MSG, or monosodium glutamate, got a bad rap in the 1960s when people started complaining of "Chinese Restaurant Syndrome," but that bad reputation was fueled more by xenophobia than science. Turns out, it's just delicious. Hosted by: Stefan Chin SciShow has a spinoff podcast! It's called SciShow Tangents. Check it out at www.scishowtangents.org ---------- Support SciShow by becoming a patron on Patreon: www.patreon.com/scishow ---------- Dooblydoo thanks go to the following Patreon supporters: Alex Schuerch, Alex Hackman, Andrew Finley Brenan, Sam Lutfi, D.A. Noe, الخليفي سلطان, Piya Shedden, KatieMarie Magnone, Scott Satovsky Jr, Charles Southerland, Patrick D. Ashmore, charles george, Kevin Bealer, Chris Peters ---------- Looking for SciShow elsewhere on the internet? Facebook: www.facebook.com/scishow Twitter: www.twitter.com/scishow Tumblr: scishow.tumblr.com Instagram: instagram.com/thescishow ---------- Sources: www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0195666314001767 academic.oup.com/jn/article/130/4/1058S/4686672 www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK50956/ onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/j.1745-7599.2006.00160.x www.foodstandards.gov.au/publications/documents/MSG%20Technical%20Report.pdf www.smithsonianmag.com/arts-culture/its-the-umami-stupid-why-the-truth-about-msg-is-so-easy-to-swallow-180947626/ fivethirtyeight.com/features/how-msg-got-a-bad-rap-flawed-science-and-xenophobia/ www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK22358/ pubchem.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/compound/L-glutamic_acid www.popsci.com/hidden-secrets-umami neuroscience.stanford.edu/news/two-sides-same-coin-msg-and-umami www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17432971 www.nationalgeographic.com/archaeology-and-history/magazine/2018/01-02/what-is-garum-rome-fish-sauce/ www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0092867403008444 www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0149763498000438 www.cia.gov/library/readingroom/docs/CIA-RDP80-00926A006500040001-7.pdf academic.oup.com/jn/article-abstract/125/11/2891S/4730581?redirectedFrom=PDF onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/j.1365-2222.2009.03221.x www.newyorker.com/culture/annals-of-gastronomy/an-msg-convert-visits-the-high-church-of-umami www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22526238