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Mono Sodium Glutamate as a Substitute for Sodium Chloride in Indian Diets


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1 Department of Food Science and Nutrition, Avinashilingam Institute for Home Science and Higher Education for Women, Coimbatore – 641 043, India
     

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Glutamate in the free form is abundantly found in all natural foods and it has been used as a flavour enhancer for more than thousand years across the world. It is a multifunctional amino acid. Around 50g of glutamate is synthesised in the body and 20 to 40 g is obtained from the food every day. In the central nervous system glutamate is the dominant excitatory neurotransmitter as it regulates several neuronal related functions in the body. Human and animal studies indicate that glutamate is the major oxidative fuel for the gut and the dietary glutamate is extensively metabolised by the intestine.
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Authors

S. Premakumari
Department of Food Science and Nutrition, Avinashilingam Institute for Home Science and Higher Education for Women, Coimbatore – 641 043, India
U. K. Lakshmi
Department of Food Science and Nutrition, Avinashilingam Institute for Home Science and Higher Education for Women, Coimbatore – 641 043, India
M. Amirthaveni
Department of Food Science and Nutrition, Avinashilingam Institute for Home Science and Higher Education for Women, Coimbatore – 641 043, India

Abstract


Glutamate in the free form is abundantly found in all natural foods and it has been used as a flavour enhancer for more than thousand years across the world. It is a multifunctional amino acid. Around 50g of glutamate is synthesised in the body and 20 to 40 g is obtained from the food every day. In the central nervous system glutamate is the dominant excitatory neurotransmitter as it regulates several neuronal related functions in the body. Human and animal studies indicate that glutamate is the major oxidative fuel for the gut and the dietary glutamate is extensively metabolised by the intestine.

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