They tell consumers they\u2019re \u201cnatural,\u201d but when \u201cindustry experts\u201d are talking to each other, the story changes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Take what we learned from this outline<\/a> of a research report on the “savory ingredient industry.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n First off, it\u2019s a big money-maker, valued at 7.2 billion USD this year, and going up and up (savory ingredients include hydrolyzed proteins, yeast extracts and MSG). And industry refers to them as \u201csynthetic flavor enhancers.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n These \u201csynthetic\u201d compounds produced through \u201cchemical processes\u201d (with monosodium glutamate being the \u201cmost widely synthesized\u201d one), are said to be cheap and easy to manufacture.<\/p>\n\n\n\n So there you have it. They know that MSG is synthetic, manufactured through a chemical process, but we\u2019re told it\u2019s \u201cnatural\u201d or \u201cnaturally occurring.\u201d And as you can see that\u2019s nothing more than pure, 100 percent propaganda.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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