{"id":379,"date":"2019-07-16T18:18:33","date_gmt":"2019-07-16T18:18:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.truthinlabeling.org\/blog\/?p=379"},"modified":"2019-07-16T18:18:40","modified_gmt":"2019-07-16T18:18:40","slug":"pick-your-poison","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/truthinlabeling.org\/blog\/2019\/07\/16\/pick-your-poison\/","title":{"rendered":"Pick your poison"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The Glutamate Association recommends that using monosodium glutamate \u201ccan help to reduce the sodium content of recipes.\u201d There\u2019s even a \u201creview paper\u201d by the International Glutamate Technical Committee called \u201cGlutamate Contributes to the Reduction of Dietary Sodium Intake.\u201d Certainly reducing salt in food has become very popular. But since there\u2019s a great similarity between arsenic and MSG, and arsenic doesn\u2019t contain <em>any<\/em> sodium, perhaps arsenic would be a better choice.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Both arsenic and monosodium glutamate can be toxic when taken in large doses, or when taken in small does over long periods of time. Arsenic can also have the appearance of a white powder. Like MSG (before a big PR campaign rebranded it as umami), arsenic is tasteless, odorless, and ingesting it can cause damage throughout the body along with a wide variety of symptoms.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Pick your poison.<\/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&nbsp;<\/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&nbsp;<\/em><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/truthlabeling\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Twitter @truthlabeling<\/em><\/a><em>.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>#truthinlabelingcampaign\n#MSG #MfG #excitotoxins #umami #MSGdanger #MSGreactions #salt #arsenic\n#lowsodium<\/p>\n<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Glutamate Association recommends that using monosodium glutamate \u201ccan help to reduce the sodium content of recipes.\u201d There\u2019s even a \u201creview paper\u201d by the International Glutamate Technical Committee called \u201cGlutamate Contributes to the Reduction of Dietary Sodium Intake.\u201d Certainly reducing salt in food has become very popular. But since there\u2019s a great similarity between arsenic &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/truthinlabeling.org\/blog\/2019\/07\/16\/pick-your-poison\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Pick your poison&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":380,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[107,54,108,31,4,50,48,106,24,37],"class_list":["post-379","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-arsenic","tag-excitotoxins","tag-lowsodium","tag-mfg","tag-msg","tag-msgdanger","tag-msgreactions","tag-salt","tag-truthinlabelingcampaign","tag-umami"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/truthinlabeling.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/379","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=379"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/truthinlabeling.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/379\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":384,"href":"https:\/\/truthinlabeling.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/379\/revisions\/384"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/truthinlabeling.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/380"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/truthinlabeling.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=379"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/truthinlabeling.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=379"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/truthinlabeling.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=379"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}