So, monosodium glutamate and chicken really so terrible? We should put as cooks or hold it?
First, we need to understand the role of the main ingredients and MSG.
· · Main component of MSG
The main component of MSG is monosodium glutamate, based on grain as raw materials, fermentation, extraction, refining products. The taste of human organs exist in the amino acid-specific receptors, which when eaten by people MSG, stimulating amino acid receptors located in the taste buds of the tongue, can make people feel a delicious flavor, so that the MSG play the role of appetite and digestion-induced secretion of digestive juice, promote absorption of food.
MSG is absorbed into the intestine and decomposed into glutamic acid, is one of the amino acids the body needs to participate in the formation and repair of body tissues, involved in a variety of important physiological functions. Among them, participate in glucose metabolism in the liver and detoxification process of the liver, lower blood concentrations of toxic ammonia; involved in protein and carbohydrate metabolism in the brain, can improve the function of the brain and central nervous to a certain extent.
Therefore, MSG to human health is a certain benefit. Now, FAO and WHO have international MSG as a food additive recommended.
· · Main ingredient chicken
Chicken is a complex seasoning, which is based MSG, salt as the main raw material, add chicken / chicken powder or concentrated extract, flavor nucleotides disodium and other materials as raw materials, with or without spices and / or consumption of spices and other flavoring agents by mixing, drying process is made with chicken flavor and aroma of seasonings.
The manufacturing industry standard chicken, chicken MSG content of more than 35%, salt content of not more than 40% in both raw material basis, add chicken, chicken powder or concentrated extract, air fresheners (I + G), and other accessories, to play a complex role in all kinds of chicken feed, resulting in delicious rich flavor effect.
· Chicken and chicken powder difference ·
By the following basic formula, we can see that both are:
Jin da ji Chicken Product Ingredients: MSG, salt, edible corn starch, sugar, food flavor, maltodextrin, chicken powder, disodium 5'-nucleotide flavor, yeast extract, spices, lemon
Jin da ji Chicken powder products Ingredients: salt, MSG, sugar, edible corn starch, chicken powder, maltodextrin, food flavors, yeast extract, spices, flavor nucleotides disodium 5'
We have the same brand of chicken chicken powder as a reference, in the first list of ingredients of chicken, clearly sets out contain "monosodium glutamate" that monosodium glutamate (the ratio is generally around 40%), chicken in "food flavors "mainly chicken extract, chicken powder and the list of ingredients is more of a perfume, from that point on the chicken and chicken powder easily distinguish - focus on chicken provide fresh chicken powder focused on Titian.
Now these three come to a conclusion:
MSG:
MSG main ingredient is "monosodium glutamate" is a flavor enhancer. Mainly used to increase food flavor, transparent elongated granules.
Chicken:
Both chicken flavor, but also MSG umami seasonings. Mainly used to increase food flavor, yellowish grainy.
Chicken powder:
Chicken flavor with a complex spices. Mainly used to increase food flavor, yellowish powdery.
Through the above description that you clear now: MSG is a flavor agent, use it to increase fresh, the chicken is chicken flavor, the taste of the fish is fish; and chicken is a composite seasoning, both fresh MSG, and chicken chicken and other additives incense. Which is better, it depends on your personal taste choice.
· status quo ·
Rumors - I heard a lot of bad eating MSG, so we do not eat at home now entirely MSG, and we are used to cook chicken and mushrooms fine! Reason - MSG has many hazards in urban legends, these "hazards" in the different versions of the legend are not the same. Many people "believe" MSG harmful, in addition to these urban legends, very important reason is that it is "a chemical industrial products."
However, the fact that exactly how?
一、味精究竟是什么东西？
人的味觉能够品尝到的基本味道中，不但有苦辣酸甜，还有一种叫做“鲜”的感官味觉。
亚洲人，特别是中国人很早就用各种浓汤作为调味品，来增加食物的“鲜味”，比如鸡汤、骨头汤、海带汤等等，而这种味觉点的延伸和发现要首先从100多年前说起。
· status quo ·
Rumors - I heard a lot of bad eating MSG, so we do not eat at home now entirely MSG, and we are used to cook chicken and mushrooms fine! Reason - MSG has many hazards in urban legends, these "hazards" in the different versions of the legend are not the same. Many people "believe" MSG harmful, in addition to these urban legends, very important reason is that it is "a chemical industrial products."
However, the fact that exactly how?
He is taken to a number of seaweed, carefully studying them, this study is six months. Six months later, Professor Ikeda Kikunae published his research results: in the kelp can extract a substance called glutamate, such as the very small amount of sodium glutamate added to soup to go, can make extremely delicious .
This is called "monosodium glutamate" material, which is later our MSG commonly used.
Thus, MSG was invented Ikeda, quickly popular around the world. Initially MSG, hydrolyzed protein is then purified, and modern industrial production of MSG, glutamic acid secretion is good at using bacterial fermentation to obtain. Fermentation feedstock can be corn starch, sugar beets, sugar cane and even molasses, making production costs greatly reduced.
This process, with wine, vinegar, soy sauce production is similar to the production process does not use any so-called "chemical materials." If the wine, vinegar and soy sauce as a "natural product", then it should MSG is also a natural product. If, for industrial fermentation and purification process, and treat it as a "chemical products", then we give more cultural endorsement of liquor should also be classified as "chemical products", and that the food we eat as well as what is natural The product then?
Glutamate is one of the 20 amino acids of proteins, widely present in the organism, however, is bound in the protein glutamate does not affect the taste, it will be presented only free glutamic acid glutamate salt state, resulting in a "fresh" flavor. Naturally occurring glutamate in foods that contain hydrolyzed proteins, such as hydrolyzed soy protein is obtained, wherein the sodium glutamate content of about 1%, while the cheese even higher.
There are some fruits and vegetables, but also naturally contain sodium glutamate, such as grape juice, tomato sauce, peas, have a few tenths of sodium glutamate. Such concentration than the minimum concentration required to produce "flavor" to much higher. MSG market today is highly purified fermentation product, our national standard of sodium glutamate content of at least 80%, and high purity monosodium glutamate requires more than 99%. So in the end is more misunderstood what then?
Second, the reason for misunderstanding - MSG and "Chinese restaurant complications"
In 1968, the "New England Journal of Medicine" published an article describing a strange experience to eat Chinese food, said after the start of roughly 15-20 minutes to eat lunch, the neck began to numb, and began to spread to the arms and back , usually lasts about two hours.
The article triggered a worldwide panic for MSG, known as "Chinese restaurant complications", then there are some studies on "Chinese restaurant complications", but could not confirm its existence. However, based on the "not confirmed does not mean that there is no" unwarranted skepticism, the story quickly spread far and wide, but for its research and no one paid attention, coupled with the development condiments, you need marketing means, MSG was quickly given way or another hazard.
MSG that in the end there is no harm, safe to eat in the end it?
Third, MSG's safety
Study of the safety of MSG lot, but did not find it too cause harm, especially China Fermentation Industry Association commissioned the 1999 Chinese Medicine Research Institute of MSG rats were drug experiments, respectively 100 times the human dosage 50 times 25 times, found no adverse reactions, the experimental results show that the full MSG is safe.
So in the Chinese style Japanese-style cooking such a high temperature, MSG will not be safe? International Committee on Food Additives, nineteenth committee meeting summarized the conclusions of scientific research for 20 years, after 1988 years ago come to a basic conclusion, sodium glutamate (commonly known as MSG) is completely safe and reliable.
Online articles for information say that eating MSG hair loss, allergic rhinitis, skin diseases, and even high blood pressure. In fact, the food we eat almost all contain sodium glutamate, glutamic acid and have a taste of the amino acid, if indeed there is such allergic people, then almost all the food he could eat all. So, regardless of monosodium glutamate, chicken, cause allergies or risk the possibility is almost non-existent.
Fourth, the other by fresh products and how?
"Chicken" This name was very successful, adding to a large painting of a hen on the packaging, giving the impression that chicken is "the essence of chicken", while the sales of chicken, has also been an upward trend in raw.
In fact, the chicken or the main component of MSG, MSG is just a single sodium glutamate, chicken and seasoning is a complex, wherein the sodium glutamate content of about 40%, in addition to the chicken monosodium glutamate, also starch (for forming particulate), flavor nucleotides (an increase of monosodium glutamate taste), sugar, other spices, flavor nucleotides themselves can produce flavor, with MSG after mixing, the resulting flavor considerably more than two by the sum of the individual flavor, this is the so-called "synergy."
Strictly speaking, there should be some from chicken ingredients such as chicken meal, chicken fat, etc., to produce a chicken flavor, however, since chickens from the more expensive components, in order to reduce costs, manufacturers may not fully chicken ingredients .
So, if you use chicken contain ingredients derived from chicken, depends entirely on the manufacturer, we basically can not be judged from the product.
From this we can see that MSG single component, composite major increase in food flavoring ingredient "fresh" flavor, chicken, mushrooms and other fine complex, in general, "sweet" taste of some of the more full-bodied.
But regardless of the kind of fine, as long as it can have a "flavor", they all contain MSG, but after careful formulation of complex flavors and flavor produce higher efficiency, but also to meet different specific needs. Therefore, whether MSG or chicken or other spices, are safe to eat in their main function is to enhance the flavor by fresh food, to meet the needs of taste, do not exist at the beginning of the article said security issues.
· Conclusion: rumor cracks ·
As corn and other cereals by as raw material, after fermentation produced MSG, as our everyday common salt, soy sauce, vinegar, it just adds to the taste elements of our lives, improve our quality of life, whether or MSG eat chicken, can be selected according to each person's different tastes, both are safe to human health without any injury.
It is worth mentioning that MSG is harmful to health that is wrong, he said sodium glutamate dehydration become carcinogens, eat a lot of hair loss is no evidence of rumor. You know, MSG is starch, sugar and other raw materials production by fermentation, the ingredients are sodium glutamate ubiquitous in food, in fact, it is the "natural flavoring."
As to which condiment better choice, and can be chosen according to taste dishes such as fish, meat and other foods, MSG can be selected directly by fresh, then add chicken may be detrimental to the food itself special flavor; flavor if cooked food less obvious, such as stuffing, soup and food, consider using put fresh chicken; need more full-bodied flavor selectable chicken powder.