Chicken essence is a compound umami agent, which is one of the seasonings. Although chicken essence is processed with sodium glutamate as the main raw material, the freshness and sweetness is more than twice that of sodium glutamate, which is due to the addition of freshness enhancer nucleotides that have the effect of increasing umami in the production of chicken essence, which also causes the purity of chicken essence to be lower than that of monosodium glutamate.
As a compound flavoring agent, the shelf life of chicken essence (1-2 years) is shorter than that of 95% purity MSG (3 years). Some people say that chicken essence is "harmful to human essence" and is harmful to physical health. The truth may not be what you think.
First, chicken essence is harmful to health?
Chicken essence is an indispensable condiment in daily life, eating chicken essence is not necessarily harmful to the human body, if only occasionally a small amount of consumption, it will not cause obvious harm to the human body. However, if chicken essence is ingested in large doses for a long time, it may cause some damage to the body.
Therefore, whether chicken essence is "harmful to human essence" and whether it can cause harm to the body is related to the intake of chicken essence by the human body itself. After all, chicken essence is not made of chicken boiled, if you use chicken essence for a long time, there will be symptoms of indigestion and loss of appetite, so you should eat a small amount of chicken essence in your daily life, and pay attention to light diet.
Second, what are the precautions when eating chicken essence?
1: Add 5 minutes before cooking
Chicken essence is easily soluble in water, in cooking, generally add chicken essence five minutes before the pot, can enhance the umami taste of food, making the dish more delicious. Because chicken essence mainly contains sodium glutamate, after heating in aqueous solution for a long time, a small part will be dehydrated to form sodium pyroglutamate.
Although sodium pyroglutamate is non-toxic and does not cause any harm to the human body, it has no umami taste and cannot provide a freshening effect on food.
2, the addition of chicken essence to reduce the use of salt
According to experimental studies, each person can only consume 6 grams of salt per day, and excessive salt intake can lead to high blood pressure, which in turn can cause various cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases. Due to the high sodium content of chicken essence itself, if you plan to use chicken essence to freshen up when cooking, you should reduce the amount of salt used to avoid excessive sodium intake and affect human health.
3, it is not the use of chicken essence more and more fresh
In daily cooking, it is not the use of chicken essence, the more delicious the taste of the dish, the appropriate addition of chicken essence can enhance the umami taste of food, but the excessive addition of chicken essence will not only cover up the natural umami taste of the food itself, but also may lead to the dish showing a taste of artificial additives, and excessive intake of chicken essence will lead to symptoms such as loss of appetite and indigestion in the human body.
Chicken essence is a compound flavoring agent, and whether chicken essence is harmful to the human body is related to its intake. When cooking, it is best to add chicken essence 5 minutes before the pan, and while using chicken essence, it is necessary to reduce the amount of salt used. #谣零零计划 #