A Whole-Food, Plant-Based Diet Is Not a Diet of Vegetables. You may have heard that people living this way eat lots of spinach, kale, and collard greens, and that this is, in fact, the primary basis for many of the meals. You may even think we live only on leafy and raw vegetables.
The good news is the science proving MSG is dangerous is out there, and Iâve collected a lot of here for you. Research on the dangers of MSG continues to mount, albeit slowly. Some contend that funding for such projects is inevitably sparse.
First off, itâs actually the glutamic acid in the MSG that is of concern for most people and in 1959 the FDA classified MSG as âgenerally recognized as safe.â However, because glutamate is absorbed very quickly in the gastointestinal tract it can spike blood plasma levels of glutamate.