Msg Produces A Gluten By-product?

[cowgirl]

I just received the following e-mail from Owen's Sausage......

I know some celiac's are also sensitive to MSG as well, but I have never heard of MSG giving off a gluten by-product........is this true? does anybody know? Can MSG affect celiac's just like gluten?

Any info will be appreciated. Thanks,

Our parent company, Bob Evans Farms does not have us on a gluten free list for several reasons. Our breakfast sausage, has a small amount of MSG in it and sometimes during the MSG process, it produces a gluten by product. Our regular, mild, hot & sage sausage and our packaged ham does not have any wheat, rye, barley or oats in it.

Since people with Celiac Disease have flare ups from different things,so we can't honestly say that our products are gluten free. I have talked with many people who has numerous people in their family with this condition and they all eat our sausage with no problems.

I hope this has answered your question.

Betty Driver

Customer Service Department

972-498-9286 office

1-800-839-4454 office

972-498-9291 fax

[skbird]

Wow, I can't really help you but that is an odd response. I don't know what they're talking about! I've never heard of that, unless they use some form of gluten to begin with.

Sorry.

Stephanie

[Claire]

I just received the following e-mail from Owen's Sausage......

I know some celiac's are also sensitive to MSG as well, but I have never heard of MSG giving off a gluten by-product........is this true? does anybody know? Can MSG affect celiac's just like gluten?

Any info will be appreciated. Thanks,

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This reply is a half truth. MSG comes from glutamate which is synthesized in the brain ntaom from L-Gluatmine. Like many other things, none are 'bad' in their own right but can get out of balance and then you have too much of a good thing. Too much glutamate is not a good thing. People with neurological disorders - MS, celiac/gluten ataxia, LGS may have some problem with this process so the glutamine is restricted. Nothing here turns into gluten. MSG is given intravenously to save lives soit isn't all bad. I can promise you that this is a complicated subject, very fascinating and if it is important to you - pursue it.

As for the sausage - probably better to pass. Better safe than sorry. Claire

[hez]

I wish I knew what they were talking about! I have never heard of such a thing.

[Nantzie]

Found this - https://www.celiac.com/st_prod.html?p_prodi...-20104606394.06

It basically says that MSG "Can utilize a gluten-containing grain or by-product in the manufacturing process, or as an ingredient."

So it looks like it's one of those "natural flavors" things, where they don't really say what's in it, just what it is.

Looked into it a little further and found this - Open Original Shared Link

It says - "Glutamate is produced through fermentation, a process used in making beer, vinegar, soy sauce and yogurt. The process begins with natural products such as molasses from sugar cane or sugar beets and food starch from tapioca or cereals."

And this from the FDA - Open Original Shared Link

"Asians originally used a seaweed broth to obtain the flavor- enhancing effects of MSG, but today MSG is made by a fermenting process using starch, sugar beets, sugar cane, or molasses. "

So depending on what their source of "cereal" or "starch" is, it could either be wheat directly or gluten contaminated. But this site - Open Original Shared Link says that it's usually from a corn source. But if the industry using it as an ingredient in a manufacturing process, they may be using low quality corn products from a source that we would consider contaminated.

Yea.... I'm a research geek...

Nancy

[lovegrov]

MSG can by law be made from a gluten source, but in four years I've never found one that has been. MSG made in the U.S. is always gluten-free. MSG is one of those ingredients I personally no longer worry about. Of course it's a personal choice.

richard