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The dynamic duo is created from a mix of sodium and glutamate, an amino acid found naturally in foods like Parmesan cheese, tomato, mushrooms, cured meats, and soy sauce. MSG seasoning is made from seaweed or fermented sugar extract, which is combined with sodium to make the tiny white crystalline flakes used to add flavor to our food.MSG is a salt of glutamic acid: similar to table salt, which consists of chlorine and sodium, MSG contains glutamic acid and sodium (hence the “monosodium” in its name).Monosodium glutamate (MSG), also called monosodium L-glutamate or sodium glutamate, white crystalline substance, a sodium salt of the amino acid glutamic acid, that is used to intensify the natural flavour of certain foods.
First, monosodium glutamate is just a synthetic form of glutamic acid, which is produced naturally in the human body. Atomically, there is zero difference between natural glutamic acid and MSG. Your body can’t recognize the difference which is why a specific allergy to MSG (which has nothing to do with gluten, by the way!) doesn’t really make any sense.Monosodium Glutamate (MSG) improves the taste acceptability of foods with lowered salt content, suggesting that its use in low-salt foods will make it easier for people to establish and maintain a low-salt diet. It is the sodium salt of Glutamic Acid (GLU), a non-essential amino acid for.
MSG stimulates specific receptors located in taste buds such as the amino acid receptor T1R1/T1R3 or other glutamate receptors like the metabotropic receptors (mGluR4 and mGluR1) which induce the taste known as umami, one of the five basic tastes (the word umami is a loanword from Japanese; it is also referred to as “savory” or “meaty”).MSG is short for monosodium glutamate. It is a common food additive — with the e-number E621 — that is used to enhance flavor.. MSG is derived from the amino acid glutamate.
Answer From Katherine Zeratsky, R.D., L.D. Monosodium glutamate (MSG) is a flavor enhancer commonly added to Chinese food, canned vegetables, soups and processed meats. The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has classified MSG as a food ingredient that’s “generally recognized as safe,” but its use remains controversial.
This is the point that makes many scientists laugh because MSG, or monosodium glutamate, is simply the sodium salt, or the ionic form, of glutamic acid, an amino acid which is one of the building blocks of most proteins. All proteins are a chain of amino acids, one of which is glutamic acid.Like many people, I thought MSG — monosodium glutamate, a chemical compound used to enhance the flavor of food — was bad for me, and I was sure I felt terrible every time I ate it.
Many studies have shown that glutamate plays a major role in how the brain is formed during development. There is a programmed rise and fall in brain glutamate levels during brain formation, which occurs in humans not only during intrauterine life, but until the age of 27.Chef Chris Koetke shares the reality of monosodium glutamate (MSG) by explaining the science and history behind the product. Subscribe to our channel: http.
The flavor-enhancing property of MSG was discovered in 1908 by Kikunae Ikeda, a chemistry professor at Imperial University of Tokyo and founder of Ajinomoto. He isolated the substance in a seaweed that for centuries Japanese cooks had been using to make food taste better and found that it was l-glutamate.Monosodium glutamate (MSG), also known as sodium glutamate, is the sodium salt of glutamic acid. MSG is found naturally in some foods including tomatoes and cheese.
The science of MSG in less than one minute. Expert chef Chris Koetke provides a simple explanation about the science of monosodium glutamate.
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58 comments
MSG will make you thirsty and order pop instead of drinking water.
Boycot Tedx. It’s Misery. Get these Godless Atheists Off Stage. Awkward. MAkes me want to Throw Up.
Should’ve burn England to the ground for making a fake research on MSG and how can something from japan have a syndrome called chinese restaurant syndrom
Why is DR RASHID BUTTAR saying that’s to avoid monosodium glutamate
MSG when tested on people who use alcohol, caffeine, tobacco, eat potato chips, soy sauce, etc. shows little effect because they are alreADY AFFECTED!!! People who watch their nutrition carefully and are “clean” will be affected greatly by tiny amounts of MSG….I see a lot of comments supporting the use of MSG similar to comments for any kind of drug by drug users….
This talk was flagged by TED, “There is no viable research or evidence presented in the talk to support these claims.”
This guy is a SATURNIAN SODOMITE, they control the banking system the law and YOU
Why when I commented it also appears between 9 and 12 years of posts, im curious
Neuroscience and Connectionist Theory-Free Glutamate?Binding Epileptic brains? Thought the NMDA receptor played a role too. Amazing, was diagnosed with CFS when I was 12 years old at McMaster University Hospital in Ontario, Canada. The only promising option for me was the introduction of the use of an epileptic drug 9 years after diagnosis. I researched alternative treatments for epilepsy, and sure enough there was a “novel” treatment, a diet that helped patients who were so severe the drugs didn’t stop their seizures. Well perhaps the drugs didn’t work on those patients because of the varying daily levels of Free Glutamate in the diets of those, mostly children as I read whom didn’t respond to the drug treatments. I wasn’t exactly a child, 21 but I thought to try the diet. Amazingly the diet, a Ketogenic diet was and is now the only effective treatment that eases my pain, however, I must add my progress was limited as I included stewed meats occasionally, bread on cheat days and dairy. I have since learned that with avoidance and adding them back in that they created massive flare ups in my symptoms including first in order pain, fatigue, muscle burning, poor muscle recovery after activity, light and sound sensitivity accompanied often by headaches. In my 18 years of experience since discovering this dietary treatment I can say I feel the best staying off dairy and gluten to avoid bad flair ups. I would go in and out of recovery, good days and bad days, it seemed like it was useless but when I completely gave up on the diet I got so much worse. I tried Ideal Protein using only their soy shakes and a few with whey protein, 6 months later the Toronto Poly Clinic said my trigger points were below that of the Fibromyalgia diagnosis yes and 12 Intensive Fascia Release treatments. YOU HAVE GIVEN ME THE MISSING PIECE OF THE PUZZLE I HAVE BEEN TRYING TO FIND FOR 20+years. Interestingly my former pain doctor did his thesis on Leaky Gut, he was very interested in my diet but said this treatment is just a theory. Can’t proof what is actually happening in the gut lining.
I don’t want to know the science behind it
And im not going to watch 3:25 mims of it
Just tell me yay or nay!!!
This is in my hot cheeto fries right now and I’m eating them ��
Assertion upon assertion. Where is your peer reviewed paper? Have the results been reproduced? MSG has been studied at length and determined safe. As soon as some starts talking about Lyme disease as anything other than a treatable infection, you know you have left behind rationality.
Read the description. Trd hhas flaggedcthis video because her research an how she os litrally helping people. Does not go along with the western medical and food industries!! So according to amazon and ted she should be silenced!!
I wonder how my blood brain/ barrier hasn’t broken as yet. being using msg for years and never had a problem only makes me chew the bones from my meat because it makes the meat so darn delicious ����
He’s not a medical doctor or a registered dietician. He’s wrong about many of his claims.
I knew that MSG was badbut I got lax and forgot to
ask my restaurant not to cook my food with it!
I ate, and on the drive home I felt like I had been given
knock-out drops!
Horrible reaction to MSG in my food!
Nancy
How about eating a bowl of MSG vs SALT?Which one is better?
people fearing of msg is basically people who are anti-vaccine
Very dangerous scientifically incorrect information. MSG can cause fatal reactions which you can find in scientific journals. In the 1990’s a man ate MSG food which caused a severe asthma attack, cardiac arrest and lead to permanent neurological damage. He won the lawsuit against the restaurant owners. MSG was found to be a direct cause. Your poor advice can kill people.
I started having the worst Migraines as I made better money and started eating out more especially my fave Chinese food I started to fear the worst as each migraine episode got worse, sometimes lasting for days with me agonizing in pain and delirium. So I got to work on my diet and starting eating only simple fresh foods and slowly adding complex and processed foods back in one at a time monitoring my digestive systems reaction to each new food added. Sure enough I started to find that most “sodium modified” foods would bring on the painful reactions within my body. So many people are suffering due to this stuff. PLEASE BE AWARE THE OTHER HUGE SODIUM MODIFIER USED IN EVERYTHING IS THIS STUFF CALLED SODIUM BENZOATE and YEAST EXTRACT is the same ish! Don’t be fooled even health food purveyors like WHOLE FOODS and TRADER JOES use this stuff all day long. amongst many other things because it stabilizes food color so it can be on shelves and in warehouses for longer periods of time and it hyper stimulates your pleasure response to food! IF YOU SUFFER FROM MIGRAINES PLEASE LOOK INTO IT uncovering this whole hidden sodium industry saved my life!!
Thanks I saved my family and will try with heart and soul for others family thanks…… many thanks for the video.
I guess a little amount of poison won’t kill you. Good luck if your brain turns into a jello and you start drooling to yourself after consuming too much MSG
I call BS…. it gives me a massive headache, and it makes my eyes swell up. That’s why I don’t eat it and I asked if MSG is in anything that I’m about to eat. I usually don’t eat out because of this. I never eat soy sauce.
MSG or Chinese salt is a neurotoxin. MSG is destructive to nerve tissue and can break the blood/brain barrier.
So not good!
Japanese use a lot of MSG in daily cooking like ramen, etc. and Japan has a life expectancy of 84, while the US has 78.
If our bodies react so positively to naturally occurring glutamates, is there some benefit to them? By taking a synthetic glutamate, are we getting the same benefit, or are we just getting the good feeling/taste without the nutrition component our bodies may be craving?
I just found out that ‘ Natural Flavorings’ means…..most likely, MSG. ugh, I have been eating SO delicious cookies & cream ice cream made with cashew milk. And now I know why I kept buying more, eating more every night!!! This mistake can send one to the ER, from Diabetic shock or Heart Problems such as clogged arteries. Also the Sugar is not organic either. now I understand why I was consuming it so much. I had to have it, I don’t even like ice cream that much but this SO Delicious became my main dish after a healthy organic dinner. Thank you for making this video it can and will save lives!!!
It was ingected into there abdomin in regards to the mice btw
LOL, it’s regarded the same place in some Chinese dishes as salt. But certainly, the previous research and claim affect our daily life a lot, since I hardly seen any family around me using’em anymore.
Why is bewellrx.com not working anymore? We’re you unable to afford the yearly $10 domain registration?
Let people know you add MSG in your food that you sell in Singapore lets see how long your business last, Singaporean know about this shit since the 80’s.
Well basically sugar kills more poeple than all the prohibited drugs in the world combine. And you dont see me complaining. Because it tastes good.
When I first started eating Chinese food I would get a slight headache with a feeling in my neck and jaw like I was getting lock-jaw but I could move fine. I never knew about Chinese Restaurant Syndrome nor MSG until looking into what was happening to me. It is real! Now the restaurants don’t use as much MSG so only have an issue once in a while.
I know MSG kicks my butt severely! I don’t even like to go out and eat anymore because of it. it takes forever to read labels at the grocery stores too. I wish I was able to grow all of my own food like I used to but it’s not an option for me these days. Thanks for the info Dr Bellonzi! One nearly has to become a chemist when reading labels these days 😉
“Racism.” then proceeds to say nothing that relates to race.
Enough with this social justice wolf crying.
Really amazing work! I will share with all of my ABA clients!
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Your cooking sucks, msg are ready to help u.
MSG is unnatural, so is sugar. That’s why I munch on raw sugar cane to get that unadulterated, natural, organic, no radiation, no chemical, and authentic druidic experience.
I like to add MSG instead of salt. I always have.
The salt lobby is strong.
So what is the natural substance in good food that make it taste good?
MSG is a naturally occurring substance. our own bodies produce it.
it is also not harmful.
some people have “allergic” reactions to it. but then again some people have allergic reactions to nuts.
It’s mostly a culture thing, orientals have been raised with it for generations and generations. Just like is they were to just start eating country fried chicken as their diet, they’d prolly be sick or have headaches too.
Msg is the sodium salt in glumatic acid, which can be found naturally in tomatoes and other foods
MSG is fine,, said by a professor in pharmacognosy in my college����������
What is important to know is that glutamate is the single most important and common excitatory neurotransmitter in the whole body.
That’s strange, isn’t then msg cousin to E-numbers and sugar/sure as an distance relative as well!?! People are saying that is bad for you. But every thing is bad if you have a big dosis of it right!! ����♂️ idk
1:06 Umm what would happen if you injected high amounts of anything into someone
Msg is not safe for human consumption, good Chinese restaurants don’t use msg while Japanese more often tend to use it.
come on Chinese people are slim Blaime the burgers and fries
anyone who thinks MSG is bad,
dont worry, its only dangerous when its too much, everything is dangerous when its too much,
example: water, humans, trees, electricity
water because cells cant keep up,
humans because there would be less food,
trees, because there would be more oxygen
(animals that dont breath out carbon dioxide dies)
electricity, waste of energy
You said so much to say nothing. It seems that you did not research well your topic of you did not understand what the information you found implied.
Just because a product “occurs” naturally, it means it is good for your health. Cyanide OCCURS naturally in cassava; ricin does, too, in castor beans.
MSG DOES NOT OCCUR NATURALLY. Glutamic acid does. How can I put it? I’ll feed you Oxygen, food and hydrogen. How long do you think you”ll live?
If you have to separate the salt from C5H9NO4 Then it does not occur naturally as a Unique compound…none of these componentes happens first, second or third, the are ONE SUBSTANCE, If you remove Na from C₅H₈NO₄Na and you get something innocuous and “natural occurring” (C5H9NO4 ), then it has to be true that if I remove anything else from the structure of glutamic acid, I should get something healthy like C3H9NO4… which would kill in a beat.
If you alter the chemical structure of something, that something is nothing like what it was before.
No, MSG is a neuro toxin for a fact. I know sooo many people including myself that feel horrible after trying it
enlightening, thank you doctor.. for the knowledge you have given me..!
Well. There´s MSG in many products. They just call it Monosodium glutamate or other names in the table of content.
Everything has to be taken in moderation..even drinking too much water can cause water poisoning…
I feel like people may also think it’s bad cause it’s called MSG
Like we have other words for spices and salt and stuff
But I feel like reading MSG sounds maybe to “chemically”
Anyways, yeah it’s fine, my mom has probably used it sometimes (since I saw it in the cupboard), even if it’s not often
But ya, common in Asian food
Natural shit
People get spooked tho
My mom put too much of it until i developed a migrane. Sometimes she put more than five teaspoons
common knowledge,
too much is not always good. if you consume your own medicine more than you’re prescribed with then you’ll likely get an OD.
same with basically everything else, even msg. but if you eat it moderately then it’s fine