Is MSG now okay for you just because a white person says so?

By now, you’ve probably seen cucumber salads taking over your feeds on Instagram and TikTok. Many of these recipes are a close variation of the Asian cucumber salads that we all grew up eating in our restaurants and homes. And guess what? They all include MSG — an ingredient that people used as an excuse to ridicule and shun Asian foods for decades.

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Anti-Asian racism resulted in a $7.4 billion loss for Asian restaurants in 2020

According to a new study from researchers from Boston College, the University of Michigan, and Microsoft Research, published January 19, 2023, in the Nature Human Behaviour journal, anti-Asian racism resulted in a $7.4 billion loss for Asian restaurants in 2020.

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Mother reports teacher for making her daughter eat alone because of “smelly” and “foreign” foods

In a viral Reddit post, the mother of a six-year-old second-grader says that she reported her daughter’s teacher because her daughter was forced to eat alone.