Americans eat everything, why don’t they like MSG?

Because someone once felt uncomfortable after eating in a Chinese restaurant, he suspected that it was because MSG was added to the Chinese food. After hearing this, many people said that they had a similar situation. So it caused panic among the American people about MSG. However, both the World Health Organization and the FDA classify MSG as a safe food. We won’t beat MSG to death with a stick, but at least there is no evidence that MSG will cause much harm to the human body. The structure of glutamate in MSG is the same as that of natural glutamate.

Natural glutamic acid decomposes easily when exposed to air. Professor Noriyuki Ikeda combined glutamic acid and sodium ions to form sodium glutamate, which is not easy to deteriorate and allows MSG to be stored for a long time. After World War II, MSG has become a widely used additive in the world's food industry, and it is included in industrial foods consumed daily, including in North America. In order to enhance the flavor, the canned foods, pickles and various snacks purchased by people in the United States and Canada contain large amounts of MSG.

It’s human nature to be skeptical of things we don’t know, but the truth is, the raw material used to make MSG is wheat. Glutamic acid is decomposed by sodium glutamate in the body and is one of the raw materials for protein composition. Just as salt is chemically called sodium chloride, something named after a chemical element is not necessarily synthetic or scary. Here, we’ll discuss the key differences between toxic and non-toxic doses.

Whether a substance is toxic to an organism can never be separated from "dose." After a while, negative news about MSG spread around the world, such as memory loss, hair loss, developmental delay, etc. Many restaurants in the United States, such as Birds of a Feather, have posted signs saying "We do not use MSG" in the hope of drawing a clear line with MSG. However, both the World Health Organization and the FDA classify MSG as a safe food.