MSG is an umami seasoning, and the chemical component is sodium glutamate, which is a crystal extracted from food crops. When cooking some food, the use of MSG will make the taste of food very delicious and have the effect of enhancing appetite.
However, in recent years, more and more people do not eat MSG, believing that MSG is harmful to human health. There are even many people who think that MSG will fatten up and cause metabolic abnormalities, is this true?
The reason why MSG is considered to be fattening is due to the fact that in the United States "Nature. An article in the journal Metabolism shows that sodium glutamate in monosodium glutamate enters and is metabolized to produce some uric acid.
If you eat a large amount of food for a long time, it will cause metabolic disorders in the human body. And lead to abnormal hormone levels, which will make people obese. In this report, the University of Crolla in the United States once did a study on monosodium glutamate, adding mice to drinking water with various concentrations of sodium glutamate.
It was found that the daily intake of calories in the body by mice increased by 20% to 25%. In just two weeks of the experiment, the mice's body weight increased by 12.8% to 19.2%, and after 15 weeks of continuous feeding, the mice developed metabolic syndrome.
The researchers also believe that the reason for this phenomenon is that because sodium glutamate has a significant freshness effect, it will make the appetite of mice better, resulting in weight gain.
Moreover, because sodium glutamate enters the body, it is metabolized in the liver, and then glutamine is metabolized. This component forms inosine monophosphate in the purine metabolism channel, which will eventually degrade into a large amount of uric acid in the human body, thus affecting human weight and metabolism.
However, it is worth noting that in another foreign study, it is shown that when food is added to make it taste fresh, although it will temporarily increase the appetite, it will also enhance people's satiety. It will reduce the total calorie intake of people in a day, then it will not achieve the effect of fattening.
Therefore, the statement that eating MSG will make the human body fat is simply difficult to stand.
And in the human intestinal flora, it will contain some BT bacteria. After MSG enters the body along with food, the glutamate component is processed by BT bacteria.
If there are more BT bacteria in the human intestine, these glutamate components can be quickly disposed of. The concentration of glutamate in the blood will decrease, which will not affect the leptin in the body, as well as fat metabolism, so it will not make the body fat.
Reasonable consumption of MSG is beneficial and harmless!
The sodium glutamate component contained in MSG is extracted from grains such as wheat, which has no toxicity and is not a hormone. This ingredient is also able to provide some nutrients to the brain and achieve the effect of protecting liver function.
Therefore, if you use MSG reasonably every day, such as controlling the amount of MSG used and taking the correct way of eating, not only will not make the body fat, but also beneficial to the body!