One of the most common today dietary supplements is certainly a "meat-flour" monosodium glutamate. He truly is everywhere: there is in bakery products, meat and a variety of canned, ready-made salads to noodles and sublimated! So what the product is and how it is harmful?
monosodium glutamate - a glutamic acid salt with a strong beef flavor. It is a basic protein in muscle fibers. Therefore, any meat necessarily contains at least a small, but the proportion of the substance. When the human taste buds "catch" glutamate, they quickly sent a signal to the stomach: expected high-calorie meat urgently needed gastric juice!
Actively the substance is used with the 50-ies of the last century, when the world market has penetrated the idea of fast food. Fast food and soluble noodles, mashed potatoes, etc. artificial products have a neutral, unattractive for mass taste of the buyer. It was then that it was decided to add a "fast" food starch and monosodium glutamate, in order to improve its taste.
Many consumers are wary of any food additives. And the reason - elementary ignorance. Try to understand the most common myths prevailing on the world's most popular nutritional supplement:
1. It is everywhere! Of course, the popularity of monosodium glutamate great. However, it is not present "everywhere". The addition makes it more rich flavor of the meat and products made from flour - and only.
2. And the addition of something artificial! Yes, sodium glutamate produce chemically. But the basis is taken from the amino acid in muscle tissue - glutamic acid. Contrary to popular belief the addition is of natural origin and is completely foreign to the human body.
3. The use of monosodium glutamate leads to blindness! Yes, studies have shown that glutamate reduces the vision laboratory mice. However, the proportion of the substance to test animals was increased to 40% of the daily diet. And only then turned to lower the vision of mice, and then - just a few diopters.
People under any conditions fail to use sodium glutamate in a similar amount. Normal eating, the person receives 10 grams, no more of this substance in the day. But this was too little, that at least in some way affect the vision.
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