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**Doug Freyburger** · December 27th, 2012, 10:50 PM posted to alt.support.diet.low-carb

wrote:
Doug Freyburger wrote:

Something I wonder about with respect to glutamates - The "fifth taste"
of unami appears to be detection of glutamates. *If glutamates are bad
for us how did we evolve an actual taste for them? *Perhaps MSG in
specific is problematic but other glutamates not so much?

From what I've seen, there are no conclusive studies,
etc that show MSG is bad or causes adverse reactions
in people studied. Like anything, there may be people
that have an allergy or some kind of reaction to it. But
everytime I've looked, it was anecdotal reports, while
studies didn't find anything.

I've seen blind tests were people who did not know MSG was present did
not react to it, and people told MSG was present but it was not did
react to it.

Whether MSG has a bad rap without good reason, I don't know. I don't
avoid it but I also don't use it at home.