![]() ![]() I'd be genuinely fascinated to see your results. Blasdelb's suggestion of salt or sugar in a capsule seems like a good control. You need a few hours, a handful of friends to participate with you, and a jar of MSG from your local Chinese supermarket. Randomise Me is a really nice tool set up to help non-scientists run and interpret RCTs at home. Tilde - on preview: I'd sign up for a double blind study of MSG, Blasdelb! I was always taught that acids are sour, and that bitterness is usually a sign of bases or alkalis. Does anyone know whether that's true? It seems very counter-intuitive to me. It's a tiny, unimportant side note, but the article mentions that "Bitter is caused by acetic acid". None of which I test as allergic to, but which definitely prompted a reaction. But I've had similar reactions over the years from a variety of foods that contain msg like certain tomato sauces (which you mention,) some kinds of fried breading, soy, a few soups and some kinds of processed cheese. Interestingly enough a couple of food allergies for which I've been tested also give me migraines. Until I found my current allergist, several professionals had told me it was an allergy and to simply avoid MSG. My allergist says it's a salt reaction, and not a legitimate allergy, per se. It gives me migraines when ingested in large enough quantities. The fact that people with "MSG allergies" associated these symptoms solely with Asian restaurants is sufficient in itself to tell us that this was a cultural panic and not a medical condition." Basically "Chinese Restaurant Syndrome" should also have been triggered by every dish of spaghetti bolognese ever served at every Italian restaurant in the world. ![]() You should also be "allergic" to your own body which produces glutamates all by its clever little self. ![]() If you have an "allergy" to MSG you should find it being triggered every time you eat meat, fish, cheese, tomatoes (especially dried tomatoes and tomato sauces etc.). Just as with people who are "sensitive" to WiFi hotspots and so forth, when they're actually put in controlled circumstances, their symptoms are independent of exposure to the supposed toxin (unless we're talking about massive doses you would never find in a real-world dining experience). Yoink: " The studies have been done over and over and over and over again. The fact that people with "MSG allergies" associated these symptoms solely with Asian restaurants is sufficient in itself to tell us that this was a cultural panic and not a medical condition. The studies have been done over and over and over and over again.
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