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To: MoneyPenny who wrote (191894)	6/17/2012 4:55:44 PM
From: Aggie	Read Replies (1) of 543686

Hi MoneyPenny Thanks for this information, it's very useful. I have avoided MSG for years, but never in an obsessive way, just as a way of limiting my intake. I can always tell when food has had MSG added, and sometimes when it is in excess I get a headache from it. Oddly enough the material occurs naturally in many foods - but as you say it's the spiked ingredient lists on restaurant recipes (trying to keep you eating) that many run foul of. I had an internist once explain to me how this amino acid product works - your flavor receptors (on your tongue's surface) are shaped like miniature mushrooms. MSG causes them to swell temporarily in response to the chemical, thus increasing the surface area of the taste receptors, thus increasing the overall taste sensations. Neat huh? Since this can cause a severe allergic reaction in some I agree it ought to be clearly listed on the label, by law. And I have written a couple of food companies (Progresso is one) requesting that they (a) list it clearly so that I can avoid buying the product and (b) make a product line that doesn't have it as an ingredient, which oddly enough they have started doing. Aggie

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