- Monosodium glutamate or what we know as MSG is often added in the food to taste more tasty. Not a bit of food in packaging or processed mills containing MSG.
The savory taste of MSG is what makes a lot of kids really like snack pack snacks at the stall. Nutritionist from Health Polytechnic of Ministry of Health Jakarta II, Dr. Marudut, MPS said, children should not be introduced early foods that contain additional MSG.
"If the child becomes a habit of eating tasty food, then with other food is not good, so children do not want to consume a variety of healthy foods," Marabut said in a discussion of Smart Frisian Flag Indonesia in Jakarta, Thursday (26/1/2017).
Children will prefer the consumption of savory snacks such as chips, than healthy balanced nutritious foods such as vegetables or fruits that taste is not as snack hawker