MSG is not the demon you think it is.
"We use real, quality ingredients to elevate the taste of our food so our customers all over the world can enjoy,” Cindy Goody, McDonald’s chief nutritionist,. “We’re passionate about our food and take great care to offer delicious, quality menu options to our customers that are produced and sourced in a responsible way.”is generally recognized as safe by the FDA. It's just a combination of salt and an amino acid that is naturally present in everything from tomatoes to breast milk .
"The glutamate in MSG is chemically indistinguishable from glutamate present in food proteins," the FDAits website. "Our bodies ultimately metabolize both sources of glutamate in the same way. An average adult consumes approximately 13 grams of glutamate each day from the protein in food, while intake of added MSG is estimates [sic] at around 0.55 grams per day."
So yes, McDonald's has added one more ingredient to its Crispy Chicken Sandwich, but that's not newsworthy because of the MSG itself, it's newsworthy because it just shows that the fast food giant is taking one more step to compete with two of its biggest challengers in the chicken sandwich game.
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