请您减少或者停止吃味精

ranchgirl

您停止吃味精，头一个星期觉得什么都没有味道，因为您的味觉已经被味精麻木了。

第2-3星期后，您会发现原来各种荤菜素菜原来味道都很好啊。。。

不过这在中国非常困难，因为所有的餐馆都用吓死人多的味精

国外中餐馆也一样。。。有的您让他不放味精鸡精，厨师都不会炒菜了。

听不听由您，不争论

ranchgirl

有些美国餐馆和部分成品食品也会放甚至放大量味精。。。

例如，long jones silver, also some chips

ranchgirl

鸡精 = 盐 + 味精 + 少量鸡粉

ranchgirl

Why do food companies add  MSG to foods?

There are several reasons:

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      MSG tricks your tongue into making you think a certain food is high in protein and thus nutritious.  It is not a "meat tenderizer".  It is not a "preservative".  The food industry is trying to confuse the issue by focusing on the "fifth" taste sense they call umami.  Free glutamic acid is detected by the taste buds as a simple way to signal the presence of protein in a food, just as there are fat receptors to detect fats and receptors that sense carbohydrate or sweet flavors.  The purpose is to help us discern real food from inedible matter.  It changes your perception of not simply taste but the nutritious qualities of what you put into your mouth.  However, and here is the main problem with free glutamic acid - It is the very same neurotransmitter that your brain and many organs including your ears, eyes, nervous system and pancreas in your body use to initiate certain processes in your body.
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      MSG stimulates the pancreas to produce insulin.  So many diets these days are concerned about the Glycemic Index of foods and yet none of them address the fact that MSG and free glutamic acid stimulate the pancreas to release insulin when there doesn't even have to be carbohydrates in the food for that insulin to act on.  The food industry has found their own "anti-appetite suppressant".  It's a convenient way to keep consumers coming back for more.   The blood sugar drops because of the insulin flood.  And you are hungry an hour later.  Sound familiar?
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      The body changes excess glutamate to GABA.   GABA may be addictive.  It is calming and affects the same receptors in the brain as valium.
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      Cost.  The illusion created by adding MSG to a food product enables the food processor to add LESS real food.  The illusion of more protein in a food allows the food producer to put LESS protein in it.  The consumer perceives the product - say chicken soup - to have more chicken in it than is actually there.  Example:  A well-known brand of dehydrated chicken noodle soup.  Is that chicken in there, or a piece of confetti?

noenoe

大牛Steve

是的，不放味精是可以习惯的，而且口感更好。

cloudrainbow

morning

中餐馆直接放味精的很少了，因为以前很多lawsuit的原因。

但是大量的放鸡精的很多。The trick 是鸡精有很多种。真正的鸡精是真的从从鸡肉里提取的混合有多种氨基酸的调味品，但是价格比较高。市场上很多便宜的鸡精则是人工化学合成部分很多的，和味精的成分不同，但化工合成的是无异了。

至于餐馆放的那种鸡精，大家心知肚明啦

ranchgirl

morning 发表于 2011-11-6 21:26
中餐馆直接放味精的很少了，因为以前很多lawsuit的原因。

但是大量的放鸡精的很多。The trick 是鸡精有很 ...

NOT true， 鸡精 和 味精 没有多大区别。

餐馆不仅用鸡精还用牛肉精，鱼精，都是大陆台湾进口的。是一位比较诚实的老板亲口告诉我的。因为我要求不放味精，他说其实根本就不可能，最多是少放一些，别的餐馆一个星期用一大袋味精，他的餐馆一个月才用一大袋味精。

他还说如果我对味精过敏，就回家自己做菜吃。

morning

ranchgirl 发表于 2011-11-7 00:02
NOT true， 鸡精 和 味精 没有多大区别。

餐馆不仅用鸡精还用牛肉精，鱼精，都是大陆台湾进口的。是 ...

你去找一下不含味精的鸡精，不是太难找的。就算是你身旁的超市里没有卖，网上就有的，搜一下就知道了。

当然对很多便宜的鸡精是这样的，我还在商场里看见过成分超过80%都是味精的鸡精呢，好多人说鸡精 = 味精，就像说琉璃厂现在的东西都是假的一样，可以说对，也可以说是错的。

当然外面吃，肯定没有家里自己做干净

ranchgirl

回复 morning 的帖子

There are two MSG like components, their chemical structures are slight different from msg, the price is slight above MSG. Now many so-called Tai made MSG free soy-sauce, Korean made instant noodles contain these two, and claim MSG free. They did not lie literally, but consumer get almost the same thing.

Be very very careful with them.

ranchgirl

oh, not components, but compounds