Can you get cancer from eating too much MSG (Monosodium Glutamate)?!
Question: I know a lot of restaurants use MSG in their food and makes it taste better. For example, Pho Soup (Vietnamese soup) use a lot of that in their soup which makes me thirsty after eating it.. I need to drink like 3 cups of water after... is it bad to eat MSG all the time?
Answers: I know a lot of restaurants use MSG in their food and makes it taste better. For example, Pho Soup (Vietnamese soup) use a lot of that in their soup which makes me thirsty after eating it.. I need to drink like 3 cups of water after... is it bad to eat MSG all the time?
You'd certainly have to eat A LOT of it. You can feel sick to your stomach or get light headed and dizzy from eating at a place that uses too much of it. But for it to be that actual cause of a cancer, you'd have to eat MSG ladden vietnamese pho 3 meals a day for years. I currently live in Japan, where they invented MSG. They do eat their fair share of MSG in ramen, curry, soups... well it's pretty much everywhere and they do not seem to have more cancers than the rest of the world.
They use it a lot in Chinese food too. I've become ill a few times by eating chinese food in a foodcourt in a shopping centre.
It's been known to cause headaches, stomach aches and dizziness but I'm not sure if copius amounts of it could give you cancer.