MSG replaces some salts and helps lower blood pressure.

Original title: MSG replaces some salts to help lower blood pressure
Since MSG was discovered more than 100 years ago, there has been a lot of talk about it, but it's basically negative. A new study published in the American Journal of Nutrition has found that replacing some salts with MSG can help lower blood pressure.
, an associate professor in the Department of Nutrition and Food Research at George Mason University in the United States. Dr. C. Wallace's team combed through data from the National Nutrition and Health Survey of the United States on eating habits. It was found that replacing some salts in certain foods with MSG reduced total sodium intake by 7 to 8 percent, helping the public achieve the health experts' recommended goal of "maximum daily sodium intake should be less than 2.3 grams." Sodium MSG is only about 12 percent, or about a third of the sodium in salt, the researchers said. In addition, MSG increases the flavor of the food. Because nucleotides and glutamate ions in MSG have a "salt-enhancing" effect, replacing some salts with MSG can reduce salt intake by 40% and the food flavor will not be affected.
Wallace said several studies have shown that eating too much salt is a major risk factor for high blood pressure, which in turn increases the risk of everything from vision problems to heart disease and stroke. Reducing public salt intake has always been tricky because people feel that low-salt foods taste bad, while the number of high-salt foods such as pickled foods is increasing. New research suggests that MSG, instead of salt, reduces sodium intake while maintaining food flavor, lowering blood pressure and protecting mental and general health.
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