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I think we may need a new thread for MSG!

As far as I remember, we have these MSG threads:

What does MSG taste like, and what else makes me thirsty besides MSG and salt?

I had two meals last week that afterwards I had to drink copious amount of water for a few hours to quench the thirst. I would be surprised if one of the restaurants use additional MSG. But since the food didn’t feel overly salty at the time, the only reason I can think of for the thirst is MSG. I really don’t like meals that I have to be thirsty afterwards for the whole afternoon or whole evening. So two questions: In order for me to limit my consumption of MSG, I want to get a better sens…

The New Yorker: An MSG Convert Visits the High Church of Umami

excerpt: A few years ago, this affinity for MSG might have made me seem edgy or cool. Monosodium glutamate has been widespread in the American food supply since at least the nineteen-twenties, imported from China and Japan by major food-production companies like Heinz and Campbell’s, according to research done by Catherine Piccoli, a curator at New York’s Museum of Food and Drink. But a 1968 letter published in The New England Journal of Medicine raised the spectre of “Chinese Restaurant Syn…

A new thread if you have a new perspective.