Is autolyzed yeast extract the same as MSG? That is a question I am beginning to ask myself. I did a few searches, as did many of you who found my site and came across many conflicting views.
The bottom line is, if it makes you sick then don’t use it anymore. We can argue all day about the natural occuring glutamates and the differences of heat causing it to turn into some other sickening cousin we should just not eat those things that will cause us so much pain. Some other names found on packaging that is in our foods that we should avoid if we want to avoid allergies and allergic reactions are also, hydrolyzed vegetable protein.
My husband and I have been monitoring, lately, what we’ve been eating. Myself because I suffer from extreme cases of hives and allergies and my husband because he is now experiencing rapid heartbeats.
We just found out tonite that we were eating some tegu. A pupu or type of side dish made of cuttle fish, drenched in a wonderful seasoning. After my husband ate he realized that his heartrate began speeding up do 120 beats per minute. Upon further thought we looked at the label on the tegu cuttlefish we were eating and the ingredient listed there was the MSG or monsodium glutamate.
The other night while have a saimin dinner and more cuttlefish my husband wondered why he was getting such a bad reaction again for his rapid heartrates. After looking into the tegu and MSG he asked me to look on the packaging for saimin to read what was there and sure enough “sodium is first and there in the soup base listed more sodium and MSG”
We live in Hawaii and we love saimin. So much so that we eat that thing raw and sprinkle all these packets of MSG and sodium onto our food and slowly killing ourselves. No wonder my children have allergies and my daughter suffers from eczema, we don’t eat healthy foods.
Now I know the meaning of the saying, “who’s your farmer?” or it could just as well be “who’s your manufacturer?” Everything we eat, everything all around us is intoxicating us. More and more people are suffering from acid reflux, debilitating diseases and heart diseases and we wonder what the problem is. Not once does a Dr. tell us how to change our lifestyle.
My husband’s Dr. just prescribes him heart medications and say let’s see if this will help and then exercise. Exercise seems to be the common theme amongst Dr’s. They only want to tell us to exercise but rarely takes the opportunity to tell us to stop eating foods with MSG or autolyzed yeast extract in them.