Am I crazy? Ingredients list

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Like many of my friends I occasionally use a prepared mix or sauce as a shortcut in my cooking. One of my favorite suppliers of Asian mixes and sauces is having a Black Friday sale so I was shopping.

I came across a mix for “Chinese Egg Fried Rice” and thought it hilarious, even as an idea, so I looked at the ingredients list:

INGREDIENTS

  • Salt
  • Maltodextrin
  • Sugar
  • Monosodium Glutamate
  • Black Pepper
  • Wheat
  • Soy Sauce Powder
  • Soy Bean
  • Salt
  • Garlic
  • Ginger
  • Acetic Acid
  • Citric Acid
  • Silicon Dioxide THAT!! My level of chemistry is about high school, but isn’t that sand???

What the hell is sand doing in my food?

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Acting as an anti-caking agent apparently. In common usage as such.

Of more interest, is to wonder why salt is listed twice.

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It is safe. Don’t worry. Without it, the otherwise powder will lump together because of moisture.

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Do you know if that list is in % order?

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If so, Robin, it’d be better avoiding it.

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I have no idea, and I missed that they list salt twice.

Also, no white pepper??

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Salty, Salty - so good they named it twice.

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You seriously expect white pepper? I would doubt most Chinese restaurants use white pepper.

I absolutely use prepared spice and sauce mixes, but it wouldn’t even cross my kind to expect them to be anything but a convenient shortcut.

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@Sunshine842

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Yes

The one on the left is mostly white pepper.

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I’ve seen more Chinese recipes that call for white pepper than black.

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White pepper is the secret ingredient in hot and sour soup to bring the heat and some great flavor. In my experience, anyway.

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Oh, me too.

But I still doubt that most Chinese restaurants use it…and still would be surprised if a convenience mix would include it.