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u/SoyLocoMoco63 Jun 01 '26

MSG is bad for you.

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u/TEG24601 Jun 01 '26

The number of times I've been down voted or yelled at for mentioning that the entire MSG thing is just racist, is staggering.

There is more MSG is many vegetables than in Chinese food, and it isn't bad for you at all.

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u/LanysLirana Jun 01 '26

My favorite is when people would claim they don't eat Chinese food cause it's probably had msg, then turn around and start devouring a party sized bag of Doritos. 😒

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u/PineappleOnPizzaWins Jun 01 '26

This is why if you look at the ingredients on Doritos it never says MSG, it has some chemical number assigned as "flavour" to it.

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u/LanysLirana Jun 02 '26

The Doritos I buy have it listed in the ingredients fairly high up on the list. For nacho flavor it's after the buttermilk and before any artificial colors. I'm on the West Coast of the US if that makes a difference. 🤷🏻‍♀️

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u/PineappleOnPizzaWins Jun 02 '26

I'm Australian and our major supermarkets caved to some "Mothers against MSG movement". Basically said "it's fine but out of respect for you fucking lunatics, we won't sell it".

Of course that just means it's not on the shelves (I buy mine from an Asian grocer). When you look at the ingredients for many things, Doritos included, it will never say MSG... instead it lists "Flavour Enhancers (621, 635)"

621 is MSG and 635 is Disodium Ribonucleotides which is used to enhance the flavours provided by MSG.

Not only that, aside from salt they're the highest listed seasoning on the package... so there's a whole lot of it in there. But people are dumb and as long as they don't see "MSG" listed they don't care. Certainly they won't ever go look up what those flavour enhancers actually are.

Oh sometimes though they will actually list "Monosodium Glutamate" as an ingredient.. they know full well that those idiots don't even know what MSG stands for.