As a very "wai sek“ guy. i always wonder why kuching's "Kolo Mee" was so nice. Until one day someboday told me that the secret is they put ajinomoto.
Hmm..Ajinomoto, this name was totally not a new thing for us. As we always can hear the advertisment from TV.
Do you know what ajinomoto is??
Actually the scientific name of ajinomoto is monosodium glutamate.
The taste brings out by ajinomoto is claim to be the 5th basic taste besides sweet, sour, salty and bitter. And japanese named this taste as "Umami".
Actually, human had used this taste since long long ago. The taste actually come form glutamate, and nowadays we manufact it in the form of monosodium glutamate.
Glutamate Glutamate is actually a kind of amino acids contain in all protein-containing food.We can easily find glutamate contained in food such as seaweed, cheese and tomatos.
Umami is realeased or activated by glutamate in particular food.
Seaweed is a important source of glutamate in Japanese cuisine. It is used to make dashi, a kind of stock used in Japanese cooking. Many Japanese cuisine is made by this kind of stock. Few example of those dishes are steamed custard, egg omelettes, soups, dipping sauces and some of the dressings.
Konbu dashi soup with clam
Monosodium glutamate
Monosodium glutamate AKA MSG, it has the similar effect as glutamate when added into the food. MSg was made from starcg, corn sugar or other material through the fermentation process that used to produced foods such as beer, vinegar and yogurt.
Our human body treats glutamate and MSG which was taken into our body by the same way. It doesn't distinguish it between glutamate in the natural food, or in MSG.
We know that MSG can improve the taste of certain food. But it cannot improve bad tasting food such as u have over cook a meat, but u cant just use MSG hope to make the food to become tasty again. NO WAY!
So, for using MSG you must also know the proper way of cooking but just not treat it as a secret fairy ingredient @@
even witches also recomend it :D
Now, let us talk about the safe problem of MSG as it was concern by most of the people. MSG is safe as it is one of the most extensive researched substances in the food supply for so many years. But, there is still some problem occur as some people is allergy to MSG as it is the same thing as some of the people allergy to some kind of food. And for children, infant or premature babies, it is safe because the rate of metabolize to glutamate of them is same as the rate of metabolize to adult. In fact, the do like the taste as the contain of glutamate in breast milk is 10times higher than the glutamate contain in cow milk.
But, if some people still worry about it, its still ok, as this is a personal view.
So have fun on eat Eat and EAT :D
http://www.ajinomoto-malaysia.com/2009/en/index.asp
http://www.ific.org/publications/brochures/msgbroch.cfm
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