Thank you very much. I just checked the vitamins DH had given me and sure enough they contained soy. So those are eliminated as of now.
It looks like I have to give up Rice Chex as well because they have vitamin E (tocopherols) which is a form of soy according to this site.
(I have to find that list.) I'll be calling General Foods tomorrow.
Gloria
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Joan,
I'm not sure what's in Rice Chex, offhand, but the natural form of vitamin E (d-alpha tocopherol), should be OK, regardless of it's source.
http://www.mercola.com/forms/vitamine.htm
Tex
I'm not sure what's in Rice Chex, offhand, but the natural form of vitamin E (d-alpha tocopherol), should be OK, regardless of it's source.
http://www.mercola.com/forms/vitamine.htm
Tex
It is suspected that some of the hardest material known to science can be found in the skulls of GI specialists who insist that diet has nothing to do with the treatment of microscopic colitis.
I have a shelf full of vitamins that I've had to stop using because they've contained soy or corn. I'm still testing the corn. I've saved the soy vitamins for DH to use.
I feel like an idiot. I just checked the vitamin E supplements I've been taking to see if they have the natural form that Tex mentioned. They have soybean oil in them.
I didn't even think to check them when I bought them. Don't do as I do, do as I say....
Gloria
I feel like an idiot. I just checked the vitamin E supplements I've been taking to see if they have the natural form that Tex mentioned. They have soybean oil in them.
I didn't even think to check them when I bought them. Don't do as I do, do as I say....Gloria
You never know what you can do until you have to do it.
Gloria,
The "oils" issue has been puzzling us for quite some time, and every so often this issue surfaces. In the past, we've had discussions about whether or not there are any reactive proteins in oils. The manufacturers claim that their oils are "safe" from an allergy viewpoint, because all proteins are removed during the refining process. On the other hand, Polly, myself, and several others here have felt that we sometimes react to certain oils, despite what the "official" position claims, (most food industry experts agree that refined oils do not contain protein).
Apparently, this issue may depend on the nature of the refining process that is used. Consider this quote:
http://www.foodsafety.gov/~dms/alrgn.html
This article was prepared in conjunction with the development of the FALCPA project, prior to the January 1, 2006 date that the law took effect. The quote above is from the "Exposure" section, under "Processing Effects". I interpret "inconsistently" to mean that sometimes they are there, and sometimes they are not. That makes using unrefined oils an invitation to disaster, and using refined oils a roll of the dice.
Tex
The "oils" issue has been puzzling us for quite some time, and every so often this issue surfaces. In the past, we've had discussions about whether or not there are any reactive proteins in oils. The manufacturers claim that their oils are "safe" from an allergy viewpoint, because all proteins are removed during the refining process. On the other hand, Polly, myself, and several others here have felt that we sometimes react to certain oils, despite what the "official" position claims, (most food industry experts agree that refined oils do not contain protein).
Apparently, this issue may depend on the nature of the refining process that is used. Consider this quote:
This comes from:Soy. Heating soybeans at 100ºC for 60 minutes does not completely eliminate IgE binding to allergenic soy proteins (Burks et al., 1992). Various soybean products including sprouts, soy sauce, hydrolyzed soy protein tofu, miso, and lecithin all retained IgE-binding activity (Besler et al., 2001). IgE binding proteins have been found in soy lecithin (Gu et al., 2001; Porras et al., 1985; Paschke et al., 2001). Allergic reactions to soy lecithin have also been reported (Renaud, 1996; Palm, 1999). The protein content of soy lecithin has been reported to vary between 2.8-202 mg per 100 g (Besler et al., 2001; Paschke et al., 2001). IgE binding proteins have been detected in unrefined soybean oils (Paschke et. al., 2001), but inconsistently in refined oil (Awazuhara et al., 1998; Paschke et al., Errahali et al., 2002)
http://www.foodsafety.gov/~dms/alrgn.html
This article was prepared in conjunction with the development of the FALCPA project, prior to the January 1, 2006 date that the law took effect. The quote above is from the "Exposure" section, under "Processing Effects". I interpret "inconsistently" to mean that sometimes they are there, and sometimes they are not. That makes using unrefined oils an invitation to disaster, and using refined oils a roll of the dice.
Tex
It is suspected that some of the hardest material known to science can be found in the skulls of GI specialists who insist that diet has nothing to do with the treatment of microscopic colitis.