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Nov 2023
23m 55s

Mass Psychosis in Food Science

Sam Kean, Bleav
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Americans happily ate monosodium glutamate for decades. Then one (possibly fake) letter sparked mass hysteria over “Chinese Restaurant Syndrome”, and the bogus MSG scare was born...

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