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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).

Maharajah's Choice Monosodium Glutamate Powder, 1 kg, $8.61.

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    • +10

      Can I get it with no anol pls

    • +7

      I checked both items and neither listed methanol as an ingredient?

        • +20

          Too much methanol in your brain apparently. This is a product if Thailand as well.

        • +4

          If that was the reason for that comment then princesszeldachechen really is a piece of sh1t .

    • Could you provide a source for this?

    • +2

      Methanol….is okay for M S G Aiya!!! Why so weak… So weak??

    • -3

      You, Us or Me than ol?

  • +12

    Uncle Roger……….niece and nephew. Buy buy buy

  • +10

    Fuiyoh

  • +9

    King of flavour!

  • +1

    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?

    • +17

      Salt has probably killed more people than MSG

      • -1

        Salt is good. Least mortality eat between 5-8g of it daily. Sugar and stress are the real killers and cause of hypertension.

        • +1

          Bad fats also.

          • +4

            @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

            • @Valowick: then the scientific evidence for that that isn't on YouTube or telegram?

    • +4

      2

    • +10

      Nothing wrong with it, all BS. Plenty of studies have been done. Like the lies about artificial sweeteners.

    • +4

      there's msg in tomatoes and cheese naturally, why isnt more than half the world effected?

      • Affected*

    • +1

      I have always loved MSG, it's foooking awesome!!!!!!!

    • +1

      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.

          • @M00Cow: That sucks.

            If I had to give up Tomato and Cheese toasties id go insane, haha.

    • MSG is normalised, if you consider Doritos and thousands of other supermarket foods to be normal.

    • +29

      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.

        • +8

          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

            • @greatlamp: Yeah i know, I only get the chunk o cheese😄👍

              • @Spendmore: Even grated parmesan. Parmigiano reggiano sold at Aldi and Costco for 30/kg has no fillers.

      • +2

        Our mate above probably uses bloodletting to balance the humours too, medieval era medicine mf

        • -4

          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.

        • +1

          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.

    • +2

      Bruh this is pretty much Asian salt.

    • -5

      It's ok, let's them eat it, they're self eliminating themselves from the gene pool

      • +1

        Let's hope you and your fellow 'extra chromosome'rs' breed yourselves out of existence.

    • Source?

  • +1

    Delicious ingredients.

  • +1

    haiya msg good choice good choice la

    • +1

      Good choice if can't cook.

      • -1

        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

  • +2

    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)?

    • -2

      Go woke , go broke!

      • +2

        Damn spelling, even my cooktops gone political

      • Get wok, gro brok -.-

  • +1

    aaaaand it's gone!

    • +3

      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.

      • +1

        Yep, all of that is listed in the link that was posted above. The article was actually fairly positive towards msg.

      • -2

        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

  • OzBargain'd again

  • +1

    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.

    • +1

      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

  • For those looking for an alternative, The other choice is "Magic Sarap" which you can find in any asian store too. I think it's probably unhealthier, but that thing is great. haha

  • A bit of Yum yum? Fuiyoh!!!

    • yum yum is just msg, so just buy the real thing

      • actually it's a more expensive branded msg that is cut with toasted salt and pepper, so just save your money and buy pure.

        • "cut" lol, proves it's addictive and nasty
          Get into the pure Nullarbor White.

  • A lot of people feel excited because of this MSG.

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