Is it just me, or do most chinese restaurants use a lot of MSG in there food? After I come back from a chinese restaurant, I get very thirst and have to drink a lot of water. Although MSG brings the great taste out from the food, do you think it is damaging to your health?
they do that to save time,effort and money lol do they realy care about what you think is healthy? all they want is you to enjoy ur meal, pay and leave and if you can add some tip lol
It was safe, until people started having health problems. Google it. Thats what i did. Honestly, food does taste ALOT better with MSG, but just like everthing, isn't good for your health. Just use it in moderate amounts.
mmmmmmmmmmmmmmm msg....make food so yummy. my bro told me the other day that for every tablespoon of msg, 6 seconds of ur life is gone. i choose msg
well, just like some ppl are lactose intolerant, some ppl are msg intolerent... does the MSG put MSG in their food?
MSG is basically a kind of salt. Restaurants use it as a cheap ingredient to add flavoring to your food. If you're not one of those people who are allergic to it, meaning you don't get head aches, stomach aches, or any other type of pain from eating it, then it's ok. MSG is only bad for you if you consume too much.
since my previous post i read this article: http://observer.guardian.co.uk/foodmonthly/story/0,,1522368,00.html very interesting! dispells many myths....go read it before anyone make another comment!
^too long of an article. bottom line: msg is not okay because it's asian. but a 4000 calorie burger is fine
MSG is supposed to enhance the taste of food. Restaurants use it to entice their customers to drink more..alcohol as the margins are higher. At home I use it sparingly to make what I cook more tasty...just enough only to tickle your taste buds.
I avoid MSG like the plague =_=b It causes me all kinds of trouble... insomnia (sometimes), sleepiness (sometimes), stomachache (always) and headache (if I am still sober)... =_=b I can take small doses but some restaurants go VERY generous and I'll feel like I developed an ulcer overnight. The pain. THE PAIN!!!
MSG are very common nowadays... not just used in Chinese Restaurants but other ones as well... it makes food taste better and they're cheap! best way to avoid it is to eat home.
^ Well even though nearly all restaurants uses MSG and its derivatives to add flavour, there are some restaurants which are less generous with it. And those are the ones I would end up frequenting and be a regular at There's only that much cooking you can do... The rest you'll just have to rely on good restaurants.
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I guess it's ok as long they don't put too much of it in the food! If you get thirsty by it, it's a sign they have either bad cooks or lazy cooks.
My friend's mom has a restaurant in Philly, her old menu used to have a 'no msg' sign, but when she updated her menu she took that off, she didn't want to lie, but only tells people there's msg if they ask.
There actully isn't solid evidence that MSG is actully harmful to your health If there was the food accociations could put a ban on it, but there isn't such a case that this food enhancer really does anything. MSG is protein that ehances the the taste of meat within your mouth. And MSG is not only found in chinese food, u really have to look at all foods possible and will find it practically everywhere. But u have to look for the scientific name monosodium glucamate. U will see that it's in a lot of foods and its not just Chinese resturants that use it. I have eaten chinese food since i was young and i have nothing against it nor am i sick and have cancer from it. And u can't really avoid MSG it's in pratically everything, u drink soup can cambelle anything, there is msg in there. Chips lots of it in there. anything u can think of that has meat flavour or subsitue as meat there is MSG i there. And i work in a chinese restaruant and its awfully annoying when ppls ask me if there is msg in our food. Yes there is, and guess what, there is more at your house too!
