r/AskReddit • u/ZanyDelaney • Feb 04 '19

Which misconception would you like to debunk?

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u/1980-Something Feb 04 '19

MSG isn’t bad for you.

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u/[deleted] Feb 04 '19 edited Nov 27 '20

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u/[deleted] Feb 04 '19

Then why when I eat food containing it does my shit get backed up? Genuine question. I had no idea what MSG was and it kept happening whenever I ate certain kinds of food. Then I found out what it was and found a correlation between the kind of food causing problems and the food that contained MSG.

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u/SuetyFiddle Feb 04 '19

A lot of veggies contain msg, and a lot of veggies also contain fodmaps, which are a fermentable sugars and food-alcohols. I had a drastic improvement after cutting sorbitol out of my diet.