Monosodium glutamate, chemically known as ? -monosodium aminoglutarate, is the sodium salt of glutamic acid, an acidic amino acid obtained by hydrolyzing wheat bran with sulfuric acid. Monosodium glutamate can cause pollution to the environment and water bodies, but if absorbed by the human body, it is generally not harmful, except when it is overheated it will become monosodium pyroglutamate, a substance that has a certain impact on human health, and eat more will make people dry mouth. So why isn't the sale of monosodium glutamate, which has no benefit to the human body, banned?

I. What kind of food is monosodium glutamate mainly consumed from?

We intake of monosodium glutamate in our daily life are from the ingredients of monosodium glutamate and chicken essence, its main role is to increase the freshness of the food flavor, this kind of thing is also every family will have. Due to the Chinese eating habits, so that three meals a day must have salt and MSG or chicken essence to be able to eat, less of these two condiments, then the food will be less flavor of his soul, making it difficult to swallow.

Two, why is it not banned?

Because the substance itself is not harmful to the human body, so it has not been banned from circulation in the market, but a lot of people can not live without monosodium glutamate. In fact, each of the spices on the human body is not too good, and eat more will bring some harm, most of the spices are through chemical means, a small amount of use on the human body will not be harmful, but eat more than can not be. For example, if we don't eat salt, we will have diseases, but if we eat too much of it, we will also have diseases, so we can't live without salt? It is impossible.

Three, summarize.

To sum up, although monosodium glutamate is not good for the human body to eat too much, but we can not get away from this condiment. Seasoning his main role is and give our food for flavor, so that we eat more delicious. If such condiments were banned from circulation, what flavor would be left in our food? You can't eat too much of any food, and a small amount of it won't do any harm to the human body.