[thaumasiotes]

> However, I think one can build a tolerance to it, because I regularly eat it at restaurants and I haven't had any problems with it since that time as a kid.

It is much more likely that:

1. You haven't had any problems with MSG ever, including that time as a kid, just as every experiment ever done on MSG would suggest;

2. Your doctors were influenced by coverage of MSG in the medical press outside India.

Stupidity doesn't have to originate in racism.

[suryabeep]

Quite possible on both counts, yep.

[shakna]

> just as every experiment ever done on MSG would suggest;

> In 1995, the Food and Drug Administration asked an independent scientific group, the Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology, to study MSG’s safety. It found that only a small number of people experienced any side effects, and that was only after consuming six times the normal serving of MSG on an empty stomach.

There is a _very_ small number of people who do in fact experience side effects when consuming MSG. Whilst it is pretty much harmless to most people, there is a population for who it creates discomfort. It isn't no one.

[thaumasiotes]

> It isn't no one.

Do you have a different citation? Because what you actually quoted says it is no one, unless you think people are going to Chinese restaurants and being served a plate of pure MSG. Show me one person who has ever eaten instant noodles while maintaining an empty stomach.

[1MachineElf]

My family is Chinese. I love the traditional cooking AND American-style "Chinese" food. I have never had problems with the MSG in these, but I have had headaches after downing too much brewer's yeast and a broth made with a philipinno soup packet one time. Do you know what both of these have in common? It's Glutamate, which is an excitotoxin in excess amounts. Too much of that stuff absolutely will hurt your head.