Guess what I found at the supermarket...alas.
If you live in Australia you might have been glued to the television these last few months, watching a particularly interesting cooking competition. I've been hooked on this program since it started, and I'm not sure what I'm going to do with my evenings after the finals this Sunday.
Usually I escape during the ad breaks to tidy up bits & pieces, returning to the TV when I hear the theme music. But sometimes I'm glued to the couch with a cuppa. An advertisement kept appearing for a food powder that "makes everything taste better". Alarm bells started to ring in my head – could this powder contain what I thought? Surely not, that stuff went out of use...didn't it?
My next food foraging expedition to the supermarket included a visit to the soup stocks aisle, where I found the product and, sure enough, it contained exactly what I hoped it wouldn't – MSG. This particular additive went out of fashion many years ago as consumers actively avoided MSG and the effects it seemed to have on some people. Here it was, creeping into our food supply again.
Then I realised, of course – I've heard increasing complaints from clients that they had 'bad reactions' after visiting this restaurant or that….. all places that could easily have used a flavour base like the advertised one.
So, next time you go shopping for soup base, stock cubes or the like, if you want to avoid MSG its time to start checking labels again. In Australia, its numbered 621 under our additive coding system.
Lets hope this additive goes out of fashion again, real quick.
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