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  • DarkMatterStyx@lemmy.fmhy.ml
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    1 year ago

    Since the “S” in MSG is salt, yeah, they would all die. I might be wrong, but, I’m pretty I read a paper years ago that said an allergy to salt was impossible. It’s one of those base elements that don’t seem that important until it is. It would be the same as allergic to hydrogen.

    • Lvxferre
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      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.

    • SirShanova@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

      Sodium, not salt is a part of MSG. This is also like saying that the Hydrogen in Hydrogen Cyanide kills ya.