Bought any MSG lately?

[BigT]

@svd678

Items proclaim “no MSG” because some people are allergic to it and take great care to avoid it.

:smack:

[njtt]

@svd678

Items proclaim “no MSG” because some people are allergic to it and take great care to avoid it.

Some people falsely imagine they are allergic to it.

Anyone actually allergic to glutamate would very quickly be dead, either from anaphylaxis or (if they actually successfully managed to avoid the stuff) from protein starvation.

[jnglmassiv]

@pulykamell

And, yes, Goya Adobo doesn’t usually have MSG in it, as I remember, but Goya Sazon does.

People act weird around MSG. I use it relatively regularly in my cooking: if not pure Accent, through a seasoning like Sazon or a bouillon cube or Vegeta (a Croatian vegetable salt kind of thing), etc. Or through other glutamate products like soy sauce, fish sauce, etc.

YOU! Get out of my head! NOW!
I was gonna say all of that!
I can add that these little guys are worth picking up:
Knorr minicubos cilantro sazonadores

[Maeglin]

@njtt

Some people falsely imagine they are allergic to it.

Anyone actually allergic to glutamate would very quickly be dead, either from anaphylaxis or (if they actually successfully managed to avoid the stuff) from protein starvation.

This is correct. Very rarely, people have sensitivities to some of the inputs to commercial MSG, like beets. That’s what triggers the reaction, not the glutamate.

If you can’t find it in your grocery store, get some high-quality aged parmesan cheese. Cut it open and pull out the little white crystals. Voila, naturally-occurring MSG.

[Phoebestar]

I’d just like to note that I’m not allergic to MSG, but having large amounts of it (such as at a Chinese buffet) keep me burping or otherwise revisiting the flavor of whatever I ate for hours and hours afterwards. It is extremely unpleasant. But legal!

[Mtgman]

As noted, the condiment sold under the brand name “Accent” is pure MSG. The MSG you can get at the Asian supermarkets seems to be a bit coarser and less suitable for use at the table, more for cooking where the larger crystals will have time to dissolve. Accent is more fine grained and more suitable for the table. I tend to mix a little MSG in with my Lawry’s seasoned salt to re-create the flavor they had in the formula I grew up with. Accent mixes better than the stuff I can get at the Korean grocery, but is much more expensive. The Korean market sells a pound of MSG for 99¢ Accent is about 75¢ an ounce, or ~12x as expensive.

Enjoy,
Steven

[carnivorousplant]

@Muffin

For shits and giggles, after you read the ingredients to him, read him is rights and tell him that he is under arrest because the purchase was a sting operation by the FDA.

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