Is MSG bad for you?
What is MSG?
In 1968, Dr. Robert Ho Man Kwok felt ill after dinner at a Chinese restaurant. He wrote a letter detailing his symptoms to a prestigious medical journal, pondering whether his illness had resulted from eating monosodium glutamate— also known as MSG. Kwok’s connection between his headache and this common seasoning in American Chinese cuisine was just a hunch. But his letter would dramatically change the world's relationship with MSG, inspiring international panic, biased science, and sensationalist journalism for the next 40 years.