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[deleted] t1_jdhikok wrote

And MSG was used as a marketing weapon by U.S. companies trying to stop the Chinese food being popular.

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Mishashule t1_jdhjwlb wrote

Too bad for them, Chinese food fuckin rules catch me outside any Chinese place

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[deleted] t1_jdhk88w wrote

The irony that things like tomatoes are full of MSG....along with so many other foods.

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[deleted] t1_jdhpnjh wrote

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[deleted] t1_jdhqotm wrote

So tomatoes have MSG?

Back in the day the companies that were trying to denigrate Chinese food tried to claim all their food was full of MSG.

They tried very hard to make sure that Chinese food was the only food that used MSG.

THEY ALSO TRIED NOT TO EXPLAIN IT IS IN A LOT OF NATURAL INGREDIENTS USED IN MOST OF THEIR COMMERCIAL PRODUCTS.

IT WAS LITERALLY COMMERCIAL RACISM.

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NoFriends182 t1_jdlt9fk wrote

Well tomatoes don't technically have msg they have standard glutamates and when you salt them it converts to msg.

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[deleted] t1_jdhulxb wrote

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LikeWisedUp t1_jdi0aqu wrote

Yes! MSG was used as racist propaganda and said to give those that consumed it headaches and make them ill.

Sadly this disinformation lives on today, food safety classes required by food workers now are told that MSG is a common food allergy which is wholly untrue

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NoFriends182 t1_jdlt6mw wrote

My mum literally tried to ban me from buying MSG to use in some stirfrys and such. Like I'm a 25 year old man not living at home? And then when I bought it she cried yelling how I'm going to get cancer. And didn't speak to me for a year.

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Librosaurus t1_jdmmqbd wrote

I don't know if disinformation is a perfectly fair assessment of the milder, modern concerns around MSG (although I don't contest it being disinformation in the past)

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