How exactly should MSG be eaten? Can MSG be eaten at all?

Eat sparingly and add when it's almost out of the pan.

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Analysis: All kinds of criticism of monosodium glutamate have been around for a long time, and some even say that a certain country has legislated that it is illegal to eat monosodium glutamate. These statements have raised doubts in people's minds and seem to have greatly reduced the original freshness of MSG.

Believe it, I do find it difficult to give up; If you don't believe it, it's like a fish in your throat, and you can't eat well.

In fact, our country and those countries that are said to be forbidden to eat MSG have never stopped producing MSG, and people have never left MSG almost every day in their lives. So, what is the origin of the various claims about MSG? Let's hear from the experts to get the know.

Monosodium glutamate, whose chemical name is monosodium glutamate, is one of the food additives commonly used to enhance umami when we cook food. China's "Hygienic Standards for the Use of Food Additives" clearly stipulates that monosodium glutamate can be used in food. The safety of monosodium glutamate has been a matter of concern, and there have been many doubts.

As early as 1968, a scientist reported that after eating at a Chinese restaurant near Boston, USA, people experienced specific symptoms of transient symptoms such as numbness from head to upper limbs and general fatigue. These symptoms were suspected to be caused by the addition of a large amount of MSG to the wonton soup, hence the name "Chinese restaurant syndrome". To verify this question, the World Health Organization (WHO) conducted a rigorous examination in 1974 using a double-blind method.

As a result, people who ingested 3 grams of MSG did not notice any symptoms. Other studies have shown that newborn mice were injected subcutaneously with more than 4 grams and grams of monosodium glutamate per kilogram of body weight, respectively, causing lesions in different parts of the brain. However, when monosodium glutamate was added to food or drinking water for mice to eat, the above changes did not occur, and there was no abnormality in the growth and reproduction of mice.

According to a series of experimental results, the WHO clearly stated that monosodium glutamate can be used in appropriate amounts according to the needs of the production process in food, and its allowable daily intake can not be specially stipulated.

Of course, any food (including food additives), even if it is non-toxic, should not be consumed in excess. The use of monosodium glutamate should also have certain restrictions: (1) Generally, the daily intake per person should not exceed 6 grams, too much can increase the content of monosodium glutamate in the blood, causing short-term headache, rapid heartbeat, nausea, dry mouth and other symptoms; (2) Because monosodium glutamate can produce sodium pyroglutamate at 155 and lose umami and produce toxicity, MSG should not be cooked with food for a long time, nor should it be used in frying, frying and baking foods.

You can eat it, but you can't eat too much. [But the general chef does not add MSG to the cooking.]

It's not good, it's unhygienic, it's better not to eat it.

Do not consume large amounts of MSG for a long time and habitually. Do not process MSG at high temperatures, as MSG can decompose into harmful substances at high temperatures. When cooking, it is best to add MSG before it comes out of the pan. Because of long-term heating, sodium pyroglutamate will be formed, and the umami taste of MSG will be lost.

I don't know when it started, everyone avoided MSG, is MSG really not edible?