do you still use monosodium glutatmate for seasoning?

We should be more careful with these things, they may be a little everyday but the long term effects could be very harmful and fatal.

Well, here in the PHilippines almost all households have this on their food and they use it to make food more yummy. I have tried using sugar but I still long for the msg enhancing power. But i have to get rid of it for my own.

These are the effects og msg that I have researched I hope we could stop using msg for our own good. Because MSG is absorbed very quickly in the gastrointestinal tract (unlike glutamic acid-containing proteins in foods), MSG could spike blood plasma levels of glutamate.[9][10][11] Glutamic acid is in a class of chemicals known as excitotoxins, high levels of which have been shown in animal studies to cause damage to areas of the brain unprotected by the blood-brain barrier and that a variety of chronic diseases can arise out of this neurotoxicity.[12][13] The debate among scientists on the significance of these findings has been raging since the early 1970s, when Dr. John Olney found that high levels of glutamic acid caused damage to the brains of infant mice.[14] The debate is complex and has focused on several areas: Whether the increase in plasma glutamate levels from typical ingestion levels of MSG is enough to cause neurotoxicity in one dose or over time. Whether humans are susceptible to the neurotoxicity from glutamic acid seen in some animal experiments. It is known that the glutamate ion is important in memory retrieval in humans. Whether neurotoxicity from excitotoxins is caused by the combined effect of glutamic acid and other excitotoxins such as aspartic acid from aspartame.

Thtas good, all we have to do is to discover ways to make our food tasty without the use of msg.

We can try and slowly cut the use of msg coz its dangerous to our health.

thanks again for the BR! =)

Well, my suggestion is to stop using it totally. Coz if not we will suffer the unhealthy effects of it.

Its best to stop than to suffer from headaches,though we still have not reached that far but we never waited for it. Sugar is a good alternative than using the harmful msg.

Please read this article that I have researched about msg. I hope this could help. Because MSG is absorbed very quickly in the gastrointestinal tract (unlike glutamic acid-containing proteins in foods), MSG could spike blood plasma levels of glutamate.[9][10][11] Glutamic acid is in a class of chemicals known as excitotoxins, high levels of which have been shown in animal studies to cause damage to areas of the brain unprotected by the blood-brain barrier and that a variety of chronic diseases can arise out of this neurotoxicity.[12][13] The debate among scientists on the significance of these findings has been raging since the early 1970s, when Dr. John Olney found that high levels of glutamic acid caused damage to the brains of infant mice.[14] The debate is complex and has focused on several areas: Whether the increase in plasma glutamate levels from typical ingestion levels of MSG is enough to cause neurotoxicity in one dose or over time. Whether humans are susceptible to the neurotoxicity from glutamic acid seen in some animal experiments. It is known that the glutamate ion is important in memory retrieval in humans. Whether neurotoxicity from excitotoxins is caused by the combined effect of glutamic acid and other excitotoxins such as aspartic acid from aspartame.

Thats the problem when one is used to locing good and tasty food, its a matter of adjustment maybe and we are slowly appreciating the health benefits rathe than to just please the tongue.