Monosodium glutamate -- is this a gluten product?!
Question:
Monosodium glutamate -- is this a gluten product?
We're cutting gluten out of my son's diet for medical reasons. He loves kielbasa, and one of the ingredients is monosodium glutamate. I know this is MSG, but is it a gluten product? It's a bit confusing since the root word is so similar.
Answers:
The original MSG was derived from seaweed, but this site
http://www.fastq.com/~jbpratt/recipes/al...
says that MSG may have wheat gluten in it. Also, some people have reactions to MSG even without being sensitive to gluten (the Chinese Restaurant Syndrome).
http://pubs.acs.org/cen/whatstuff/print/...
http://www.glutenfreeforum.com/lofiversi...