ineptguy5 t1_iujp1eb wrote on October 31, 2022 at 9:02 PM

Reply to comment by RelicBeckwelf in ELI5: Why does MSG make food taste so irresistible? And why is everyone against it? by theinvincible-dosa

I thought msg caused headaches and/or migraines? Apparently no?

tranquilrage73 t1_iujq8s6 wrote on October 31, 2022 at 9:11 PM

That was another bit of misinformation going around for quite some time.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4870486/

ineptguy5 t1_iujqyh1 wrote on October 31, 2022 at 9:16 PM

Thanks. Apparently, like most things if you ate a ton you might get a headache, but even that is not statistically proven.

ChronoMonkeyX t1_iuju8yd wrote on October 31, 2022 at 9:40 PM

Doritos are full of MSG, but the people who swear Chinese food makes them sick could down a whole bag of Doritos and never notice.

They did a test where they gave a room full of people a free meal, then afterward told them that people in the left half of the room had MSG in their food and the other half didn't, and a bunch of people started complaining about feeling sick. Everyone got the exact same food, no MSG.

Wendy_Frederick t1_iuk4733 wrote on October 31, 2022 at 10:57 PM

MSG does cause some people to get migraines. Also makes my ankles swell and makes my stomach upset the next day!!