View Single Post
  #9 (permalink)   Report Post  
Posted to rec.food.cooking
Mark Thorson Mark Thorson is offline
external usenet poster
 
Posts: 7,055
Default Revisiting MSG and Weight Gain

Andy wrote:
>
> MSG... my uncle worked with MSG at a food company back when MSG got a bad
> name. His department's job was to break it down to the catalysts and enzymes
> and list those so they wouldn't have to list MSG in the ingredients lists of
> their products.


Baloney. There's plenty of disguised names for MSG
as ingredients that are MSG-rich, such as hydrolyzed
vegetable protein, sodium caseinate, beef flavor,
natural flavor, etc. None of these are a catalyst
nor an enzyme. As usual, you don't know what you're
talking about.