Foods high in free glutamate?

[Sarah Walsh]

So, from a little bit of reading, I've found that mushrooms and tomato's are high in free glutamates. And if you cook them for awhile, bound glutamates are released.
I also found something about whey...is this just the industrial produced whey, because of the process? Or is the whey I get from straining my keffir also going to be high in free glutamate? Because I've been using whey to soak my porridge in...
What other whole foods are high in free glutamate? Or release glutamate when cooked?

[mamafish9]

My husband reacts extremely strongly to MSG, many natural flavors, autolyzed yeast extract, etc. He can eat lots of tomato sauce with no problem. So I think personally that the artificially created, highly concentrated "non-foods" are a much bigger issue, and should be taken out first. Then you can get to the rest as needed. So we don't do bone broth, but homemade stock is OK. Whey is fine, whey powder no. Mushrooms are fine. I think it depends on your personal sensitivity, but I draw the line at taking out real foods until I'm darned sure I have out all the fake food!

[Drummer's Wife]

I'm really sensitive to MSG, too. I have this page bookmarked on my phone so I can look at it when we are eating out somewhere.

What foods should I avoid.

[Drummer's Wife]

oh, and if you scroll down to the bottom of that link, you'll see there are other sources like gum, chewable vitamins, kid's medicines, diet drinks, etc., b/c the aspartame converts to glutamate.

[Sarah Walsh]

I've already taken out all the 'non-foods'. Its for my 11mth son, and I'm bf-ing, so I'm also watching my diet. I make everything from scratch and don't eat out. I did have his skin cleared up, but then he drank a mouthful of juice (which had citric acid in it) and his skin flared up. Its been 4-5wks since then and his skin still hasn't cleared up. So, when looking at my diet, I can see that in the last month I've started having a lot more homemade stock (its winter here) and in the last 2 wks we've had mushrooms and tomato paste added to several meals a week (hadn't been eating these previously). So perhaps this is why he still has eczema.