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Take the sauce in a chinese stir fry. Its ingredients: water, corn starch, and msg. Maybe some other things (flavorings). That's not too much different than pu
by 001sky 13y ago
Take the sauce in a chinese stir fry. Its ingredients: water, corn starch, and msg. Maybe some other things (flavorings). That's not too much different than putting msg in fruit juice. In the sense that the msg is in a sugar solution with no natural chemistry mitigants or fiber. Because its ~suspended in solution, its not clear its uptake would be regulated by adjacet fiber.
In research, the rats used as controls were fed nutritious
food. Given a choice of water and alcohol to drink, these rats chose water. Rats fed [msg laced] junk food chose alcohol to drink over water.
Unrelated, but interesting.
- jzwinck 13y ago> Rats fed [msg laced] junk food chose alcohol to drink over water. Beer goes great with salty food. We know this already, but why?
- 001sky 13y agoStimulant (msg) and depressant (achohol) would be my guess.
- brianleb 13y agoA simplified explanation: Salty food causes you to retain fluid due to osmotic pressure (see one of my other comments in this link). Alcohol is a diuretic, which causes you to expel fluid. There are more reasons, but this is the easiest to understand.
- zeroonetwothree 13y agoWine and many other alcoholic drinks don't go well with salty food. Clearly it just has to do with the flavor of beer specifically.