MSG is neither terribly dangerous nor perfectly fine

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**SOURCES IN ORDER OF APPEARANCE**

Original 1968 letter to the New England Journal of Medicine discussing "Chinese Restaurant Syndrome" (not free): https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056...

2007 European scientific consensus on MSG, known as the "Hohenheim consensus": https://www.nature.com/articles/1602526

1969 study that found some legitimacy in the "Chinese Restaurant Syndrome" notion (not free): https://science.sciencemag.org/conten...

2008 study that found a link between MSG and obesity in China: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/arti...

Dr. Sarah Tracy's 2016 doctoral thesis on the history of MSG: https://tspace.library.utoronto.ca/ha...

2017 journal article about the 1968 Kwok letter and the ensuing racial dynamics: https://ir.uiowa.edu/poroi/vol12/iss2/7/

1993 book discussing comic syndrome letters (chapter 6): https://books.google.com/books?id=SQw...

2019 magazine article about Dr. Howard Steel's claim to be the real Dr. Kwok: https://news.colgate.edu/magazine/201...

2019 episode of the podcast "This American Life" that (pretty much) debunks Dr. Steel's claim: https://www.thisamericanlife.org/668/...

2017 journal article about racism in the MSG debate: https://curj.columbia.edu/article/a-r...

1969 study associating brain lesions in mice with large MSG injections (not free): https://science.sciencemag.org/conten...

1995 report about MSG commissioned by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration: https://www.faseb.org/Portals/2/PDFs/...

2010 study that found no link between MSG and obesity in China: https://www.cambridge.org/core/journa...