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To: Win Smith who wrote (191877)	6/17/2012 4:00:38 PM
From: MoneyPenny	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 543668

In a book called Excitotoxins: The Taste that Kills, Russell L. Blaylock gives much valuable information about MSG and other harmful food additives. I learned from this book that food manufacturers do not have to list MSG and other "natural" flavor enhancers specifically because they come from natural sources. MSG, for example is made from kombu. Instead, many foods, including many vegetarian and "all natural" pre-packaged foods have "natural flavoring," "spices," "vegetable protein," and "hydrolized vegetable protein" listed as ingredients. These are ALL legal disguises for MSG. It's so scarily ever present that I've almost stopped eating pre-packaged foods entirely. The reasons the food industry gets away with this is that they have much money for lobbying and that for a long time the harmful effects of excitotoxins were unknown. They are cheap flavor enhancers that make people want to eat more of whatever the food is and so make money for the companies, and the practice of using them is so entrenched that nothing is going to change right away. A lot of known junk foods, like Doritos and other snacks, list MSG undisguised as an ingredient, probably because if you eat that stuff, there's so much other crap in there, you probably don't worry much about it, but what really gets me are the "healthy" foods that disguise what they're really adding. That tells you something. Anyway, here is a list from the book of what ingredients to avoid. It's shocking when you really start reading food labels. These additives always contain MSG: Monosodium glutamate (duh!!) Hydrolyzed vegetable protein Hydrolyzed protein Hydrolyzed plant protein Sodium casienate Calcium casienate Yeast extract Textured protein Autolyzed yeast Hydrolyzed oat flour These additives frequently contain MSG: Malt extract Malt flavoring Bouillon Broth Stock Flavoring Natural flavoring Natural beef or chicken flavoring Seasoning Spices These additives may contain MSG or other excitotoxins: Carrageenan Enzymes Soy protein concentrate Soy protein isolate Whey protein concentrate I have had confirmation for several reliable sources, Marion Nestle in particular, that the above is true and not some hysteria brought up by the gluten free or organic only crowd. Some "natural flavorings" are added to the bread offered to you at Industrial restaurants in the hopes that the signal you are full will be interrupted and you will keep eating your way through to dessert. The biggest chains are masters at this: think Darden and Outback. MP