Chicken essence is a mixture of various flavoring substances, which has the umami flavor of flavoring substances such as monosodium glutamate. It is produced after the appearance of new products such as flavor nucleotide, hydrolyzed animal and plant protein, yeast extract and so on. It can be said that it is a replacement product of monosodium glutamate. The advantage of chicken essence is mainly reflected in the flavor.
Some people say that chicken essence is made of chicken. Although the advertisement of chicken essence claims to be made of the first-class fat chicken, and the bag packaging chicken essence is also a picture of a fat chicken, in fact, the main components of chicken essence are salt, dextrin and monosodium glutamate, plus disodium nucleotide, spices, sugar and curry powder. Nucleotide is added with organic acid salts, sugar and spices, and some products also contain "hydrolyzed protein" or "yeast extract", which can bring the umami flavor of various amino acids, as well as chicken flavor essence. When mixed, it can make the taste more natural and rich. Of course, some high-quality chicken essence does contain a small amount of ingredients from natural food, but it is only chicken powder or chicken bone powder, egg extract and so on. , the actual content is very little. Some chicken essence does not even contain chicken powder, for reference only.