中ちゅう華か料りょう理り店てん症しょう候こう群ぐん

noun

Chinese restaurant syndrome; CRS

Medical term for a set of symptoms (headache, flushing, etc.) historically attributed to MSG consumption at Chinese restaurants; now largely discredited as a distinct syndrome.

• 中ちゅう華か料りょう理り店てん症しょう候こう群ぐんは、かつてグルタミン酸さんナトリウムが原げん因いんとされたが、現げん在ざいでは科か学がく的てき根こん拠きょが乏とぼしいとされている。

  Chinese restaurant syndrome was once attributed to monosodium glutamate, but it is now considered to lack solid scientific evidence.