea, weakness and headache. Yeast extract only contains 5% of glutamate, making it the more preferred option.

Perhaps this could be a good advertising campaign for a food product replacing MSG with yeast extract: New and improved! Now with fewer headaches, nausea and weakness than our original version that contained MSG!


Coming Next Tuesday is the third Line of Evidence that leads inevitably to the conclusion that manufactured free glutamate (MfG), such as that found in hydrolyzed proteins and monosodium glutamate (MSG) is a well-disguised poison – a poison that may well be hidden in your very own pantry.

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If you have questions or comments, we’d love to hear from you. If you have hints for others on how to avoid exposure to MfG, send them along, too, and we’ll put them up on Facebook. Or you can reach us at questionsaboutmsg@gmail.com and follow us on Twitter @truthlabeling.

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7 Lines of Evidence: Line 2

Watch for our third Line of Evidence

There are an additional five Lines of Evidence that lead inevitably to the conclusion that manufactured free glutamate (MfG), such as that found in hydrolyzed proteins and monosodium glutamate (MSG) is a well-disguised poison – a poison that may well be hidden in your very own pantry.

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If you have questions or comments, we’d love to hear from you. If you have hints for others on how to avoid exposure to MfG, send them along, too, and we’ll put them up on Facebook. Or you can reach us at questionsaboutmsg@gmail.com and follow us on Twitter @truthlabeling.

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The Washington Post?

What do you think it took to get Aaron Hutcherson, a Washington Post food writer of good reputation, to take a propaganda piece advertising a brain-damaging food additive, disguise it as a foodie article and submit it to the Post?   And worse yet, have the Post print it.

This isn’t the first time the Post has hosted glutamate-industry propaganda.  Caitlin Dewey authored Why Americans still avoid MSG, even though its ‘health effects’ have been debunked on March 20, 2018, and Becky Krystal, a staff reporter for Voraciously covering topics related to food did Embrace umami and learn to add its savory goodness to your foods on February 17, 2020.

Aaron Hutcherson’s article includes much of the standard glutamate-industry propaganda, starting with the statement that Chinese restaurant syndrome is blamed for MSG’s bad reputation.   Predictably, that ignores the fact that after MSG and its free glutamate component were reinvented in 1957, people began having reactions after eating MSG and talking to each other about them.  Kwok (the doctor who wrote the Chinese restaurant syndrome letter printed in The New England Journal of Medicine) wasn’t the only person who reacted to MSG, but the reactions of others weren’t published.

In the Hutcherson article there’s also the fiction that to react to MSG you have to consume more than 3 grams MSG without food (a fabrication based on the fact that once, in one study, subjects reacted to 3 grams of MSG without food). 

Similarly, in studies with subjects said to be MSG-sensitive where they were given MSG or a placebo, the claim is made that scientists have not been able to consistently trigger reactions.   

That was guaranteed by giving subjects “placebos” that contained amino acids that caused reactions identical to those caused by the glutamic acid in the MSG test material. In other words, the “placebos” weren’t really placebos.

Then there’s the bit about “The glutamate in MSG is chemically indistinguishable from glutamate present in food proteins. Our bodies ultimately metabolize both sources of glutamate in the same way.” That statement simply ignores the fact that the glutamate in MSG, being manufactured, comes with unwanted by-products of production which inevitably include D-glutamic acid and pyroglutamic acid along with other impurities depending on the materials used to feed the bacteria that produced the MSG and the extent of the processing.  The glutamate present on food proteins has none of that.

And of course, there is the brainwashing component of the article, where celebrity chefs applaud MSG’s use, and feel-good words and images are paired with “delicious” MSG.

But Hutcherson also does something just a tad different.  Most propaganda pieces say something about the so-called “alleged” dangers of MSG, but Hutcherson doesn’t.  So, I’d like to introduce you to the series of blogs that the Truth in Labeling Campaign is doing titled “There are seven lines of evidence leading to the conclusion that the manufactured free glutamate (MfG) in monosodium glutamate is toxic.” The “Overview” was posted on August 24 and “Line 1” was posted on August 26.  You can read them at https://bit.ly/3DqyS51 and https://bit.ly/3sUty5g respectively.  And there will be more to follow.

Do you think there’s a chance that the Washington Post would even mention those articles?  Not since the 1991 60 Minutes program on toxic MSG has any major media in the U.S. even suggested that MSG might be anything other than a harmless food additive.


If you have questions or comments, we’d love to hear from you. If you have hints for others on how to avoid exposure to MfG, send them along, too, and we’ll put them up on Facebook. Or you can reach us at questionsaboutmsg@gmail.com and follow us on Twitter @truthlabeling.

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There are seven lines of evidence leading to the conclusion that the manufactured free glutamate (MfG) in monosodium glutamate is toxic: Line 1

Watch for the next blog

Over the course of the next few blogs the Truth in Labeling Campaign will be unveiling the Seven Lines of Evidence that lead inevitably to the conclusion that manufactured free glutamate (MfG), such as that found in hydrolyzed proteins and monosodium glutamate (MSG) is a well-disguised poison – a poison that may well be hidden in your very own pantry.

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If you have questions or comments, we’d love to hear from you. If you have hints for others on how to avoid exposure to MfG, send them along, too, and we’ll put them up on Facebook. Or you can reach us at questionsaboutmsg@gmail.com and follow us on Twitter @truthlabeling.

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There are seven lines of evidence leading to the conclusion that the manufactured free glutamate (MfG) in monosodium glutamate is toxic

Watch for the next blog

Over the course of the next few blogs the Truth in Labeling Campaign will be unveiling the Seven Lines of Evidence that lead inevitably to the conclusion that manufactured free glutamate (MfG), such as that found in hydrolyzed proteins and monosodium glutamate (MSG) is a well-disguised poison – a poison that may well be hidden in your very own pantry.

Look for Line One on Thursday.

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If you have questions or comments, we’d love to hear from you. If you have hints for others on how to avoid exposure to MfG, send them along, too, and we’ll put them up on Facebook. Or you can reach us at questionsaboutmsg@gmail.com and follow us on Twitter @truthlabeling.

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Is MSG a toxin or a poison?

Although the terms “toxin” and “poison” are often used interchangeably, there are some significant differences. According to encyclopedia.com “A chemical is said to be a poison if it causes some degree of metabolic disfunction in organisms. Strictly speaking, a toxin is a poisonous chemical of biological origin, being produced by a microorganism, plant, or animal.”  (Emphasis added.)

It goes on to say: “It is critical to understand that while any chemical can cause poisoning, a threshold of tolerable dose must be exceeded for this to actually happen.”

So, strictly speaking, MSG, which is manufactured by humans as opposed to being produced by a microorganism, plant, or animal, is a poison.

The Free Dictionary would seem to agree.  It defines a poison as “a substance that, on ingestion, inhalation, absorption, application, injection, or development within the body, in relatively small amounts, may cause structural or functional disturbance.”

There are four very interesting facts about the poison in MSG.

1) The poisonous component of MSG is free glutamate.  It’s free glutamate that triggers glutamate receptors, enhancing the flavor of food, and at the same time operating as a poison.

2) There are lots of products in addition to MSG that contain free glutamate.  Just like the free glutamate in MSG, each enhances the flavor of the food with which it is eaten while it plays out its role as a poison.

3) Prior to 1957, tolerable doses of free glutamate would not have been exceeded, and the small amounts of free glutamate in processed foods would have not been poisonous.  Prior to 1957, there wasn’t enough free glutamate in processed foods eaten during the course of a day to produce more free glutamate than could be tolerated.

4) In 1957, a revolutionary method for producing MSG and the free glutamate in it was introduced and the use of both MSG and other free glutamate-containing flavor-enhancers began to grow exponentially. From that point forward, the amount of free glutamate in processed foods easily exceeded the amount that could be ingested without causing adverse reactions and/or brain damage.

The dose makes the poison.

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Watch for it.

Over the course of the next few blogs the Truth in Labeling Campaign will be unveiling the Seven Lines of Evidence that lead inevitably to the conclusion that manufactured free glutamate (MfG), such as that found in hydrolyzed proteins and monosodium glutamate (MSG) is a well-disguised poison – a poison that may well be hidden in your very own pantry.

The first blog in the series will be August 24.

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If you have questions or comments, we’d love to hear from you. If you have hints for others on how to avoid exposure to MfG, send them along, too, and we’ll put them up on Facebook. Or you can reach us at questionsaboutmsg@gmail.com and follow us on Twitter @truthlabeling.

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You could blame it on your mother, but there was no way for her to know

Did you know that obesity can be caused by pregnant women passing manufactured free glutamate to fetuses and newborns where it causes brain damage that in turn causes gross obesity, behavior disorders and reproductive disfunction (infertility)? Where do you find manufactured free glutamate? Think hydrolyzed proteins and MSG. 

Watch for it.

Over the course of the next few blogs the Truth in Labeling Campaign will be unveiling the Seven Lines of Evidence that lead inevitably to the conclusion that manufactured free glutamate (MfG), such as that found in hydrolyzed proteins and monosodium glutamate (MSG) is a well-disguised poison – a poison that may well be hidden in your very own pantry.

The first blog in the series will be August 24.

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If you have questions or comments, we’d love to hear from you. If you have hints for others on how to avoid exposure to MfG, send them along, too, and we’ll put them up on Facebook. Or you can reach us at questionsaboutmsg@gmail.com and follow us on Twitter @truthlabeling.

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MSG isn’t natural

Watch for it.

Over the course of the next few blogs the Truth in Labeling Campaign will be unveiling the Seven Lines of Evidence that lead inevitably to the conclusion that manufactured free glutamate (MfG), such as that found in hydrolyzed proteins and monosodium glutamate (MSG) is a well-disguised poison – a poison that may very well be hidden in your own pantry.

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If you have questions or comments, we’d love to hear from you. If you have hints for others on how to avoid exposure to MfG, send them along, too, and we’ll put them up on Facebook. Or you can reach us at questionsaboutmsg@gmail.com and follow us on Twitter @truthlabeling.