Soy controversy

[Guest guest]

Silver Hills has a nice line if sprouted breads that have no soy

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DonandBarb49088

Tuesday, February 01, 2005 1:49 PM

Re: [s-A] Re: Soy controversy

 

 

 

In a message dated 2/1/2005 12:39:21 PM Central Standard Time,

healthreflection writes:

With that being said, I have noticed there is not a loaf of bread on

the market that doesn't have soybean oil in it so I've ordered

organic wheat berries to begin making our own and wondered if anyone

had a suggestion for a good quality bread maker?

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What area are you in? I live in W. Michigan. I've found one commercial

brand without soy at MY local supermart. Kopplingers has one version that

appears to have no soy. I'm coming off of a mostly vegetarian diet that has

been

using soy everything. So I'm still looking at some of the lesser soy stuff as

a minor irritant. One day I realized I was having soy sausage, bread with

soy and soy butter for breakfast along with soy in my coffee creamer and

cocoa.

Rather than waste the time the rest of the meals weren't much different. Add

in soy drinks and snacks with soy and I finally cracked. Now I'm working

backwards Don

 

 

[Guest guest]

Hello Don,

 

 

 

Well, we're almost neighbors. I was born in Michigan! You'll find us now in

Iowa smack dab in the middle of corn and soybeans fields! No we don't raise

either one.

 

 

 

Thank you. I appreciate the name of Kopplingers and Silver Hills, neither of

which I can locate here (even tried the Co-Op buying club). But did locate

Silver Hills website that I could order from! I've enjoyed various sprouted

breads in the past until the addition of soy additives. look forward to

trying this new brand. Thank you Blue.Willow!

 

http://www.silverhillsbakery.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=pages.showpage

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Don, do not get discouraged as many of us are in the same boat with you

having to determine where to draw the line and needing to become diligent

detectives. short of becoming a our own pioneer and making everything from

scratch.

 

Make note that Soy goes by many aliases. Food processors are less likely to

list the three-letter word " soy " than a technical term such as " textured

vegetable protein (TVP), " textured plant protein " , " hydrolyzed vegetable

protein (HVP) " , " vegetable protein concentrate " , " vegetable oil " or " MSG

(monosodium glutamate) " . Ingredient lists also include words such as

" lecithin " , " vegetable oil " , " vegetable broth " , " bouillon " , " natural flavor "

or " mono-diglyceride " that do not necessarily, but are likely to, come from

soy.

.. Food labels and ingredient lists change. Check them every single time.

Manufacturers can switch the ingredients used in food products without

warning. Allergic consumers need to check the labels every time they make a

purchase and ask about ingredients every time they eat at a restaurant or

purchase food at a deli. To make things easier, many allergic people carry

cards listing foods on their " no " lists.

.. Products may be mislabeled or contain undeclared soy. The only solution

here is to hope and pray, and make your own food from scratch using known

ingredients.

.. Cross-contamination occurs. Improperly cleaned pans, plates, utensils and

cutting boards at restaurant or delis, bins at health food stores or vats at

the factory can contaminate food with traces of soy. All it takes is a bit

of old soy oil or soy protein residue to trigger severe reactions in people

who are highly susceptible.

.. Soy may be in the package as well as its contents. Soy protein isolate

used in the manufacture of paperboard boxes can flake off and migrate into

food. In the future, some foods may be shrink-wrapped in an edible soy-based

plastic. I even saw a TV show yesterday that foam insulation is being made

from soy and they were demonstrating that it could be eaten, UGH! So my

youngest son asked what would keep mice from eating it <grin>?!

.. Soy can be breathed in as well as eaten. Expect soy dust in some bakeries

and shipyards, and in the bulk bin aisle of your health food store.

.. Soy may be in your pills. Vitamins, over-the-counter drugs and

prescriptions may contain an unwanted dose of soy. Beware of pills with soy

oil bases, vitamin E derived from soy oil, and soy components such as

isoflavones. The inhaler Atrovent is just one of many pharmaceutical

products containing unexpected soy.

.. Soy is the latest thing in just about everything. Soy inks, paints,

plastics, carpets, mattresses, cars, candles, etc. are just a few of the

industrial products that may be green for the environment but deadly for

highly allergic persons.

 

Christine

 

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