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What even is MSG? Is it bad for you?

What even is MSG? Is it bad for you?

Update: 2023-12-07
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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

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

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What even is MSG? Is it bad for you?

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