I offer my version of the KFC recipe which has been tested and tweaked to taste just like the original. I'd like to hear a critique from someone who has actually tried the recipe.
The fact is KFC chicken does contain MSG along with many other foods which you may not be aware of (some listed below).
You are probably eating MSG everyday and you don't know it. It's like saying "I won't drink the water in Mexico" but then having ice cubes in your Margarita in Cancun.
Ingested in small amounts, MSG won't affect you unless you are MSG sensitive.
For the facts about MSG go to:
http://www.msgtruth.org/
FYI - The following foods contain MSG or its business end - the free amino acid glutamate - in amounts large enough to cause reactions in those sensitive to it.:
The Following McDonald's Items:
Grilled Chicken Filet
Hot and Spicy Chicken Patty
Grilled Chicken Ceasar Salad
Grilled Chicken California Cobb Salad
Seasoned Beef
Sausage Scrambled Egg Mix, Sausage, and Sausage Patty
This doesn't even include the items at McDonald's that have MSG-containing soy sauce, natural flavors or hydrolyzed protein which can contain up to 20% free glutamic acid - the business end of MSG.
Other foods containing MSG:
- Doritos®
- Pringles® (the flavored varieties)
- KFC® fried chicken and most of their other products
- Boar's Head® cold cuts and most of their hotdogs
- Progresso® Soups
- Lipton® Noodles and Sauce
- Lipton® Instant soup mix
- Gravy Master®
- Cup-a-soup® or Cup-o-Noodles®
- Planters® salted nuts - most of them
- Accent®
- sausages - most supermarkets add MSG to theirs
- processed cheese spread
- supermarket poultry or turkeys that are injected or "self-basting"
- restaurant gravy from food service cans
- flavored ramen noodles
- boullion - any kind
- instant soup mixes
- many salad dressings
- most salty, powdered dry food mixes - read labels
- flavored potato chips
- restaurant soups made from food service soup base or with added MSG
- monopotassium glutamate
- glutamic acid
- gelatin
- hydrolyzed vegetable protein (found in many processed AMERICAN foods, like canned tuna and even hot dogs)
- hydrolyzed plant protein (found in many processed AMERICAN foods, like canned tuna and even hot dogs)
- autolyzed yeast (found in many processed AMERICAN foods, read labels)
- sodium caseinate
- textured protein
- yeast extract
- yeast food or nutrient
- soy protein isolate
- soy sauce
- Worcestershire sauce
- Kombu extract
- dry milk and whey powder
- "natural flavors" - may contain MSG
- carageenan
- dough conditioners
- body builder drink powders containing protein
- Parmesan cheese - naturally high in free glutamate
- over-ripe tomatoes - naturally high in free glutamate
- mushrooms - naturally high in free glutamate
- Medications in gelcaps - contain free glutamic acid in the gelatin
- Cosmetics and shampoos - some now contain glutamic acid
- Fresh produce sprayed with Auxigro in the field.
Source: http://www.msgtruth.org/