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Though keeping an eye on nutrition can be beneficial, “clean eating” trends have long been criticized for a tendency to cast food from non-white cultures as being disproportionately unhealthy.
Perhaps nowhere has that misconception been so prevalent as with MSG, an additive famously maligned for causing everything from headaches to lethargy despite a lack of scientific evidence to back up the claims.
There is no separating the longstanding backlash against MSG from xenophobia, but food and biotech company Ajinomoto has long worked to change the conversation.
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