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...Monosodium glutamate, a commonly used flavor enhancer, has been linked with the chest pains and headaches of the so-called Chinese restaurant syndrome. But chow mein is not the only dish that may trigger "dietary migraine." Dr. Neil Raskin and William Henderson of the University of California at San Francisco report in Lancet that sodium nitrite, a preservative mixed into some hot dogs, sausages and cured meats, can cause "hotdog headaches." The pair base their findings on the study of a 58-year-old man with a seven-year history of painful, nonthrobbing headaches whenever he ate frankfurters, bacon, salami...
Some mothers today remember Dr. Mayer as the man who went on TV to say that monosodium glutamate (trade name Accent) in baby foods might be harming their children. He says today that consumers no longer know what they eat. "In 1949 ninety per cent of the food sold was for the housewife. Now only fifty per cent is, and at least half of that is highly-processed with all sorts of additives-vegetable protein substitutes for meat and excessive salt to mask the taste of excessive sugar and on and on." Mayer wants calories, proteins, and minerals to appear...
...approved, and now all will be rejected. But the additive news was not uniformly gloomy. Even before its announcement on cyclamates, the FDA had given a completely clean bill of health to saccharin, a widely used artificial sweetener that came under suspicion last year. The agency also virtually cleared monosodium glutamate (MSG), a popular flavor enhancer that, when used in excessive quantities, causes some people to suffer the tingling and numbness of "Chinese Restaurant Syndrome." Although MSG causes brain damage in mice when injected in large doses, researchers have found no evidence of harmful effects when the chemical is used...
...several issues you have been talking about cyclamate. monosodium glutamate, and other food additives that may be considered poison. Let's be sensible before we stop the use of everything and die of monotony...
...dispute over monosodium glutamate (MSG) is more complicated. Although it occurs naturally in some foods, especially mushrooms, sugar beets and green peas, it is not essential to life. Yet preparations of a seaweed have been used for thousands of years to lend savor to bland food and give it a "meaty" taste. Japanese chemists discovered in 1908 that an active ingredient of the seaweed is MSG. Not only many Americans but some Orientals as well suffer a sensitivity reaction to MSG-sold in the U.S. under the trade name Ac'cent-and virtually all such sensitive people will react...