What I Ate Today

That looks great.

Whenever I have 2 days of leftovers, I
make stirfry. Pork, corned beef, cabbage,
eggplant, creamed turnip greens, tomato.
Lots of smoked paprika and sesame seed
oil. Always a big winner.

In the 60's and 70's I used MSG
all the time. Then it got a bad
rap and I quit. There were even
blurbs on store packages that
proclaimed "No MSG!"

Those days are long gone. MSG
has been given a clean bill of
health for 20 years and I'm
going to use it again. Glutamate
appears naturally in dozens of
foods, MSG is just dried glutamate.

What convinced me is a bunch of
Youtube videos. They made different
dishes and used salt in one, and
MSG in the other. In blind taste
tests people preferred the MSG
food overwhelmingly. It's a flavor
enhancer, it stimulates the taste
buds.

Ordered a pound of it from Amazon,
being delivered today.

Quote: Evenbob

Ordered a pound of it from Amazon,
being delivered today.

How much do you use in a dish? I have avoided Asian restaurants that advertise "No MSG". If it tastes good I want it, I don't care if it is bad for me.

Quote: DRich

How much do you use in a dish?
.

It's not 'bad' for you and never
was. That was a scare wrongfully
started in the 60's about MSG
in Chinese food. It has been
exhaustively tested since and
and has the full backing of
the FDA and the even the
FDA equivalent in the EU Union.
Which is very hard to get.

Use 1/2 teaspoon per pound of
meat, 1/2 teaspoon per 4-6 cups
of food. It has to be added during
cooking for it to work, just dumping
it on food is a waste.

MSG can cause a reaction and some people will avoid it. It should be listed if a restaurant is using it.

Quote:

Flushing, sweating, chest pain, and weakness are all potential reactions to monosodium glutamate, or MSG, a flavor enhancer and popular ingredient in many Asian cuisines. Other symptoms include headache, facial pressure, drowsiness, and numbness and tingling in the face, back, and arms.

But while some people assume the symptoms they’re feeling are the result of an allergy, an MSG reaction is really more of a sensitivity than a true allergy.

https://www.everydayhealth.com/allergy/does-msg-allergy-really-exist.aspx

Quote: odiousgambit

MSG can cause a reaction and some people will avoid it.

Oh no! It doesn't even trigger an
allergy, some people are 'sensitive'
to it. Big deal. How about the people
who have full blown allergies to
foods like:
Milk
Eggs.
Peanuts.
Tree nuts, like walnuts, almonds, pine nuts, brazil nuts, and pecans.
Soy.
Wheat.
Fish
Shellfish
Where are the scare tactics
with most of those foods.

MSG is nothing compared to those.
Glutamate is a naturally occurring
substance found in hundreds of
foods, from meat to seafood to
vegetables.


"Is MSG safe?

Yes. MSG is one of the most extensively researched substances in the food supply. Numerous international scientific evaluations have been undertaken over many years, involving hundreds of studies. The United States and other governments worldwide support the safety of MSG as used in foods."

https://foodinsight.org/everything-you-need-to-know-about-glutamate-and-monosodium-glutamate/

For the MSG experiment I made a
stew out of sausage, eggplant,
artichoke hearts, and tomato with
lots of spices and smoked paprika.

3 min before I turned the heat off
I took out a cup of stew and added
1 1/2 teaspoons of MSG to the pan.
After it was done and cooled down,
I found the MSG stew to have a lot
more flavor. The one I took out was
bland by comparison. It was good,
but bland.

Update: After eating the MSG last night,
I woke up alive this morning and only
had to call 911 twice during the night.

Guffaw. Of course nothing happened.
MSG is in hundreds of processed foods,
especially fast food like McD's and BK
and Taco Bell.. It's in peanut butter,
fresh and frozen pizza, Doritos and
other chips, deli meats, soups, Pringles,
Top Ramen, the list is literally endless.
You probably ate some today.

Chicken soup with MSG. I's a pain
to make, but man is it good. I
cook the chicken first in the pressure
cooker, then put all the veggies
and herbs and spices into my grandma's
1940's soup pot and let it simmer for
hours. MSG brings out the umami in
cooked food. Umami is the 5th flavor,
behind sweet, sour, salty and bitter.