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Ajinomoto Monosodium Glutamate (MSG) is a flavor enhancer which has been used effectively for over a century to bring out the best flavor of food
Ajinomoto Monosodium Glutamate 250g, $2.79 (2 minimum). OOS
Maharajah's Choice Monosodium Glutamate Powder, 1 kg, $8.61. OOS
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Can I get it with no anol pls
I checked both items and neither listed methanol as an ingredient?
Too much methanol in your brain apparently. This is a product if Thailand as well.
If that was the reason for that comment then princesszeldachechen really is a piece of sh1t .
Could you provide a source for this?
Methanol….is okay for M S G Aiya!!! Why so weak… So weak??
You, Us or Me than ol?
I bet you then go and buy garlic made in China
MSG doesn't have any ingredients. Its ingredient is itself: sodium glutamate. It is a single compound.
That's why this is called MSG seasoning.
It's still at least 30% salt, so you shouldn't or don't need to use much at all (1/8 of a teaspoon is recommended).
It's for lazy cooking (instant noodles and cheap chinese).
Uncle Roger……….niece and nephew. Buy buy buy
aiya!!!!
FUIYOH!!!
Fuiyoh
King of flavour!
So all that it took to normalize MSG was Uncle Roger's jokes? Or it wasn't as bad as it was made out to be in the first place?
Salt has probably killed more people than MSG
Salt is good. Least mortality eat between 5-8g of it daily. Sugar and stress are the real killers and cause of hypertension.
Bad fats also.
@Spendmore: Have to be specific with bad fats. Since there's incredible ignorance around that, too. To many bad fat is all saturated fat. For some it's seeds oils. For some it's all animal fat no matter what source. Based on observational data, you could argue seed oils are required to setup widespread metabolic disease in the first place. When looking at sugar intake and obesity not correlating. But increasing seed oil, and decreasing animal fat is tracking with obesity when those dietary policies were put in place.
Bad fat is a lot more complicated than just bad fat. I think we're experiencing epigenetic metabolic signaling from the foods we eat. Which inform our bodies what season we're supposed to be in and it appears like we're living in an eternal summer/autumn. Forever building fat for a winter that never comes. People eating nothing BUT meat and fat have the weight fall off them. Even 30% protein to 70% fat.
Should've also mentioned pollutants are the third major contributing factor in metabolic diseases. Like heart disease, stroke and cancer. People who think salt is bad don't know anything. Believing in one hundred year old lies… Electrolyte regulation is one of most robust biological mechanisms. Drink the right amount of water and balance your sodium with appropriate potassium. Unless you're already afflicted with severe kidney disease, you're doing more harm than good by deliberately restricting.
@Valowick: Any fat with a branched fatty acid chain is harmful. Once you understand that the complicated esoteric explanations are unnecessary. This includes trans fats and fats found in seed oils. Unfortunately most people don't seek to understand the mechanism of harm and end up likely to be misled or confused.
Electrolyte regulation is one of most robust biological mechanisms.
100%. I assume any study blaming salt for poor health is not controlled for confounding, our kidneys have no problems removing excess salt
Anything is toxic (even water) in a high enough dose. Salt is 6 times more dangerous than MSG when taken in high doses. You would have to eat 6 times more MSG than salt to obtain the same kind of toxic effects.
At normal amounts (such as in food), MSG is perfectly safe.
Glutamic acids are naturally occurring in food. They are responsible for the taste of food and in your body. MSG is one type of glutamic acid that includes sodium (salt).
Interestingly there is no irrational paranoia about hydrolyzed vegetable protein, which contains glutamic acids like MSG, and is added to practically anything to improve the taste, including most if not all fast food franchises.
Glutamic acids are naturally occurring in food. They are responsible for the taste of food and in your body.
Sorry, meant to type "Glutamic acids are naturally occurring in food and in your body. They are responsible for the taste of food."
Link saying sugar is bad?
The meat and dairy industries have done well brainwashing everyone over the past 50 years. People are downright scared of sugar but don't care how much saturated fats and salts they consume. Fructose is also sugar and there are many benefits to fruit (fibre, nutrients). It's all the processed food by way of convenience and lack of movement (exercise) which is the real killer.
meat and dairy industries have done well brainwashing everyone
hahaha. The ideology is so spectacularly dense.
Can you live exclusively on sugar for ten years or more like you can beef and beef fat? Where is the essential fatty acids in sugar? Such as DHA, EPA and pentadecylic acid. Where's the B12? Without which you will die. Or the taurine, carnosine, carnitine and creatine? You could live your entire life without ever eating fiber. Goes to show how essential that is… I'm not even a meat only person. But this delusion that Big Meat is out there confusing people is massive projection of the highest order. How about ZERO lobbies for food and joke "food?" That'd be nice.
Nothing wrong with it, all BS. Plenty of studies have been done. Like the lies about artificial sweeteners.
Correct
So are artificial sweeteners good or bad now?
Neither.
No known health value, afaik.
Still not a fan of aspartame - there are plenty of others Id more willingly choose
https://www.who.int/news/item/14-07-2023-aspartame-hazard-an…
But even then, I only limit it; if I need caffiene and coke zero is the only option, its being enjoyed. Lol.
there's msg in tomatoes and cheese naturally, why isnt more than half the world effected?
Affected*
I have always loved MSG, it's foooking awesome!!!!!!!
MSG has never been bad; it was only made to look bad. If I remember the studies correctly, they used 100 to 1,000 times more than what you’d find in a normal dish and injected it into monkeys to test it.
And if anyone does have a genuine sensitivity to it, if that's even a thing, then it's no more "bad" than peanut butter is because some people are allergic to it. Milk isn't bad because some people are lactose intolerant.
it's funny my other half has allergic reactions to MSG. it's pretty rare to have major reaction (her face swells & has trouble breathing). But like mass gluten & lactose allergies it started off as a claim by a few medical professionals, taken as true, later proven as rare, but the rumours live on and many are convinced it's true.
What are you talking about? The studies demonstrated that MSG is safe.
Anything is toxic (even water) in a high enough dose. There is only so much of anything your body can metabolize in a limited time. Salt is far more toxic than MSG. You would have to eat 6 times as much MSG as salt to obtain the same kind of toxic effects.
MSG is normalised, if you consider Doritos and thousands of other supermarket foods to be normal.
No uncle Roger didn't do this you just didn't know about it because you probably fell for the racist crap that people still perpetuate about it
Msg is great
Nothing like some vintage 1960s food hysteria! Fun fact - your body produces around 50g of glutamate daily, while you'd get more glutamate from a serving of parmesan or tomatoes than this entire bag of MSG. The whole 'excitotoxicity' myth comes from studies where they literally injected massive doses into newborn mice's brains (Olney, 1969) - not exactly your typical stir-fry scenario.
The European Food Safety Authority reviewed 50+ years of research and concluded MSG is perfectly safe (EFSA, 2017), as did the FDA decades ago. The infamous 'Chinese Restaurant Syndrome' was debunked as xenophobic pseudoscience (Geiling, Smithsonian, 2013).
But don't let me stop you from missing out on that sweet umami goodness. More for those of us who trust peer-reviewed literature / with a degree in the relevant area (not that you need a degree to l2read) over retro food scares! Just remember also to avoid those dangerous checks notes mushrooms, seaweed, and breast milk - all naturally packed with glutamate.
If you're not eating ~29,761.90g of parmesan per day (~1.68g glutamate / 100g), then you're doing your day wrong.
Your serving of parmesan is at least half a kilo? You do you.
Parmesan also has an anti caking agent that is known to be carcinogenic.
@Spendmore: Only shit parmesan. Don't buy the stuff that tastes like sawdust and isn't refrigerated and you will be ok
@Spendmore: Even grated parmesan. Parmigiano reggiano sold at Aldi and Costco for 30/kg has no fillers.
Our mate above probably uses bloodletting to balance the humours too, medieval era medicine mf
Bloodletting can help people suffering iron toxicity/overload and other stuff (blood disorders). They're called therapeutic phlebotomies. Not all old things are bad for all reasons.
@Valowick: Key part of that being 'to balance the humours' - I am aware of some instances where it is a standard medical procedure i.e hemochromatosis as a family member suffers from it
There was a recent ABC Health Report about it - for people who need to lower their sodium intake, MSG can actually help a lot because it provides that flavour kick with less sodium per mg.
Americanised Chinese food is basically junk food, some people will feel a bit off after indulging in a large serve of any junk food. All that fat and salt, belly full of fried carbs.
Bruh this is pretty much Asian salt.
Let's hope you and your fellow 'extra chromosome'rs' breed yourselves out of existence.
Are you making a bigoted comment against people with down syndrome?
bro literally speaks to a class of peoples in the negative as "them," entirely othering and inserting perspective on that group
bro dually indulges in the hypocrisy of criticising someone else for speaking to a class of peoples in the negative
Source?
Delicious ingredients.
haiya msg good choice good choice la
Good choice if can't cook.
agreed. good chefs don't mess with MSG lol.
Couldn't be further from the truth. Good chefs shouldn't need salt then either right? They should just learn to cook a bit better
@Phesto: Correct.
Guess just because Jamie Oliver uses a shitload of butter and oil you think it's cool.
Couldn't be further from the truth. Good chefs shouldn't need salt then either right? They should just learn to cook a bit better
when did I ever say that?
you do not need MSG if you're a good chef. MSG is lazy cooking.
look at authentic traditional Cantonese cooking, barely any seasoning AND salt. just focus on the freshness to uplift the flavour.
if you really want umami taste just derive it from anchovies or dried scallops. they taste WAY different than MSG powder. you would know if you're a good cook but does not look like it from here.
This will make uncle Roger very happy.. fuiyoh!
time to try and improve my fried rice :)
anyone got a recipe suggestion (stuck with a woke on an induction cooktop though)?
Go woke , go broke!
Damn spelling, even my cooktops gone political
Get wok, gro brok -.-
Then you can use it as a drying pan
aaaaand it's gone!
Didn't ask lmao
You know that MSG is naturally found in cheese, tomatoes, mushrooms, seaweed, beef, chicken, fish, and many fermented products? And to top it off if you read the link you sent, it says its fine.
Yep, all of that is listed in the link that was posted above. The article was actually fairly positive towards msg.
Lol is cheese natural?
What serving size did they say is fine? 1/8th of a teaspoon or shaking the packet on ya food like Uncle Roger? It's just convenient and cheap if you can't cook or add more healthy flavours on your cooking (instant noodles and cheap Chinese).
I said naturally found in, not that cheese is natural
@Shiroi Okami: I know but you get the irony lol.
It's mostly sodium anyway (at least 1/3).
Better off just having the natural foods 🙄.
You sound Japanese. I use dried shitake mushrooms for miso soup stock, no need to put artificia flavourings in.
You sound Japanese. I use dried shitake mushrooms for miso soup stock, no need to put artificia flavourings in.
Everything in the universe is made of elements and compounds. A compound is some elements joined together.
Salt is a compound. The chemical name is "sodium chloride".
MSG is a compound. The chemical name is "monosodium glutamate".
Sugars (monosaccharides) are more complex compounds. One of the most common, the sweet one you're most familiar with, is called "glycosyl glycoside".
I know the big names are scary for you, but these are all naturally occurring compounds found in food and in your body.
OzBargain'd again
When cooking at home, does MSG appear as an ingredient to add when reading a recipe online (I have never come across it) or is something you just add pinch of to boost flavour randomly?
I have it in the pantry but have never used it and I cook alot.
Taste a bit and see what you think. Tastes to me like 2 minute noodles in a crystal or something.
Use it like salt….. For example if you're cooking 2 eggs, add a pinch of it or how ever much you like. Like with any ingredient, too much is bad.
Just keep adjusting until you like it.
Treat MSG like salt—use your intuition when adding it during cooking, but avoid sprinkling it directly onto a finished dish.
people love MSG so much now, that's it's completely sold out aaaaahhhhhhh
I was just thinking how am I always late to the MSG posts haha.
Must be bought in bulk by those Asian fried rice joints lol
i use it on everything
Sometime you just have to eat an entire cucumber
princesszeldachechen on 23/11/2024 - 17:45 Comment score below threshold.