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  in many chips

ranchgirl

鸡精 = 盐 + 味精 + 少量鸡粉

curiosity2009

在中餐馆吃过饭后，有时虽然菜并不咸，却常常感到口干，需要喝大量水。这与过多摄入味精有关。

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curiosity2009 发表于 2011-11-6 20:06
在中餐馆吃过饭后，有时虽然菜并不咸，却常常感到口干，需要喝大量水。这与过多摄入味精有关。

为了让你买水

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?

silicon_beaver

Not only 感到口干, often I also felt "high". serious.

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