The present invention relates to a method for rapidly determining the L-
glutamic acid in food. The method comprises: 
grinding or 
mincing a 
solid or semi-
solid sample by using a suitable tool, weighing a proper amount of the grinded or minced sample, adding an appropriate 
solvent, homogenizing, carrying out centrifuged separation, and filtering to obtain a free L-
glutamic acid extraction liquid, or carrying out 
protein hydrolysis to obtain the L-
glutamic acid extraction liquid constituting the 
protein structure (the liquid sample is directly filtered without the pretreatment); properly diluting the 
sample extraction liquid, and adjusting the pH value to 8.6; reducing 
nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide (NAD<+>) into 
nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide (NADH) in the presence of 
glutamate dehydrogenase(GIDH) through the L-glutamic acid of the sample detection liquid, and carrying out a reaction on the NADH and iodonitrotrtrazolium 
chloride (INT) under the effect of 
diaphorase to generate formazan; and determining the absorption peak of the formazan at 490 nm by using a light-absorption 
microplate reader, and calculating the L-glutamic 
acid content in the sample according to the absorption value of the formazan by using an external standard method. According to the present invention, the detection method has characteristics of simple operation, good accuracy, fastness, high 
throughput, easy popularization, and the like.