Mivina chicken. Test: seasonings. What is chicken seasoning and what is it eaten with? Breakthrough on the Ukrainian market

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Seasonings are flavoring substances that are added to food to impart taste, smell, and color. Some of them are even very useful, promoting the secretion of gastric juice. Such as parsley and dill add vitamins to dishes. But I want to talk specifically about one seasoning, which is called Mivina “Chicken” seasoning. It was chosen by most housewives because of its ease of use and is now the top seller among seasonings. It is very convenient to use mivina; I added it to a dish and got a pleasant taste and aroma. It is used for preparing first and second courses. Even I have one and occasionally add it mainly to first courses to enhance the taste.

The composition of the seasoning includes kitchen salt, food mixture for seasonings (corn starch, premium and first grade wheat flour, palm stearin, garlic, emulsifier soy lecithin), flavor and aroma enhancers (glutamate, guanylate and sodium inosinate), sugar, dried vegetables 3 .4% (carrots, onions, red sweet pepper), maltodextrin, flavorings (white chicken meat, chicken), hydrogenated vegetable fat, dried herbs 1.2% (onion, parsley, dill), acidity regulator citric acid, riboflavin dye , dried chicken meat. The composition is simply terrible and this seasoning itself is harmful, especially if you use it instead of salt. With such seasoning it is easy to get a stomach ulcer. As they say, it’s better to drink some water, the benefits will be greater. Mivina is a trademark of the Kharkov company Technocom, which produces semi-finished products. Mivina itself leads to dire consequences; it has long been proven that it is very harmful and can lead to death due to chemical additives and genetic modification. Although it is officially approved for use. I use this seasoning very rarely, so it won’t cause any harm, but with frequent use you can not only harm yourself, I’ve heard that people get used to it, as if it causes addiction. In general, I do not advise anyone to add such chemicals to their dishes. What could be useful in this powder? It’s better to add dill and parsley, it’s healthier and safer.

If you carefully read the composition of chicken seasonings and do some research, it turns out that this seasoning itself is more like flavored colored salt with the addition of dried vegetables. Indeed, chicken seasoning is 70% salt. Of the “chicken ingredients” in the compositions, there is always a flavor identical to natural “chicken”, sometimes chicken fat or dried chicken meat. True, the numbers on the content of chicken ingredients (some manufacturers indicated them) are depressing: if 1% chicken fat is nothing, then 0.02% dried chicken meat in chicken seasoning is sad. So it’s up to the flavoring agents to depict the presence of chicken in the seasonings. The presence of dried vegetables and herbs is beyond doubt - they are clearly visible both in dry mixtures and when preparing broth from seasonings. Slices of carrots or sweet peppers along with dill create an attractive appearance.

In addition to the listed ingredients, all seasonings contain flavor enhancers, three at once: monosodium glutamate (E621), sodium inosinate (E631) and sodium guanylate (E627). To give seasonings and dishes with them a beautiful yellow color, dyes (riboflavin, sugar coloring) and turmeric are used. The fat content and richness of the broth is achieved by adding vegetable oils (palm and sunflower) or chicken fat, as well as starch.

This composition disappoints and scares many consumers. However, there are not so few consumers of chicken seasonings, which would be more correctly called chicken-flavored seasonings. Therefore, it was decided to test them after all.

TESTING
The dough contains 6 chicken seasonings: “Mivina”, “Pripravka”, “Aromatika”, “Rollton”, “Mriya” and “Torchin”. The seasonings were assessed for labeling and packaging, tested in the laboratory for several indicators, and tasted.

Labeling and Packaging
There were no complaints about the packaging of the seasonings, and not so much about the labeling. It is a fairly common occurrence that manufacturers do not indicate E indexes for food additives. A more significant note about the Mriya seasoning: the production date of this product is printed in light golden numbers on a golden background; they can be distinguished with great difficulty. Why not put the numbers in black ink?

Laboratory research
In the laboratory, the seasonings were tested according to several indicators. Check by salt content showed that seasonings consist of 70-73% salt. Which, in principle, is not surprising: in all the tested seasonings, salt is listed first. Let us remind you that the composition of the product must be listed on the label in descending order, which means the ingredient listed in first place is the “biggest”.

We also weighed the seasonings to check. net weight . No underweight was found in any of the samples.

Another interesting area of ​​checking seasonings is determiningamount of flavor enhancer(monosodium glutamate E621). It turned out that its content in seasonings reaches 3483 mg/kg. True, this flavor enhancer can be added to products in amounts up to 10,000 mg/kg. So, there were no violations in this indicator either.

In addition, in seasonings it was decidedlook for chicken. This applies to samples containing dried chicken meat: “Mivina”, “Pripravka” and “Rollton”. Such a search did not give a positive result - no chicken meat was found. However, this is most likely due to the fact that when drying the chicken, the DNA of the meat proteins was completely destroyed, so even the PCR method did not record anything. And the promised amount of chicken meat was too small.

1 - Seasoning, 2 - Mriya, 3 - Torchin, 4 - Mivina, 5 - Aromatika, 6 - Rollton.

Organoleptic evaluation
As for the tasting, it was decided to try the seasonings in the form of a broth, which was prepared based on the recommendations on the packages. There are no special requirements for seasonings. They just have to live up to their name. And although the seasoning could not boast of a pronounced chicken aroma and taste, no frankly unpleasant shades were noted. Comments on the organoleptic properties of seasonings are given in the table.

Center of Expertise TEST (test.org.ua), seasoning test, December-February 2011-12.
Brand) 1	Mivina	Seasoning	Aromatics	Rollton	Mriya	Torchin
Name ) 3	chicken seasoning	chicken seasoning with vegetables	broth-seasoning with chicken flavor		chicken seasoning	universal chicken seasoning
Manufacturer) 3	LLC "Technocom" / Kharkov, Ukraine	Private enterprise "Perfume" / Kharkov, Ukraine	CJSC "European Foods GB" / Russia	LLC "Mareven Food Ukraine" / Belaya Tserkov, Kiev region, Ukraine	LLC "Konditerpromtorg-1"/ Chernigov, Ukraine	LLC "Technocom" / Kharkov, Ukraine
Weight, g/Price, UAH) 2	90 / 2,41	200 / 6,24	100 / 4,16	100 / 3,19	75 / 3,85	90 / 2,86
Price 100g, UAH	2,68	3,12	4,16	3,19	5,13	3,18
Proteins/fats/carbohydrates, g per 100g) 3	0,5/ 6,7/ 19,6	1,6/ 3,6/ 19,0	5,4/ 2,1/ 15,1	0,9/ 0,5/ 14,8	0,1/ 1,8/ 12,5	3,3/ 1,2/ 18,0
Energy value, kcal per 100g) 3	141	111	101	67	66,3	96
Storage life/conditions) 3	C and humidity no more than 75%	C and humidity no more than 75%	24 months / at a temperature not exceeding 20 0 C and humidity no more than 75%	12 months / at a temperature not exceeding 25 0 C and humidity no more than 75%	12 months / at a temperature not exceeding 25 0 C and humidity no more than 75%	12 months / at a temperature not exceeding 25 0 C and humidity no more than 75%
Composition) 3	kitchen salt, food mixture for seasonings (corn starch, premium and first grade wheat flour, palm stearin, garlic, emulsifier soy lecithin), aroma and taste enhancers (glutamate, guanylate and sodium inosinate), sugar, dried vegetables 3.4% ( carrots, onions, red sweet peppers) maltodextrin, flavorings (white chicken meat, chicken), hydrogenated vegetable fat, dried herbs 1.2% (green onions, leeks, parsley, dill), turmeric, acidity regulator citric acid, dried chicken meat 0.02%, riboflavin dye	salt, corn starch, flavor and aroma enhancers (monosodium glutamate E621), palm vegetable fat, dried table carrots, paprika flakes, dried parsley, dried ground onions, turmeric, chicken meat powder, flavor and aroma enhancers (sodium inosinate and guanylate E631, E627), dried dill, food flavoring identical to natural "chicken"	salt, flavor and aroma enhancers (glutamate E621, inosinate E631 and sodium guanylate E627), corn starch, sugar, vegetables (carrots, garlic, parsley, celery, onion), vegetable oils (palm, sunflower), identical to natural and natural flavors ( chicken, pepper), vegetable protein extract, turukma, spice extract (curry), color (riboflavin)	iodized table salt, dried vegetables (carrots, parsnips), modified starch, dried chicken meat (powder), flavor and aroma enhancers (glutamate, inosinate and sodium guanylate), dried herbs (parsley, dill), turmeric, flavoring identical to natural ( chicken), refined vegetable oil, riboflavin dye	kitchen salt, flavor and aroma enhancers: monosodium glutamate, sodium inosinate, corn starch, table carrots, white sugar, food flavoring identical to natural "chicken", dried pepper, vegetable fat, dried onions, turmeric, dried dill, sweet pepper pieces, acidity regulator: food grade citric acid, dried garlic, black pepper, artificial sugar coloring	kitchen salt, aroma and taste enhancers (glutamate, guanylate and sodium inosinate), maltodextrin, dried vegetables 1.8% (carrots, garlic, onions, sweet paprika), chicken flavor (contains egg products), turmeric, chicken fat 1%, dried parsley, ground black pepper
Overall rating (100%)	Great	Great	Fine	Fine	Fine	satisfaction
Marking (10%)	Great	Great	Great	Great	satisfaction	Great
Packaging (10%)	Great	Great	Great	Great	Great	Great
Organoleptic (broth) (80%)	Great	Great	Fine	Fine	Fine	satisfaction
Appearance	opaque, light yellow	opaque, yellow-green, with pieces of paprika and other vegetables	opaque, yellow	very light	lots of dill and vegetables	opaque, yellow-green
Smell	vegetable, pronounced	nice vegetable, rich	vegetable, carrot, not very rich	weak vegetable	pronounced dill	not expressed
Taste	rich, fatty	vegetable, not very rich	vegetable, slightly spicy (hot)	vegetable, slightly watery	not very rich, vegetables and herbs (dill)	not expressed
physical and chemical indicators
Salt, % of 100 g) 4	71,88	73,1	72,53	69,64	71,94	73,11
Monosodium glutamate (E621), mg/kg) 5	2976	1369	1792	3314	3483	2807
Availability of chicken meat	not detected (the declared meat powder in some seasonings may not be identified due to the complete destruction of DNA proteins, and therefore it is not possible to determine the presence of meat protein)
weight, stated/actual, g	90 / 90,1	200 / 200,2	100 / 100,0	100 / 100,0	75 / 76,0	90 / 90,2
Grading scale	Test results apply only to samples that participated in the test. We do not monitor future product changes.
Great	1) - brands are arranged by ratings in descending order, if the ratings coincide - in alphabetical order
Fine	2) - prices are indicated at the time of purchase of samples, January 2012.
satisfactorily	3) - information from the label
Badly	4) the toxic dose is 40 g (lethal - 3 g per 1 kg of weight)
very bad	5) by order of the Chief Sanitary Officer. Doctor of Ukraine No. 37 dated December 27, 1999 - 10000 mg/kg. According to SanPin 4.01.001-97 (Kazakhstan) no more than 5 g/kg (5000 mg/kg), according to SanPin 2.3.2.1293-03 (Russia) no more than 10 g/kg (10000 mg/kg)

If you carefully read the composition of chicken seasonings and do some research, it turns out that this seasoning itself is more like flavored colored salt with the addition of dried vegetables. Indeed, chicken seasoning is 70% salt. Of the “chicken ingredients” in the compositions, there is always a flavor identical to natural “chicken”, sometimes chicken fat or dried chicken meat. True, the numbers on the content of chicken ingredients (some manufacturers indicated them) are depressing: if 1% chicken fat is nothing, then 0.02% dried chicken meat in chicken seasoning is sad. So it’s up to the flavoring agents to depict the presence of chicken in the seasonings. The presence of dried vegetables and herbs is beyond doubt - they are clearly visible both in dry mixtures and when preparing broth from seasonings. Slices of carrots or sweet peppers along with dill create an attractive appearance.

In addition to the listed ingredients, all seasonings contain flavor enhancers, three at once: monosodium glutamate (E621), sodium inosinate (E631) and sodium guanylate (E627). To give seasonings and dishes with them a beautiful yellow color, dyes (riboflavin, sugar coloring) and turmeric are used. The fat content and richness of the broth is achieved by adding vegetable oils (palm and sunflower) or chicken fat, as well as starch.

This composition disappoints and scares many consumers. However, there are not so few consumers of chicken seasonings, which would be more correctly called chicken-flavored seasonings. Therefore, it was decided to test them after all.

TESTING
The dough contains 6 chicken seasonings: “Mivina”, “Pripravka”, “Aromatika”, “Rollton”, “Mriya” and “Torchin”. The seasonings were assessed for labeling and packaging, tested in the laboratory for several indicators, and tasted.

Labeling and Packaging
There were no complaints about the packaging of the seasonings, and not so much about the labeling. It is a fairly common occurrence that manufacturers do not indicate E indexes for food additives. A more significant note about the Mriya seasoning: the production date of this product is printed in light golden numbers on a golden background; they can be distinguished with great difficulty. Why not put the numbers in black ink?

Laboratory research
In the laboratory, the seasonings were tested according to several indicators. Salt content testing showed that the seasonings consist of 70-73% salt. Which, in principle, is not surprising: in all the tested seasonings, salt is listed first. Let us remind you that the composition of the product must be listed on the label in descending order, which means the ingredient listed in first place is the “biggest”.

The seasonings were also weighed to check the net weight. No underweight was found in any of the samples.

Another interesting area of ​​checking seasonings is determining amount of flavor enhancer(monosodium glutamate E621). It turned out that its content in seasonings reaches 3483 mg/kg. True, this flavor enhancer can be added to products in amounts up to 10,000 mg/kg. So, there were no violations in this indicator either.

In addition, in seasonings it was decided look for chicken. This applies to samples containing dried chicken meat: “Mivina”, “Pripravka” and “Rollton”. Such a search did not give a positive result - no chicken meat was found. However, this is most likely due to the fact that when drying the chicken, the DNA of the meat proteins was completely destroyed, so even the PCR method did not record anything. And the promised amount of chicken meat was too small.

1 - Seasoning, 2 - Mriya, 3 - Torchin, 4 - Mivina, 5 - Aromatika, 6 - Rollton.

Organoleptic evaluation
As for the tasting, it was decided to try the seasonings in the form of a broth, which was prepared based on the recommendations on the packages. There are no special requirements for seasonings. They just have to live up to their name. And although the seasoning could not boast of a pronounced chicken aroma and taste, no frankly unpleasant shades were noted. Comments on the organoleptic properties of seasonings are given in the table.

Center of Expertise TEST (website), seasoning test, December-February 2011-12.
Brand) 1	Mivina	Seasoning	Aromatics	Rollton	Mriya	Torchin
Name ) 3	chicken seasoning	chicken seasoning with vegetables	broth-seasoning with chicken flavor		chicken seasoning	universal chicken seasoning
Manufacturer) 3	LLC "Technocom" / Kharkov, Ukraine	Private enterprise "Perfume" / Kharkov, Ukraine	CJSC "Europe Foods GB" / Russia	LLC "Mareven Food Ukraine" / Belaya Tserkov, Kiev region, Ukraine	LLC "Konditerpromtorg-1"/ Chernigov, Ukraine	LLC "Technocom" / Kharkov, Ukraine
Weight, g/Price, UAH) 2	90 / 2,41	200 / 6,24	100 / 4,16	100 / 3,19	75 / 3,85	90 / 2,86
Price 100g, UAH	2,68	3,12	4,16	3,19	5,13	3,18
Proteins/fats/carbohydrates, g per 100g) 3	0,5/ 6,7/ 19,6	1,6/ 3,6/ 19,0	5,4/ 2,1/ 15,1	0,9/ 0,5/ 14,8	0,1/ 1,8/ 12,5	3,3/ 1,2/ 18,0
Energy value, kcal per 100g) 3	141	111	101	67	66,3	96
Storage life/conditions) 3	C and humidity no more than 75%	C and humidity no more than 75%	24 months / at a temperature not exceeding 20 0 C and humidity no more than 75%	12 months / at a temperature not exceeding 25 0 C and humidity no more than 75%	12 months / at a temperature not exceeding 25 0 C and humidity no more than 75%	12 months / at a temperature not exceeding 25 0 C and humidity no more than 75%
Composition) 3	kitchen salt, food mixture for seasonings (corn starch, premium and first grade wheat flour, palm stearin, garlic, emulsifier soy lecithin), aroma and taste enhancers (glutamate, guanylate and sodium inosinate), sugar, dried vegetables 3.4% ( carrots, onions, red sweet peppers) maltodextrin, flavorings (white chicken meat, chicken), hydrogenated vegetable fat, dried herbs 1.2% (green onions, leeks, parsley, dill), turmeric, acidity regulator citric acid, dried chicken meat 0.02%, riboflavin dye	salt, corn starch, flavor and aroma enhancers (monosodium glutamate E621), palm vegetable fat, dried table carrots, paprika flakes, dried parsley, dried ground onions, turmeric, chicken meat powder, flavor and aroma enhancers (inosinate and sodium guanylate E631, E627), dried dill, food flavor identical to natural "chicken"	salt, flavor and aroma enhancers (glutamate E621, inosinate E631 and sodium guanylate E627), corn starch, sugar, vegetables (carrots, garlic, parsley, celery, onion), vegetable oils (palm, sunflower), identical to natural and natural flavors ( chicken, pepper), vegetable protein extract, turukma, spice extract (curry), color (riboflavin)	iodized table salt, dried vegetables (carrots, parsnips), modified starch, dried chicken meat (powder), flavor and aroma enhancers (glutamate, inosinate and sodium guanylate), dried herbs (parsley, dill), turmeric, flavoring identical to natural ( chicken), refined vegetable oil, riboflavin dye	kitchen salt, flavor and aroma enhancers: monosodium glutamate, sodium inosinate, corn starch, table carrots, white sugar, food flavoring identical to natural "chicken", dried pepper, vegetable fat, dried onions, turmeric, dried dill, sweet pepper pieces, acidity regulator: food grade citric acid, dried garlic, black pepper, artificial sugar coloring	kitchen salt, aroma and taste enhancers (glutamate, guanylate and sodium inosinate), maltodextrin, dried vegetables 1.8% (carrots, garlic, onions, sweet paprika), chicken flavor (contains egg products), turmeric, chicken fat 1%, dried parsley, ground black pepper
Overall rating (100%)	Great	Great	Fine	Fine	Fine	satisfaction
Marking (10%)	Great	Great	Great	Great	satisfaction	Great
Packaging (10%)	Great	Great	Great	Great	Great	Great
Organoleptic (broth) (80%)	Great	Great	Fine	Fine	Fine	satisfaction
Appearance	opaque, light yellow	opaque, yellow-green, with pieces of paprika and other vegetables	opaque, yellow	very light	lots of dill and vegetables	opaque, yellow-green
Smell	vegetable, pronounced	nice vegetable, rich	vegetable, carrot, not very rich	weak vegetable	pronounced dill	not expressed
Taste	rich, fatty	vegetable, not very rich	vegetable, slightly spicy (hot)	vegetable, slightly watery	not very rich, vegetables and herbs (dill)	not expressed
Physical and chemical indicators
Salt, % of 100 g) 4	71,88	73,1	72,53	69,64	71,94	73,11
Monosodium glutamate (E621), mg/kg) 5	2976	1369	1792	3314	3483	2807
Availability of chicken meat	not detected (the declared meat powder in some seasonings may not be identified due to the complete destruction of DNA proteins, and therefore it is not possible to determine the presence of meat protein)
weight, stated/actual, g	90 / 90,1	200 / 200,2	100 / 100,0	100 / 100,0	75 / 76,0	90 / 90,2
Grading scale	Test results apply only to samples that participated in the test. We do not monitor future product changes.
Great	1) - brands are arranged by ratings in descending order, if the ratings coincide - in alphabetical order
Fine	2) - prices are indicated at the time of purchase of samples, January 2012.
satisfactorily	3) - information from the label
Badly	4) the toxic dose is 40 g (lethal - 3 g per 1 kg of weight)
very bad	5) by order of the Chief Sanitary Officer. Doctor of Ukraine No. 37 dated December 27, 1999 - 10000 mg/kg. According to SanPin 4.01.001-97 (Kazakhstan) no more than 5 g/kg (5000 mg/kg), according to SanPin 2.3.2.1293-03 (Russia) no more than 10 g/kg (10000 mg/kg)