Why is there a bad rep for MSG?
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It all started with Dr Robert Ho Man Kwok publishing a short letter in the New England Journal of Medicine where he speculated that when he ate vast amounts of chinese food he would feel bloated, numbness in the limbs, heart palpitations etc, instead of maybe eating less he blamed the frequent use of MSG in Chinese cuisine and called it “Chinese Restaurant Syndrome”
With no science backing it up (because its total horseshit) it still became “common knowledge” and really took hold as a “fact” largely because of racism towards asian people and it was one of those things people WANTED to believe.
There have now been lots of studies and MSG in itself is no more harmful than table salt and occurs naturally in things like tomatoes, seaweed and parmesan cheese and more so it is one of the most common flavour enhancers in processed food, KFC, canned soups, ready meals, doritos all use MSG
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