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It's present in large quantities in Doritos, most other packaged salty snack foods, Kentucky Fried Chicken, soy extract, shiitake mushrooms, broccoli, walnuts, etc.

I highly doubt MSG has any health risk associated with it due to its natural presence in many foods.

It's more likely that it became a racist stand-in, considering there are other false Chinese food tropes: Quality or source of meat (allusions to cats and dogs), cleanliness of kitchens, MSG, etc.



The race thing is a complete red-herring. The only question that matters is "How does it make me personally feel after I eat it?"

It really doesn't even matter how it makes the average statistical sample psychology students feel.


> The only question that matters is "How does it make me personally feel after I eat it?"

Even this question is problematic because of the nocebo effect.




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