Stir-fried vegetable with MSG or chicken essence?Time：2019-08-24 Views：2981次
People who have been to the kitchen know chicken essence. Chicken essence and monosodium glutamate are always antagonistic, because their functions are too similar, so the kitchen usually only has one. But is it better to use MSG or chicken essence in stir-frying? Today I'll listen to Xiaobian.
Deep understanding of monosodium glutamate
The main component of monosodium glutamate is sodium glutamate, which is a product made from grain by microbial fermentation, extraction and refining. There are amino acid specific receptors in human taste organs, so when monosodium glutamate is eaten by people, stimulating amino acid receptors located in tongue taste buds can make people feel delicious taste, so that monosodium glutamate can play an appetite-promoting role, and induce the secretion of digestive juice to promote digestive absorption of food.
Monosodium glutamate, which is absorbed into intestine and decomposed into glutamic acid, is one of the amino acids needed by human body. It participates in the formation and repair of body tissues and various important physiological functions. Among them, it participates in glycometabolism and detoxification of liver, reduces the concentration of toxic ammonia in blood, and participates in protein and sugar metabolism in brain, which can improve the function of brain and nerve center to a certain extent. It can be seen that monosodium glutamate is beneficial to human health.
Deep understanding of chicken essence
Chicken essence is a mixture of a variety of flavoring substances. It has not only the delicious taste of monosodium glutamate, but also the delicious taste of other flavoring substances. Chicken essence is produced with the emergence of new products such as flavor nucleotides, hydrolyzed animal and plant proteins, yeast extracts and so on. It has many advantages: no uncomfortable taste, no dry taste after monosodium glutamate, good taste coordination, delicious and mellow taste.
Chicken essence is fresher than monosodium glutamate?
In fact, monosodium glutamate and chicken essence are fresh, but the difference is that chicken essence contains monosodium glutamate, nucleotides, organic acids, sugar, spices, and some products contain "hydrolyzed protein" or "yeast extract", which can bring a variety of amino acids to taste, plus chicken flavor and so on. More natural and rich.
Does chicken essence contain chicken?
Although most of the packages of chicken essence are written "Made from top-grade fat chicken" and "Made from really top-grade chicken", in fact it is not mainly made from chicken. The main ingredients of chicken essence are usually salt, maltodextrin and monosodium glutamate, in which the amount of monosodium glutamate usually exceeds those from natural foods, such as chicken meal or chicken bone meal, egg extract, other meat extracts, etc.
Chicken essence also contains a lot of dextrin and starch, and added anti-caking agent, mainly used for bonding and granulation, so that the particles are loose, not easy to absorb moisture and caking, easy to use.
It should be noted that since chicken essence itself contains a certain amount of salt, if chicken essence is used in cooking and soup, the amount of salt must be reduced accordingly. You might as well put half of the salt first, then chicken essence, taste whether it is salty, if not enough, then consider adding a little salt. If proper salty taste is added and a large spoonful of chicken essence is added, it may be unhealthy for those who need to control salt.
Therefore, experts suggest that the dosage of monosodium glutamate or chicken essence should be strictly controlled. The dosage of each dish should not exceed 0.5 grams, and the daily intake of each person should not exceed 6 grams. Also, don't put chicken essence too early, usually within 10 seconds after the heat is turned off, so that the temperature in the pot decreases, but also reduces the risk.
