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Spicy Carrot Soup ( recipe ) - Would it be more satiating, if it was made with MSG? The study at hand shows: Yes, if it's eaten as an entree, it will actually reduce your food intake more than an MSG-free soup, you'd eat before a meal. Mono-sodium glutamate, or MSG, as it is usually called, is a strange molecule. Previous research suggests it may have a paradoxically biphasic effect on appetite: Just as common wisdom tells you, it will increase your appetite while you are eating an MSG-flavored meal due to its (umami) flavour enhancing effect. On the other hand, there is also irrefutable evidence to show that that MSG will enhance subsequent satiety - an effect of which scientists believe that it is brought about by its proposed role as a predictor of protein content. In their latest experiment, Una Masic and Martin R. Yeomans from the University of Sussex wanted to elucidate, whether one could make use of the satiety effect without increasing the risk of overeating. ...

Piglets would buy MSG food ;-) Mono-sodium glutamate (MSG) and the "Chinese restaurant syndrome", obesity and overeating are often thrown together into a single psedo-scientific crock pot with the result being a brew that's 50% hear-say, 40% fear and 10% science. The study we are going to look at today is unquestionably part of the latter ingredient and its results do stand in line with my previously stated concern "that MSG is one of those substances that is usually found in foods with a whole host of other nutrient-poor ingredients, anti-nutrients and proven obesogenic, pro-inflammatory and otherwise unhealthy substances and food additives" (" MSG, NFALD, Leaky Gut & Brain ... ") and could thus rather be corollary to, than causative of the toll the fast, convenient and nutrient deficient foods in the Western diet are taking on our health. Published ahead of print in the online version of the journal Amino Acids you will find a study by a...

Image 1 (msg-exposed.com): Is obesity the inevitable, unnatural metabolic long-term equivalent of the dreaded "Chinese Restaurant Syndrome"? Earlier today, I posted a blurb from a recently published epidemiological study on the effects of mono-sodium glutamate, aka MSG, an umami = all taste receptor activator that is commonly found in all sorts of ready made foods that would otherwise taste as lame as their individual fake ingredients, on the SuppVersity facebook wall (Insawang . 2012). The scientists had evaluated the data from 324 families (349 adult subjects, age 35–55 years) from a rural area of Thailand and found that the prevalence of metabolic syndrome was not just significantly higher in the tertile with the highest MSG intake, but that the "odds ratio", i.e. the chance that a certain parameter, in this case "obese, yes/no" would be found to be true, increased with every 1 g increase in total MSG intake irrespective of  the total energy inta...