Dr. Mercola July 12 2007 93,906 views
It is very difficult to really know whether MSG (monosodium glutamate) is in your food, because it goes by so many aliases. To avoid ingesting this toxic additive, you’re best off choosing fresh, unprocessed foods. But becoming familiar with the hidden names of MSG can also help you determine what foods to eat.
Here is just a sampling of ingredients that contain MSG (the link below has a full list):
Also, many restaurants add MSG to their menu items, so when eating out always be sure to tell your server that you don‘t want MSG added to your food.MSGMyth.com
MSG (monosodium glutamate) is used as a flavor enhancer in countless processed foods. But while it works enhancing your food’s flavors it is also at work doing potential damage to your brain and body.
I doubt very many of our readers would actually consciously use this toxin as they are better educated than this. However the problem results from eating processed foods or eating in a restaurant where you have virtually no control of what is added to your food before you eat it. Believe me on this one, your body could care less if you or someone else put the MSG in your food, or if you even know about it. If you are ever going to Take Control of Your Health you will need to take responsibility for ALL the food you eat and be very conscious of avoiding this food in processed food you purchase or restaurant food you eat.
Unless of course you don't mind losing your brain cells.
If you don''t believe this then you clearly have not watched Dr. Blaylock's (retired neurosurgeon) lecture on MSG.
MSG is an excitotoxin, a type of chemical transmitter that allows brain cells to communicate. The problem is that excitotoxins can literally excite your brain cells to death. Aside from harming your brain, MSG has also been linked to eye damage, headaches, fatigue, disorientation and depression.
Children are most at risk from MSG. The blood brain barrier, which keeps toxins in the blood from entering the brain, is not fully developed in children. MSG can also penetrate the placental barrier and affect unborn children as well. Nonetheless, most major brands of infant formula contain some processed free glutamic acid (a form of MSG).
Be very wary of chicken and beef bouillon....it always contains MSG unless they say it doesn't. AND THEN I still don't believe them....so making your own is the BEST idea.
I'm sure there are many more. If anyone knows some more...please add.
Yes, thanks for the name of that product, AuxiGro.
As I am MSG sensitive, I knew there was something
being added to produce, esp lettuce, as I have my usual
MSG symptoms shortly after eating it. The worst offender, unfortunately,
is 'organic' lettuce. Watch the term 'Organically Grown' esp in large chain food marts. Organically Grown is a term applied to the growing process. It may be true that the produce was organically 'grown'. But, the AugiGro is applied
as a preservative POST HARVEST. Therefore, the term 'organically grown' is
legally correct, and we are being poisoned by our 'organic food'.
Yes, AuxiGro is sprayed on some stuff. Now bovine gelatine will be sprayed
on our meat at the grocery store. I'm afraid it will be. Thanks to our government. Anything
for a buck! www.foodtechnology.ru/.../ng.asp I know I don't do well with msg, aspartame etc. I too want
to just scream..............
How Much Hydrogenated Lubricant Oils Are You Getting With Your Supplements?
According to both Wikipedia and Dr. Mary Enig's book, "Know Your Fats" (p 270), stearic acid is a saturated fat, not a trans fat (it can't be both, there must be at least one double bond in a trans fat).
It is also found in nature, in cocoa butter, for example.
Ajax, after Magnesium Stearate or Stearic Acid on my vitamin bottle, in parenthesis, it says "vegetable source". Is this still a Trans fat?
Stearic acid is a fatty acid, not a fat.
Unsaturated fatty acids sourced from plants may indeed be hydrogenated...to actually make them become stearic acid. This stearic acid is completely chemically identical to naturally occurring stearic acid, so there is no reason why it should have ANY negative effects.
Magnesium Stearate and Stearic Acid are not trans fats.
They are not exactly very desirable ingredients, as we would like our supplements to be as pure as possible, but they are also not dangerous ingredients either.
Supplements encapsulated in vegetable capsules usually do not contain these.
Look here for more info on what exactly Magnesium Stearate and Stearic Acid are:
www.nowfoods.com
Duck-tors! That is extremely funny. I am going to use that.
But, our situation with food is not funny. Locally grown food, or grow your own, and preparing your food from scratch, are the only ways to guarantee the cleanest possible intake. The more I learn from Dr. Mercola and all of you, the more the writing is on the wall. Thanks to you all, I grew a garden this year.
I recently had the misfortune of being treated by a "NUTRITIONAL MEDICINE" MD. It took me a while to realize he wasn't "as advertised"... What did it for me was when he didn't even know about MSG and other common sense things, and suggested I try Splenda or Nutrasweet (!!!)... I was so shocked. I fired him too! :-o
what a wonderful website that you have. I have spent hours learning how to be healthier. I trust this site and will share it with others. I had bought a well known food product and there was an ingredient in it and when I called the company they would not tell me what it was. Now I know why they did not tell me what it was...another name for MSG is what I just found out. I will have to be more careful. Thank you very much for all your research.
You are so right!!
I had spent many years feeling sick and lethargic and it was really thanks to Dr. Mercola's website that I got back on my feet again. It was after getting a free subscription to Mercola.com that I received an email about the dangers of metal toxicity and amalgam fillings. I did some further investigations for myself and quickly woke up to the truth. I never really made the connection to my inexplicable health issues, which, seemed to be getting worse. My dentist told me that my amalgams were safe and not to worry about them. What utter nonsense! Now add to this the ramifications of working around metal fabrication industries as I have in the past as an engineer, and you have a super-size potion for health trouble.
It's encouraging to know that there are many real, highly qualified doctors still out there that will speak out and are not bought up by the medical system and high profit pharmaceutical companies. I am on my way to a healthy recovery now. I still quite a way to go as can be expected, but I am feeling much better and am rapidly recovering!
I want to encourage other people that are not well to take charge of their own health. Eat properly, exercise daily, and do not rely on the "health care system" to keep you healthy because, as I and many others have sadly learned, it won't.
Stay healthy! :)
I suffered for years not understanding about MSG and l-glutamine as a supplement. Thank you Dr. for confirming what I learned the hard way. I cannot take anything with glutamine as a supplement not only do the headaches last for days but I feel totaly drained of energy. It is a shame that this is allowed in our food.
Dr, Mercola wrote: "Here is just a sampling of ingredients that contain MSG (the link below has a full list)":
I avoid MSG like the plague but for the sake of completeness I think it would have been better to say "MAY contain". In Europe, where all ingredients are listed on the packet you can see whether MSG is present. Many people in Europe seek to avoid MSG after bad experiences in Chinese restaurants where it is heavily employed. As a result you'll see several products including HVP and stock cubes that actively promote themselves by stating that they are MSG-free.
Soy sauce has MSG??????????
it is just so shocking to see what the food industry allows humans to consume. wouldn't it be easier, and cheaper to just eat everything the way it was intended?
Has anyone researched the effects of daily use of MSG in cultures like Japan & China? Is fermented Soy (miso) safe to use. Has the white powdered MSG used by the above, b een fermented?