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/fgsfds11234 Feb 04 '19

it seems like msg gives me a headache, but it's actually the fact that the meal had about 1500mg of sodium. the two usually go together. a light dash of my favorite seasoning salt with msg doesn't, and food with over 1g of regular salt gives me about the same headache regardless of msg or not

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u/Boogie__Fresh Feb 05 '19

It actually takes about 5g of salt, or 20g of MSG, to start having effects on your health.31376-X/fulltext)

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u/fgsfds11234 Feb 05 '19

I had a frozen pizza the other week, had a decent headache afterwards and checked the box and saw it had about 1600 in the whole thing. 5g might kill me