You've probably thought maybe some MSG is in the chips you love, for instance Dorito's, one of the big offenders. But you can find it in almost any of the flavored chips you buy. Flavors such as, cheese, taco, spicy, onion etc. almost always have MSG under another name of cours. Check yours and see. It's safer buying the regular unflavored chips, but not always. Recently I purchased Glutino's Gluten Free pretzels and discovered they have autolyzed yeast, one of those other names for MSG. Not a spicy flavor just a little salty but I suppose they needed something to make them a bit more tasty. Sadly you can't assume that an organic brand will be safer. It isn't. Red hot blues have spices, natural flavoring and torula yeast, these are all suspect ingredients and of course why they taste soooooo yummy.
Crackers are the same thing. If it's spicy, cheesie, ranchy or oniony it will most likely have MSG. Even annies bunny crackers, at least some of them. Several of the gluten free crackers have MSG in them so since I am gluten free it makes finding something to snack on even harder.
You may say it's simply too hard to avoid these things and they don't make me sick so why not. But if you read elsewhere on MSG you will see that when we start having MSG in so many different foods we buy and restaurant food we eat we are really overloading our brains with this excitotoxin.
Check out the website below that describes how excitotoxins work
http://www.avoidamigraine.com/
On a happier note there are a few chips and crackers that don't contain any of the obvious MSG names that I have eaten and been fine with so you can do it. It's just a bit of a treasure hunt.
So on that happier thought I'll talk to you next week
Happy Shopping
Pame
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