toria wrote:I saw a recipe for something (garlic noodles) that contain Maggi seasoning. I do not usually buy things with MSG which I think it has but I am tempted to get some. I see that it is used in some asian foods and is also popular in Germany, Switzerland, and Austria. Anybody have an opinion on it? I guess I could try it and pitch it out if I did not like it. I am a little leery of the msg. I recall my grandmother having Accent! which were like powdery crystals but after all the bad publicity about MSG it was all thrown out and we never used it again. Pls advise.
I found your query interesting, so went poking around, since I've never used Maggi seasoning, although I've certainly seen it on the shelf at the grocery store.
According to one of Nestle's sites, the ingredients for bottled Maggi seasoning are "water, salt, wheat gluten, wheat, and less than 2% of wheat bran, sugar, acetic acid, artificial flavor, disodium inosinate, disodium guanylate, dextrose, caramel color."
So, maybe if you posted the ingredient list for the recipe you want to try, we could maybe come up with a seasoning mix that would approximate that flavor profile, but without the chemical additives.
As far as MSG, we always had a container of Accent in our kitchen when I was a kid, like so many have already posted, and it was liberally applied to meat, especially when Dad was grilling. I can't recall missing whatever it might have added to our food when we quit buying it.
Also, I've suffered from migraines for 30+ years, but have never associated mine with food triggers, like a lot of people do, particularly MSG. A few years ago, however, I vividly remember that a couple of hours after eating at a Chinese place right by where I worked, I became so ill with classic migraine symptoms that I had to go home. That is the only time I am aware of having any reaction to food where MSG
could have been the culprit. (I'll never know for sure, of course.) You can take that limited anecdotal data point FWIW, but it seems to me that a little bit of MSG would probably be OK.
Sharon
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