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.
According to reports, monosodium glutamate is a sodium salt of glutamic acid and a delicious substance. Its scientific name is sodium glutamate, also known as monosodium glutamate. In addition, it contains a small amount of salt, water, fat, sugar, iron, phosphorus and other substances. Monosodium glutamate (MSG) is a delicious seasoning cooking material made from wheat, soybean and other raw materials containing more protein or starch by hydrolysis or fermentation. It can also be made from beet and honey by chemical synthesis. Monosodium glutamate is easily soluble in water, with strong hygroscopicity and delicious taste. It is still delicious when dissolved in 3000 times of water, and its optimum dissolution temperature is 70℃ ~ 90℃. Monosodium glutamate is stable under general cooking and processing conditions, but it is easy to turn into sodium pyroglutamate at high temperature for a long time, which is tasteless and slightly toxic. It precipitates or is insoluble in alkaline or strongly acidic solution, and its umami taste is not obvious or even disappears. It can not only increase people's appetite, but also provide some nutrition as a homemade condiment.
On the other hand, chicken essence is a compound condiment. Its basic ingredients are processed by adding fresh-keeping additives, salt, sugar, chicken powder, spices, chicken essence and other ingredients on the basis of 90% monosodium glutamate, and it also contains a variety of amino acids. A compound seasoning product is mainly prepared from sodium glutamate, disodium nucleotide, salt, chicken, chicken bone powder or concentrated extract as basic raw materials, essence (or without essence) and excipient, mixing, granulating and drying. Chicken essence can be divided into powder, granule and block according to its shape, but granule is the main one.
Monosodium glutamate can supplement human amino acids, which is beneficial to improve and maintain brain function. Because it tastes delicious, it can stimulate people's appetite. MSG helps to improve the digestibility of food. In addition, monosodium glutamate, the main component of monosodium glutamate, also has the function of treating chronic hepatitis, hepatic coma, neurasthenia, epilepsy, gastric acid deficiency and other diseases.
Chicken essence has the following characteristics: (1) it is made of chicken and eggs, which has both the delicate 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. It is reported that the sales volume of chicken essence in Shanghai and its surrounding coastal areas is equivalent to that of monosodium glutamate. Chicken essence can stand out from many condiments in a short time, which is inseparable from its freshness, freshness and chicken flavor. In addition, it also has the advantages of high temperature resistance, no odor and no drying after eating. These are unmatched by other condiments.