Monosodium Glutamate(MSG) – What’s the big deal?
9:39 am on October 12th, 2009 | Food

I always loved it. Granted it doesn’t leave a pleasant sensation when you have too much of it in your food, but it does make your food taste a lot better. I really don’t know what the big deal about MSG is. I hear some people asking at restaurants, "Does this have MSG?" and some people totally avoid MSG. It’s so hard to find MSG in most stores. The only place you get it, is in Asian Stores. I had to order mine online because my nearest Asian store was on the other side of the city when I first came here.
The MSG page on Wikipedia does not have any proof that its harmful to health. The only proper research is that a study has shown that people with MSG consumption "might" be correlated to increased BMI. Has these people taken into consideration that those people just have increased BMI because the food tastes good and they might be eating a lot of it? I cook a lot of asian food and I prefer to have MSG in my food thank you.





