Marshall Price wrote:
>
> jay wrote:
> > I general avoid all fast foods, but due to social pressure, I caved
> > into having the Chargrilled Chicken Garden Salad at Chick-Fil-A
> > without dressing or condiments. Before having left the restaurant, I
> > could feel some unusual throat irritation. Later I began experiencing
> > burning tongue, numbness in my hand and soreness in the sciatic nerve
> > near the hips. I dont know for sure, but based on past experience, the
> > chicken likely had MSG. If you too are sensative to MSG, you may have
> > been exposed to a neurotoxin (ie PCBs, dioxin, pesticides, etc) in the
> > past.
>
> Isn't MSG a natural component of many foods, especially such
> protein-rich ones as chicken? (You seem to be suggesting that it was
> added to the food, rather than occurring naturally.)
Yes, and even higher levels are naturally present
in certain condiments such as soy sauce, nuoc mam
(fermented fish sauce), and hydrolyzed vegetable
protein. Any of these may have been used to marinate
the chicken to enhance its flavor.
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