Also is it what makes Doritos so damn hard to eat just one? Also lmk if I flared it wrong.
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Sugar is sweet, acid is sour, salt is salty, MSG is umami: the savoury flavour of cheese, meat, mushrooms and so on.
People are afraid of it because of flawed science and alarmism based on little more than a single letter written in 1968 to the New England Journal of Medicine. Repeated studies have shown no ill effects from eating MSG, other than for those who are specifically sensitive to glutamates.
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