Popped into Iceland and saw Pringles for £1. Online too.
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sam_of_london
28 Jun 16#21
Rubbish. Sodium and chlorine are both toxic by themselves. Only sodium chloride or common salt is safe in very limited amount. In High amount it also causes high blood pressure . Glutamic Acid and msg are not the same thing as sodium, chlorine are both poisonous while sodium chloride is not. Msg may be made from glutamic Acid but not the same. After chemical reaction the properties of the chemicals change. Taking a gamble on these untested chemicals is utterly foolish and contributing to modern diseases like Alzimers which were unknown in the past. I have seen MSG banned by many countries for children. They are just stupid accordingly to you, only the EU food lobby knows best because they have money to lobby and buy all bureaucrats in Brussels.
SilverViking
27 Jun 16#20
Interesting stuff
yrreb88
25 Jun 161#19
That's just how naming is in chemistry, it likes to make things awkward. :smiley: You don't call regular sea salt (NaCl) sodium chlorine, it's sodium chloride just as MSG isn't monosodium glutamic acid. If you search for glutamate on Wikipedia, it will redirect you to glutamic acid.
Glutamate is an ionic form of glutamic acid and MSG is glutamic acid that's been turned into a solid salt in this case with sodium. This form is more useful and versatile than plain glutamic acid. Glutamic acid, glutamate, MSG, it's properties don't change and each form is indistinguishable to your body. The same glutamic acid is digested everyday from grains, meat etc.
The NHS, WHO, FSA, etc would have picked up on something as simple as glutamic acid being a significant problem and causing the things you suggest. Of course, it contains salt so you should still use it in moderation but otherwise there's no particular reason to fear or avoid it.
This article will explain it better but it goes into a bit of detail in parts.
sam_of_london
25 Jun 16#18
Then why is it not called Glutamic Acid?
yrreb88
25 Jun 161#17
"Citations needed"
Glutamic acid is an amino acid. How can an amino acid, found in practically every protein and cell in your body, is a poisonous substance that causes all the very different problems of you list?
sam_of_london
25 Jun 16#16
It is not just msg, there are other chemical flavour enhancers as well. There is no need to add artificial chemicals, colours and preservatives in food and poison ourselves instead of using spices and other time tested condiments. Msg is excitotoxin leads to obesity, hyperactivity in kids and alzimers in adults. How many people are mentally sick in this country. No need to poison everyone by using harmful chemicals and drain NHS resources.
kidrock123
25 Jun 16#15
nice
sam_of_london
24 Jun 161#7
Not a deal. Always there all the time in all Pound shops. No real potatoes used , just made from potato flour. Full of msg and other chemicals bad for children. Hope we don't get this crap from Belgium once we move out of EU
yrreb88 to sam_of_london
24 Jun 161#9
[citations needed]
AgentSmith to sam_of_london
25 Jun 16#13
Pringles are here to stay. You may not like them but a lot of people do. And I don't see them in pound shops all the time.
Duelling Duck to sam_of_london
25 Jun 16#14
Even if that is true MSG has less sodium than salt, and gives you the perception that you're eating more salt that is in... salt. MSG can actually be used to reduce your sodium consumption. I'm not saying it's a health food but you could twist it that way. And it's definitely more of a health food than people that think coconut oil is healthy (it's not).
By the way, the MSG being bad myth has been busted for ages and the sodium reduction thing is true. Look for research on Google scholar rather than Hemsley and Hemsley's colouring book covers full of boys that are stinky and foods that contain poo-poo. They really are a pair of gits. Stupidity in stereo. Oh yeah, let's make gluten a demon because 14 in a 1000 really react pretty poorly to it, and so cooking without it means our food is really healthy even if we use super saturated fats that are healthy because we read somewhere else that they are, and agave syrup which is from something that we've never heard of but it's natural - and is almost 100% fructose, which is fruit sugar, and healthy because it's a plant, even though we have to break down fructose in the liver into fat before we can metabolise it in the same way we do alcohol, but it's fruit, so it's healthy, yah? Beladonna is a plant, too - try cooking with that.
Yeah, I just woke up on the sofa surrounded by bottles and my girlfriend is telling me to get into bed but that doesn't make me less right.
SteveDave4
24 Jun 161#4
This price at Tesco and Morrisons, both posted in this past month I think, so this is cold.
AgentSmith to SteveDave4
25 Jun 16#12
Just because Tesco and Morrisons also have it at £1 doesn't mean those 2 shops are convenient for everyone.
Grazz0r
24 Jun 161#11
The ready salted one is not "full of msg". Why not actually have a read of the ingredients if you can?
This is a good deal, thanks! :smiley:
noahsdad
24 Jun 16#10
My local ASDA have limited edition Pizza flavoured Pringle tubes in at moment for £1, which is interesting....
SilverViking
24 Jun 16#8
Hey I posted coz my dad saw it lol.
I haven't shopped in supermarkets for ages as too far with my kiddies and Iceland is local it suits me. Well I don't really buy them tbh trying to be healthy.
kay1992
24 Jun 16#5
Anyone else eat these in one sitting?
naughtybunnies to kay1992
24 Jun 16#6
Didn't realise there was any other way to eat them?
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Glutamate is an ionic form of glutamic acid and MSG is glutamic acid that's been turned into a solid salt in this case with sodium. This form is more useful and versatile than plain glutamic acid. Glutamic acid, glutamate, MSG, it's properties don't change and each form is indistinguishable to your body. The same glutamic acid is digested everyday from grains, meat etc.
The NHS, WHO, FSA, etc would have picked up on something as simple as glutamic acid being a significant problem and causing the things you suggest. Of course, it contains salt so you should still use it in moderation but otherwise there's no particular reason to fear or avoid it.
This article will explain it better but it goes into a bit of detail in parts.
Glutamic acid is an amino acid. How can an amino acid, found in practically every protein and cell in your body, is a poisonous substance that causes all the very different problems of you list?
By the way, the MSG being bad myth has been busted for ages and the sodium reduction thing is true. Look for research on Google scholar rather than Hemsley and Hemsley's colouring book covers full of boys that are stinky and foods that contain poo-poo. They really are a pair of gits. Stupidity in stereo. Oh yeah, let's make gluten a demon because 14 in a 1000 really react pretty poorly to it, and so cooking without it means our food is really healthy even if we use super saturated fats that are healthy because we read somewhere else that they are, and agave syrup which is from something that we've never heard of but it's natural - and is almost 100% fructose, which is fruit sugar, and healthy because it's a plant, even though we have to break down fructose in the liver into fat before we can metabolise it in the same way we do alcohol, but it's fruit, so it's healthy, yah? Beladonna is a plant, too - try cooking with that.
Yeah, I just woke up on the sofa surrounded by bottles and my girlfriend is telling me to get into bed but that doesn't make me less right.
This is a good deal, thanks! :smiley:
I haven't shopped in supermarkets for ages as too far with my kiddies and Iceland is local it suits me. Well I don't really buy them tbh trying to be healthy.