We hear a lot about umami these days. It often is referred to as the "so-called" fifth taste, or translated from Japanese as "tastiness" or "savoriness. Some people don't believe in it. Other people say it's the effect of monosodium glutamate, and is therefore a "flavor enhancer" rather than a taste, but that's only correct in the sense that salt is a flavor enhancer. Unsalted mashed potatoes don't taste like anything; the salt enhances the potato flavor. But salt is a true taste, and so is umami.
Marketing Tag: "Low Fat Oatmeal Raisin, with other natural flavors" and "Low Fat S'mores with natural and artificial flavors. Take note: "Low fat" does not also mean "low sugar" or "sugar-free." If you're trying to sneak fiber into your kids' breakfast, you'll only get a sugar-coated smidgen of it: 1 gram of dietary fiber versus 9 to 10 grams sugar (approximately 2-1/2 teaspoons sugar) per bar. Natural and artificial flavors. Hundreds of chemicals are used to mimic "natural" flavors. Treating them like a "secret recipe," companies tend not to disclose the identity of artificial and natural flavorings, and they may contain certain substances to which some people are sensitive or allergic, like monosodium glutamate (MSG) or hydrolyzed vegetable proteins (HVP).
Let's face it: It's hard to find high-quality Asian food in Maine. Sure, there are some shining exceptions - Pai Men Miyake in Portland and Suzuki in Rockland come to mind - and everyone has a personal favorite, old standby restaurant that does right by Chinese food. But for every fresh, flavorful, fantastic meal not swimming in grease and monosodium glutamate, there are five places serving deep- fried chicken fingers covered in sticky, sugary sweet-and-sour sauce. Once you've had really good Chinese, Thai or sushi, you never want to go back. The same holds true for Mexican food, but we won't get into that.
Migraine triggers Almost 30 million Americans suffer from migraine headaches, said the National Headache Foundation. While there is no exact explanation for what brings on a migraine, doctors do have an idea of migraine triggers. Among triggers are changing sleep patterns; stress and anxiety; overuse of pain medicines; skipping meals; certain smells, such as perfume, cleaning products or cigarette smoke; and eating foods with monosodium glutamate (MSG), nitrates (in processed meats), aspartame, tyramine (in aged cheese and smoked fish), alcohol or chocolate. Avoiding these triggers can reduce the risk of a migraine.
Asthma deaths, Type II diabetes, obesity, epileptic seizures, migraine, high blood pressure, stroke, Alzheimer's and food, skin and protein allergies are all directly linked to monosodium glutamate -- the food additive MSG -- a powerful nervous system stimulant that crosses the blood-brain barrier. Not a problem, most people say, since they don't use MSG. Anyone able to read since the 1970s won't touch this food additive with a 10-foot pole. Or so they think.
Frito-Lay Natural Snack Chips. Tostitos Hint of Jalapeno, Tostitos Hint of Pepper Jack, and SunChips Jalapeno Jack. $3.79 to $3.99 per 10.5- to 13-ounce bag. Bonnie: My hat's off to Frito-Lay for its efforts to make its snacks from more everyday ingredients. Now Frito-Lay has promised to find replacements for artificial colors, flavors and preservatives, as well as the flavor enhancer monosodium glutamate, in more than six dozen snack products by the end of 2011. The company wants to make these snacks "all-natural" (although the FDA has no real definition for that term), and some of the snacks still will contain yeast extract, which naturally contains glutamic acid and its salts, just like MSG. It's the "flavor enhancer" used in "all-natural" products. This initiative includes all flavo...
This is the second in a series of articles about the use of excitotoxins, or "slow neurotoxins," in the American diet. After the first article about the food industry's increasing use of substances like flavor enhancer monosodium glutamate (MSG) or the sweetener aspartame, a number of people objected that they cannot figure out what is safe to eat anymore (see the sidebar "Eliminating Excitotoxins = The Joy of Cooking").
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