10 Risky Foods with Lurking MSG You Need to Know

Last Updated on January 7, 2021

Monosodium glutamate (MSG) is a common food enhancer that tastes like umami. We all know that taste includes four categories: Bitter, sour, salty, and sweet. Well, MSG is said to have a fifth unique taste known as umami and has a savory flavor of the meat.

Manufacturers use MSG to improve that umami flavor, but its consumption turned out to have negative side effects (even in small quantities).

MSG can be mostly found in processed foods and is very difficult to avoid unless the packaging states that the item contains no MSG, but even then, other forms of manufactured free glutamic acid can still be used in these foods.

In fact, synthetically produced glutamates might have various names but they all basically are MSG. Common MSG-related glutamates include glutamic acid, yeast extract, protein concentrates, autolyzed yeasts, and hydrolyzed proteins, which can be found in many common foods.

According to a study published in Life Science and other health pages, young rats that were given MSG were more prone to developing depression and anxiety. So what are the common grocery store foods that contain lurking MSG?

10 Risky Foods with Lurking MSG You Need to Know

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1. Salad Dressings

As an alternative to MSG, manufacturers use yeast extract, which also consists of free glutamate. You’ve probably never heard of Dr. Russell Blaylock, the author of the book Excitotoxins: The Taste that Kills.

Blaycock lists in his book the foods containing hidden MSG that people need to watch out for, including soy milk, which had natural elevated content of glutamate in addition to hydrolyzed vegetable protein.

If you like to eat Hidden Valley Ranch dressing, then you should know that it contains MSG. Moreover, Ken’s Steakhouse Buttermilk contains monosodium glutamate as well.

Other popular salad dressings which contain hidden MSG include Wishbone salad dressing (contains yeast extracts) and Clear Value salad dressing (contains torula yeast).

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2. Vegan Breakfast Sausage