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Understanding brain damage and endocrine disorders caused by MSG. MSG is a neurotoxin, potentially toxic to everyone -- potentially toxic even to those people who do not respond with adverse reactions such as migraine headache, asthma, nausea and vomiting, fatigue, disorientation, and depression. We know that MSG kills brain cells in laboratory animals.
A sack of pure MSG. Photo Â© Danilo Alfaro. Monosodium glutamate, or MSG, is a flavor-enhancing food additive used in Asian cooking and also commonly found in fast foods as well as commercially packaged food products such as chips, crackers, soups and soup mixes, lunch meats, salad dressings and many others.SG in Food. MSG is present in many of the items on the menu at fast-food restaurants, particularly the chicken items. In addition, MSG is also added to commercially packaged food products including: 1  Flavored (especially cheese-flavored) chips and crackers.