Kathleen
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Making your own is better than any store bought brands and easy to do.
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Very true, but it is not what the original poster asked.
Making your own is better than any store bought brands and easy to do.
I've not made chicken stock before, but I used some Swanson chicken stock that I thought had an almost sugary sweetness to it.
Swanson Chicken Stock Ingredients:
INGREDIENTS
CHICKEN BROTH, SALT, MONOSODIUM GLUTAMATE, DEXTROSE, YEAST EXTRACT, CHICKEN FLAVOR, FLAVORING, CORN SYRUP SOLIDS, AUTOLYZED YEAST EXTRACT, CHICKEN FAT, HYDROLYZED SOY PROTEIN, CHICKEN BROTH POWDER.
Just tastes a bit sweet to me. Does homemade stock have sweetness added to it?
Swanson Chicken Stock Ingredients:
INGREDIENTS
CHICKEN BROTH, SALT, MONOSODIUM GLUTAMATE, DEXTROSE, YEAST EXTRACT, CHICKEN FLAVOR, FLAVORING, CORN SYRUP SOLIDS, AUTOLYZED YEAST EXTRACT, CHICKEN FAT, HYDROLYZED SOY PROTEIN, CHICKEN BROTH POWDER.
Just tastes a bit sweet to me. Does homemade stock have sweetness added to it?
Swanson's Chicken Broth, not stock, does not have any sweeteners or MSG, etc. Here are the ingredients for their low sodium chicken broth - I'm reading it right from the can:
"INGREDIENTS: Chicken Stock, contains less then 2% of salt flavoring, yeast extract, carrot juice concentrate, celery juice concentrate, onion juice concentrate."
...I haven't used yeast extract for anything, so I'm trying to get an idea of what it does in something like this.
While we're talking about ingredients, which is really part of the discussion of how well a canned stock approximates homemade, does anyone use yeast extract in their homemade? I haven't. Or is the yeast extract an attempt to emulate the flavor in homemade that comes from long roasting and so not needed in homemade? I haven't used yeast extract for anything, so I'm trying to get an idea of what it does in something like this.
Swanson's Chicken Broth, not stock, does not have any sweeteners or MSG, etc. Here are the ingredients for their low sodium chicken broth - I'm reading it right from the can:
"INGREDIENTS: Chicken Stock, contains less then 2% of salt flavoring, yeast extract, carrot juice concentrate, celery juice concentrate, onion juice concentrate."
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