re is msg sensitivity superstition in article michael vislab me iastate edu michael iastate edu michael m huang writes msg is common in many food we eat including chinese though some oriental restaurants might put a tad too much in them i ve noticed that when i go out and eat in most of the chinese food restaurants i will usually get a slight headache and an ununsual thirst afterwards this happens to many of my friends and relatives too and heh we eat chinese food all the time at home but we don t use msg when we re cooking for ourselves so when we put one and one together it can be safely assumed that msg may cause some allergic reactions in some people stick with natural things msg doesn t do body any good and possibly harms for that matter so why bother with it taste food as it should be tasted and don t cloud the flavor with an imaginary cloak of msg as i understood it msg is natural isn t it found in tomatoes anyway lots of people are terribly allergic to lots of natural things peanuts onions tomatoes milk etc just because something is natural doesn t mean it won t cause problems with some folks as for how foods taste if i m not allergic to msg and i like the taste of it why shouldn t i use it saying i shouldn t use it is like saying i shouldn t eat spicy food because my neighbor has an ulcer people have long modified the taste of food by additives whether they be chiles black pepper salt cream sauces etc all of these things cloud the flavor of the food why do we bother with them how should food be tasted isn t it better left to the diner julie disclaimer all opinions here belong to my cat and no one else
