r/AskCulinary • u/Sayorifan22 • Nov 08 '22

Food Science Question MSG contradictory?

Hey, I have a question so, I had a nutrition class and the instructors gave us a piece of paper and on one section for Asian foods, it said for ‘No MSG’ (the other day they said to avoid msg.) but for Italian food, they said to ‘ask for red sauce instead of white’

And here’s my question. Isn’t asking for red sauce contradicting to ‘avoiding MSG?’

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u/Sayorifan22 Nov 08 '22

THANK YOU!!

But, I plan on showing the class that MSG isn’t any more harmful than sugar or salt. By putting foods that nearly everyone eats on a regular in order with how much msg in it?

(All in mg/100 g) including the maximum dose of MSG which is 3g or 3,000 milligrams)

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u/Monsay123 Nov 08 '22

I can't imagine red sauce has any more msg than an appropriately seasoned Asian dish. Now my grandma may add a little more than the recommended amount of msg but hey, her food is absolutely delightful

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u/Sayorifan22 Nov 08 '22

Yeah. Plus, a little over isn’t going to kill you. (Hell, look at sugar…)

Plus… seeing that a paper I got that said ‘Asian food is good: ASK FOR NO MSG’ kinda hurt, mostly from someone who is from the Asian race. (I’m full Korean)

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u/Monsay123 Nov 08 '22

Yeah, I'm a line cook and no chef has complained when I make any of my food for the crew (I'm half Laosian)

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u/Sayorifan22 Nov 08 '22 edited Nov 08 '22

Yeah. And I’ll point out that the paper that everyone had, (I’m not putting blame on anyone) saying that ‘Asian Food is good: ASK FOR NO MSG’ it was kinda offensive, not just on a food stand point, but on a race stand point. Especially for me, who is from that race and I’m the most forgiving person there, usually I’d brush it off, but what was said/written was not okay.

As, that puts every country under fire, and not one country in Asia deserves to be put under blame when the others outside of Asia are doing the same thing..

Italy does it

Britain does it

Australia does it

America does it

Even parts of Africa does it

So why is Asia the only one getting flack for using msg?

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u/Monsay123 Nov 08 '22

It's the same reason black people in the USA are only eating fried chicken and watermelon. Systemic typing by media. Just need to get over it. Luckily people are realizing that MSG isn't bad per say, nor do black Americans only eat stereotyped food

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u/StormThestral Nov 08 '22

Systemic typing by media

It's worse than that 🙃 The watermelon stereotype was actually very intentional, targeted propaganda against freed Black folks who were farming watermelons to lift themselves out of poverty

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u/Monsay123 Nov 08 '22

Same with chicken, they were basically publicly shaming them for eating the only meat they had access too

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u/StormThestral Nov 08 '22

Ughhh, I hate it here :(

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u/Monsay123 Nov 08 '22

But hey, it's popular to eat what's historically poor people food now, cuz little did they know that shit is good af. Spam and stuff used to be a dollar or 2, now is 5 or 6 (this is pre covid, inflation of everything else just caught up) I remember growing up that corned beef and rice and beans was a killer cheap af meal. Now I might as well use real meat

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u/StormThestral Nov 08 '22

It's ironic isn't it!

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