My grandparents used MSG in their cooking and they lived a healthy life and died in their 90s but have to say they didn't consume sugar much in their diet. I think sugar is worst than MSG.
Sugar is the cause of EVERYTHING...diabetes, cholesterol, blood sugar, high blood pressure, kidney disease, liver disease, heart disease, if they are going to ban anything, it should be sugar 100%
MSG scare was based off a racist doctor that had a history of disliking chinese and its takeover of the American fast food life. Your body makes glutamine naturally so are people going to surgically remove it? This msg phobia is idiotic and its got Asians believing in their own stereotype.
0:12: 🍲 Monosodium glutamate (MSG) has a bad reputation, but is it really that bad for us? 6:23: 🍲 MSG, a flavor enhancer, is made by fermenting natural ingredients like tapioca. 11:07: 👅 The taste of MSG can enhance the flavor of savory foods, but may not have the same effect on sweet foods. 15:22: 🧂 MSG is not harmful in moderate amounts, but excessive intake of sodium from both salt and MSG can be problematic. 20:43: ✅ MSG is a safe and effective flavor enhancer that can help reduce sodium intake. Recap by Tammy AI
@@dutchmilk Everything in abnormal amount is unhealthy. A teaspoon of MSG in 2~3 litre of brooth with 1 kg of meat can save your cooking time by a lot without ruining the meat.
I remember watching an experiment about MSG. They didn't tell people that it had MSG and no "side effects" were reported. But when they said the food had MSG even though it didn't, they said they suddenly had "side effects". It goes to show that those "warnings" against MSG really influenced a lot of people.
Growing up in Vietnam, I ate msg, but stopped after coming to America where it's said to be bad. It's only last month that I learned that msg isn't bad at all. Here in America, they used to claim that eggs are bad, then changed to say they're good. Red meat was bad. Now it's good. Fat animal meat was unhealthy. Now beneficial. Carb and sugar currently are the ultimate culprits....
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The target put on MSG was over concern for the growing number of Asian restaurants popping up all over the US in the 1930s. It was a racism tactic designed to stop people eating at Asian restaurants and can be traced to the influence of Christian Conservative groups. They would demonise anything what wasn't 'white'. Is that surprising to anyone? Now it's the evangalical christians pushing such racist agendas against minority groups, all in the name of their particular God.
"The dosage makes a poison" is what our chemistry teacher always used to say. Salt is great to make food taste better and we do need it in our diet. However consuming too much of it or to consume it without actual food would of course be poisonous. Same with almost everything. You'd also be fine ingesting actual poison as long as the amount is small enough.
chinese resturant syndrome... is when they mix up the msg with salt, and you end up with a super high dosage of salt. just stay away from the crappy resturants where they probably don't have good organization.
The king of flavour. Uncle Roger taught me to have it in my kitchen. It kinda changed my life, as I never enjoyed the food as much. Sometimes I consume it in excess, I have to admit, but not ever once had I felt negative side effect of it. 2 years with MSG and counting. It is so cringe seeing labels on food like "Without MSG" while MSG is perfectly safe. It is like a innocent man wrongfully sentenced to life in prison.
Westerners like to put certain things of the east with negative labels when they see it competing with their products. MSG is such a good taste enhancer it makes the already bland western dishes feel even blander when compared to tasty eastern dishes with added MSG.
I heard a story from a man 30 years older than me regarding the MSG. He wouldn’t eat any food containing MSG because he is afraid to have a heart attack. During the Vietnam war, every North Vietnamese soldier carry a kg of MSG to the South for fighting the war. The MSG serves two purposes. One for enhancing the lousy food and other to stop the bleeding from the bullet wounds. MSG was used to fill the cavity and it would stop the bleeding.
Keyword here is Umami. MSG is very much a fast and convenient way to add more savoury punch to food. How about making your own umami liquid or stock if you're cooking? Japanese culinery commonly used bonita flakes, dried anchovies, dried mackerel, miso, dried mushrooms and as mentioned in the video, dried kelp(seaweed). Asian seems to prefer stock from chicken, dried shrimp, ikan bilis, dried solefish, prawn shells, clams, fish bones & head, meat bones, soybean, fermented beans, dried mushrooms etc.. Of course, there's also vegetables stock. Other ways of adding umami includes fermented liquids like soy sauce, oyster sauce, fish gravy, liquid aminos, Worcestershire sauce etc.. Finally, my thoughts on this video: If savoury umami rich food is my goal, how much trouble am I willing to go inorder to extract umami from raw ingredients(cooking own stock)? Or could I not just use ready-made stock(liquids or powdered)? Or the instant handy MSG? 😉
Not really sure what answer you ''want'' to hear. Or what is your point, really? Of course, Umami-rich ingredients are a-plenty. Of course we are learning more and more about this relatively new ''5th taste''. And it has been known, and scientifically proven for at least 2-3 decades, that MSG does NOT cause a the entire laundry list of ailments that many people have believed since the late 60s . So again...what is your point?
I do not have any hard point(s), you may draw your own conclusions. As for the scientific proof you mentioned, does it include those affected by consuming MSG? If quantity of MSG consumed is a factor, I agree with this video that for most of Asia's cooked food sold outside of home, they contain a certain amount of MSG which one cannot really determind. Thus as the video suggested, moderation is advisable. Finally, I believe one may need be wary of total MSG consumed. Since we can't always reduce the MSG from restaurants or take-outs, I would reduce the amount over the home-cooked meal side. Cooking at home, I prefer my home-made Umami stock whenever my work schedule allows. At busy times, I use store bought ready-made stock and MSG, no issues for me and family. So I'm neutral as far as whether MSG is 'good' for you.
I love trying everthing else that includes food and when ever I do eat out and I'll find something that taste good. I'm not a chef but I can fry,steam, boil..... & I do like to make something that I like for myself where the msg tends to fk it up.
MSG is in a lot of food but it's evil if it's used in Chinese restaurants. lol. I used to work in a Chinese restaurant during my HS days and occasionally I see fat people specifically ask for no msg in the food. Some people should be more concern about their diabetes from sodas and donuts rather than the little msg found in the egg rolls.
The sugar content in different foods in the US (fast food capital) is insane, and don't forget the fairly frequently penchant for deep fried foods. Salt content, calories, nutrients, sugar content and perhaps others I've missed out, are different facets of nutrition and diet so yes just picking on salt content is a bit ignorant.
Keep in mind that the leading type of cancer in Asia is stomach cancer caused by high intake of salt, alcohol and obesity: 5th leading type of cancer in the world, 1,089,103 have that cancer, 768,793 deaths. I will make you understand that the fact that many Asians have a lower BMI (thinner) and more visceral fat than subcutaneous fat (more prevalent in western society). Thus carrying a high amount of visceral fat is known to be associated with insulin resistance, which can lead to glucose intolerance and type 2 diabetes. 60% of diabetics in the world live in Asia and there are 537 million adults (20-79 years) are living with diabetes on the planet - 1 in 10.
@@robert-antoinedenault5901 as an Asian American, I do notice the Asian community tend to have high intake of salt. What you said is probably all true but bare in mind that Asian population as % of global population stands around 60%, so having 60% of diabetics doesn't feel like it's an outlier. That being said, maybe there is a heavy connection which I'm not aware of.
That's the other thing about MSG. It takes very little to have a large effect on flavor, especially if its pals disodium inosinate and disodium guanylate are along for the ride (they magnify the effect of MSG by several times). Even products that say NO MSG are often still chock full of glutamates (the "G" in MSG). If you see yeast extract, hydrolyzed [insert vegetable here] protein, various cheeses -- especially Parmesan, tomato, or a number of other things in the ingredients list, you're still getting glutamates.
It's funny the video is asking if we know about msg but we dont even know about gravity, apparently: Is there any doubt that the fiction of Newton is the same as the myth of some guy who created the border of his country by shooting an arrow as far as possible ("Arash" in Persian mythology)?
The problem is nowadays "new discovery" happens almost every year, a typical example is coffee, every year a new research done by whoever from whatever university, this year a new research says coffee is good for your health, but the next year the result will become opposite, it repeats again and again without failure. In addition, rich sponsor like famous brand can easily hire a professor from so and so university to write a research report about the benefit of their product. they can also pay media company to market their products. so the conclusion is don't blindly believe in articles from newspapers and media, majority of them are biased or can be untrue.
No. Research doesn't work like that. When a research from a trusted source is published furure research shouldn't oppose it, it only improves on it or it finds something new not shown in previous ones. But never deny them.
Great report! Because my parents operated Chinese restaurants I started to do research on MSG since the early 1970s. Just from reading scientific papers, I came to the same conclusion as your report. When patrons asked what MSG was, I told them the truth and most were shocked that MSG is natural like salt and even occurs in most preserved food with added salt. I would consume MSG as little as possible in the same fashion as reducing regular salt intake in my advanced age. In my restaurant, patrons have the option of no MSG in most dishes unless the key ingredients have naturally occurring MSG like sausages.
Yes, because a pinch of MSG produces a lot of difference of taste ( umami ) in a full pot of soup. That's way less than a teaspoon . I buy a pack (10 grams) of msg ( ajinomoto ) and that would last for a month or so. I use it everyday in my savory recipes. I don't use it in sweets.
i believe MSG is Monosodium Glutamate already contain Sodium. The key is to eat in moderation. If you eat too much salt you might get hypertension, if you eat too many sugar, you can get diabetis, and this relate to many ingredients, especially flavour enhancer.
why not use slat intake in moderation since msg doesn contain salt. problem solved, that's like trying to complicate simple solution. Every msg user's trying to justify thier use msg instead of just working with ingredient in its original form that alrdy does that.
I'm not really against MSG myself. But as an Asian I even don't use MSG that much since i have quite sensitive taste buds. A lil bit of it makes everything tastes somehow more sweet on my tongue and it has that prominent chemical taste to it. It also irritates my throat so much that my throat produces phlegm for quite some times. I read articles and journals about it that it may or may not has connection, but apparently some people also experience what I have myself.
You are not alone. everyone s chemistry is different. Some ppl. Can drink coffee all day while if I even have a little cup more than my tolerance I feel like I am having a heart attack. My family used to go to dim sum every Saturday and after each meal I get the cotton mouth feeling. It is not political... Msg aversion is real. I am not saying it to dismiss asian s .. I am chinese myself and even in Hong Kong.. ppl. Will rate the quality of food with the amount of msg used.
Thank you. I’m from Brasil and grew up in an Italian neighborhood next to the Japanese neighborhood ( biggest Japan town outside Japan) where MSG is known by Ajinomoto. I won’t eat arugula salad without lime juice and MSG. IN THE 60’s and 70’s it was known as health food and used in pop corn and by people with hypertension to reduce the amount of salt the ideia is to use 1/2 salt and 1/2 MSG. IF MSG causes cancer, I would be dead by now ( I’m 60). I worked in pizza place for 30 years and every pizza place in America uses MSG , but they advertise “no MSG” It was known as natural food just because it is natural. The irony is that most people that try to avoid MSG, don’t have a problem with chemical processed conservantes like yellow 15, blue this and red that, used in abundance by the food industry. I believe that prejudice played a role in this hoax. Ajinomoto MSG is a wonderful taste enhancer just like table salt or sea salt enhance savory dishes. As everything else, balance is important. Too much of anything is bad for you. Hence sugar, fat , alcoholic beverages, etc.. thank you again for this well done video. Nice going.
I feel somewhat vindicated watching this video. I grew up with my mum sprinkling msg in her cooking and I don’t understand why people said msg is evil. Looking back, I noticed my mum hardly ever use salt.
After i drank roughly 300ml of coffee, i felt dissy, my heart pump faster, i sweat alot, felt unsettling and sick. But if i drink a small amount of it, i feel okay and more awake. Thats it. Everyone has different toleration towards stimulants and nutrients, so know your body and don't over consume anything is the key. Msg isn't bad for you unless you have allergy or over consume it. If the food you buy/cook make you feel a lot more thirsty, lethargic or even sick, that means it has too much msg/salt/sugar in it. Avoid that food stall/brand, there are better choice out there, suitable for your needs. Cook more healthily. JUST ALWAYS CONSUME FOOD IN MODERATION PERIODT.
Totally agree. It's quite funny how people still not understand this concept. Like you said "don't over consume anything is the key" not "eat bland food everyday is the key"😒 We still can eat delicious, nutritious and healthy food everyday if we know how to balance it.
@@shadowrunner187 wrong msg is a drug in the same way caffeine is ( both are natural products just like many poisons are natural from plants, that doesn't tell you if it's good for you or harmful)
Case closed? haha! Japan eats a specific diet that encompasses high quality, extreme nutrition. That's why they can still smoke Malborah Reds and not have everyone dying of lung cancer. They also have a societal bias against weight gain as they consider it antisocial and glutonous unless you are a sumo wrestler. THATS why they live longer, not because they eat too much condensed seaweed or whatever chemical concoction they are making their MSG from..
I love my MSG I found out I had very high hypertension a year ago and it has been very helpful to lower my blood pressure. It's so much better than salt.
The S in MSG (the salt of glutamate) is the same sodium in your table salt (the salt of chloride) , unless you consume the glutamate not in salt crystalline form that is msg , you should be aware this sodium will also increase your blood pressure as it is still a salt
There are a lot of people around me who always says instant noodle will cause hair loss. Well, instant noodle is poor in nutrients. If you eat it often as your meal without additional vegetables or meats, thats what causes the hair loss. You're lack of nutrients honeyy. Don't put the blame on the instant noodle/msg. This noodle saved my broke ass when i live in dorm to get my degree.
The same as me. In my university time to get my bachelor, i eat instant noodle almost everyday, offcourse with some addition of vegies and chicken because i eat it in a small restaurat My hair? Still gorgeous as usual with black shiny and thick
MSG was discovered by a Japanese chemist 100 years ago, Kikunae Ikeda. Now if MSG is so bad why do Japanese have the longest life span. And have and live the healthiest dieat? My great grandfather was 117years old when he died. His cooks used MSG but great grandfather head a very good memory. He walked until he his last day. My grandma died at 96 years old.
Because of this let us not fool ourselves because it's how we use products that is the culprit, not the product itself. Blaming things is just a scapegoat for a lot of peoples incompetence. My family had been MSG users for years and we do not experience any of those symptoms.
This is a big business like wine or tobacco. In the early days of sigarettes even the prominent medical professionals of US said smoking is good!!! You can buy experts without any problem. We used to eat food without MSG with real taste using herbs and spices.
Have you not watch and understand the video at all. Most food even the natural once have glutamate and even mothers milk has it. The way to resolve it is to reduce the salt on your cooking if your adding msg because msg already has a lot of sodium.
@@darkandlight4650 Except processed MSG, not in its natural form, acts as an excitotoxin... it kills neurons. Research the oligarchs behind the food industry, media and Rockefeller medicine to educate yourself.
It's crazy how a sinophobic trends in the west basically stigmatized an entire group of people and cancelled half of the world's cuisine (Asia) because of it.
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SALT has over three times more SODIUM than MSG. Sodium is the main cause of high blood pressure/hypertension. [A friendly reminder from Mama June, San Francisco]
Exactly . I just randomly searched abt MSG with some title and came across this after watching 3 min around Ted-Ed video and I love how it debunks myrh regarding msg beautifully .
MSG contains the aminoacid plus sodium salt. You can find that aminoacid naturally in food like tomatoes (when you cook them), soy sauce, other fermented foods...
My mum used it in all our home-cook daily diet during my childhood time. However, I persuaded my mum to stop using it after I turned 18 when I realised there were actually a lot of health issues and side effects consuming it and the obvious side effects I experienced myself is extreme thirst and dryness for hours. Since then, it has been 35 years already that I have been avoiding products containing added MSG and avoid restaurant cooking with MSG 😅😊
didnt know msg was made from natural raw ingredients. i always thought that its made from mixing different chemical compounds together to mimic the taste of the original seaweed umami
“Glutamic acid broth” is a chemical that excites your neurons’ transmitters nonstop! Your tongue has a favorite location for MSG addiction! What MSG companies do not want you to know is undoubtedly dangerous!
Glutamate (monosodium glutamate) is a neurotransmitter in the brain. I always get really sleeping whenever I consume anything doused with synthetically produce msg.
My soup tasted plain, lacking in umami flavor even adding salt didn't help. I added a little MSG. It tasted great after that. I once added MSG to my tea by mistake, thinking it was sugar (the kitchen was dark and couldn't see well). My tea didn't taste very good.
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Ofc it wont taste good if you use it as the same amount as sugar as it was way too much amount for msg in tea, you could enhance tea taste with msg but depends on the glass size too, you could try use it on a cup of tea but with just a small pinch of msg.
I can take a small amount of MSG . If I take too much I suffer very badly from numbness from my head downwards towards my back . In my experience , yong tau foo soup and seafood soup has the most MSG .
@@EnigmazGuide I think they had something called Chinese restaurant syndrome. its a placebo sickness that convinced that msg that commonly found in foods of chinese restaurant are the cause of their sickness. but the real cause is the salt content in the chinese food. So its probably the salt intake.
Listen, the doubt on MSG began on a rumour. Everything in excess is bad. Like sugar, salt, etc. I take msg and remain as healthy as ever. MSG? No problem🔥🔥🔥.
Blinding headache. Heart pounding. I ate salad dressing with MSG and it put me into VFib. I got these same symptoms with a bowl of ramen, I have a BSN and work as a nurse. I read labels now. "Prove" the safety all you like, there are millions of us who are very sensitive to this unneeded food additive.
Excellent video on MSG. Great graphics, video editing, interviews. This should be played in middle school and high school science classes. Anyone who is against MSG should watch this. This is especially useful to doctors and other health providers against MSG due to false beliefs.
If you have Arthritis, Fibromyalgia, or any type of joint pain, it will definitely make the pain worse! I know, I have all three, and when I eat it my pain is more intense. I know several people that has the same problem MSG.
it's already answered right? and also the whole point of the video is that you don't have to worry too much about it anyways. just watch for sodium content.
Yeah its healthy ... But if u buy it on fast food restaurant its will be deferent story ... Its business they want stock all food for a month or more ... So they add some substance that will harm your body
The danger of MSG might not come from MSG itself but from the increase in the amount of food we eat. Here, let me try to put it simply. Does MSG make food tastier? Yes. Does tastier food make you eat more? Yes. Does eating more calories make you gain more body weight and result in obesity? Yes. Does obesity is the cause of Heart Disease and Type 2 Diabetes? Yes.
Glutamate is the most abundant excitatory neurotransmitter in the vertebrate nervous system. (It will pass the blood brain barrier). The only amount we need is naturally occurring. Anything more than that goes into the toxicity realm.
They never revealed that they add acid and bases to buffer the hydrolysates. As well as enzymes to biocatalyse starch into Glutamate. Though this shouldn't have negative effect. Just felt I should include some things missing in the production process.
Sugar, salt, vinegar, starch and everything else is far worst then MSG. But anything has a limit, if you overdosed yourself with sugar then you'll also end up very sick or died. Same goes with salt and vinegar. Yet, u saw no one said that lol
no one says vinegar salt and sugar are bad? everyboduñy says it buddy, all doctors recommend you to reduce intake of all of them🤣🤣 all magazines and cookbooks and shlt say it
Lol, are you a physician? Sugar and starch are the same thing just in different form and are very bad for you. But salt and vinegar are actually good for you if taken are appropriate amounts. MSG is bad for you as backed up by peer reviewed scientific literature.
@@JohnLee-db9zt scientofic literature actually say it's not dangerous. It literally is a sodium salt and an aminoacid, less salt content and because of the aminoacid effect on flavor you will actually use less regular salt
@@JohnLee-db9zt it's dangerous if it's injected to bloodstream at 5mg in a lab rat, shows brain damage. there's no literature that says it's bad when ingested/ eaten.
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I knew MSG wasnt bad, if you dont overdose on it, like every other food or edible, and even assumed that it was in most of our foods anyways. But I didn't know how many foods had MSG, nor it was quite "organic" - not so processed. I also said to my that salt was unhealthier than MSG, but I wouldn't expect it to be true, cuz it was purely an assumption. Furthermore, I remember hearing that after the first "scientific" papers on MSG in U.S. was released, racist scientists had also published papers that further "proved" its negative side effects, but it turned out they experimented on rats and literally injected them with many times the normal amount... not eating but INJECTING via NEEDLES, in HIGH DOSES
Why not try to debunk the argument made by the other side (people who argue MSG is bad) by disregarding the "everything in moderation argument". That would offer better insights.
Yes indeed. A long while ago there was a lady who said to me "msg is artificial and she does not and will not consume any of it". I did a quick assessment of whether it is worth my while to educate her and had decided to not waste my time.
I don’t know if it is good or bad but whenever I add msg in homecooked food, my nerves especially towards my foot starts tingling. I avoid adding it on food as far as possible. It’s just my experience that I wanted to share.
Truth be told I grew up having MSG as a flavor enhancer in food at restaurants and also at home. Then when I moved to the States and hearing the side effects of MSG I omitted it from my home cooking. I compensate it with chicken or mushroom stock powder. If that doesn't help I add sauses. Believe me I try all brands of for example soy sauce. Ironically the sodium content is high. S'times I add sugar to "balance" the flavor. Hmm maybe I should revert to using a pinch of MSG. Bottom line is that I know taste is subjective. So is the ability of cooking healthy and knowing what your body need. Be creative and let the taste buds and body direct you. I love food.
I have had bad reaction to msg in the form of headache. It was so bad that I panicked thinking I had food poisoning. If I want extra flavour I'll just add more garlic/herbs/spices to my cooking. They're unprocessed and loaded with antioxidants anyway.
Think I just did a 360 with MSG! My brother swears by it when he cooks but the rest of us in the family avoided it because well, "No thanks, we ain't gonna get cancer" LOL.. Awesome work on this vid! The artist's drawings with the grains of MSG was mind blowing for me! Gonna watch a few other MSG vids for even more supportive scientific reviews. Many thanks for this!!
Honestly, all the 'scientific' papers about the negative effects of MSG are outdated and were made during the U.S.'s anti-Chinese time. If those studies claim it was bad, then the U.S. would have banned it, following many other countries. I've heard that one of those earlier papers got negative results simply because they practically overdosed mice, by multiple times the normal daily intake, and INJECTED them with those doses of MSG... since then, the real, relevant studies have disproven all those claims when taking in NORMAL DOSES, except for the very few who are allergic to MSG
3:16 I heard those stories back when Iwas still a kid, hearing it today where I'm a fully blown adult that story suddenly feels like political. and this is the proof that interpretation of things changes depends on your age. which is why kids are not allowed to vote. in this case, the doctor eats on a chinese restaurant and he got symptoms and among all ingredient in his meal he "Specifically pick" MSG. I mean... what the hell? did they not even look at "salt" or looking to "how much" is not safe to consume. coz at the end of the study their conclusion is "MSG is BAD" as if it is pure evil. coz everyone knows that there is no pure bad on everything, what we all know in general is that too much of something is always bad.
16 years ago I decided to change my diet completely. And MSG was one of the first I took care of...then soda, artificial flavors, and colors, carrageenan, artificial sweeteners, refined grains and cut almost of kinds of sugars in my diet. I haven't eaten out for those 16 years and I don't miss it.
MSG is bad for you in high doses. I am just like Ian Teddy, I eat MSG every day until one day I developed an allergic reaction, which is a migraine and cause my eyes to dilate. My mom adds up to three teaspoons of MSG in her cooking. Also, had friends who consume a lot of MSG while pregnant and children born with autism.
My father always added MSG in his cooking and he died at the age of 80 years old. On the other hand, many people who lead a healthy lifestyle, exercise, yoga, eat organic food, in fact die sooner. God's business. The point is that the important thing is excessive.
While in general this video is well put together, it seems to gloss over the symptoms of MSG. I am sensitive to MSG with dry mouth, headaches, and dizziness. I especially happens after a restaurant dinner. Certainly it is probably due to excessive use of MSG that is not under customer control. The only way is to go to restaurant that promise MSG free.
People are not dumb because if we keep getting sick doing the same thing over and over with the same results well it is msg.It stimulated nerves and so it is a nerve agent.This video is for corporations.
I once work at a Korean restaurant and received a call asking if the restaurant uses MSG. I told the owner about the cal and she told me if they ever call and ask that question, we’ll just tell them no
thank you for sharing this video cause I'm also a fanatic of using msg on the food I make ,I find msg enhances the flavor that's why I don't listen to hearsay hehe
Thank you for this! I got my first bag of Ajinomoto MSG tonight, sprinkled some sparingly on some good food items to test flavour.. AND I FEEL AMAZING! It's like my body needed it, without the junk crisps etc. Magic stuff. This is just the beginning of my road. Thank you again. 👍👍👍
The problem isn't with MSG itself, it's that MSG can make low-quality food taste good. Therefore, companies which use MSG are able to serve low-quality food that actually tastes good. The end result is you eating low-quality food.
So let's suggest it to him, lol 🤣 Also, dude's Malaysian. We might get some "that's why our food is better" moment from him if he actually does a reaction video.
To put it in perspective: The LD50 for caffeine is 150-200mg per kg of body weight. For MSG you would have to ingest a lot - 15-18 grams! per kg body weight. And you would then die of heart failure, same as you would if you ingested too much salt. Personally, I avoid MSG because I always considered it as cheating - and the hallmark of great chef is to be able to prepare savory food without the help of MSG. 😁
Yes we can taste the natural taste itself just boiling the food like soups by boiling with garlic, onions , pepper only,,,,, or make soup base from bones of beef , pork, chicken without adding msg, just salt is great!
There's "natural MSG" in a few foods like dashi stock (boiled seaweed and dried fish for example) that gives better umami flavour than the synthetic processed MSG powder.
Finally someone did a research vlog about MSG being bad, sure it is but if only you take it excessively. 9 yrs ago I also thought MSG is also bad to our body luckily during my college days we have seminars about this that Umami is our 5th basic taste and it has nothing to do with hair loss, fatigue or whatever. I think sugar and salt is way more dangerous than MSG.
The thing about msg is that it has high sodium content but isnt salty. So you could be adding a lot and food would taste better due to the glutamate but you wont taste the sodium level, hence the perceived danger esp for hypertensive people or those with kidney issues. For this child who puts msg in everything, let’s see how his kidneys are when he reaches his 40s-50s.
I just went through and 2 surgeries and some implants to get rid of a huge kidney stone I had in which before I had arrived at the hospital I went on another sodium eating spree. Sometimes I can’t help it and even though I used to be very fit I would and can eat 5-10 spicy ramen packets in one setting (I’m 6ft) that’s what I was doing before I ended up with that huge stone. I have another appointment scheduled where I am going to find out from the doctor the root cause but I have a feeling it was the overeating of sodium and the daily energy drinks that got me. I know we are supposed to do everything in moderation but sometimes I just really crave spice and sodium .
My grandparents used MSG in their cooking and they lived a healthy life and died in their 90s but have to say they didn't consume sugar much in their diet. I think sugar is worst than MSG.
yep. it's deflecting from the more serious concerns such as sugar, etc.
Sugar, especially the white granulated stuff, is definitely worse than MSG.
Sugar is the cause of EVERYTHING...diabetes, cholesterol, blood sugar, high blood pressure, kidney disease, liver disease, heart disease, if they are going to ban anything, it should be sugar 100%
MSG scare was based off a racist doctor that had a history of disliking chinese and its takeover of the American fast food life. Your body makes glutamine naturally so are people going to surgically remove it? This msg phobia is idiotic and its got Asians believing in their own stereotype.
i agree,me consuming less sugar and doesn't had any issue.but still consuming MSG with right portion
0:12: 🍲 Monosodium glutamate (MSG) has a bad reputation, but is it really that bad for us?
6:23: 🍲 MSG, a flavor enhancer, is made by fermenting natural ingredients like tapioca.
11:07: 👅 The taste of MSG can enhance the flavor of savory foods, but may not have the same effect on sweet foods.
15:22: 🧂 MSG is not harmful in moderate amounts, but excessive intake of sodium from both salt and MSG can be problematic.
20:43: ✅ MSG is a safe and effective flavor enhancer that can help reduce sodium intake.
Recap by Tammy AI
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Thanks. I owe u 19 min of my life
The funny thing is alot of people doesn't watch the video and declare MSG is utterly safe and has no side effect without getting to 15:22.
Thanks for saving 22min of my life
@@dutchmilk Everything in abnormal amount is unhealthy. A teaspoon of MSG in 2~3 litre of brooth with 1 kg of meat can save your cooking time by a lot without ruining the meat.
I remember watching an experiment about MSG. They didn't tell people that it had MSG and no "side effects" were reported. But when they said the food had MSG even though it didn't, they said they suddenly had "side effects". It goes to show that those "warnings" against MSG really influenced a lot of people.
Please can you point me to the experiment
Yeah, can you share me the link to that experiment?
Saw this one too. Placebo effect
Placebo effect
Just because the placebo effect can happen, doesn't prove that MSG is safe. Some people do get bad effects from MSG.
Growing up in Vietnam, I ate msg, but stopped after coming to America where it's said to be bad. It's only last month that I learned that msg isn't bad at all. Here in America, they used to claim that eggs are bad, then changed to say they're good. Red meat was bad. Now it's good. Fat animal meat was unhealthy. Now beneficial. Carb and sugar currently are the ultimate culprits....
They don't want to be honest with people. The true problem lies with all the chemicals in our foods.
Mình làm nhà hàng lâu lâu gặp mấy khách mỹ trắng bị cả đống allergies hỏi lung tung vớ vẩn thấy mà mệt. Người mỹ thỉnh thoảng có một số khách khó khăn như vậy
Guess what, carb and sugar isnt the culprit😂
All throughout they said "Protein is very good."
The target put on MSG was over concern for the growing number of Asian restaurants popping up all over the US in the 1930s. It was a racism tactic designed to stop people eating at Asian restaurants and can be traced to the influence of Christian Conservative groups. They would demonise anything what wasn't 'white'. Is that surprising to anyone? Now it's the evangalical christians pushing such racist agendas against minority groups, all in the name of their particular God.
Thank you for this documentary... Sick of people claiming MSG causes hairloss or its bad for you etc. Anything is bad if its taken in excess.
Absolutely
hairloss is only apparent in singapore 😂.
Very true
..i made a joke with regard the idea that msg causes hair loss...i just told them.. hair loss if you put it in your head..😊
Thats what I keep telling everybody. Aint nobody want to listen.
"The dosage makes a poison" is what our chemistry teacher always used to say. Salt is great to make food taste better and we do need it in our diet. However consuming too much of it or to consume it without actual food would of course be poisonous. Same with almost everything. You'd also be fine ingesting actual poison as long as the amount is small enough.
This. Also, glutamate is not equal to all glutamates, it matter what glutamate you have.
Bravo 👏! It's kind of the same for everything in your life little Einstein!!
Yes, and even consuming too much water can lead to water intoxication.
chinese resturant syndrome... is when they mix up the msg with salt, and you end up with a super high dosage of salt.
just stay away from the crappy resturants where they probably don't have good organization.
Einfach, if the dosage makes a poison take the smallest amount of cyanide and see what happens...
The king of flavour. Uncle Roger taught me to have it in my kitchen. It kinda changed my life, as I never enjoyed the food as much. Sometimes I consume it in excess, I have to admit, but not ever once had I felt negative side effect of it. 2 years with MSG and counting. It is so cringe seeing labels on food like "Without MSG" while MSG is perfectly safe.
It is like a innocent man wrongfully sentenced to life in prison.
Westerners like to put certain things of the east with negative labels when they see it competing with their products. MSG is such a good taste enhancer it makes the already bland western dishes feel even blander when compared to tasty eastern dishes with added MSG.
@@FrankBCore You are a crappy mom if you put msg crap on your kid's food in the East.
@@FrankBCore whatever. Msg was not developed in the "east". You're talking about it like it's a traditional ingredient just like chilli or ginger.
@@FrankBCore "bland western". Lol. Bland American ,maybe. In Italy we eat tasty food.
@@FrankBCore What are all these negative things? Can you name just 10?
I heard a story from a man 30 years older than me regarding the MSG. He wouldn’t eat any food containing MSG because he is afraid to have a heart attack. During the Vietnam war, every North Vietnamese soldier carry a kg of MSG to the South for fighting the war. The MSG serves two purposes. One for enhancing the lousy food and other to stop the bleeding from the bullet wounds. MSG was used to fill the cavity and it would stop the bleeding.
A natural coagulant
Thanks for the info
New information to me that msg can be used to stop or slow down bleeding
Heard that too
MSG heart attack 😂
Keyword here is Umami. MSG is very much a fast and convenient way to add more savoury punch to food. How about making your own umami liquid or stock if you're cooking? Japanese culinery commonly used bonita flakes, dried anchovies, dried mackerel, miso, dried mushrooms and as mentioned in the video, dried kelp(seaweed). Asian seems to prefer stock from chicken, dried shrimp, ikan bilis, dried solefish, prawn shells, clams, fish bones & head, meat bones, soybean, fermented beans, dried mushrooms etc.. Of course, there's also vegetables stock. Other ways of adding umami includes fermented liquids like soy sauce, oyster sauce, fish gravy, liquid aminos, Worcestershire sauce etc.. Finally, my thoughts on this video: If savoury umami rich food is my goal, how much trouble am I willing to go inorder to extract umami from raw ingredients(cooking own stock)? Or could I not just use ready-made stock(liquids or powdered)? Or the instant handy MSG? 😉
Not really sure what answer you ''want'' to hear. Or what is your point, really? Of course, Umami-rich ingredients are a-plenty. Of course we are learning more and more about this relatively new ''5th taste''. And it has been known, and scientifically proven for at least 2-3 decades, that MSG does NOT cause a the entire laundry list of ailments that many people have believed since the late 60s . So again...what is your point?
I'll use both ready made stock and msg. 😆
I do not have any hard point(s), you may draw your own conclusions. As for the scientific proof you mentioned, does it include those affected by consuming MSG? If quantity of MSG consumed is a factor, I agree with this video that for most of Asia's cooked food sold outside of home, they contain a certain amount of MSG which one cannot really determind. Thus as the video suggested, moderation is advisable. Finally, I believe one may need be wary of total MSG consumed. Since we can't always reduce the MSG from restaurants or take-outs, I would reduce the amount over the home-cooked meal side. Cooking at home, I prefer my home-made Umami stock whenever my work schedule allows. At busy times, I use store bought ready-made stock and MSG, no issues for me and family. So I'm neutral as far as whether MSG is 'good' for you.
I love trying everthing else that includes food and when ever I do eat out and I'll find something that taste good. I'm not a chef but I can fry,steam, boil..... & I do like to make something that I like for myself where the msg tends to fk it up.
As an old saying:
"If you want, we'll done, you better do it yourself." Let's do our own MSG. 😊❤
Whoever is doing that food art, you deserve a raise 👏
MSG is in a lot of food but it's evil if it's used in Chinese restaurants. lol. I used to work in a Chinese restaurant during my HS days and occasionally I see fat people specifically ask for no msg in the food. Some people should be more concern about their diabetes from sodas and donuts rather than the little msg found in the egg rolls.
The sugar content in different foods in the US (fast food capital) is insane, and don't forget the fairly frequently penchant for deep fried foods.
Salt content, calories, nutrients, sugar content and perhaps others I've missed out, are different facets of nutrition and diet so yes just picking on salt content is a bit ignorant.
Keep in mind that the leading type of cancer in Asia is stomach cancer caused by high intake of salt, alcohol and obesity: 5th leading type of cancer in the world, 1,089,103 have that cancer, 768,793 deaths.
I will make you understand that the fact that many Asians have a lower BMI (thinner) and more visceral fat than subcutaneous fat (more prevalent in western society). Thus carrying a high amount of visceral fat is known to be associated with insulin resistance, which can lead to glucose intolerance and type 2 diabetes. 60% of diabetics in the world live in Asia and there are 537 million adults (20-79 years) are living with diabetes on the planet - 1 in 10.
@@robert-antoinedenault5901 as an Asian American, I do notice the Asian community tend to have high intake of salt. What you said is probably all true but bare in mind that Asian population as % of global population stands around 60%, so having 60% of diabetics doesn't feel like it's an outlier. That being said, maybe there is a heavy connection which I'm not aware of.
That's the other thing about MSG. It takes very little to have a large effect on flavor, especially if its pals disodium inosinate and disodium guanylate are along for the ride (they magnify the effect of MSG by several times). Even products that say NO MSG are often still chock full of glutamates (the "G" in MSG). If you see yeast extract, hydrolyzed [insert vegetable here] protein, various cheeses -- especially Parmesan, tomato, or a number of other things in the ingredients list, you're still getting glutamates.
It's funny the video is asking if we know about msg but we dont even know about gravity, apparently: Is there any doubt that the fiction of Newton is the same as the myth of some guy who created the border of his country by shooting an arrow as far as possible ("Arash" in Persian mythology)?
The problem is nowadays "new discovery" happens almost every year, a typical example is coffee, every year a new research done by whoever from whatever university, this year a new research says coffee is good for your health, but the next year the result will become opposite, it repeats again and again without failure. In addition, rich sponsor like famous brand can easily hire a professor from so and so university to write a research report about the benefit of their product. they can also pay media company to market their products. so the conclusion is don't blindly believe in articles from newspapers and media, majority of them are biased or can be untrue.
MSG is not good to consume in any amount it will damage your metabolism and nervous system.
coffee have a good and bad side. it doesnt always have to be all good or all bad like you are talking
No. Research doesn't work like that. When a research from a trusted source is published furure research shouldn't oppose it, it only improves on it or it finds something new not shown in previous ones. But never deny them.
Not quite with MSG though. It was a legit fake researcher.
Well said
Great report! Because my parents operated Chinese restaurants I started to do research on MSG since the early 1970s. Just from reading scientific papers, I came to the same conclusion as your report. When patrons asked what MSG was, I told them the truth and most were shocked that MSG is natural like salt and even occurs in most preserved food with added salt. I would consume MSG as little as possible in the same fashion as reducing regular salt intake in my advanced age. In my restaurant, patrons have the option of no MSG in most dishes unless the key ingredients have naturally occurring MSG like sausages.
Yes, because a pinch of MSG produces a lot of difference of taste ( umami ) in a full pot of soup. That's way less than a teaspoon . I buy a pack (10 grams) of msg ( ajinomoto ) and that would last for a month or so. I use it everyday in my savory recipes. I don't use it in sweets.
I’m ok without adding additional MSG anyway but is good to see new information about it. I love to keep learning.
In japanese cooking we usually use "kombu" which is usually called "natural MSG".
Kombu! The best msg ever. ❤❤❤
Besides the documentary, the person doing the MSG art is awesome!
W person 💪😍
@@iantedy6617 omg u r the MSG lover!!
I in love with the coco
As always…everything in moderation! Use MSG to flavor so to lessen salt intake.
i believe MSG is Monosodium Glutamate already contain Sodium. The key is to eat in moderation. If you eat too much salt you might get hypertension, if you eat too many sugar, you can get diabetis, and this relate to many ingredients, especially flavour enhancer.
MSG is not good to consume in any amount it will damage your metabolism and nervous system.
Salt, if sea salt is taken, is not dangerous. MSG is riskier, but this program does not cover those factors.
@@yaiburanakul8505 Rock salt rocks....
why not use slat intake in moderation since msg doesn contain salt. problem solved, that's like trying to complicate simple solution. Every msg user's trying to justify thier use msg instead of just working with ingredient in its original form that alrdy does that.
I'm not really against MSG myself. But as an Asian I even don't use MSG that much since i have quite sensitive taste buds. A lil bit of it makes everything tastes somehow more sweet on my tongue and it has that prominent chemical taste to it. It also irritates my throat so much that my throat produces phlegm for quite some times. I read articles and journals about it that it may or may not has connection, but apparently some people also experience what I have myself.
You are not alone. everyone s chemistry is different. Some ppl. Can drink coffee all day while if I even have a little cup more than my tolerance I feel like I am having a heart attack. My family used to go to dim sum every Saturday and after each meal I get the cotton mouth feeling. It is not political... Msg aversion is real. I am not saying it to dismiss asian s .. I am chinese myself and even in Hong Kong.. ppl. Will rate the quality of food with the amount of msg used.
Thank you. I’m from Brasil and grew up in an Italian neighborhood next to the Japanese neighborhood ( biggest Japan town outside Japan) where MSG is known by Ajinomoto. I won’t eat arugula salad without lime juice and MSG. IN THE 60’s and 70’s it was known as health food and used in pop corn and by people with hypertension to reduce the amount of salt the ideia is to use 1/2 salt and 1/2 MSG.
IF MSG causes cancer, I would be dead by now ( I’m 60).
I worked in pizza place for 30 years and every pizza place in America uses MSG , but they advertise “no MSG”
It was known as natural food just because it is natural. The irony is that most people that try to avoid MSG, don’t have a problem with chemical processed conservantes like yellow 15, blue this and red that, used in abundance by the food industry. I believe that prejudice played a role in this hoax. Ajinomoto MSG is a wonderful taste enhancer just like table salt or sea salt enhance savory dishes. As everything else, balance is important. Too much of anything is bad for you. Hence sugar, fat , alcoholic beverages, etc..
thank you again for this well done video. Nice going.
I feel somewhat vindicated watching this video. I grew up with my mum sprinkling msg in her cooking and I don’t understand why people said msg is evil. Looking back, I noticed my mum hardly ever use salt.
After i drank roughly 300ml of coffee, i felt dissy, my heart pump faster, i sweat alot, felt unsettling and sick. But if i drink a small amount of it, i feel okay and more awake. Thats it. Everyone has different toleration towards stimulants and nutrients, so know your body and don't over consume anything is the key. Msg isn't bad for you unless you have allergy or over consume it. If the food you buy/cook make you feel a lot more thirsty, lethargic or even sick, that means it has too much msg/salt/sugar in it. Avoid that food stall/brand, there are better choice out there, suitable for your needs. Cook more healthily.
JUST ALWAYS CONSUME FOOD IN MODERATION PERIODT.
Totally agree. It's quite funny how people still not understand this concept.
Like you said "don't over consume anything is the key" not "eat bland food everyday is the key"😒
We still can eat delicious, nutritious and healthy food everyday if we know how to balance it.
Bruh, so I am not the only one with the weird coffee sickness thingie. If I drank coffee, I become very sleepy. They said it could be a sign of ADHD?
Don't be stupid, Caffeine in coffee is a drug msg isn't a drug. No where near in the same class.
I thought i am the only one feeling that coffee "allergy" 😅.. hence i don't drink coffee. Chocolates makes me feel the same way too.
@@shadowrunner187 wrong msg is a drug in the same way caffeine is ( both are natural products just like many poisons are natural from plants, that doesn't tell you if it's good for you or harmful)
One of the highest consumers of MSG is Japan and they are one of the healthiest people in the world, case closed.
Case closed? haha! Japan eats a specific diet that encompasses high quality, extreme nutrition. That's why they can still smoke Malborah Reds and not have everyone dying of lung cancer. They also have a societal bias against weight gain as they consider it antisocial and glutonous unless you are a sumo wrestler. THATS why they live longer, not because they eat too much condensed seaweed or whatever chemical concoction they are making their MSG from..
If they are consuming Monosodium Glutamate then they are NOT the healthiest people in the world. You can live to 90 and still be unhealthy.
Total BS.
@@Bhatmann prove it
@@Bhatmannhe/she just stating the fact, why you call he/she BS?
I love my MSG I found out I had very high hypertension a year ago and it has been very helpful to lower my blood pressure. It's so much better than salt.
The S in MSG (the salt of glutamate) is the same sodium in your table salt (the salt of chloride) , unless you consume the glutamate not in salt crystalline form that is msg , you should be aware this sodium will also increase your blood pressure as it is still a salt
When I cook, I only use bit of MSG. I still believe that everything in excess is bad.
Meanwhile in Sarawak, farmers use MSG as a form of fertiliser for their plants
There are a lot of people around me who always says instant noodle will cause hair loss.
Well, instant noodle is poor in nutrients. If you eat it often as your meal without additional vegetables or meats, thats what causes the hair loss. You're lack of nutrients honeyy. Don't put the blame on the instant noodle/msg. This noodle saved my broke ass when i live in dorm to get my degree.
The same as me. In my university time to get my bachelor, i eat instant noodle almost everyday, offcourse with some addition of vegies and chicken because i eat it in a small restaurat
My hair? Still gorgeous as usual with black shiny and thick
it's the labeling that counts
if you present people with organic and gmo, they will tell you that organic tastes better, even if they're the same food
90% ppl who read GMO label very likely have no odea what GMO actually is lol
This presenter can draw and can present well, bring more of him and his art please!
MSG was discovered by a Japanese chemist 100 years ago, Kikunae Ikeda. Now if MSG is so bad why do Japanese have the longest life span. And have and live the healthiest dieat? My great grandfather was 117years old when he died. His cooks used MSG but great grandfather head a very good memory. He walked until he his last day. My grandma died at 96 years old.
Because of this let us not fool ourselves because it's how we use products that is the culprit, not the product itself. Blaming things is just a scapegoat for a lot of peoples incompetence. My family had been MSG users for years and we do not experience any of those symptoms.
The only bad thing about msg is that it's too tasty and I eat too much 😂
Uncle Roger to US Doctor: Why so weak, why so weak! Haiyaa!
HAHAH. I can hear it in my head voice
It's salt on crack he said
msg's bad reputation is completely undeserved.
like everything else, msg is perfectly safe and healthy in moderation.
In the Philippines, we always use both salt and MSG the Ajinomoto in our cooking.
Not all
Not with my dinendeng with shrimp & clams!
This is a big business like wine or tobacco. In the early days of sigarettes even the prominent medical professionals of US said smoking is good!!! You can buy experts without any problem. We used to eat food without MSG with real taste using herbs and spices.
Have you not watch and understand the video at all. Most food even the natural once have glutamate and even mothers milk has it.
The way to resolve it is to reduce the salt on your cooking if your adding msg because msg already has a lot of sodium.
@@darkandlight4650 Except processed MSG, not in its natural form, acts as an excitotoxin... it kills neurons. Research the oligarchs behind the food industry, media and Rockefeller medicine to educate yourself.
It's crazy how a sinophobic trends in the west basically stigmatized an entire group of people and cancelled half of the world's cuisine (Asia) because of it.
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Production quality for this video is awesome!
this is very informative video.now we know that MSG is not that bad for our health.but everything should be in moderation
SALT has over three times more SODIUM than MSG.
Sodium is the main cause of high blood pressure/hypertension.
[A friendly reminder from Mama June, San Francisco]
Tbh as a media students I'm impressed how many people they can connect to create this one 20 mins show
Exactly . I just randomly searched abt MSG with some title and came across this after watching 3 min around Ted-Ed video and I love how it debunks myrh regarding msg beautifully .
Campbell's soups, ketchup, chips, croton, dressing, can gravy, t.v dinner, frie chicken, can broth just to name a few, all have MSG IN IT
MSG contains the aminoacid plus sodium salt. You can find that aminoacid naturally in food like tomatoes (when you cook them), soy sauce, other fermented foods...
My mum used it in all our home-cook daily diet during my childhood time. However, I persuaded my mum to stop using it after I turned 18 when I realised there were actually a lot of health issues and side effects consuming it and the obvious side effects I experienced myself is extreme thirst and dryness for hours. Since then, it has been 35 years already that I have been avoiding products containing added MSG and avoid restaurant cooking with MSG 😅😊
I always got headache and migraine after consuming food with msg
didnt know msg was made from natural raw ingredients. i always thought that its made from mixing different chemical compounds together to mimic the taste of the original seaweed umami
Everything sounds scarier if we all used their chemical names like, Hydrogen Dioxide (H20) which is just water or labeling sugar as C12H22O11.
That's why MSG needs to be rebranded. I would love it if just changed to "Umami salt" forever.
That is probably closer to the truth
@@BeastOrGod - when I was young, everyone used "Accent", which was just MSG. It's still around under that brand name.
@@spudbono5747 here we call it Aroma, because of brand name too.
Great production. Loved the illustration part using msg grains. So creative yet informative. 👍
that is typical japanese art
“Glutamic acid broth” is a chemical that excites your neurons’ transmitters nonstop! Your tongue has a favorite location for MSG addiction! What MSG companies do not want you to know is undoubtedly dangerous!
Glutamate (monosodium glutamate) is a neurotransmitter in the brain. I always get really sleeping whenever I consume anything doused with synthetically produce msg.
If you get sleepy after eating something, you should get your blood sugar checked and not the fasting one, take an HBA1C test.
My soup tasted plain, lacking in umami flavor even adding salt didn't help. I added a little MSG. It tasted great after that. I once added MSG to my tea by mistake, thinking it was sugar (the kitchen was dark and couldn't see well). My tea didn't taste very good.
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that was a dark day
I can imagine the taste though, 😩 ugh
Ofc it wont taste good if you use it as the same amount as sugar as it was way too much amount for msg in tea, you could enhance tea taste with msg but depends on the glass size too, you could try use it on a cup of tea but with just a small pinch of msg.
@@saminemredjomoenawi8636 wong suriname tapi ngomonge koyok robot pie toh?
Here in Philippines no MSG is no dish ,we always use it. The one who cook is not satisfied without MSG
woah hey, that sand/salt/msg artist is SICK. just had to point out. kinda surprised CNA commissioned someone just to do that? but kudos
Thank you ☺️
@@DoozoYoorushiku well done!
@@DoozoYoorushiku You the artist? Good job!
Don't forget mushrooms! Packed with glutamate. Yum!
Western & Europe : "hey asians, why you love MSG so much, it's unhealthy !"
Asians : "so does your alcohol"
You muslim, right?
Ya my Asian friends can't tolerate alcohol but actually European me can't either. We are all different and need to know your own bodies.
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does that really matter to you ?
@@Avnich-Rndom you can't drink alcohol, that's why i asked.
@@markogaudiosi5243
no, i can drink, but i choose to not
Also FYI muslim is not the only one who prohibited Alcohol
Thanks for your research. I don't use MSG as it is an excitotoxin. If your food is flavoursome, you don't need it.
MSG makes my tongue slightly burn and tingly. It also makes my ears red and itchy.
Can you make a video how one person is allergic to "gluten" and then they try to convince anyone that gluten is bad?
No such thing as Gluten allergy.
I can take a small amount of MSG . If I take too much I suffer very badly from numbness from my head downwards towards my back . In my experience , yong tau foo soup and seafood soup has the most MSG .
@@EnigmazGuide I think they had something called Chinese restaurant syndrome. its a placebo sickness that convinced that msg that commonly found in foods of chinese restaurant are the cause of their sickness. but the real cause is the salt content in the chinese food. So its probably the salt intake.
Alvin F Yusuf It is not caused by salt. But regular salt os not healthy either. Much better is sea salt.
Listen, the doubt on MSG began on a rumour. Everything in excess is bad. Like sugar, salt, etc.
I take msg and remain as healthy as ever. MSG? No problem🔥🔥🔥.
MSG is salt also with glutamate
Blinding headache. Heart pounding. I ate salad dressing with MSG and it put me into VFib. I got these same symptoms with a bowl of ramen, I have a BSN and work as a nurse. I read labels now. "Prove" the safety all you like, there are millions of us who are very sensitive to this unneeded food additive.
Excellent video on MSG. Great graphics, video editing, interviews. This should be played in middle school and high school science classes. Anyone who is against MSG should watch this. This is especially useful to doctors and other health providers against MSG due to false beliefs.
Yeah suddenly everything's changed. It's a cure all, and we should all eat it daily.🙄🙄🙄
I am against the use of MSG after suffering anaphylaxis from eating it. This video does nothing to change my mind about it.
i love msg,, i think sugar is more difficult fo avoid, its everywhere
Agree 100%
Just about every savory snack here in the US has MSG in it.
Agreed in some American seasoning has some firm of msg in them even can soup
Thank you so much for this. My eyes have been opened 😁👍🏼
If you have Arthritis, Fibromyalgia, or any type of joint pain, it will definitely make the pain worse! I know, I have all three, and when I eat it my pain is more intense. I know several people that has the same problem MSG.
Osmosis. The sodium enters your bloodstream and enters cells low in sodium resulting in swelling, retaining interstitial fluid. Makes sense.
Same here
All my food has msg in it. My mind was blown away by the difference
A lot of take out food is full of MSG... Do we really know they are not cooking with it? And it's in a lot of food we buy from the grocery stores.
it's already answered right? and also the whole point of the video is that you don't have to worry too much about it anyways. just watch for sodium content.
It's better if they cook with msg. Don't fall for the myth that's based on racial bias.
@@hannesRSA it is listed tho. I’d really like to see if you can come up with some evidence of foods not listing msg
@Trustworthy Fighter lmao everything is a chemical product.
If you take wheat, milk, tomatoes, and process them, its a pizza. Just because something is natural, doesn't make it healthy.
Yeah its healthy ... But if u buy it on fast food restaurant its will be deferent story ... Its business they want stock all food for a month or more ... So they add some substance that will harm your body
The danger of MSG might not come from MSG itself but from the increase in the amount of food we eat. Here, let me try to put it simply.
Does MSG make food tastier? Yes.
Does tastier food make you eat more? Yes.
Does eating more calories make you gain more body weight and result in obesity? Yes.
Does obesity is the cause of Heart Disease and Type 2 Diabetes? Yes.
Glutamate is the most abundant excitatory neurotransmitter in the vertebrate nervous system. (It will pass the blood brain barrier). The only amount we need is naturally occurring. Anything more than that goes into the toxicity realm.
They never revealed that they add acid and bases to buffer the hydrolysates. As well as enzymes to biocatalyse starch into Glutamate.
Though this shouldn't have negative effect. Just felt I should include some things missing in the production process.
Sugar, salt, vinegar, starch and everything else is far worst then MSG. But anything has a limit, if you overdosed yourself with sugar then you'll also end up very sick or died. Same goes with salt and vinegar. Yet, u saw no one said that lol
no one says vinegar salt and sugar are bad? everyboduñy says it buddy, all doctors recommend you to reduce intake of all of them🤣🤣 all magazines and cookbooks and shlt say it
Lol, are you a physician? Sugar and starch are the same thing just in different form and are very bad for you. But salt and vinegar are actually good for you if taken are appropriate amounts. MSG is bad for you as backed up by peer reviewed scientific literature.
@@JohnLee-db9zt scientofic literature actually say it's not dangerous. It literally is a sodium salt and an aminoacid, less salt content and because of the aminoacid effect on flavor you will actually use less regular salt
@@JohnLee-db9zt it's dangerous if it's injected to bloodstream at 5mg in a lab rat, shows brain damage. there's no literature that says it's bad when ingested/ eaten.
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I knew MSG wasnt bad, if you dont overdose on it, like every other food or edible, and even assumed that it was in most of our foods anyways.
But I didn't know how many foods had MSG, nor it was quite "organic" - not so processed.
I also said to my that salt was unhealthier than MSG, but I wouldn't expect it to be true, cuz it was purely an assumption.
Furthermore, I remember hearing that after the first "scientific" papers on MSG in U.S. was released, racist scientists had also published papers that further "proved" its negative side effects, but it turned out they experimented on rats and literally injected them with many times the normal amount... not eating but INJECTING via NEEDLES, in HIGH DOSES
You are right and can kill also the dog becouse we use MSG before here in my place to kill the dog.
It would take a miracle to overdose on MSG.
MSG is no good for you. If your a chef and you use MSG your not really a chef. Msg makes you thirsty and can cause stomach cancer.
I once made chicken curry with MSG and it tasted amazing. MSG is magic.
I grew up using ajinomoto and the one in the gold can...vetsin, still use it today .
As Uncle Roger will tell you "No MSG in fried rice is not fried rice!"
My Grandma used MSG for her dying plants ..and it works!
seriously? 😂
@@remmyjr8983 I google that and surprisingly, there are many results that recommend using msg as a fertiliser! The more you know xD
Why not try to debunk the argument made by the other side (people who argue MSG is bad) by disregarding the "everything in moderation argument".
That would offer better insights.
Yes indeed. A long while ago there was a lady who said to me "msg is artificial and she does not and will not consume any of it". I did a quick assessment of whether it is worth my while to educate her and had decided to not waste my time.
Rai is a really great presenter, looking forward to seeing more of his content.
Great report! One of the reasons I have subscribed to this channel: perspective!!! Nice!
I don’t know if it is good or bad but whenever I add msg in homecooked food, my nerves especially towards my foot starts tingling. I avoid adding it on food as far as possible. It’s just my experience that I wanted to share.
My friend has terrible swelling in the face after taking msg, even tiny amounts.
Truth be told I grew up having MSG as a flavor enhancer in food at restaurants and also at home. Then when I moved to the States and hearing the side effects of MSG I omitted it from my home cooking. I compensate it with chicken or mushroom stock powder. If that doesn't help I add sauses. Believe me I try all brands of for example soy sauce. Ironically the sodium content is high. S'times I add sugar to "balance" the flavor. Hmm maybe I should revert to using a pinch of MSG. Bottom line is that I know taste is subjective. So is the ability of cooking healthy and knowing what your body need. Be creative and let the taste buds and body direct you. I love food.
I have had bad reaction to msg in the form of headache. It was so bad that I panicked thinking I had food poisoning. If I want extra flavour I'll just add more garlic/herbs/spices to my cooking. They're unprocessed and loaded with antioxidants anyway.
Think I just did a 360 with MSG! My brother swears by it when he cooks but the rest of us in the family avoided it because well, "No thanks, we ain't gonna get cancer" LOL.. Awesome work on this vid! The artist's drawings with the grains of MSG was mind blowing for me! Gonna watch a few other MSG vids for even more supportive scientific reviews. Many thanks for this!!
Honestly, all the 'scientific' papers about the negative effects of MSG are outdated and were made during the U.S.'s anti-Chinese time. If those studies claim it was bad, then the U.S. would have banned it, following many other countries.
I've heard that one of those earlier papers got negative results simply because they practically overdosed mice, by multiple times the normal daily intake, and INJECTED them with those doses of MSG... since then, the real, relevant studies have disproven all those claims when taking in NORMAL DOSES, except for the very few who are allergic to MSG
people gets problems from eating too much sodium and sugar. nobody goes to doctors for having msg lol
180° bro, hundred and eighty.
360° will bring you back to the same direction
No wonder why uncle Roger always said used MSG in your cooking 😁
Fuuyoh!
I'm from the Philippines, 67 years old, and been using MSG to every food I cook, all my life.
In the 90s they were hardly any gluten free people but as soon as internet and smartphones came out a ton of people think they are gluten free
Loving the interview with the CEO of MSG. Subtitles were not necessary as it was crystal clear 😊
Hahaha! Too true. Perhaps some people can't understand English if it's pronounced more properly.
It was probably the job title that wasn't very clear then, CEO of MSG hahaha!
3:16 I heard those stories back when Iwas still a kid, hearing it today where I'm a fully blown adult that story suddenly feels like political.
and this is the proof that interpretation of things changes depends on your age. which is why kids are not allowed to vote.
in this case, the doctor eats on a chinese restaurant and he got symptoms and among all ingredient in his meal he "Specifically pick" MSG. I mean... what the hell? did they not even look at "salt" or looking to "how much" is not safe to consume. coz at the end of the study their conclusion is "MSG is BAD" as if it is pure evil. coz everyone knows that there is no pure bad on everything, what we all know in general is that too much of something is always bad.
16 years ago I decided to change my diet completely.
And MSG was one of the first I took care of...then soda, artificial flavors, and colors, carrageenan, artificial sweeteners, refined grains and cut almost of kinds of sugars in my diet.
I haven't eaten out for those 16 years and I don't miss it.
Your life sounds very... Exciting
All I got to say is MSG isn't good for me because it triggers my migraines.
MSG is bad for you in high doses. I am just like Ian Teddy, I eat MSG every day until one day I developed an allergic reaction, which is a migraine and cause my eyes to dilate. My mom adds up to three teaspoons of MSG in her cooking. Also, had friends who consume a lot of MSG while pregnant and children born with autism.
MSG is in fact a common migraine trigger, but the MSG won't admit it.
My father always added MSG in his cooking and he died at the age of 80 years old. On the other hand, many people who lead a healthy lifestyle, exercise, yoga, eat organic food, in fact die sooner. God's business. The point is that the important thing is excessive.
While in general this video is well put together, it seems to gloss over the symptoms of MSG. I am sensitive to MSG with dry mouth, headaches, and dizziness. I especially happens after a restaurant dinner. Certainly it is probably due to excessive use of MSG that is not under customer control. The only way is to go to restaurant that promise MSG free.
People are not dumb because if we keep getting sick doing the same thing over and over with the same results well it is msg.It stimulated nerves and so it is a nerve agent.This video is for corporations.
I once work at a Korean restaurant and received a call asking if the restaurant uses MSG. I told the owner about the cal and she told me if they ever call and ask that question, we’ll just tell them no
Cant live and eat without MSG...it give me healthy life
I share your response to MSG. My body can not tolerate it. I feel your pain.
L Lee. Specially what biochemical activity is causing your reactions?
thank you for sharing this video cause I'm also a fanatic of using msg on the food I make ,I find msg enhances the flavor that's why I don't listen to hearsay hehe
Thank you for this! I got my first bag of Ajinomoto MSG tonight, sprinkled some sparingly on some good food items to test flavour.. AND I FEEL AMAZING! It's like my body needed it, without the junk crisps etc. Magic stuff. This is just the beginning of my road. Thank you again. 👍👍👍
The problem isn't with MSG itself, it's that MSG can make low-quality food taste good. Therefore, companies which use MSG are able to serve low-quality food that actually tastes good. The end result is you eating low-quality food.
Uncle Roger should react to this XD
So let's suggest it to him, lol 🤣
Also, dude's Malaysian. We might get some "that's why our food is better" moment from him if he actually does a reaction video.
@@marioprawirosudiro7301 Let's bet how many time he'll say Fuuuiiiiiiyooooooohhh XD
Hiyahh!
To put it in perspective:
The LD50 for caffeine is 150-200mg per kg of body weight.
For MSG you would have to ingest a lot - 15-18 grams! per kg body weight. And you would then die of heart failure, same as you would if you ingested too much salt.
Personally, I avoid MSG because I always considered it as cheating - and the hallmark of great chef is to be able to prepare savory food without the help of MSG. 😁
David Chang is a pretty handy chef (I believe he has a couple of michelin stars) and is a big proponent of MSG.
Yes we can taste the natural taste itself just boiling the food like soups by boiling with garlic, onions , pepper only,,,,, or make soup base from bones of beef , pork, chicken without adding msg, just salt is great!
There's "natural MSG" in a few foods like dashi stock (boiled seaweed and dried fish for example) that gives better umami flavour than the synthetic processed MSG powder.
Some get heart reactions with fairly low doses there is no set amount for all people tolerance varies in different bodies just like all drugs etc.
Finally someone did a research vlog about MSG being bad, sure it is but if only you take it excessively. 9 yrs ago I also thought MSG is also bad to our body luckily during my college days we have seminars about this that Umami is our 5th basic taste and it has nothing to do with hair loss, fatigue or whatever. I think sugar and salt is way more dangerous than MSG.
Sugar is definitely worse. It's in a lot of sodas and in starchy foods
If you take unhealthy amount of things, what do you think'll happen. same with msg not just sugar and salt.
I laughed my as offf when you show us where the MSG is made. We love MSG, from Thailand.
Sugar is definitely worse than sugar but MSG gives me migraines.
The thing about msg is that it has high sodium content but isnt salty. So you could be adding a lot and food would taste better due to the glutamate but you wont taste the sodium level, hence the perceived danger esp for hypertensive people or those with kidney issues. For this child who puts msg in everything, let’s see how his kidneys are when he reaches his 40s-50s.
If you don't have sugar metabolic problem. You can consume three or four times of sodium without problems.
I just went through and 2 surgeries and some implants to get rid of a huge kidney stone I had in which before I had arrived at the hospital I went on another sodium eating spree. Sometimes I can’t help it and even though I used to be very fit I would and can eat 5-10 spicy ramen packets in one setting (I’m 6ft) that’s what I was doing before I ended up with that huge stone. I have another appointment scheduled where I am going to find out from the doctor the root cause but I have a feeling it was the overeating of sodium and the daily energy drinks that got me. I know we are supposed to do everything in moderation but sometimes I just really crave spice and sodium .