They tell consumers they’re “natural,” but when “industry experts” are talking to each other, the story changes.
Take what we learned from this outline of a research report on the “savory ingredient industry.”
First off, it’s a big money-maker, valued at 7.2 billion USD this year, and going up and up (savory ingredients include hydrolyzed proteins, yeast extracts and MSG). And industry refers to them as “synthetic flavor enhancers.”
These “synthetic” compounds produced through “chemical processes” (with monosodium glutamate being the “most widely synthesized” one), are said to be cheap and easy to manufacture.
So there you have it. They know that MSG is synthetic, manufactured through a chemical process, but we’re told it’s “natural” or “naturally occurring.” And as you can see that’s nothing more than pure, 100 percent propaganda.
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