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MSG 味精
IN 1968 a Chinese-American physician wrote a rather
lighthearted letter to The New England Journal of
Medicine. He had experienced numbness 麻木,
palpitations發抖 and weakness after eating in Chinese
restaurants in the United States, and wondered
whether the monosodium glutamate used by cooks here
(and then rarely used by cooks in China) might be to
blame.
The consequences for the restaurant business, the food
industry and American consumers were immediate and
enormous 龐大的. MSG, a common flavor enhancer and
preservative used since the 1950s, was tagged 標籤 as
a toxin, removed from commercial baby food and
generally driven underground by a new movement
toward natural, whole foods.
Tag = A strip of paper attached to something to identify, e.
g. sale tags. A small, loose fragment, e.g. tags and snippets
剪掉碎片.
“It was a nightmare for my family,” said Jennifer Hsu, a
graphic designer whose parents owned several Chinese
restaurants in New York City in the 1970s. “Not because
we used that much MSG — although of course we used
some — but because it meant that Americans came into
the restaurant with these suspicious 猜疑的, hostile
feelings.”
Even now, after “Chinese restaurant syndrome” has
been thoroughly debunked 揭穿 (virtually all studies
since then confirm that monosodium glutamate in normal
concentrations has no effect on the overwhelming 摧垮
majority of people), the ingredient has a stigma 污名
that will not go away.
Overwhelm = To surge over and submerge; affect deeply in
mind or emotion; present with an excessive amount;
upset. Examples: Despair overwhelmed Tim. Our team
overwhelmed the other team in the game by 40 points.
But then, neither will MSG.
Cooks around the world have remained dedicated 供奉
to MSG, even though they may not know it by that
name. As hydrolyzed soy protein or autolyzed yeast 自溶
酵母, it adds flavor to the canned chicken broth 湯and to
the packs of onion soup mix used by American home
cooks, and to the cheese Goldfish crackers and the low-
fat yogurts in many lunchboxes.
It is the taste of Marmite in the United Kingdom, of
Golden Mountain sauce in Thailand, of Goya Sazón on
the Latin islands of the Caribbean, of Salsa Lizano in
Costa Rica and of Kewpie mayonnaise 蛋黃醬,美乃滋 in
Japan. .....
IN 1968 a Chinese-American physician wrote a rather
lighthearted letter to The New England Journal of
Medicine. He had experienced numbness 麻木,
palpitations發抖 and weakness after eating in Chinese
restaurants in the United States, and wondered
whether the monosodium glutamate used by cooks here
(and then rarely used by cooks in China) might be to
blame.
The consequences for the restaurant business, the food
industry and American consumers were immediate and
enormous 龐大的. MSG, a common flavor enhancer and
preservative used since the 1950s, was tagged 標籤 as
a toxin, removed from commercial baby food and
generally driven underground by a new movement
toward natural, whole foods.
Tag = A strip of paper attached to something to identify, e.
g. sale tags. A small, loose fragment, e.g. tags and snippets
剪掉碎片.
“It was a nightmare for my family,” said Jennifer Hsu, a
graphic designer whose parents owned several Chinese
restaurants in New York City in the 1970s. “Not because
we used that much MSG — although of course we used
some — but because it meant that Americans came into
the restaurant with these suspicious 猜疑的, hostile
feelings.”
Even now, after “Chinese restaurant syndrome” has
been thoroughly debunked 揭穿 (virtually all studies
since then confirm that monosodium glutamate in normal
concentrations has no effect on the overwhelming 摧垮
majority of people), the ingredient has a stigma 污名
that will not go away.
Overwhelm = To surge over and submerge; affect deeply in
mind or emotion; present with an excessive amount;
upset. Examples: Despair overwhelmed Tim. Our team
overwhelmed the other team in the game by 40 points.
But then, neither will MSG.
Cooks around the world have remained dedicated 供奉
to MSG, even though they may not know it by that
name. As hydrolyzed soy protein or autolyzed yeast 自溶
酵母, it adds flavor to the canned chicken broth 湯and to
the packs of onion soup mix used by American home
cooks, and to the cheese Goldfish crackers and the low-
fat yogurts in many lunchboxes.
It is the taste of Marmite in the United Kingdom, of
Golden Mountain sauce in Thailand, of Goya Sazón on
the Latin islands of the Caribbean, of Salsa Lizano in
Costa Rica and of Kewpie mayonnaise 蛋黃醬,美乃滋 in
Japan. .....
