What even is MSG? Is it bad for you?

07/12/2023 47 min Episodio 175
What even is MSG? Is it bad for you?

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#175

MSG! The ingredient many of us reference but few of us know anything about. What is it? Why does it make things taste so good? What's in it? Is it bad for us? If not, why does everyone think it is?
References from this Episode

https://youtu.be/VJw8r_YWJ9k
https://www.compoundchem.com/2014/08/25/msg/
https://www.nature.com/articles/1602526
https://www.chemistryworld.com/podcasts/glutamate/3005790.article
https://www.sciencedirect.com/topics/agricultural-and-biological-sciences/enterocyte
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/10942912.2017.1295260

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