MSG In Chinese Food Isn’t Unhealthy — You’re Just Racist, Activists Say

It’s known as “Chinese Restaurant Syndrome,” or CRS.

The term was added to the Merriam-Webster dictionary in 1993 and is defined as “a group of symptoms (such as numbness of the neck, arms, and back with headache, dizziness, and palpitations) that is held to affect susceptible persons eating food and especially Chinese food heavily seasoned with monosodium glutamate.”