What even is MSG? Is it bad for you?

#175MSG! The ingredient many of us reference but few of us know anything about. What is it? Why does it make things taste so good? What's in it? Is it bad for us? If not, why does everyone think it is?References from this Episodehttps://youtu.be/VJw8r_YWJ9khttps://www.compoundchem.com/2014/08/25/msg/https://www.nature.com/articles/1602526https://www.chemistryworld.com/podcasts/glutamate/3005790.articlehttps://www.sciencedirect.com/topics/agricultural-and-biological-sciences/enterocytehttps://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/10942912.2017.1295260We want to give a special thanks to Bri McAllister for illustrating molecules for some episodes! Please go check out Bri’s art, follow and support her at entr0pic.artstation.com and @McAllisterBri on twitter!Thanks to our monthly supporters

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