The biggest misunderstanding on salty essence is to consider that salty food essence is condiment. As other food essences, salty food essence is a kind of additives in food production. It can not be eaten directly. It is neither raw material in kitchen nor flavoring in table. Security requirements and management on salty essence during manufacture, sale and using must accord with food essence requirements. It can not follow the requirements on food and condiment.

Misunderstanding on food essence:

1. It is consider that it’s bad to add salty essence for salty food. Nowadays, people like to eat instant and convenient food, rich and abundant flavor for the improvement of modern social living standard and fast pace of life. All of these requirements only can be realized by food essence. The popularization of high blood pressure, high blood lipids, fatty liver make more and more people want to eat plant protein food, such as bean product.

2. Only use food essence in developing countries, while, it is seldom apply food essence in food processing in developed countries. In fact, essence is one signals of society richness. Essence consumption is higher in developed countries. China’s essence consumption per capita is far lower than other developed countries.