Society and culture Monosodium glutamate

1 society , culture

1.1 regulations

1.1.1 united states
1.1.2 australia , new zealand


1.2 names

1.2.1 chemical names , identifiers
1.2.2 on packaging
1.2.3 trade names

society , culture

it has been suggested fear of msg may reflect anti-asian racism, msg being seen oriental , alien arrival in western cooking, dangerous. food critic jeffrey steingarten argued fear of msg should seen western-centric mindset, lacking awareness of common use in far eastern cooking without apparent problems: if msg problem, why doesn t in china have headache?

regulations
united states

msg 1 of several forms of glutamic acid found in foods, in large part because glutamic acid (an amino acid) pervasive in nature. glutamic acid , salts may present in variety of other additives, including hydrolyzed vegetable protein, autolyzed yeast, hydrolyzed yeast, yeast extract, soy extracts, , protein isolate, must labeled. since 1998, msg cannot included in term spices , flavorings . ribonucleotide food additives disodium inosinate , disodium guanylate used monosodium glutamate-containing ingredients. however, term natural flavor used food industry glutamic acid (chemically similar msg, lacking sodium ion). food , drug administration not require disclosure of components , amounts of natural flavor.

the fda considers labels such no msg or no added msg misleading if food has ingredients sources of free glutamate, such hydrolyzed protein. in 1993, proposed adding contains glutamate common names of hydrolyzed proteins substantial amounts of glutamate.

australia , new zealand

standard 1.2.4 of australia , new zealand food standards code requires msg labeled in packaged foods. label must have food-additive class name (e.g. flavour enhancer ), followed name of additive ( msg ) or international numbering system (ins) number, 621.

names

the following alternative names msg:

chemical names , identifiers

monosodium glutamate or sodium glutamate
sodium 2-aminopentanedioate
glutamic acid, monosodium salt, monohydrate
l-glutamic acid, monosodium salt, monohydrate
l-monosodium glutamate monohydrate
monosodium l-glutamate monohydrate
msg monohydrate
sodium glutamate monohydrate
unii-w81n5u6r6u

on packaging

flavour enhancer e621

trade names

accent, produced b&g foods inc., parsippany, new jersey, us
aji-no-moto, produced ajinomoto, 26 countries, head office japan
tasting powder
vetsin
sazón, distributed goya foods, 350 county road, jersey city, nj




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