Re: Re: MSG and gluten sensitivity

[Guest guest]

Sorry Heidi, couldn't find the right article but here's a whole page of MSG

links from Dr. Mercola's site. worth looking into I think.

www.mercola.com/article/links/msg_links.htm

Dedy

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From: " Heidi Schuppenhauer " <heidis@...>

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Sent: Wednesday, June 19, 2002 7:05 PM

Subject: Re: Re: Irish Stew - was -My Butcher and Heart

Disease

> At 02:52 PM 6/19/2002 +0100, you wrote:

> >Hi Heidi,

> >sorry to spoil the fun with the Irish Stew, but somewhere in the Sally's

NT

> >book she mentions that Worcestershire sauce has MSG in it!!!

> >might be in those little 'guess the ingredients' part. if you have gluten

> >sensitivity, MSG is a NO-NO.

> >Apologies,

> >Dedy

>

> Yep, you are correct -- I don't use it myself. But I had to mention it

> because a lot of people do use it, and it's part of the original recipe.

> I've decided all packaged goods are *EVIL* <joke> and try not to buy them.

> I've even got my first vinegar mother going, and I made a batch of

mustard.

> I'm discovering though, that a handful of something fermented (like

> kimchee), is a GREAT flavoring agent.

>

> I think that most packaged foods do have MSG. So do Bragg's aminos and soy

> sauce (from the fermentation process). I suspect fish sauce has it too. I

> don't react to it myself much, but my office-mate gets fibromyalgia from

it

> so she's our " canary " . The fermenting of proteins creates a whole stew of

> chemicals though, mostly good for you, but I think some people react to

> some of them. She reacts also if I use vinegar or wine in a meat stew. But

> not lemon juice or kimchi juice, and she doesn't react to cold vinegar. I

> don't know if the chemical she is reacting to is MSG or some other

> protein-chemical.

>

> Why is MSG a no-no for gluten-sensitive persons though? I avoid it, but

> I've heard it was ok unless it comes from wheat. It does occur naturally

in

> a whole lot of foods (tomatoes, cheese), but it seems to me that people

> don't react the same to it in those forms, or maybe it's just the quantity

> that's the issue.

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> Heidi Schuppenhauer

> Trillium Custom Software Inc.

> heidis@...

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