My post about MSG in Chick-Fil-A is already starting to generate some good comments. One reader says I need to pull my head out of “crank health nut web sites” and start reading more government web sites.
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Chick-fil-A is working to take MSG out of there food, but must do so without loosing the Chick-fil-A taste that is so popular. You can email them if you haven’t already. I am sure they would entertain any questions you might have.
I believe that Miershpedankl has a point:
They Said That They Are Trying.
C’mon. Shouldn’t that be good enough?
Well, of course not.
I mean… HOW LONG WILL THIS PROCESS TAKE? Chick-fil-A has been in business since 1967. MSG has been known to cause a variety of adverse health effects since 1968. This includes a condition now named MSG Headache Sensitivity (previously — callously — referred to as “Chinese Restaurant Syndrome” a.k.a. let’s-blame-a-foreign presence-for-our-already-domestic-problem).
Now, to put this in perspective, I was born in 1969, and I’m 35. I wasn’t born yesterday. I’ve completely eliminated all traces of MSG from my menu decades ago, and my foods still retain their “popular” taste. Give me a break.
I find it fascinating that that reader you mentioned has so much faith in the government web sites…
Sarah,
You hit the nail on the head: you should not be required to have “faith” in sources of health information. They should have an “audit trail” by having sources. This is what is nice about the FDA, NIH, and CDC web sites.
The whole MSG thing is basically a big urban legend that is bouncing around a big health nut echo chamber on the internet, each “authority” citing each other. Another example would be canola oil. It’s sort of like the “Proctor & Gamble logo is Satanic” thing. Once it gets started, it never dies on the internet.
By reading the FDA and other sites, not all of them government-related, you can trace the history of the whole controversy, from its origins, early investigations, to more recent results.
There was legitimate and justifiable reason to worry about MSG when initial reports came out. The CDC and the FDA and medical researchers would have been remiss not to look into it. But the thing is, they took it very seriously and did look into it in anal detail, and it turned out to be a false alarm. But the health nut brigade forked off the controversy in the early stages, and went into an alternate universe, ignoring later results, and claiming conspiracy.
I think this is a controversy spearheaded by Americans due to their lack of exposure to “umami” tastes and gluten flavor enhancers, which are ubiquitous in many other countries, pariticularly in Asia. When something is rare and unfamiliar, it’s easy to let one’s imagination go wild. When everyone in the society eats it every day with no problems, its harder for extreme claims to take root.
In the end, if you think you have a problem with MSG, don’t eat it. I avoid mayonnaise, myself. :-)
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