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Wouldn't people who claim glutamate (MSG) allergies immediately die, since it's also a neurotransmitter? (lemmy.ml)

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

No, the "S" is sodium. MSG (monosodium glutamate) is a sodium compound like salt, but the anion is different - for salt it's chloride, for MSG it's glutamate.

It could be theoretically possible that only the anion caused you some hard. For example, sodium cyanide is extremely poisonous, but also a sodium salt. In practice however glutamate is just some aminoacid.