Tuesday, January 5, 2016

The evil monosodium glutamate

We found a whole rack of spice packets at the grocery store and decided to try the Chinese black mushroom soup powder tonight.  When we discovered that it literally tasted like a bowl of salt water, we viewed the ingredients.  Here is the list in order of quantity.

salt
sugar
MSG
mushroom *5%*

I remember when  MSG was villafied in the US.  In the 1980s, signs began appearing on the door of Chinese restaurants stating No MSG.   This stuff is sold in giant packets in every local store in Vietnam.

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