The difference between chicken essence and monosodium glutamate: monosodium glutamate is mainly a powdery or crystalline condiment made from wheat, soybeans and other substances through fermentation. Its main component is sodium glutamate, but it also contains a small amount of salt, water, fat, sugar, iron, phosphorus and other substances.
The main components of chicken essence are sodium glutamate, edible salt, chicken, chicken bone powder and so on. Some of them need to be mixed with some essence and dried to form a kind of compound seasoning.
Careful people will find that in fact, a large part of chicken essence is monosodium glutamate, but chicken essence contains other more refreshing substances with higher salt content. So we use chicken essence to cook, especially after using chicken essence of chicken soup, it will be more fragrant and taste better.
But these differences are only different in composition, and their main functions are the same, just for refreshing. Although there is indeed a little extract of chicken essence and chicken bones in chicken essence, the nutrition is really minimal, so there is no difference in nutrition. Relatively speaking, the content of salt in monosodium glutamate is even less, and no chemical components are added. It is made of natural substances and tastes relatively healthier.
Generally speaking, there is not much difference between monosodium glutamate and chicken essence in essence, but the ingredients of these two seasonings are slightly different, but as long as they are used within a reasonable range, they will not cause harm to health. Just when cooking, we can put these spices before cooking.