1, different components

Chicken essence: Although chicken essence is called chicken essence, it has little to do with chicken. Its main components are edible salt, maltodextrin, food additives, starch, chicken powder, white sugar, refined chicken oil, vegetable oil, yeast extract and white pepper.

Chicken powder: the ingredients of chicken powder and chicken essence are similar, the only difference is that a lot of chicken ingredients are really added to chicken powder.

2, the usage is different

Chicken essence: Chicken essence is a savory seasoning, which is mainly used to increase the flavor of meat. Chicken essence also contains other spices, which can be used for seasoning vegetables.

Chicken powder: Chicken powder contains the most, and its usage is similar to that of chicken essence, but mainly in the seasoning of vegetarian dishes, the taste of chicken is more rich and natural. If it is used in other meats, it is easy to change the original flavor of meat.

Chicken powder is made from fresh chicken with various compound seasoning, refined by high-tech technologies such as biological enzymolysis, vacuum concentration and spray drying. Chicken essence products pay more attention to umami flavor, so the content of monosodium glutamate is higher; Chicken powder focuses on the natural flavor of chicken, so the utilization rate of chicken powder is high.

Extended data

Chicken powder is a compound product of chicken and eggs, which has both the umami flavor and the fragrance of chicken. Its chemical composition is compound nucleotide and sodium glutamate, which has excellent freshness and realizes the combination of freshness and seasoning. Compared with monosodium glutamate, its freshness is 1.5 ~ 2 times that of monosodium glutamate, and it is a healthy food with high nutritional content.

Chicken essence is a compound flavoring agent. According to the standard, seasonings with total nitrogen content less than 3% and sodium glutamate content less than 35% cannot be called "chicken essence". Nitrogen is an important indicator to show the chicken content in chicken essence, while sodium glutamate and disodium odorant are indicators to measure the freshness of chicken essence. In a certain range, the greater the content of the three, the better the quality of chicken essence.