hidden msg in all natural foods

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" All natural " claim on food labels is often

deceptive; Foods

Harbor hidden MSG

 

 

" All Natural " claim on food labels is often Deceptive;

Foods Harbor

hidden MSG and other unnatural ingredients JoAnn

Guest Apr 04, 2005

10:26 PDT

http://www.newstarget.com/005778.html

 

When you're shopping for groceries, watch out for the

phrase " all

natural " as claimed on the front of various product

packages. It turns

out that the phrase " all natural " can mean just about

anything; it

actually has no nutritional meaning whatsoever and

isn't truly

regulated

by the FDA.

 

This came to light recently when I published an

article about autolyzed

yeast extract containing MSG, and I was contacted by

the manufacturer

of

a popular veggie burger product who claimed that my

article was

incorrect, that their product didn't contain MSG, and

that they used

nothing but all-natural ingredients.

 

I replied by reading their PR person the list of

ingredients printed

right on their own box (which included autolyzed yeast

extract), then I

showed them documentation supporting the fact that

autolyzed yeast

extract always contains MSG, and that autolyzed yeast

extract is used

for only one purpose in manufactured foods: as a

chemical taste

enhancer. It has no other purpose in the realm of food

science.

 

 

 

At this point the spokesperson for this veggie burger

manufacturer

admitted that, yes, their product did contain free

glutamic acid, which

is another way of saying MSG, but that it was from an

all-natural

source, and that there are other foods like seaweed or

tomatoes that

have free glutamic acid.

 

To this, I replied that, sure, tomatoes have a very

small quantity of

naturally occurring free glutamic acid, but that's

different.

 

What the veggie burger manufacturer is doing is using

an MSG ingredient

in a concentrated, refined form that greatly increases

the potency and

the potential toxicity of the ingredient.

 

In my book, that's not natural.

 

Claiming MSG is natural because free glutamic acid

appears in tomatoes

is sort of like saying cocaine is natural because it's

derived from

ingredients found in the coca leaf.

 

Of course, it's all a matter of potency -- you can

take a natural plant

like coca and drink coca leaf all day long in Peru

without any of the

dangerous or addictive effects of cocaine.

 

And if you're hiking in the Andes, you'll be very glad

you did drink

coca leaf tea, because trying to keep up with the

locals (who scramble

up steep hillsides as easily as strolling down a paved

sidewalk) is

nearly impossible without some invigorating help from

the local plants.

 

Coca leaf tea is not a hard drug, but when you take

the active

constituents of the coca tea and you refine them into

a highly

concentrated format, then you get cocaine.

 

That's when it becomes a problem.

 

The same thing is true with MSG.

 

If you're eating seaweed, that's not a problem for

your health; in fact

seaweed is very good for you and it's now shown to

actually prevent and

even help treat cancer.

 

But if you take MSG out of seaweed or you synthesize

MSG and put it

into

a highly concentrated form, then it functions as a

neurotoxin -- that's

why it's called an excitotoxin by Dr. Russell

Blaylock, who is perhaps

the world's foremost authority on MSG and other

excitotoxins such as

aspartame.

 

Similarly, non-gmo whole grain corn is a healthful,

nutritious food.

 

But when you refined that corn and extract the sugars

to make

high-fructose corn syrup, you now have a blatantly

unnatural ingredient

that contributes to obesity and type-II diabetes.

 

Yet the corn associations insist that high-fructose

corn syrup is " all

natural " because it comes from a plant.

 

The point is that a food manufacturer can take

anything that occurs

somewhere in nature and refine it to increase the

potency by a factor

of

1000 times or more, and then claim that their product

is " all natural. "

In other words, if cocaine were legal, they could put

crack cocaine in

their veggie burgers and call that all natural too.

 

In fact, they can scrounge up just about anything

found on the planet,

whether it's heavy metals like mercury or arsenic, or

refined sugars

made from beets or corn, and they can put those in

their foods and call

it all natural.

 

Of course, it's all quite ridiculous.

 

By that definition, anything derived from plants,

animals or elements

found on planet Earth could earn the " all natural "

label.

 

The key is in understanding that it's the process

that's unnatural, not

the source.

 

When you chemically or structurally alter food

ingredients into a form

that no longer appears anywhere in nature, it's no

longer natural,

folks.

 

Regardless of what the food manufacturers claim.

 

So don't believe food claims -- even from natural

product manufacturers

-- that state they are " all natural " unless you also

verify what's on

the ingredients label.

 

And if it has yeast extract, or autolyzed yeast

extract, or hydrolyzed

vegetable protein or any of these other ingredients

that actually

harbor

MSG, then it is, in my opinion, a deceptively

positioned product,

because it claims to be natural but in fact uses

highly potent refined

extracts that don't occur anywhere near that

concentration in nature.

 

You'll see a much more detailed discussion of all this

in my upcoming

book, " Grocery Warning, " due out shortly.

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