>> High levels of glutamate in grapefruit? Really?
> I read about glutamate in grapefruit on a couple of chat boards, a
> news service and a magazine (I'm hoping the two latter will have
> researched before publi****ng).
You can look it up yourself in several online nutritional analysis
databases.
Using the Australia/NZ one at http://www.foodstandards.gov.au,
I get
99mg/100g for grapefruit, against 3043mg/100g for walnuts, 2182mg/100g
for pearl barley, 2858mg/100g for mixed grain bread and 10655mg/100g
for powdered gelatin - i.e. you'd need to eat about 30 grapefruit to
equal the glutamate load of a sandwich.
So I doubt grapefruit is anything to worry about on that score. But
your source of information *is* something to worry about.
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