What is MSG, and is it actually bad for you? - Sarah E. Tracy
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In 1968, Dr. Robert Ho Man Kwok felt ill after dinner at a Chinese restaurant and wrote a letter to a medical journal connecting his symptoms to MSG. His letter would change the world’s relationship with MSG, inspiring international panic, biased science, and sensationalist journalism for the next 40 years. So what is this seasoning, and is it actually bad for you? Sarah E. Tracy investigates.
Scholars have identified several reasons for the public outcry against MSG going under the name “Chinese Restaurant Syndrome” from roughly the 1970s-1990s. What were some of these factors?
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Meet The Creators
- Educator Sarah E. Tracy
- Director Pedro Clark Teodoroski
- Art Director Pedro Clark Teodoroski
- Animator Douglas khozam
- Composer André Aires
- Sound Designer André Aires
- Director of Production Gerta Xhelo
- Editorial Director Alex Rosenthal
- Narrator Susan Zimmerman
- Producer Bethany Cutmore-Scott
- Editorial Producer Dan Kwartler
- Production Coordinator Abdallah Ewis
- Script Editor Emma Bryce
- Fact-Checker Eden Girma
