July 19, 2004
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Silly me–who knew?
When I described my symptoms to Greyfox, he said that “poisoning” I
experienced the other day sounded like Chinese restaurant
syndrome. Sure enough, when I googled it, I found a list of
symptoms that included all of mine and a few others, such as
anaphylactic shock, that I was then glad I hadn’t experienced.The irony here is that I’ve ranted against MSG for years, and have even
told people about the myriad of names under which it is legal for it to
be listed under truth in labeling laws. I’d grown lax in reading
labels. I skimmed the immense ingredient list for soy isolates,
hydrolyzed soy protein, MSG, etc., and missed the autolyzed corn
protein. I read the large print on that label, the “nutrition
facts”, but since I’d eaten other meals of the same brand I didn’t
closely read all the ingredients.Evidently, I need to go back to cooking everything I eat from
scratch. I’d gotten complacent, and started viewing those frozen
meals as a luxury, something to use when I’m too fatigued to
cook. I might even be able to make such a plan work, if I take a
magnifying glass with me on shopping trips and never shop when I’m too
fatigued to read all the labels in their entirety. Since that’s
probably not feasible, I suppose frozen meals are a luxury I can’t
afford to indulge.http://www.fact-index.com/m/mo/monosodium_glutamate.html
Comments (4)
Ew, MSG, nasty crap. I make it a general policy not to buy anything packaged unless I truly can’t help it. Even then, I infinitely prefer flash-frozen or dehydrated to anything else. Chemical crap gives me migraines.
You know, if you’re too tired to cook, maybe you should use the crock pot method. Throw it all in, turn it on, go about your day.
MSG gives me headaches.
I was surprised to read that you’d eaten a frozen dinner in the first place. I’m not surprised that you’d have days when you don’t want to prepare a healthy meal from scratch.
I glad everything ended well