As a fitness enthusiast, Jian Ge has recently started cooking for himself. And cooking can not be separated from oil, salt sauce and vinegar, Brother Jian found that the condiments used every day, seemingly inconspicuous, did not expect so much cat greasy.
There are many types of soy sauce, and soy sauce should be the most commonly used in a type of soy sauce, whether it is cold mixing, accompanying meals or cooking, it is a good hand.
However, when it comes to buying soy sauce, there are many pits. Maybe you know to focus on amino acid nitrogen, but that's not enough.
Brother Jian went deep into the graduate school lottery, looked at the ingredients, grades, nutritional ingredients, and production methods of 33 bottles of products, and sorted out these 4 points of purchase suggestions for everyone.
I just want to see the recommended model and slide straight to the end
1 Look at "amino acid nitrogen"
Premium soy sauce is preferred
According to the content of amino acid nitrogen, total nitrogen and soluble unsalted solids, soy sauce can be divided into three, two, first and special grades.
In general, the nitrogen content of amino acids is high, and the grade of soy sauce is also relatively high. The correspondence between the two is as follows:
△ GB18186 Brewed soy sauce (high salt dilute fermented soy sauce)
The higher the grade, the fresher the taste of soy sauce, and we recommend preferring premium soy sauce.
However, even the premium class makes a difference. Some amino acid nitrogen is ≥ 0.8g/100ml, some ≥ 1.0g/100ml, and some ≥ 1.2g/100ml.
Isn't the higher the better?
Not necessarily, you also need to look at the ingredients
2 Look at the ingredients
Preference is given to those without "sodium glutamate"
Buy soy sauce, mainly for freshness. The main source of soy sauce umami is sodium glutamate. That's right, it's the main ingredient in MSG.
Soy sauce of sodium glutamate, there are two sources. One is produced by soybeans during fermentation, and the other is additionally added.
If a soy sauce, in order to save costs, use fewer or less good quality raw materials, fermentation time is not long, fermentation process is average, then the content of amino acid nitrogen is low, the grade will not be high.
However, by adding additional sodium glutamate and increasing the content of amino acid nitrogen, "high quality" can be obtained at low cost.
If you just look at the amino acid nitrogen high and buy soy sauce, you may buy a mixture of ordinary soy sauce + monosodium glutamate.
So
A real high-grade soy sauce,
It should be done at the same time
"No Sodium Glutamate + Premium"
3 Look at the nutrition facts list
Choose the one with low sodium
Soy sauce is the hardest hit area for salt.
It is recommended not to exceed 6 g of salt a day,
But most people can't do it.
You see
The "2016 Edition of the Dietary Guidelines for Chinese Residents" mentions that the salt of 10ml of soy sauce is as high as 1.6-1.7g, accounting for 1/3 of the salt of the day!
△ Screenshot of dietary guidelines for Chinese residents (2016 edition).
Brother Jian found in the evaluation that 33 models of raw draws, 10ml products, the lowest can do 0.8g, the highest can reach 2g!
In the case of the same lack of preservatives, those with less salt are often better in terms of cleanliness and process of the production process, which means better quality.
Therefore, when purchasing, give priority to the low sodium content, it is best to control the sodium content within 600mg per 10ml.
It should be noted that the sodium content is either 15ml or 10ml, so pay attention to the units when purchasing.
4
Look at the ingredients
Priority is given to brewed soy sauce of "four noes"
Soy sauce, in essence, is a fermented product made of soybeans and wheat. The purest ingredient list on the market is
And some products, due to the cost savings of raw materials, technology, process and other aspects, in order to achieve better flavor, some "unnatural" ingredients will be added to simulate the effect of high-quality raw materials, good process and long-term fermentation.
To achieve higher quality grades, sodium glutamate is added;
For a better looking color, add caramel color;
In order to make up for the lack of raw materials and processes, preservatives are added;
In order to reduce the cost of white sugar, sweeteners have been added.
Although non-natural additives or raw materials have no harm to the human body, from the perspective of pursuing quality, there is a suspicion of "cutting corners".
Take this one, for example
What exactly is the ingredient in the soy sauce?
Umami agents: sodium glutamate, disodium 5'-inosinate, disodium 5'-guanylate, 5'-flavored disodium nucleotide
Color: Caramel color
Preservatives: sodium benzoate, potassium sorbate
Sweeteners: sucralose, monosalkium glycyrrhizinate, tripotassium glycyrrhizinate, steviol glycosides
When choosing, preference is given to raw soy sauce of natural raw materials.
Seeing this, the 4 methods of choosing soy sauce summarized by Jiange are nearing the end.
but！
What are the results of the 33 soy sauce reviews?
Brother Jian sorted out a table to see what your family ate, and the background reply "raw soy" can be obtained.
Don't want to see each case, you want to recommend the model, Jiange according to the above selection method, recommend the following 5 models
This is the least salt that Jian Ge has seen at present, and there are only 0.8g of salt in 10ml. The ingredients are pure and the packaging is careful.
As before, it is 0 added. Among the products with zero added, sodium is the second lowest. Most importantly, this is cost-effective.
The few organic soy sauces are purer and of better quality than the others.
Among the 5 recommended models, this one has the highest amino acid nitrogen and is full of umami. In addition, 100ml of soy sauce has 12.5g of protein, and the flavor is good.
Among the 5 models, the price is the highest, and the sodium is also very low. The only drawback is that the addition of white sugar will reduce the saltiness, and pay attention to the amount of control when using it.
After reading this, you may sigh that soy sauce is good, that is, the price is expensive.
To tell the truth, before studying soy sauce, Jian Ge bought a bottle of 10 yuan and 780ml in the supermarket. But after research, it was found that the original soy sauce was really a penny for a penny.
It has to be said that the food industry reduces the cost of living, but at the same time, it also makes us ignore life itself.
You can choose not to choose these, but Jiange hopes that what you buy can have enough right to know.
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