MSG

MSG

I heard somewhere that “ Good taste is never good for you.” I know that to make food have a good taste, chefs always put something inside it like magic to create a delicious taste, but what they put in is not always good for humans’ health. Usually, delicious food is never good for people, and bland foods are always good for us. However, most people like to eat foods with a better taste, and they ignore the harm of food additives. Do these people know the effects of eating the food additives? It is really simple. You eat the food additives, and later, it will affect your brain and your skin.

            Asian people have a special spice, called MSG sodium. The full name is Monosodium Glutamate. It was first produced in Japan in 1908. Every time Asian people cook a meal for their families, they never forget to put some MSG in their soup, fried chicken, or fried vegetables. This spice makes people feel like eating that food. For example, every time when my dad wants to have a good sauce to eat with any dish, he always adds one spoonful of MSG to the sauce. MSG will reduce the salty taste of the sauce. However, those who eat MSG will get some side effects, and depending on who they are, it will affect them in different ways; for example, eaters who have an allergy to MSG will feel numb around their mouths. If eaters often suffer from headaches, then they will get a headache or dizziness. MSG also will make eaters feel hot at your throat, arm, or chin, and hurt your chest. Some people may have a problem with nausea. Moreover, in some serious cases, people who have asthma will have trouble breathing, and they may need emergency medical help. No matter how much MSG a person puts in her food, it still causes her to have side effects. If she puts on too much in her food, such as two or three spoonfuls, the effects will come really quickly. However, if she puts only one spoonful into her food, the effects still come, but later.

            I think when you just read my blog, you will not believe the effects of MSG, and you may need to see obvious evidence. Thus, I will be your evidence. After eating MSG, I feel exactly what I have written above. Last month, I went to a Chinese buffet restaurant with my boyfriend. It is called Hot And Cold Buffet Restaurant. I really like fried frog legs, and I ate two of them. After I finished my second frog leg, I saw some little white things on it. I checked it, and I think you know what I found. Those were pieces of MSG. That night, my head felt so dizzy that I wanted to vomit, and I was busy running between my room and the restroom all night. I promised my boyfriend that I will never go back there again. However, one thing I also want to stress is that if chefs do not put MSG in the foods, I think nobody will want to eat them. 

 

While writing this essay, I surfed the Internet, and I found some more consequences of eating MSG, which I had never thought about. http://tintuccaonien.com/docs/docs_4/4_1_204.htm. What I mentioned earlier about side effects happens immediately when you eat MSG, and now I will give you complex symptoms and side effects which will happen later. MSG causes Alzheimers and health issues. Because MSG contains chemicals called excitotoxins, it will cause brain damage and wound the central nervous system. The excitotoxins tend to damage the hypothalamus of a brain, which controls important functions like growth, sleep, age of puberty, and appetite. After a long time, when you have consumed a ton of MSG in your stomach and it has penetrated to your brain, you will start forgetting everything, you cannot have a good sleep, and you will lose control of your eating habits. Thus, when MSG inhibits functions of the hypothalamus, it can cause long term negative impacts like obesity, sleep disorders, and other reproductive issues.

How to solve this problem? Do we have any way to use MSG without having side effects, and can we still have a good meal to eat? Can we guarantee that no one who eats it will not get sick? The answer is really easy: people need to check the ingredient information before they decide to buy any material to cook for their family, or stop the habit of eating at some restaurants and start to cook at home. Homemade food is the best. We have many kinds of spices to choose from, and MSG is not the only spice to make foods taste good. If you still do not trust those seasonings, you can make spices by yourself, such as a vegetarian seasoning which is made from vegetables or meat seasoning which is made from meat. It absolutely will take a long time to do, but you can guarantee that it is good for those who eat your food. Otherwise, if you abuse MSG like my dad, he always add one spoonful of MSG in whatever he eats, you need a trick to deal with MSG. You can use MSG to cook, but you have to know exactly the method of how to use it without causing side effects later, such as how high of a temperature to cook foods at, and trying to put as little on as you can, just enough to treat the person eating your food.