Umami is MSG (mono-sodium-glutamate). Well, it isn't really. MSG, is a tastant, just like table salt (NaCl) is a tastant. You wouldn't eat salt in
itself as it really wouldn't taste very nice, but you season your food with it, and it can taste great. This is similar to small amounts of MSG in
food, which gives the taste of umami.
Umami, as you probably already know is the 5th taste.
m.chemse.oxfordjournals.org...
MSG is in everything, from fast food to food at your local supermarket. First and foremost It's an additive to make food more addictive, so that you
eat more. More food bought, more profit made.
The FDA sets no limit to the amount of MSG that can be added to your food. Hense the amount added has increased over the past 50 years.
www.truthinlabeling.org...
MSG has been injected into new born lab rats, specifically to induce obesity. More importantly for diabetes study. It does this because it triples the
amount of insulin produced by the pancreas.
msgtruth.org...
Any wonder why obesity and diabetes have increased exponentially over the past 50 years?
Graph.
Also, MSG is an excitotoxin. Glutamates, destroy nerve cells. Which is a major cause of alzheimers. Any wonder why there is an exponential increase in
the development of the disease? By 2050, the US may have 14.3 million cases of the degenerative disease.
en.wikipedia.org...
MSG is also proven to cause atherosclerosis, which is the hardening and furing of major arteries, with the accumulation of fats. Which can bring on
sudden cardiac arrest.
All in all, I would say there's some pretty strong evidence as to MSG being nasty stuff indeed.
But hey, who cares if the people are progressively more ill and dying. As long as someone's making a lot of money in the process, that's a job well
done.
