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Re:The man who discovered umami by kop316 on Wednesday February 05, 2020 @04:29PM (#22251168)
An amino acid is a building block for proteins. It isn't something you produce small quantities of, it's a basic component of how organic life is made.

I say that to say you make a lot of them. And you eat a lot of them whenever you eat organic matter.

And to your point, even water can be deadly if you drink too much too fast. That doesn't mean you have a water allergy.

Re:The man who discovered umami by akiselev on Wednesday February 05, 2020 @07:07PM (#22252216)
Monosodium glutamate is a salt not an amino acid. It does not disassociate perfectly (or instantly) in the gut and uptake through the digestive system is slow [1].

There are several steps before your metabolic system can turn MSG into amino acids and surprise, surprise: until then it behaves like a different chemical.

[1] https://pubchem.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/compound/Monosodium-glutama...

Re:The man who discovered umami by kop316 on Wednesday February 05, 2020 @07:39PM (#22252415)
The first sentence in Section 10.2 (Absorption, Distribution and Excretion): "Glutamate is absorbed from the gut by an active transport system specific for amino acids."

I'm not convinced you read what you just cited.