re is msg sensitivity superstition in article qhu s d u agate berkeley edu spp zabriskie berkeley edu steve pope writes it s worse than that there is no such thing as a double blind study on the effects of msg by virtue of the fact that msg changes the taste of food in a characteristic way that is detectable by the subject and that cannot be duplicated by a placebo common you can easily disguise to flavor of msg by putting it in a capsule then the study becomes a double blind of msg capsules against control capsules containing exactly the same contents minus the msg mark feblowitz gte laboratories inc sylvan rd waltham ma mfeblowitz gte com fax
