'Chinese Restaurant Syndrome': Is MSG a Public-health Villain? | Vantage with Palki Sharma

"Chinese Restaurant Syndrome": Is MSG a Public-health Villain? | Vantage with Palki Sharma

Monosodium Glutamate or MSG is a flavour enhancer for food. But it has long been considered unhealthy. The term "Chinese Restaurant Syndrome" was attached to it in the late 1960s and it has declared MSG a public-health villain. Is it safe to eat MSG? Palki Sharma tells you.

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[jessequest]

I think a bigger issue is having over 30 g of sugar in a Pepsi lol

[rahulbhatambare]

Vocabulary
1)Renaissance
2)Vengeance
3)Ripple effect
4)swore off
5)Bandwagon
6)Substantiated
7)gist
8)Vendication
9)wrongly maligned
10)state the obvious

[vedrajchaudhari]

Uncle Roger's will be so happy to know😂😂

[jaker]

MSG is widely used in Japanese food and Japan has one of the longest life expectancies.

[Ravenoustoxic]

in the 60's western doctors claims smoking as healthy. Ohh the irony of western culture.

[BLUERAY]

Just like coconut oil.
Western countries linked coconut oil to coronary artery. Ulterior motive.

[edgecase]

Same thing with eggs, back in 60's and 70's some people mentioned eggs had too much bad cholesterol but after 50 years now studies are showing that Cholesterol in eggs is good for humans.

[TTLTP]

This is the same thing what the west did to Mustard Oil for cooking 😂

[allengina]

Philippines has been using that MSG but Filipino who are using that reach at the age of 90to 100 yrs old in the village. Stress and depression are the worst ingredients for cancer.

[PareshVijay]

Uncle Roger will be hosting an MSG party now.

[yami_bandyopadhyay]

Im from Philippines, I grow up eating food with MSG.. even after they discourage us that it causes cancer or any such diseases.. we continue using it.. hahaha I love aji no moto.. and I love uncle Roger... Even I'm here in india for more than 12 yrs I still use MSG😅

[thuythanhnguyen]

I remember when I was in college, my biology professors usually criticized about Chinese food containing lots of MSG. Today, many food in the US like instant noodles, chíp, and more have MSG. Some American chefs use MSG, too.

[jongrho]

I remember when the MSG scare came out in the 80's. I regularly ate at Chinese restaurants and loved the cuisine since I was a kid in the 70's. However, once a became an adult, I did notice one side effect - whenever I had Chinese food with alchohol, I would get bad headaches. So I stopped having beer with Chinese food and never had another headache when eating Chinese food.

[mgregory]

I've heard that it's not that people consume too much salt, but they don't consume enough potassium to balance it out. They don't eat enough greens. I'd love to hear a story on this.

[villajrestilo]

Uncle Roger’s dream has come true. We Filipinos love our MSG!

[harshdashputre]

I remember there was a time when Koreans used to get a lot of hate for eating dog meat.

Whenever a society rises, there are bound to be some people who would not like to see that happening. They would go to great extent to malign the Food Culture of that country because food is considered an element of soft power.

That's why when i see people online ranting about Indian food causing diarrhoea especially highlighting the issues related to hygiene in Indian food, i try to remind myself that we aren't unique in this and that it happened with everyone.

[dnataliesmith]

The world over? Ha! I grew up with Ajinomoto in Guyana and lived in Brazil 12 years, I cook with it daily and use very little salt!

[sheilagawande]

I am pro Pluto. I think it should be reinstated as a planet.

[gopsda]

Reminds me, like in the 1950-60s, the researchers linked Cancer to Smoking but the Cigarette companies paid researchers to unprove or deny any direct links between smoking and cancer, and the courts ruled they are coincidence and no cause or effects here.

[waterfall]

Thank you Palki for standing up against sinophobes.