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by kazinator 2974 days ago
Hey pc2g4d: check out this:

https://open.library.ubc.ca/cIRcle/collections/ubctheses/24/...

Wow.

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"The daily intake is estimated to be between 50 and 200mg/kg/day in industrialized countries"

Wow, indeed. An estimate of between 3.4g - 13.6g per day for a person that weighs 150lb is wrong by a magnitude. The upper end of that estimate has people burning through a 16oz packet of MSG in one month.