Word: monosodium
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...away all its power. What passes for social protest in Japan might look like placidity elsewhere. A Japanese gripe session is likely to end on the word shoganai (roughly: nothing can be done about it). Though rap music has come to Japan, the most assertive lyrics decry too much monosodium glutamate in Chinese food...
...three former top officials of a Chicago-based juice company, Bodine's Inc., for allegedly selling 7 million cases of adulterated frozen orange juice between 1983 and 1985. While the company labeled the juice "100% pure," the Food and Drug Administration says the product contained corn sugar, beet sugar, monosodium glutamate and effluent from a water-distillation process. The company allegedly used the ingredients because they were cheaper than the real thing and enabled Bodine's to offer lower prices to supermarkets. The adulteration stopped before the company changed hands in 1985, but the former executives face potential fines...
There is even nutritious alternative to Raman, the infamous monosodium glutamate noodles. Whole-wheat Raman is flavored only with sea salt, seaweed, mushrooms, garlic and ginger--but it costs more than twice as much as the chemical version...
...often poured generously. Yet quantity seems less a problem than quality. In the cheapest restaurants oil generally had a harsh, acrid flavor, a result of either poor processing or having been reused. The practice is not uncommon in American Chinese restaurants. Those who are sensitive to MSG (monosodium glutamate) have an even more difficult time, for that flavor enhancer is virtually ubiquitous. The only solution would be to order Western food in advance in the dining rooms of tourist hotels...
...three times that of a handful of salted peanuts. Thanks in part to the sodium in baking powder and baking soda, baked goods and cereals are the No. 1 source of sodium in the diet of many Americans. Preservatives such as sodium benzoate and sodium nitrite and flavorings like monosodium glutamate (MSG) also contribute. Even vitamin C is often added to foods in the culpable form of sodium ascorbate...