CAUTION: MSG isn't just in cheap chinese food places

I was watching some news program this week when an informational venue came on and the host described a substance that is in a lot of our food, I mean from Campbell's soup to Doritos brand chips. This product is a flavor enhancer with catostrophic consequences. Its MSG or Monosodium Glutamate. This flavor additive has been found to promote swelling in brain tissue and migraines to Autism. I found an informative website, MSGTRUTH, about this if our interested, but I encourage you to go your cabinet like I did and look at some of the soups and see if you read Monosodium Glutamate on the ingredients list. The product manufacturers don't even have to spell it out they can label it as "artificial flavors."

Four good rules of thumb are:

	The more salty a processed food is, the more likely it is to contain MSG or free glutamate.
	The more processed a food is, the more likely it is to contain MSG or free glutamate: powdered stuff that used to be food is likely to have added MSG because the original flavor has been degraded.
	The more ingredients in a packaged food, the more likely MSG is present. Read labels carefully if a food has more than five ingredients.
	Do not trust something simply because it is in a health food store and the label states it is natural or even organic. FYI: These are from the website above, you can click them to be forwarded to the page I found them.