Hi Tad,

I was also interested in following up the same info.

A quick Google turned up plenty of good research which all agreed with
Wally’s statement. Here are excerpts from two of them:

“Likewise, studies show that breast feeding infants are able to detect the
taste of naturally occurring free glutamate, which is 10 times more
plentiful in human breast milk than cow's milk. (14) According to Baker et
al, a newborn infant, through breast feeding, ingests more free glutamate
per kilogram of body weight than during any other period of its life. (15)

14) Joint FAO/WHO Expert Committee on Food Additives. L-Glutamic acid and
its ammonium, calcium monosodium and potassium salts. In Toxicological
Evaluation of Certain Food Additives and Contaminants, WHO Food Additives
Series No. 22, New York: Cambridge University Press, pp. 97-161, 1988.


(15) Baker, G.L., Filer, L.J., &Stegink, L.D. Factors influencing
dicarboxylic amino acid content of human milk. In L.J. Filer, Garattini,
S., Kare, M.R. et al. (eds.), Glutamic Acid: Advances in Biochemistry and
Physiology. New York: Raven Press, pp. 111-124, 1979. “

extoxnet.orst.edu/faqs/additive/ificmsg.htm

“Table 1: Naturally occurring glutamate in various foods:

Human milk :

Bound glutamate 229 mg/100g)

Free glutamate 22 mg/100g)

www.foodstandards.gov.au/ _srcfiles/MSG%20Technical%20Report.doc”


Cheers,

Persephone



On Tue, 5 Oct 2004 08:37:11 -0700, Tad Glines <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

>> Wally Day wrote:
>>
>> It's interesting to note that human milk normally contains free
glutamates
>> (avg. of 22 mg/100g milk).
>
>That's interesting. Could you provide the source for that info. I'd like
to
>read more.
>
>-Tad