Hydrolyzed Vegetable Protein (HVP) recall leaves food consumers wondering: What

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Hydrolyzed Vegetable Protein (HVP) recall leaves food consumers wondering:

What is this stuff?

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Hydrolyzed Vegetable Protein (HVP) is one of most common soy-based food

" fillers " used to make literally thousands of processed food products. It's

found in veggie burgers, gravy mixes, soups and many other grocery products.

Last Thursday, one of the largest producers of HVP in the United States,

Las Vegas-based Basic Food Flavors Inc., was the subject of an FDA consumer

safety warning announcement. Salmonella had been found contaminating the

company's HVP production equipment, the FDA said, and a nationwide recall was

initiated that now includes products from Trader Joe's, Safeway, McCormick

and many other companies.

 

 

See the FDA list of recalled products here:

(_http://www.accessdata.fda.gov/scrip_

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Most Hydrolyzed Vegetable Protein isn't purchased directly by consumers;

it's used by food production companies as an ingredient in mainstream

processed foods. So it shows up in thousands of grocery products -- and most

consumers are not aware they're eating this ingredient. In fact, many consumers

are, for the first time, asking, " What is HVP? "

 

 

Beware of what's in your groceries

 

 

I wrote about HVP in my 2004 book, " Grocery Warning, " which warned

consumers about a dozen potentially hazardous food ingredients. HVP was just

one

of many ingredients mentioned as a potential source of hidden monosodium

glutamate (MSG).

 

 

MSG, of course, is a potentially dangerous neurotoxin used to flavor

countless processed food products. It's used in soups, salad dressings,

processed meats, gravy mixes, flavored snack chips and virtually every popular

brand of beef jerky. It is considered an " excitotoxin " by Dr. Russell Blaylock,

a neurosurgeon who has written extensively about MSG and its damaging

effects on human neurology.

 

 

According to Blaylock, MSG can promote eating addictions, obesity, brain

cancer, endocrine system disorders, infertility and many serious

neurological disorders. That's why it's so disturbing that MSG is hidden in so

many

natural-sounding ingredients.

 

 

In my Grocery Warning book, I warned readers to avoid all ingredients that

contain the words " hydrolyzed " or " autolyzed. " In addition, Textured

Vegetable Protein (TVP) can also be a source of hidden MSG.

 

 

But the most common source of hidden MSG is yeast extract -- a sneaky

little ingredient found in huge numbers of so-called " natural " foods.

 

 

The dirty little secret of the **natural** foods industry

 

 

HVP, TVP and yeast extract are very common ingredients in the natural /

vegetarian food industry. Most of the popular veggie burgers, for example,

contain HVP, TVP or yeast extract. And that makes them a suspected source of

hidden MSG.

 

 

Even the big snack food companies get in on this act: A bag of " Natural

Doritos " is made with yeast extract, too.

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Also see MSGExposed.com:

_http://www.msgexposed.com/doritos-extreme-msg-dangerously-bold-indeed/_

(http://www.msgexposed.com/doritos-extreme-msg-dangerously-bold-indeed/)

 

 

As far as veggie burger companies go, I'm going to say this bluntly and

boldly: In my opinion, many of the larger corporate foods companies are

selling little more than chemical additives and unhealthy fillers while calling

them " vegetarian " foods. This is why I personally avoid virtually processed

veggie burgers and other vegetarian " meat " alternatives. There are a few

exceptions to this -- just read the ingredients labels to see who's using

HVP, TVP or yeast extract.

 

 

The twisted minds at the FDA...

 

 

What's really interesting about this HVP recall is that the FDA only

considers HVP dangerous when it's possibly contaminated with salmonella. When

HVP is sterile, on the other hand, the FDA considers it " safe. "

 

 

The FDA is so ignorant about the safety of food additive chemicals that it

actually believes aspartame and MSG are safe for human consumption. It's

bizarre: While tens of millions of Americans are poisoning their brains with

diet sodas, the FDA goes crazy over a virtually miniscule risk of

salmonella contamination in TVP -- an ingredient that's usually cooked anyway

(which destroys the salmonella).

 

 

Why isn't the FDA worried about MSG, aspartame, sodium nitrite (causes

cancer) or yeast extract? The FDA's position on food safety boils down to this:

 

 

The FDA's philosophy of food safety:

 

#1) Dead foods are safer than living foods, so KILL IT!

 

#2) Chemicals are safe, but bacteria are dangerous.

 

 

This philosophy explains how the FDA ends up trying to outlaw raw milk

while allowing MSG and aspartame on the GRAS list (Generally Recognized As

Safe).

 

 

Raw milk is dangerous, they say. Why? Because there might be something

living in there. You know, probiotics and that kind of thing. Scary! So the

FDA wants everything as dead as possible. (Including you, most likely.)

 

 

In fact, the FDA describes instant, ready-to-eat food mixes as substances

that have not gone through a " validated kill process. "

 

 

Once the foods are dead, they're presumed safe even if they're loaded with

neurotoxic chemicals and cancer-causing substances. So a hot dog made with

sodium nitrite (a cancer-causing chemical found in most hot dogs) is

considered perfectly safe as long as the hot dog is dead!

 

 

But raw almonds are considered a threat to public health and must now all

be chemically fumigated or irradiated in the USA.

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Are you getting the picture yet? HVP, TVP, MSG, aspartame, sodium nitrite

and other chemical additives are all A-okay with the FDA. They're only

scrutinized when they become contaminated with bacteria. It's the bacteria that

freaks out the FDA, not the chemicals!

 

 

The lesson to the food companies in all this is quite simple: You can

stuff practically any hazardous, cancer-causing, brain-damaging chemical you

want into processed food products as long as the whole mixture is cooked

until its dead. At that point, you may sell it for human consumption, even if

it causes cancer.

 

 

The FDA's outright failure on food safety

 

 

Have you ever seen the FDA take urgent action to ban an unsafe food

ingredient used by the big food corporations?

 

 

It almost never happens. And the really bizarre part is that many of

today's most dangerous food additives were never subjected to safety testing by

the FDA or any other agency -- they were simply grandfathered in and labe

led safe (GRAS) solely because they had been historically used by the food

companies for such a long period of time.

 

 

This is how poisons like MSG got into the food supply. Aspartame, of

course, is a whole different story of corruption and collusion. But the truth

is, there remain hundreds of dangerous chemicals used in food products that

are never scrutinized by the FDA. HVP just barely scratches the surface of

this story.

 

 

Action items: What you can do right now to protect yourself

 

 

#1) READ all food ingredients labels.

 

 

#2) AVOID foods made with any of the following ingredients:

• Hydrolyzed Vegetable Protein

• Textured Vegetable Protein

• Yeast Extract

• Monosodium Glutamate (MSG)

• Aspartame

• Sodium nitrite

 

 

#3) PROTECT your nervous system with superfoods and nutritional

supplements that support healthy brain function: Omega-3 oils, antioxidants,

trace

minerals and of course astaxanthin

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#4) SHARE this story with family and friends who need to know the truth

about what's really in the foods they buy. Most consumers have no idea what's

found in the foods they're eating. Most people don't read food labels, and

as a result they end up eating all kinds of chemical ingredients that

would shock them if they learned the truth.

 

 

#5) LEARN more by reading stories here on NaturalNews about common

chemical food additives:

 

MSG:

_http://www.naturalnews.com/MSG.html_ (http://www.naturalnews.com/MSG.html)

 

 

Yeast Extract:

_http://www.naturalnews.com/yeast_extract.html_

(http://www.naturalnews.com/yeast_extract.html)

 

 

Aspartame:

_http://www.naturalnews.com/aspartame.html_

(http://www.naturalnews.com/aspartame.html)

 

 

Sodium Nitrite:

_http://www.naturalnews.com/sodium_nitrite.html_

(http://www.naturalnews.com/sodium_nitrite.html)

 

 

Hydrogenated oils:

_http://www.naturalnews.com/hydrogenated_oils.html_

(http://www.naturalnews.com/hydrogenated_oils.html)

 

 

 

Sources for this story include:

 

Associated Press:

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CNN:

_http://edition.cnn.com/2010/HEALTH/03/04/flavor.enhancer.recall/?hpt=T2_

(http://edition.cnn.com/2010/HEALTH/03/04/flavor.enhancer.recall/?hpt=T2)

 

FDA list of recalled products:

_http://www.accessdata.fda.gov/scripts/HVPCP/_

(http://www.accessdata.fda.gov/scripts/HVPCP/)