Great Taste Yet Less Salt For Better Health - September 2025

Make it Tasty, Not Salty Sodium contained in salt is an important micronutrient that aids fluid balance and maintenance of blood pressure, but not when over consumed. The World Health Organization (WHO) recommends less than 5g daily salt intake for adults1. However, Malaysians consume about 7.9g of salt daily2, which may come from excess salt and soy sauce in cooking, eating processed food, eating out, etc. Salt helps to make food delicious but you don’t need too much of it. In fact, you can reduce salt and still maintain the deliciousness of food by using AJI-NO-MOTO® umami seasoning/flavour enhancer. What is Umami? But what is umami, you may ask? Originating from Japan, umami is the fifth taste after sweet, sour, salty and bitter. Umami taste can be found in a variety of food including meat, fish and vegetables. AJI-NO-MOTO® is able to provide the taste of umami and is commonly used in daily cooking. Unlike your regular table salt (sodium chloride), glutamate in AJI-NO-MOTO® umami seasoning (monosodium glutamate) is a type of amino acid naturally found in tomatoes, seaweed, dried mushroom which enhances the umami or savoury taste in food. AJI-NO-MOTO® umami seasoning has three times lesser sodium than table salt3. Dishes cooked with AJI-NO-MOTO® require lesser salt usage for the same deliciousness, a healthier choice for lower sodium intake. AJI-NO-MOTO® umami seasoning has three times lesser sodium than table salt. Less salt doesn’t mean bland food. With AJI-NO-MOTO® application, it is possible to reduce overall salt intake while maintaining the same deliciousness. Great Taste yet Less Salt Recipe Use AJI-NO-MOTO® to reduce the amount of salt in your cooking. In this low salt recipe, AJI-NO-MOTO® is used to substitute half the amount of the salt compared to the original recipe. With this, you are able to provide a healthier meal for your family, without sacrificing the taste! Let's Try the Recipe with AJI-NO-MOTO® To find out more about AJI-NO-MOTO ®, please visit the Ajinomoto Malaysia and Umami Global Website and their Facebook: Sedapedia here. References: 1. WHO Salt Reduction. Retrieved from www.who.int/news-room/fact-sheets/detail/salt-reduction 2. Malaysian Community Salt Study (MyCOSS 2017/2018) 3. Henney J. E., editor; Taylor C. L., editor; & Boon C. S., editor. (Eds.) (2010). Institute of Medicine IOM (Institute of Medicine) ? strategies to reduce sodium intake in the United States. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. Retrieved from www.ajinomoto.com/umami/what-is-msg/

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