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I use MSG in cooking and it's a great way to lower salt while dramatically increasing flavor. It doesn't make bad food magically good, but it makes good food gr

• ars 13y ago
  > I use MSG in cooking and it's a great way to lower salt It might lower salt a bit, but it's hardly a great way, the S stands for sodium, which is exactly what you want to avoid. Perhaps the trade off is worth it if you can use less, but you need to calculate it carefully.
  • eropple 13y ago
    MSG has something like a third of the sodium content of an equivalent volume of salt.
    • ars 13y ago
      Is volume the right way to measure this? To provide equivalent flavor you use equal volume of salt or MSG?
      • Fargren 13y ago
        You use less MSG, I think. Haven't cooked much with MSG myself, though.
      • eropple 13y ago
        In my experience, you use a lot less MSG. I'll use a relatively large quantity of kosher salt where a little pinch of MSG is sufficient.
      • ahoge 13y ago
        You only need a tiny dash of MSG. If you got a pound of that stuff, it will last you ages.
  • jonknee 13y ago
    I beg to differ. You use less MSG than NaCL and MSG contains 1/3 the sodium of NaCL.