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- čas přidán 15. 08. 2024
- MSG, or monosodium glutamate, got a bad rap in the 1960s when people started complaining of "Chinese Restaurant Syndrome," but that bad reputation was fueled more by xenophobia than science. Turns out, it's just delicious.
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Umami, I've come to bargain.
Ha! Nice one. ;)
Very nice
Well played, sir. Well, played.
Yeah yeah
Underrated
Too much MSG is bad for you...
But so is salt...
And everything in excess is bad for you
too much MSG probably wouldn't taste good. It's always just adding the "right amount". I've added pure MSG to my food and too much is very overwhelming and actually makes things taste worse, but adding less of it usually hits the "right spot" and tastes amazing.
It's like salt. The right amount of salt makes things taste delicious but add too much salt and it tastes awful, even intolerable.
AlphaChaser yes but too little of salt is also bad for you. You need a balance when it comes to salt but the same cannot be said for msg.
@@Samuel115s Youre missing the point. Nobody is arguing that you need msg in your diet. Msg is found naturally in plenty of foods. Sugar is non-essential. we can live just fine without any sugar whatsoever, but too much sugar is bad. Does this mean you should never eat anything that contains any sugar?
Just because too much of something is bad doesnt mean you should never eat it.
@@Samuel115s btw, by "sugar" i mean frutcose
Uncle Roger say if you sad, add MSG. If you happy, add MSG. MSG like salt on crack. Eat more MSG.
see this is why america is bad. they dont use msg. msg make everything better
@@studiovicarious you get it! 😁
He brought me to this video XD
Ankal Woja Lai c Hee MSG
Hahhahahahah
When I was young, the Aji-no-Moto was always on our family table. We just used a little amount to go with soy sauce on foods, and never got sick or heard that someone got ill from it nationwide in Japan. So I was surprised to see the NO MSG signs all around in America.
Envy!
Americans are pretty racist
But they eat a lot of chinese food with a lot of MSG. . .
NO, MSG
When you said Chinese restaurant syndrome, I thought you were going to explain the fact that you're hungry in two hours after eating at a Chinese buffet 😂😂😂
Two hours? Lucky! I'm not wasteful so I usually just get a small plate at the buffet, ironically much less food than if I bought a regular meal, and I feel stuffed. It never fails that by the time I get back to my car and pull off I go "dammit I'm hungry again should have eaten more" 😣
@@Tsikatrece lmao. My unhealthy mindset is "well I paid 15 dollars for this. I better eat at least 15 dollars worth of food" and then I end up holding my stomach and regretting life for a bit until I'm magically hungry again.
@@Tsikatrece Yeah, many U.S. (assuming you're from there) restaurants give you bigger portions than your body requires. So, when given the choice, you unconsciously get fewer portions. At least that's how I see it.
I grew up in an Asian country and back there I eat at least 4-5 times a day. I never became obese. Now I live in the U.S. and I could only eat once a day if I ate in a restaurant. Otherwise I'll be obese if I also didn't exercise or did anything physically demanding. Granted I also pay more for food here.
That's the empty carb syndrome
KolyFrog lay off the bread and sugar homes
Im Chinese and even i thought MSG was bad.for you, thank you for clarification, love this channel.
It is bad due to sodium. It is just a lot better than table salt. If you can use it properly and to reduce the intake of salt, then it will be overall beneficial.
Ya, same here I"m Japanese and thought the same thing.
@@ikarienator actually the sodium thing has also be found to be false.
@@alolkoydesigns true,sodium is actually essential for life,but like every other substance, it's the amount of intake which affects our health.
Thank you for making this obvious to the general public. I figured this out on my own by testing it on myself and looking up research. Imagine trying to convince the people around you that MSG is infact nutritious, when it is your lowly non-scientist voice against the corrupt and diluted FDA.
American: MSG is bad for you!
Proceeds to drink a gallon of soda.
And eat doritos loaded with msg
Strawman
No sugar or msg hey I don’t even eat grains / wheat
and eat 3 pounds of half cooked red meat.
@@solraczevehc3761 What do you eat then?
How are you alive?
If your cells are using sugar to covert to energy, then what are they using?
M.S.G is king of flavour
- Uncle roger
White People just hate flavouurr
@@bykvn9504 lol
@@bykvn9504 bro sad fact msg is in everything they eat
Really?
@@javonfordyce1742 bruh😂
I can confirm with absoloute certainty that after eating chinese i feel nauseous, sluggish, and need to lay down. Im sure that has nothing to do with the fact i ate an entire quart of sweet and sour chicken myself. Thats ridiculous.
Just a quart, you wimp?
@@argentpuck Youre right im sorry...gotta get the crab rangooons and a side of fried rice too. I bring shame upon my family.
Ah suffering from MSG or Mortally Serious Gluteny.
I think it's a "carb crash": medium.com/gethealthy/how-to-avoid-a-carb-crash-and-other-productivity-hacks-861e187fab82
It’s not likely to be a carb crash. It’s more than likely the food itself. If you’re not used to eating that food on a regular basis you can become nauseous from the fat, grease, and oils. Gut bacteria changes depending on the food we eat. That’s why think gut bacteria may even play a role in type 2 diabetes, in that there is an absence of some bacteria types.
Funny thing is that many savory snack foods in North America have MSG in their flavorings and I dont see people complaining about Potato chips and Doritos making them sick from MSG.
Pringles too
Matt Brine this tea is too spicy for me
@@alexoswald932 No, Pringles = potato crisps. They cannot legally be sold as chips, since they are preformed.
People avoid snacks with MSG all the time.
Potato chips and Doritos make me sick. I can’t eat them.
"Haiiiya! Salt is so 2005. MSG is King of flavour" -Uncle Roger.
Can relate, I put msg in my burger
“Fuiyoooooo i love how uncle roger is everywhere now. “ -me
"Haaaiiiyaa... no soup tasty without MSG okhey." - Uncle Roger. 😂
@@dinthuilungpanmei_0475 Soup without MSG, Fuyoh! Lol.
The reason I am watching this rn 😅
"Yea I dont enjoy drinking this salty water"
Scientist: IntErEstInG!!
Well, the actually interesting part is:
Scientist: What about when you're smelling these veggies?
Person: You know what, not bad.
@@ivanov093 peak science
Twoset memes?! On a random video unrelated to classical?! You have my respect🙌
@@Inheritance329 ikr _😯_ _😄_
Now I want Chinese food.
味精!
A friend from Shanghai, I used to work with, would bring in traditional Chinese foods for me to try, and they tasted far more delicious than anything you would get in a Chinese restaurant; much of which is to cater to the Western pallet.
Hopefully not American Chinese food, that is pure garbage! Find yourself a real restaurant for an enjoyable meal.
one fried dog coming right up!
There's a restaurant near me that makes weird flavored Chinese food it's almost the same as normal Chinese food but people either say it tastes weird and don't like it or they say it's better than the other restaurants around here I'm in the it's better camp
I've laughed for years at people - including my sister - who claimed they got sick when they ate MSG. I finally stopped trying to convince them there was plenty of it in foods they ate anyway, until I found a double-blind study that included people who claimed sensitivity done in Great Britain.
One of the 'sensitives' said he was certain he had eaten MSG by the way he felt. He was in the control group, no MSG. None of the sensitives (or anyone else) who received fairly large amounts of MSG had any reaction.
Showed the study to my sister - her reaction: "Those people weren't really sensitive, they just said they were to get in the study, probably got paid for it. I would've been able to tell"
MSG can have an effect on some people though. As in- I buy doughnuts, eat them, then get a massive headache and remember I never checked ingredients. MSG. Eat tons of other things without msg no issues, eat something with msg BAM headache.
it's all in your head, unless you're *so* sodium sensitive that that tiny amount is hurting you - in which case you wouldn't be eating doughnuts.
@@glorvalmacglorvas6082 did you ever think that MAYBE something else besides the doughnuts you ate caused your headache? There are a million things that cause headaches. Just because you happened to eat a doughnut and get a headache like an hour later doesn't mean that was the cause.
@@Cobra0798 Yep. And same with supposed MSG sensitives. Something is causing those symptoms... it might be nocebo, but it might be something they should pay attention to or avoid.
All I know is, I used to get practically debilitating migranes when I ate maruchan ramen. Idk if it's MSG or something else, but I haven't gotten one since I stopped eating it. Also tried a different brand with "no msg added" and I didn't have any problems. I also very frequently eat asian food of all kinds with no problems. RIP maruchan, you are missed.
I remember my dad saying that he always got headaches after eating food that contained MSG. I quietly sat on this information for quite a few years.
Then one day I decided to read aloud the ingredients of his favourite seasoning for soups (this brown liquid under the brand name “Maggi”). One of the first ingredients was MSG.
He never complained about MSG headaches again after that discovery.
Hahahaha, what a malicious child you are 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
He must be Polish. Maggi is a staple.
Mandiness Entertainment p
I love maggi noodles. It's tasty.
Well played.
Thank you for cleaning this up, it amazes me how many people still don't know about this..
People are very very very ignorant, especially when it comes to stuff like nutrition.
Ah, I see the CGP grey T-Shirt is back
*_Epic_*
so close to an ar-15 bolt face.
@@bnighter i understand you.
Cgp?
@@crackedemerald4930 cgp green, you know he does 5 sec vines that lightly skim topics.
@@crackedemerald4930 CGP Grey
my great grandpa use msg everyday. he always buy in our store whenever he cook, he use it on all of his dishes, even just boiled vegies. he manage to live up to 95 years old.
if he didn't fall from the the chair when he's trying to fix their lights, he might easily reach 100 years without much problem.
Damn that’s very sad and deep 😢😢
God bless your grandpa.
My grandmother (not biological) did become very old, I think about 107. and she also sprinkled her food with glutamate.
He probably fell because of MSG
J.K
@@younglord7805 am i not getting the joke or that is just because it's not funny.
Americans: msg is bad
meanwhile, Asian's got longer life expectancy
a hero for fun Asians also have better lifestyles, eat less meat and walk the hell out of their legs. I’m sure that’s MSG is the only factor and these factors don’t have anything to do with it.
@@shaheerziya2631 asians eat many kinds of meat and and a lot of it. So I don't know what you are talking about
@@shaheerziya2631 it's all the portions that they get. They don't eat overly too much. Even their large drinks are about the size of small drinks in america.
@@roverclover3178 they eat less meat on average, like, a LOT less.
Edit : also it depends on the country obviously but I'm more talking about china, even though you may see them eating octopi and pigs on social media that isn't really part of their usual diet, while minced meat on burgers and grilled or fried steak at lunch is a regular thing in america, most people eat those things every single day.
//coughs//
Burgers
//coughs//
If my doctor told me that I would die if I continued to consume MSG, I would preemptively invite him to my funeral.
ha, now I feel bad. When I was I school listening to my friends tell me MSG was bad for you I complained to my parents saying that I msg is bad. my parents were like "You've been eating MSG all your life you're perfectly fine" anyways I just thought they were being your typical parents telling me to eat my food. I owe them an apology
"Ajinomoto...."
any asian should know that tune on TV
An actual commercial for a seasoning
That jingle played in my head when I saw the word in the video.
oh god the tune played in my head when he said that
Never knew that was msg
Heck yeah xD
I'd like to thank the MSG scare for the last two glorious decades I've enjoyed of someone telling me how bad Chinese food is for me as they puff on their cigarette... Something about menthols just conveys authority...
so some dudes just had some weak stomachs and messed with chinese restaurants everywhere
Yes becuase Americans are STUBID they no understand FLAOUUVR!
or were just being racist against Asians.
Does parasites have anything to do with racism? But in all honesty, there's nothing wrong with MSG. I don't even see it as a chinese thing, and even McDonalds uses a little. It's lovely. BBQ sauce and MSG are the best toppings foodies have ever known.
Here in Pakistan, there is a common belief that MSG causes damage to the heart;
although I studied chemistry up till an intermediate level, I knew what sodium and glutamate were and never understood how a compound of both could damage the heart.
Seems to be more hype than actual evidence
What about sodium alone?
@@anshagrawal6289 it's actually worse than MSG
@@okais2192 can you please elaborate
@@anshagrawal6289 salt is a few times more lethal than MSG. That means that a significantly smaller amount of salt would kill you compared to MSG.
@@okais2192 he asked you about sodium not table salt.
Over where I live, half the popular brands and spices say "no MSG" and the other half just straight up list it in ingredients, and no one seems to mind the latter until you point it out and they're shocked.
I definitely going to MSG this to my friends
I'm a personal Chef and back in college I actually did a research paper on the Sigma of MSG which turns out to be ALL about RACISM! Back in the late '60s and early '70s, NYC Asian restaurants were starting to get more and more popular and sales started getting hirer and hirer. Some or I should say Most of course didn't like it. So secretly Non-Asian restaurant owners took Asian food to laboratories to find out what was in it. It was discovered that a form of salt MSG Monosodium L Glutamate enhanced the flavor of salt and made the food taste more savory. So we know what happens next?? Those Non-Asian restaurants started screaming MSG is bad for you just to make real Asian restaurants suffer. Unfortunately, the bad word of mouth, and also public bashing made sales drop, and made people scared to consume MSG. So Asian restaurants were forced to remove it from their cooking. That's why when you go to some Asian restaurants on the menu in bold lettering NO MSG. This is a shame because now after many years of research they have determined MSG is not harmful, or life-threatening. The scare campaign was actually a HATE campaign! There are many products out on the market that most consumers eat that have always contained MSG but they didn't mention those because they were trying to put Asian restaurants out of business. Today you can find MSG at/in KFC, Chick-fil-A, Campbell's soups, Doritos, Pringles, and a whole lot more!!! I use it in 90% of my cooking especially baking when salt is one of the ingredients. I get RAVE reviews for my Cinnamon Rolls!! Oh, by the way, I got an "A" on my research paper and my professor was originally from Vietnam! 😛❤🔥💋
Cue the "but MSG does give ME a headache" comments. MSG is used in many processed foods and snacks. It's included under the umbrella term "natural flavor".
If you think about it MSG is a kind a salt and like all salts it dehydrates you which leads to headaches.
@@metalsnakezero I love MSG, but it was the amount used that caused my headaches. Used in moderation, and drinking plenty of water, solved the problem for me.
@OriginalYithian If that were true, you or someone in your area would know the original Coca-Cola recipe. As far as I know, it is still a well guarded secret. So no, manufacturers don't always have to list all ingredients.
woopygoman Coke-a-Cola used cocaine, now they use caffeine as a substitute. It’s not really a secret.
@@Obscurai im with you man. i dont care what these guys say, or what the science is... maybe its just a particular brand of MSG... IDK! but an overdose of the stuff will make me feel very hot and flushed. normal amounts dont bother me at all, but some food has too much. too much of anything aint good, eh?
-here drink this salt water and smell this potato
-ew
-here eat some french fries
-pretty good
-SALT SYNERGY!
Made me lol, thanks
I'm a little skeptical Umami exists. But I guess its just semantics. Like pink can just be light red if you want. I think most people describe umami as a shade of sour.
Well you would need to drink peanut oil too to make it even
@@spiddyman0079 ever drink the "water" on top of a new jar of peanut butter. its so gross.
@@ciaphascyne8866 im pretty Sure its just oil unless things have changed
MSG was sold for years under the brand name "Accent" as a "flavor enhancer". Quite possibly it still is. My mother always used it in her own cooking, along with things like onion and garlic powder. Then she decided that MSG in Chinese food made her ill, and tried to avoid it in restaurant food. But she still used it in her own. I asked her about that once, and she said that the quantities she used were much smaller than what was found in Chinese restaurant food, so the little dash of it she used was OK.
Many people say MSG is bad for your body, but Uncle Roger say good food is better than body. MSG is king of flavor.
You down with MSG?
Yeah, umami.
Deserves more thumbs up.
Maybe you should have wrote:
You down with MSG?
Yeah u-ma-mi
Unagi reference?
A Logical Perspective 😂🍻
Excellent lol
@@tejaspadhye nah. Old rap song called O.P.P.
I believe it is likely that MSG has been wrongly linked to effects of histamine and/or tyramine sensitivity. Aged and fermented foods such as those commonly used in Chinese food (like fish sauce and soy sauce) are very high in MSG, but they are also extremely high in histamines such as tyramine, which can cause adverse effects such as migraines and/or hypertension in certain individuals. This is the same thing as the "cheese effect" some people report after eating aged cheese, which is known for inducing strange dreams and/or migraines in certain people. Wine, beer, sauerkraut, aged meats and similar aged/fermented foods also fit into this category and all are common triggers for people with migraines or histamine sensitivity. It has nothing to do with MSG except incidentally, because fermentation or other aging methods are frequently used to create foods that are high in MSG. But pure, isolated MSG should not cause these effects. At least, that's my working hypothesis. Further research is needed (but I don't know of anyone doing this research, and I am not up to the task myself).
An interesting hypothesis, but American Chinese food, particularly decades ago when this started, is hardly authentic to traditional Chinese cooking. Soy sauce is and has been for a very long time a commercial concoction that does not get fermented. Chinese take-out has as much in common with Chinese cooking as grape juice from concentrate does with wine.
That's good point mate
Yeah could be. Cooked or raw could also make a difference, and some people's senses are more tolerant or already dulled than others.
Chronic migraineur here. Histamine, tyramine, AND glutamate are common migraine triggers. I can't eat anything aged or fermented. People are sneaky with that MSG though. And I find out the hard way.
Savant why can’t CZcams be filled with more people like you?
Umami was hard to wrap my head around at first, since we don't use that word where I live, and then I realized I have been using the term my entire life, it just means savory...
Umami isn't just MSG. From my understanding you need certain nucleotides in combination with MSG to trigger the receptors on your tongue.
Yes, thank you. I was thinking the same thing.
I don't care what you say I will not STOP using e621
Another man of culture.
OwO
furry_irl
YES! And don't you just hate products that advertise the fact that they have "no added MSG"?! Trying to sound like that's a good thing.
I was looking for this comment.
Umami is just Japanese for "savory", in English we already have a word for "savory", and that word is "savory"
"Umami" wasn't actually a word before Ikeda made it up, so it doesn't actually have the one-to-one relationship you imagine. Strictly speaking, if an American chemist had coined the term, we might be calling it something ridiculous like "tasty-licious," which is approximately what "umami" etymologically means. Though I do share your confusion that we opted to borrow the Japanese term instead of using "savory," but English has been stealing other language's words for well over 1,000 years now.
English beats up other languages in dark alleys, then rifles through their pockets for loose vocab and grammar.
By now umami is an English word too. There are many many examples of English taking words from other languages and making them English words. That's just how languages work.
in english we have a word for savor and that word is savor. It only means to enjoy to the utmost, but somehow some idiots turned that into a flavor. that's like "blind" being a color.
@@argentpuck I like the idea of a sort of 'naming rights' for intellectual endeavors. The culture that finds something, learns something, or builds something first gets to name it. And everyone else has to follow. It's why Italian is the language of music, Arabic is the language for much of astronomy and math, and English is the language of technology.
We call it umami because that's what the discoverers ended up calling it.
Just so youre all aware, there are people who are truly allergic to msg. My stepdad is deathly allergic to it. When he and my mom were dating, she gave him some ribs from her work but the bbq sauce had msg in it and it caused him to have severe symptoms. He said it feels like hes dying anytime he has even the smallest amount of msg. And Ive seen him when hes dealing with it and it is not fun. Just because there may be a majority of people who dont truly have it, doesnt mean that there are some unlucky people who do.
yet when his body manufactures it for use in the brain, he's ok?
no there isn't
@@lordwoffleii I dont claim to know how it works, only that he is allergic to large quantities of that particular compound. Im not here to convince anyone, only that this is his truth.
@@Lunatik21 *his anecdote
I have these symptoms in certain chinese restaurants, so I know where to eat. (By the way, I ve never blamed chinese for my symptoms) I dont eat alot when I go.
In 1998 i was pregnant with my first son, eating in a chinese restaurant when the symptoms started and after 10 minutes my waters broke. He was not even in low position to be born. It took almost 25 hours for it. When i told my doctors what happened, they didnt believe. They just wondered why my waters broke at 36 weeks, i strongly believe there must be something in the food of certain restaurants that cause the symptoms.
I dont understand why its so hard to believe in it. There are so many allergies in this world!
pretty sure the food sickness came from overeating.
I know that's the case when I order Chinese.
Especially with the portions some restaurants give. What are we supposed to do? Not keep eating? It's right in front of us.
God bless MSG. I recently had "genuine Chinese Food" at a New York restaurant that proudly proclaimed that their food contained no MSG. Their mapo tofu and black pepper steak looked and smelled just like the Chinese food I grew up on, but there was something just very slightly off about the taste. They somehow made Chinese food taste bland, and that was due to them avoiding MSG to appeal to the American mainstream.
*the global mainstream. Many people avoid it because they don't trust anything that has a "chemical name".....
Wow, i read "MGS" and i was like : what the hell has Snake to do with that ?!
nanomachines, son.
Americans: MSG is bad
Uncle Roger: Haiyaa! Why so weak? So weak!
As a prep cook this is a cool video to watch.
It's really cool to learn what MSG means (Monosodium Glutamate) and learning how to make dishes pop with more umami (that is savouriness). I hope I can learn more, and thanks for educating people about this topic! Tomatoes and Mushrooms are both very good at being foods that have high potential for savouriness/umami in my limited experience.
Onions, garlic, grapes, cheese, and yeast too. That's why wine (and the rest) is used so often in cooking.
Now i'm hungry for a good tomato sauce.
Can you give a rough guide on how much MSG to use, whenever I use it I always taste it and it feels like a synthetic meaty taste, I might be using a bit too much but I can't seem to get the balance right, too little and I don't feel it adds anything to the dish, too much and its taste is apparent
@@tigerheaddude I don't think I can give an exact amount per se since when both wnen I'm working, and when I'm cooking just for fun I tend to improvise on the amounts (which I need to remember to write down specific recipes sometimes, it is useful practice.) Also, other everybody's tastebuds are different like snowflakes. That all being said, I think I can still help you (at least give you some ideas.)
To summarize what I'll say below, learn your ingredients and basic techniques.
I'd first learn to understand how the five flavours: Umami/Savouriness, Bitterness, Sweetness, Saltiness, and Sour work. For example try to understand how different spices work both by research out of the kitchen and more importantly taste testing. Some of my personal favorites are Tarragon, Fennel, Basil, Oregano, Mustard Seed, and Ginger. (Also, I recommend Fresh, but you can still do amazing stuff with ground stuff.) I lot's of times on purpose make calculated decisions to add certain spices to the types of foods I'm cooking, and certain types of flavours counteract and support umami very well. (Saltiness, Sweetness, and especially Bitterness from my opinion.) If you can get at least one or two background flavours in addition to your main flavour great!
From there, I recommend thinking through food that you already like. For example if there are any recipes that you really like. Trying to understand ingredient by ingredient how that ingredient works.
I'd also recommend both knowledge of basic cooking techniques, and specific methods you can implement while performing those techniques to maximize on the flavor. For example if you are making a red or white sauce I'd recommend that you first sweat some garlic and/or shallots in the pan with Olive oil (That is cook them on a low heat, and stir so they don't brown till they become translucent, than add a small amount of wine, normally white wine. Cook that roughly 15-30 seconds before adding the base of your sauce straight in the pot.) This one technique is an example of a simple trick that can add much extra flavour to your food. (Warning: I still haven't mastered this after years of work, so please don't give up if you fail at it the first time.)
Oh yeah, don't be afraid to salt food, but try not to oversalt. Salt is very useful in bringing out other flavors and accentuating them. (espcially umami and sweetness.) I highly recommend adding a little at a time, and taste testing your food when possible (same with when cooking and adding the other spices.) You can do wonders with regular salt, but if you can spare a few bucks for Himalayan sea salt, I highly recommend that. (Himalayan Sea Salt also has lot's of vitamins and minerals and it makes water taste better at least for me.)
Sorry for the long lengthy post, I hope you don't mind, and I hope this helps you. ;)
@@superdupergrover9857 Thanks I forgot to about all of those being good sources of umami! ;)
Well cooking is chemistry and that's a science so it's no surprise to learn how to be a better cook on a science show.
This is a recipe for Marinated Leg of Chicken from Great Britain that involves a little chemistry. czcams.com/video/oipksRhISfM/video.html
Bon Appetit! 😝
*watches while eating Chinese takeout*
No , if it’s not bad for you doesn’t mean it’s good for you , I’m here because I started feeling shaky and slight headache after eating a prepackaged heat n eat meatloaf and mashed potatoes and sure enough msg is in the gravy , and it’s been known to cause different side affects so say what you want , if my body is rejecting it and causing shakiness I’m not one of the few it affects negatively and why it was and still should be considered bad for us .
How did you get rid of the shakiness?
Ajinomotto have been used in our food. It's just that a small fraction of whites became allergic to it it suddenly turned out to be bad. You know the generalisation thing.
Glad to see the myths and misconceptions about MSG being debunked. Great job as always SciShow!
actually sci-show doesn't have the best info on food safety.
www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5938543/
@@Japanimepop that's an editorial, not a paper. Basically it's an opinion piece where the authors cherry picked flawed studies which fit their biases.
Now just someone tell me how can I make my mother understand about the goodness of MSG???
Technical Little Master, by sneaking it in her food without her knowledge and letting her enjoy it’s wonders unwittingly...? :p
If needed, you can document the entire thing (the adding of MSG to the food and her response to it), and then blasting her with the evidence after a few months!
Explain to her that MSG occurs naturally in tomatoes, grapes, cheese and tomatoes, so if she’s serious about cutting out MSG she needs to radically alter her diet.
Give her pasta with it then tell her
maestroandres yeah i did this and my mom had the same reaction and she “couldn’t figure out what she ate wrong” she had a migraine for 3 days and neck pain (same reaction i get). she had no idea..its the same with preservatives like carrageenan, sucralose, gelatin, etc. Oh and foods high in histamines.
Hah, I know it.
That's why I always dissagree with people who hate MSG.
Literally, MSG is a salt.
Mono-Sodium Glutamate.
Sodium represent metal (1A in periodic table), and glutamate represent non-metal (it forms from organic acid [amino acid]).
In chemist, it means salt.
Metal ionic bonding with nonmetal is a salt in chemistry.
It's a same thing with another salt (potasium[KCl] or sodium[NaCl] salt).
This needs to be taught in schools. Yesterday.
And all our grandparents need re educating. My grandfather almost had a heart attack when i said i was ordering a bag of MSG.
Bro, you should tell him that fruits and vegetables contain MSG as well.
puberty hit Hank hard, damn
Monosodium glutamate is also called e621
Don't ask me how i know that...
From the comment seven above yours? ;)
Oh my god.. It's from the e600 series of mind control chemicals?!?!
Only in Europe. Available on the european database on Food Additives.
you damn furry
If you add too much sugar, it becomes too sweet.
Add too much vinnegar, it becomes too sour.
Add too much chilie and it gets too hot,
too much salt and it becomes too salty,
too much of something bitter and it's too bitter.
Today, I tried MSG for the first time on my food as seasoning.
Potatoes - perfect. They were good before but the MSG really elevated them much further.
The eggs - I'll be straight up honest, I couldn't taste a differnce.
The bacon was completely over-umami'd after I put on the MSG.
Not only is bacon really thin, it also already has a lot of umami anyways (which is why we love it).
So long you're careful with your doses, everything should work out.
And if it tastes great, the goal is reached :)
2:20 supposedly the reason the US military started using MSG in the rations is because soldiers came across Japanese rations during WW2 and noticed even their plain rice tasted awesome because it was dosed to the gills with MSG (many Japanese soldiers ate almost nothing but plain rice when food was scarce and they wanted to keep morale high).
That’s how MSG works.
But does it clean. Your metal Computer?
@@Grimm-Gaming yes,that's how mafia works
How to properly flavor your Chinese takeout.
Metal Sear Golid
dude, you need to get a life.
Wooohooo in Peru we put ajinomoto in pretty much every single dish.
And I love it, can't wait to hear from those researchs.
It may not be bad in and of itself, but I think that we have a habit of overconcentrating things such as sugar, salt, citric acid, excessively hot peppers, and msg. It's really a way to trick our bodies into thinking they are getting more nutrition than they actually are. Just how drinking raw citric acid is bad for you msg could be the same. I think it deserves more research. Citric acid obviously isn't bad, but it might not be all that good in the amounts we are consuming it. I think it could be the same with msg.
MSG, or salt on crack, is also known in Europe as Vetsin or E621. I always have a bottle, or i use fried and then powdered ansjovis, also good.
I prefer ajinomoto. It sounds way less artificial than MSG.
That name has a trademark , you can't just called it that. That's why people using scientific name than product name.
I'm from Palau, and we still call it that. My cousin came to visit in Cali and went to the store asking for Ajinomoto and the worker was soo confused😂
@@HittoTheAssassin if you still call as Ajinomoto, why is the worker confused if your cousin is asking for "Ajinomoto"? Or was your cousin asking for MSG?
At least it makes food taste good
how? it's only been a few minutes
@Solomon Kane pics or it didn't happen. Msg is definitely not able to do that 😂
EHhhh
YOU DIDENT EVEN WATCH THE VID??
@@maheswaraakram2216 He has to reply as fast as possible for maximum exposure for likes. He doesn't watch videos, only makes low information comments based on the video title.
@Solomon Kane Coincidence doesn't equal correlation
I felt as if my tempreture was suddely rising. Palpitations too. My head started to throb. It felt as if it started to get inflated. I started panting. It was scary.
And no, no racism involved. I haven't heard about MSG or Chinese Food Syndrome before that happened to me.
So just because it has never happened to you it doesn't mean it's not real. It is.
That's scary. How did you get rid of your symptoms?
@@starlite7785 I laid down, being unsure what was going on. Had a glass of water i guess - so nothing specific. I got better in ca 15 minutes.
Someone: MSG is death
Me: Well technically you eat it almost everyday, it's in chips, frozen meals which also means that it's in most pizzas, soups, noodles, seasonings blends etc.
Have you ever had a fortune cookie without any MSG it kind of defeats the purpose.
Doritos and Mountain Dew don't taste as good without shovels of MSG
actually don't think they taste good, even with it. lol
I wouldn't know, what with mountain dew ...NOT CONTAINING MSG ...and all
I AGREEEEEEEEEEEEEE!
Anecdotes aren't data, but MSG absolutely does give me a fast, heavy heart beat for hours, even when I'm otherwise relaxed, and it stops me sleeping. Not a "nocebo" effect because I've often only linked the cause and effect afterwards.
You might just be dehydrated. Msg doesn’t seem to trigger thirst the same way salt does, even though it can easily dehydrate you as well.
Also there are a small subset of people who actually do have bad reactions. Maybe you’re one of them. That said, MSG is in a ton of stuff you probably don’t even realize. So I doubt that’s it. They often rebrand the ingredient by calling it ‘tomato powder” or “ mushroom essence”. That’s MSG.
How long after consumption do you get side effects?
@@starlite7785 less than 30 mins.
Me: Is MSG bad for me?
Him: You’re racist.
Me: I can’t be racist. I voted for Obama and I am mixed race. I am incapable of racism. I was just curious about the health...
Him: You’re definitely racist.
Me: I promise I’m not, I just want to know about...
Him: Trust me, you’re racist.
Me: Do I have to eat MSG to not be racist?
Him: Not eating MSG is definitely racist, but if you choose to eat MSG then... you’re still racist for even asking.
Me: Dude... I give up.
Wow I laughed so hard 😐
After some research, I bought some MSG and use it in all my cooking. Never had any negative effect.
The only negative thing is some sodium but it's 3 times less than table salt
I would think that if people would react badly to asian dishes it would probably be related to common soy allergy??
Exactly.
Or something besides MSG. Something meaning ingredients in the food, not racism.
Soy is statistically the least common allergy
Alfredo Gonzalez yeah maybe not the least but at least low on the list, in my experience I think seasame and peanuts are way more likely especially in Asian dishes
How "common" is soy allergy?
People do have sensitivities to MSG. My uncle would get a rash. I thought it was psychosomatic so, i sprinkled a little msg on his food without his knowing. He itched for 2 days. So, glad i didn't kill him. Dad wouldn't have understood.
I've started adding a small sprinkle to any rice dish I make.
Uncle Roger is right, MSG truly is the king of flavor!
I love scishow. It’s just enough “smart” learn-y knowledge stuff but not pretentious or overly academic. Thanks guys, for keeping knowledge accessible.
I think also, there is a whole ton of food misconceptions that comes from a poor understanding of diets, nutrition, and then pre-judgements based on superficial mistaken observations.
And then there are also the usual people who just consciously or unconsciously like to be "victims" and whatnot, including victims of all sorts of theoretical or imagined food allergies, intolerance and whatnot.
And I speak this as an often misunderstood lactose intolerant person... :P
Like, sure, I can drink a cup of milk. But the diarrhea and abdominal pain just isn't worth it. But I did go back to drinking and eating all sorts of milk related stuff as soon as lactase became easy to find and relatively cheap.
Knowledge is liberating. I still get people saying how it's pretty bad to take "drugs" everytime I want to drink some milk, and sometimes it just isn't enough to explain tha what I take isn't what they traditionally think of as medicine, it's just the synthesized enzime that my body need to break down lactose... if it comes in capsules, pills or powder, it must be some highly potent drug that is most likely causing some sort of damage while allowing me to drink milk.
But you often find people who avoids all types of food because one time they came down with an illness right after eating something, even though they are not sure if the food or ingredient was the actual culprit.
I have some extremely paranoid family members that gives me all sorts of advices on food that makes zero sense to me, and it doesn't matter how much I rebuff their worries with real life experience, they just won't let go.
Like saying, but I've been eating or drinking this stuff daily for 20 years now and I never had problems.... oh no, I'm sure this is wrecking havok on you blahdiblah, because I read this thing on the Internet, or because this one time I tried it made me feel really bad.
I'm lactose intolerant too. I just tell people that the thing in the lactase pills is the same as what they naturally have in their digestive systems. That usually seems to work, so maybe you should try this approach. If it doesn't, I stay away from that person. Family is obviously harder to avoid, and I too have relatives who believe in all kinds of ridiculous myths. Be strong!
@potato psoas "The body doesn't like capsaicin". Not true. Capsaicin in the does normally found in spicy foods has no harmful effects. It just binds to pain receptors. That's all. Pure capsaicin is toxic. But not the doses found in foods.
@@donaldbaird7849 *dose
There is typo in your paragraph
@@tjhandragtv6865 *doses
Quick MSG recipe:
Boiled and diced potatoes
MSG
Salt and herbs
All spice
Fry in oil on high heat for only a couple of minutes.
I’m just glad I now know where the local term “Aji” comes from
Hail bro. South America #caribbean
“...Nothing Asian about it...”
“...isolates by a Japanese scientist and a staple in Asian kitchens...”
Come on. P
Well tomatos arent asian are they? just because asian people discovered it doesnt mean it originated in asia
@@jonathanodude6660 Making coherent sense isn't your strong suit is it?
Asian has figured out how to convert it into sprinkling form......... using glutamate in cooking has been around for hundreds of years across all culture...... Cheese is loaded with glutamate...... who do you think consumes the most cheese?
To my knowledge, Chinese home cooking generally would not actively use any MSG if not for the glutamates already present in the food source.
Aaron you’re an arsehole.
MSG is delicious!!!! Glad science is clearing up it's bad reputation.
ziljin Monosodium glutamate (MSG): A villain and promoter of liver inflammation and dysplasia
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We submit that MSG treatment of mice induces obesity and diabetes with steatosis and steatohepatitis resembling human NAFLD and NASH with pre-neoplastic lesions. These results take on considerable significance in light of the widespread usage of dietary MSG and we suggest that MSG should have its safety profile re-examined and be potentially withdrawn from the food chain
@@nicholasmorello6370 Yeah, giving vast amounts of a drug to a mouse will kill kill it eventually. Why didn't you try it on your children after?
@@nicholasmorello6370, wasn't that the study where they injected a massive dose directly into the brain of the mice so it could bypass the blood-brain barrier? Color my highly skeptical.
@@nicholasmorello6370 lets injected a massive dose of salt, oil or sugar directly into your brain and see how you react to it. you call that a proof?
@@nicholasmorello6370 3:54
I agree that MSG in general isn't a bad thing. But there are people, such as myself, who are intollerant for histamine and who can react on MSG. I react on MSG, but I also react on shrimps, chocolate and pepper, among other things, and thats stuff that other people can eat without a problem too.
Damn i love pepper. Its so tasty
"If you have job you hate, sprinkle msg on there, you will be promoted to manager"
My sister had to stop eating Chinese food when she was teenage because she said the MSG gave her headaches. Every once in awhile, we'd have Chinese, months or years later, and again she would have a headache. I can't attest why this was. Maybe she was making it up. Maybe she didn't like the taste. Maybe MSG DID give her a headache. Or maybe something else common in the dish she got gave her headaches. In any case, she went on to have one of her best friends become a Chinese first generation American, and they were thick as thieves. Amy, my sister's friend, made Chinese food and left out MSG, at my sister's request, and my Sister didn't get headaches. It seems compelling even if not definitive why she had trouble.
If she's ever eaten any form of snack, like pringles, she's had msg. Nice bullshitting.
Potentially Nocebo?
Hey, it really didn't affect me, so I took her at her word. Consequently, no, she ate organic salt and vinegar chips; hate pringles, hated junk food. Her and I would devour pounds of celery, carrots and broccolli with bleu cheese dip, after school. Nice assumptions though. I would eat oreos, and seldom cheetohs, but mostly stuck to vegetables, meat, dairy and grains. Junk food wasn't a treat for me, asa kid. Closest thing I had was ice cream, and not cheap stuff. It had to last. Again though, I never had problem with Chinese food. Mostly on account I never got much, being the hated "bonus" child. Her ability or not to eat it wasn't worth scrutiny at the time. It was just anecdotal. Nothing more. Sure, yeah, like I already stated, she could have made it up. I wouldn't put it past her.
@@Poochamoo did the bluecheese dip mess her up? Because that is naturally loaded with MSG.
If your sister requested to leave it out, then that means she was already in a mindset that the food WOULDN'T get her sick, therefore it didn't. A much better test would've been to not put MSG without telling her, and then see if she gets sick or not
“There is nothing Asian about.”
“It was developed by a Japanese chemist in 1908.”
You must not have listened to the video properly.
If people left Asian restaurants feeling ill, then associated illness with those businesses, how is that racist? Would it not have been medically irresponsible to say "nah, probably just a coincidence." I never even associated MSG with Asian foods before looking into MSG.
I jumped on the MSG bandwagon and bought some to start seasoning my meals because my husband hounds me constantly about using salt. I can cut the salt back when I use this stuff. Umami forever! Bring it on. I don't believe the BS about it being bad for any of us. It's healthier than using more salt!
America: MSG is bad for you
Asian: *laughs*
So weak! So weak!
love saying umami. u m a m i.
uwu mommy
Umami. Nano. NANI
Foodchem here, I kind of wished that the origin of Glutamate/Glutamic acid in food would have been elaborated on more here.
Glutamic acid is an amino acid and as such naturally occurs in every protein in it's bound form. When for example meat is cured or soy sauce is fermented, the amino acids break apart, releasing the Glutamic acid and its umami flavour. The free form also occurs in fresh foods like the mentioned seaweed or tomatoes, which is why these taste umami without further processing :)
it isn't racism, i could tell whether the food hawker uses msg or not, after i had eaten the food prepared by them. food with msg = very thirsty after-effect. if added too much msg = mild headache.
im allergic to msg. it's in everything! doesn't matter what ethnic food it is. Texas Roadhouse uses a ton of it. if im in a rest state, my hands and feet become very painful and tingly and my throat swells. if im out and about I get heart palpitations, flushed, tight chest, feverish, and my throat swells.
Do your legs feel heavy and did you experience diahorreea plus diziness?
You are probably sensitive to sodium. Go easy on the salt too.
@@starlite7785 no, but I have gotten a little dizzy.
@@hugeassets8678 yeah, you're right. I've come to realize I am.
@@sacredspace. It's not so much of an allergy as it is a over sensitivity to sodium. Your body needs the right amount of sodium to function. MSG is as harmless as table salt if you use it in moderation.
My mom and some of my friends gets headaches every time the food has MSG. We don't even know about- chinese food syndrome, racist undertones views etc...sometimes she eats stuff then gets a migraine, and finding out AFTER that the thing she ate had MSG on the label. Some people DO have a reaction to it. ..and we're asian.
I am from Vietnam and i ate food with MSG growing up. I am fine and healthy!
If you told my mom “msg is toxic” she would be like “it’s all in your head”
i put MSG on almost everything, it's friggin awesome and adds a very subtle taste but one that is noticeable and delicious
My take on this: If I really love the way something tastes and my body seems to really want me to ingest it, then it's good for me. I'll be sittin' here with a Guiness and some nachos if anyone wants me. :)
CeltKnight The Nachos sound delicious, as for the Guinness, that would easily be the most foul beverage I’ve ever put into my mouth and body, that’s just my opinion though but I’ve heard that it has some form of bacteria or product from a fishes stomach or something like that.
@@laneanderson9433 - Ah, fish gut bacteria ... delicious, yummy fish gut bacteria ... ;) The nachos were awesome, BTW. ;)
CeltKnight I’m glad to hear that you nachos were good one year ago, and I just looked it up, the ingredient I’m talking about is isinglass, which is a type of gelatine derived from a fish bladder, just had to clarify, and if you like Guinness, that’s fine as I’m not arrogant about my opinion on it I just personally cannot stand the stuff, it did get me very drunk one time and I almost collapsed at a gym!
@@laneanderson9433 - No worries. We all have our preferences. Differences make the world go 'round.
Did this guy just use Xenophobia, Racism and MSG in the same sentence?
Yes
Welcome to 2021. Everything is racist. Lol
I ate Chinese food yesterday...I love it!!...however...my head started to hurt and my heart started to ache ...I have nothing against Chinese people...but it's the way I felt
I’ll give you a simple example:
- I ate Asian food and got diarrhea. Quick conclusion: it’s dirty.
- I ate American food and got diarrhea a hundred time. Quick conclusion: it’s normal. That’s why people rush into toilet all the time.
- More information: I ate Asian food a hundred times before I got diarrhea.
-More information: it’s wasn’t diarrhea after all, it was just liquid poops.
Moral to the story: if you have never had bad feeling with your body in your entire life, and the only time you had was when you ate strange food >> it’s because of the food.
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@@nguyenthiphuonganh ...you are Korean yes?...you're name sounds Korean
Surprising facts: KFC and a bunch of other fast food restaurants, as well as a lot of grocery store foods contain MSG. you don’t have to get Chinese take out in order to ingest MSG. Just read the ingredients list on the label/from their websites : )
why did people think msg was bad?
racism.
then you go on to explain why they actually thought it was bad.
All this said, MSG sensitivity does exist. I'm one of the few who have it, and sadly enough I really like a lot of MSG-rich foods. However, I'm just fine eating "normal" amounts of it. It's when I stuff myself with *copious* amounts of it than I can tell when I've had too much, and the headache sets in. (I know because I've purposefully run blind tests with it, with the help of friends.)
I think that most of the "MSG syndrome" people complain about is just dehydration caused by too much salt and not drinking enough water. That can cause headaches easily and it's way too common (in America, anyway) for people to eat too much sodium. Most things with MSG contain plenty of salt too, in addition to the sodium in the MSG.
I'm of Asian origin and even I believed for a long time that MSG is bad for you. But that didn't made me stop eating it tho.