# So the whole MSG thing was racist hysteria? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Tags:** food-cooking\ **Created:** [November 12, 2021, 4:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-the-whole-msg-thing-was-racist-hysteria/954223 "2021-11-12T04:02:34Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 26
**Author:** ![needscoffee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/needscoffee/32/1076_2.png) [@needscoffee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/needscoffee)\ **Post date:** [November 12, 2021, 6:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-the-whole-msg-thing-was-racist-hysteria/954223/26 "2021-11-12T06:26:10Z")
> [@Is MSG bad for you?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-msg-bad-for-you/847850/5): > > Data point: Myself. MSG sometimes affects me this way. It appears to be only large doses, **as Chinese food was often reputed to contain**. Foods like Campbell’s canned soup or other such prepared foods have never bothered me, even though they often list MSG among the ingredients. Bolding mine. So you have no evidence that the Chinese food you ate even contained more msg than other foods you eat - you just heard that it was _reputed_ to have high amounts, whatever that might be. You have no evidence that your claimed health effects are even due to msg, vs the many other ingredients that you don’t ordinarily eat, such as wood ear mushrooms, enoki mushrooms, bamboo shoots, etc. But it _must_ be the added msg! --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-the-whole-msg-thing-was-racist-hysteria/954223)._