Table 1.

Consumer overall liking and sodium contents of vegetable rice porridge and soft tofu stew sauce containing various concentrations of salt or salt with MSG.

Foods	Refined Salt (%)	MSG (%)	OL 1	Sodium Contents (mg/kg)
Vegetable rice porridge	0.55	0	6.0 a 2	2271.5 ± 1.6 3
	0.50	0	5.9 a	2018.4 ± 12.1
	0.44	0	5.5 ab	1804.5 ± 14.0
	0.39	0	5.0 b	1595.3 ± 19.7
	0.55	0	5.4 b	2271.5 ± 1.6
	0.39	0.01	5.4 b	1594.1 ± 37.2
	0.39	0.04	5.6 b	1638.8 ± 9.1
	0.39	0.16	6.6 a	1752.2 ± 47.3
Soft tofu stew sauce	0.40	0	5.4 a	1949.8 ± 3.4
	0.36	0	5.1 a	1764.4 ± 15.2
	0.32	0	5.1 ab	1637.7 ± 11.9
	0.28	0	5.0 b	1474.5 ± 12.8
	0.40	0	5.5 b	1949.8 ± 3.4
	0.28	0.01	4.8 b	1483.9 ± 4.1
	0.28	0.04	5.2 b	1530.1 ± 15.7
	0.28	0.16	5.8 a	1681.9 ± 4.6

¹ Overall liking. ² Means with different letters in the same column for each food are significantly different (p < 0.05). ³ Mean ± standard deviation.