{"id":1295,"date":"2020-11-04T20:15:51","date_gmt":"2020-11-04T20:15:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.truthinlabeling.org\/blog\/?p=1295"},"modified":"2020-11-04T20:15:56","modified_gmt":"2020-11-04T20:15:56","slug":"theres-no-such-thing-as-natural-msg","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/truthinlabeling.org\/blog\/2020\/11\/04\/theres-no-such-thing-as-natural-msg\/","title":{"rendered":"There\u2019s no such thing as \u2018natural\u2019 MSG"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The FDA is fond of saying that there are \u201cnaturally high levels\u201d of MSG in some foods, notably tomatoes and processed tomato products. That\u2019s simply not true. MSG is manufactured. There\u2019s no such thing as \u201cnatural\u201d MSG.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This is a picture of the plant in Eddyville Iowa where Ajinomoto manufactures monosodium glutamate (MSG). What do you think Ajinomoto had to do to get the FDA to parrot its fiction that \u201cMSG is naturally occurring?\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/truthinlabeling.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/ajm_plant.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-393\" width=\"510\" height=\"296\" srcset=\"https:\/\/truthinlabeling.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/ajm_plant.jpg 369w, https:\/\/truthinlabeling.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/ajm_plant-300x174.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 510px) 100vw, 510px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><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>The FDA is fond of saying that there are \u201cnaturally high levels\u201d of MSG in some foods, notably tomatoes and processed tomato products. That\u2019s simply not true. MSG is manufactured. There\u2019s no such thing as \u201cnatural\u201d MSG. This is a picture of the plant in Eddyville Iowa where Ajinomoto manufactures monosodium glutamate (MSG). What do &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/truthinlabeling.org\/blog\/2020\/11\/04\/theres-no-such-thing-as-natural-msg\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;There\u2019s no such thing as \u2018natural\u2019 MSG&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":338,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[8,13,4,223,24],"class_list":["post-1295","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-ajinomoto","tag-fda","tag-msg","tag-msgnotnatural","tag-truthinlabelingcampaign"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/truthinlabeling.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1295","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/truthinlabeling.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/truthinlabeling.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/truthinlabeling.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/truthinlabeling.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1295"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/truthinlabeling.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1295\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1297,"href":"https:\/\/truthinlabeling.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1295\/revisions\/1297"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/truthinlabeling.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/338"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/truthinlabeling.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1295"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/truthinlabeling.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1295"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/truthinlabeling.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1295"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}