Monosodium Glutamate

kemo_2002

does anyone know how much you should add? eg if i wanted to make the omlette? and do you add it to the mixture?

HappyIdiotTalk

kemo_2002 wrote: »

does anyone know how much you should add? eg if i wanted to make the omlette? and do you add it to the mixture?

I dont know either, but having watched a Chinese chef make me a soup with it in, its not much. Just a small pinch (about half a teaspoon).

I would suggest trying a small pinch, that should be plenty. Unlike salt it doesn't have its own flavour, so you shouldn't notice its there other than the boost to the omelettes own taste. If you want to get scientific, just keep under .5 of a gram or less.

kemo_2002

Is ths is from ASDA?

Knorr Aromatic seasoning sprinkle
http://groceries.asda.com/asda-estore/catalog/sectionpagecontainer.jsp?departmentid=1214921923813

or would this one of ebay be better (just as an example)

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/100g-Monosodium-Glutamate-Flavour-enhancer_W0QQitemZ330299661528QQcmdZViewItemQQptZUK_Home_Garden_Food_SM?hash=item4ce764dcd8&_trksid=p3286.c0.m14&_trkparms=65%3A12%7C66%3A2%7C39%3A1%7C72%3A1683%7C240%3A1318%7C301%3A1%7C293%3A1%7C294%3A50

asbokid

MSG is another "excitotoxin"... very similar to aspartame, the artificial sweetener..

there is compelling evidence that aspartame (Nutrasweet) is linked to a host of very serious health problems.. particularly neurological, endocrine and metabolic disorders, including type II diabetes..

professional pilots in the USA are discouraged from consuming aspartame before a flight. after the sweetener was suspected of triggering epileptic seizures.

There was a famous paper published in Italy in 2005, iirc, authored by 50 leading academics. They reviewed the literature on aspartame and decided it probably is not safe.

review the way that aspartame was licensed as a food product, and the involvement of donald rumsfeld in pulling levers in government, on behalf of searle pharmaceuticals, to get it licensed..

the hand of rummy in itself should scare most away from the sweetener!...

i avoid aspartame and because of its close relationship to MSG, i avoid the flavour enhancer too.

mazza245

We spend a great deal of time (and probably some money too) in avoiding MSG like the plague. It gives my husband and son proper migraines - which are not just a headache but numbness, feeling as if someone is using a chainsaw on your head, sickness from your bootstraps, pains like you wouldn't believe and for several days afterwards a very dull "faraway" type of feeling which is unpleasant. Consequently, we read every single label on every item of foodstuff in order to avoid not only MSG, but flavour enhancers or artificial flavourings of any kind.

My son was hospitalised for three days with a migrainal coma which had started with having a bacon sandwich whilst on the road which had brown sauce on it. He had agreed to the brown sauce because it was in a HP Sauce bottle and we know from experience that HP Sauce is fine. Unfortunately, the trader must have decanted some cheap brown sauce into that bottle........

I think you are mad to consider buying this stuff and adding it to your food of any kind. There is no need for anything like that. Just use salt and pepper and perhaps stock cubes which are OK (the only ones we know of are Just Bouillon and they are great) for that sort of thing like stews and casseroles and gravy.

When we have mentioned this to people, they have often then realised that that's why they feel rotten after eating a Chinese meal or flavoured crisps etc. They haven't put two and two together before. Hope this helps someone.

HappyIdiotTalk

mazza245 wrote: »

We spend a great deal of time (and probably some money too) in avoiding MSG like the plague. It gives my husband and son proper migraines - which are not just a headache but numbness, feeling as if someone is using a chainsaw on your head, sickness from your bootstraps, pains like you wouldn't believe and for several days afterwards a very dull "faraway" type of feeling which is unpleasant. Consequently, we read every single label on every item of foodstuff in order to avoid not only MSG, but flavour enhancers or artificial flavourings of any kind.

My son was hospitalised for three days with a migrainal coma which had started with having a bacon sandwich whilst on the road which had brown sauce on it. He had agreed to the brown sauce because it was in a HP Sauce bottle and we know from experience that HP Sauce is fine. Unfortunately, the trader must have decanted some cheap brown sauce into that bottle........

I think you are mad to consider buying this stuff and adding it to your food of any kind. There is no need for anything like that. Just use salt and pepper and perhaps stock cubes which are OK (the only ones we know of are Just Bouillon and they are great) for that sort of thing like stews and casseroles and gravy.

When we have mentioned this to people, they have often then realised that that's why they feel rotten after eating a Chinese meal or flavoured crisps etc. They haven't put two and two together before. Hope this helps someone.

Oh dear, that must be really horrible. I know someone that has a nut allergy and the precautions he has to take. I really love me food, so having any kind of allegy like this would be a nightmare for me.

HappyIdiotTalk

kemo_2002 wrote: »

Is ths is from ASDA?

Knorr Aromatic seasoning sprinkle
http://groceries.asda.com/asda-estore/catalog/sectionpagecontainer.jsp?departmentid=1214921923813

or would this one of ebay be better (just as an example)

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/100g-Monosodium-Glutamate-Flavour-enhancer_W0QQitemZ330299661528QQcmdZViewItemQQptZUK_Home_Garden_Food_SM?hash=item4ce764dcd8&_trksid=p3286.c0.m14&_trkparms=65%3A12%7C66%3A2%7C39%3A1%7C72%3A1683%7C240%3A1318%7C301%3A1%7C293%3A1%7C294%3A50

That Knorr stuff has msg in it, but msg is not the main ingredient. It seems to be for sauces and stuff as its got flour in it.

anniemf2508

the ebay one is the one we use...well i say "we" my OH adds it to his cooking...he was brought up in China so is used to it in his food.
I don't eat his food so not sure whether it makes a difference or not.
As to the ammount you add...its only a tiny ammount, pretty much like how much salt you'd add to something

asbokid

anniemf2508 wrote: »

the ebay one is the one we use...well i say "we" my OH adds it to his cooking...he was brought up in China so is used to it in his food.

I guess we could point to the explosion in diabetes cases in China, and wonder what role MSG and aspartame?

Incidentally, when aspartame, the second most common "excitotoxin", was tested on Rhesus monkeys... large numbers of the lab animals died. they typically expired from brain tumours, in unnaturally high numbers.

Searle, the manufacturers of the food additive, claims that the lab findings for aspartame are irrelevant. searle claimed that the monkeys were fed the toxin in quantities that would not normally be present in human diets..

you know, i'm still not convinced..

The carcinogenicity of aspartame and MSG is broadly accepted. It is scientifically unsound to suppose that cancers occur only in those who consume large daily amounts of these additives.

As to the ammount you add...its only a tiny ammount, pretty much like how much salt you'd add to something

you sound like a heroin dealer.. "it's fine in small doses!.. no honest!.. trust me!.. it is!"

any compound that breaches the blood-brain barrier and artificially stimulates the nervous system to the point that nerve cells are destroyed, is surely dangerous.

aspartame is "a multipotential carcinogenic agent, even at a daily dose of 20 mg/kg body weight, much less than the current acceptable daily intake".

See: http://www.ehponline.org/members/2005/8711/8711.html

anniemf2508

asbokid wrote: »

you sound like a heroin dealer.. "it's fine in small doses!.. no honest!.. trust me!.. it is!"

thanks for likening me to a heroin dealer :rolleyes:

i was just trying to help the OP