Are chicken essence and monosodium glutamate harmful to health?

From a health point of view, chicken essence is harmless to human body. In the cooking process, the use conditions of chicken essence are much looser than those of monosodium glutamate. Chicken essence can be used in any application of monosodium glutamate. When it is added to dishes, soups and pasta, it has a good fresh-keeping effect, especially when it is added to the hot pot in the soup, its aroma and taste are compatible with each other, which makes people's appetite open.

But when cooking, if you add too much chicken essence, it will destroy the original flavor of the dish and affect the taste. In the use of chicken essence, we should also pay attention to the following points: 1 The salt content of chicken essence is about 10%, so the food should be properly salted before adding chicken essence. 2. Chicken essence contains nucleotides, and its metabolite is uric acid, so gout patients should reduce their intake appropriately; 3. The solubility of chicken essence is worse than that of monosodium glutamate. If it is used in soup, it should be dissolved before use. Only in this way can it be better perceived by taste cells; 4. Chicken essence contains salt and has strong hygroscopicity, so it should be sealed after use, otherwise the nutritious chicken essence will breed a large number of microorganisms and pollute food.