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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...

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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.

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