Saturday’s Secrets: Week 11

Before 1957, the year Ajinomoto began mass producing MSG, there had been no reports of MSG-induced adverse reactions. There were no studies demonstrating MSG-induced brain damage, no obesity epidemic, no infertility crisis, and the incidence of glutamate-induced abnormalities such as multiple sclerosis (MS), Parkinson’s disease, and autism had not yet begun to skyrocket.