On Fri, 11 Dec 2020 11:06:12 -0500, songbird wrote:

> since the great soy sauce wars are in full kung fu mode
> here i thought i would write up what we bought the other
> day to try out.
>
> some years before i had picked up another bottle of
> mushroom soy sauce to try it out as i know Mom loves
> mushrooms. while it is always a risk that she won't try
> anything new, she actually did use it and liked it for
> cooking. a few weeks ago we ran out and she kept
> reminding me that we needed to get some more.
>
> this time i picked up a bottle of Healthy Boy Brand
> Mushroom Soy Sauce - Made in Tailand.
>
> i just tasted it and it's pretty good. not as dark
> as the kind we had before but to me i don't care about
> the color as much as the taste.
>
>
> the ingredient list states:
>
> "Naturally fermented from select soybeans and mushroom
> in the modern process."
>
> Ingredients :
> Water, Defatted Soybean, Wheat, Salt, Sugar, Mushroom
> extract,
>
> Flavor enhancers : Monosodium glutamate, Disodium-5
> Inosinate, Disodium 5 Guanylate,
>
> Preservative : Sodium Benzolate
>
> Natural Color : Caramel, Artificial Mushroom Flavor
>
> what a mess of a label, but anyways, i'm not all that
> keen on MSG but i'm sure i won't notice it in the
> quantities we use this stuff. since we normally don't
> add salt to much of what we cook i would notice MSG
> and soy sauce added to about anything unless it was
> used very sparingly.
>
> as a sippin' sauce it was good. haha, not sure i
> would want it on the rocks.
>
>
> songbird

In the UK you can buy mushroom ketchup, which looks like soy sauce. I have
a 19C recipe that uses an enormous amount of mushrooms. The modern stuff
is, ISTR, coloured with caramel.