DIET TO CHECK FOR—SOY ALLERGY If you want to confirm the

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DIET TO CHECK FOR—SOY ALLERGY
If you want to confirm the presence of a soy allergy, try the following:
FIRST: Only "allowed" foods listed are permitted for one or two full weeks. Notice if
the patient is the same or better in any way when soy or soy-containing foods are not
consumed.
SECOND: Check with your doctor after all soy products have been stopped for two
weeks (or sooner if the patient is perfectly well). Your doctor will decide when these
foods should be re-added to the diet. If symptoms recur, check with your doctor.
Your doctor has found that you are allergic to soy and soy products. This diet will help
you stay healthy by showing you how to avoid the many possible sources of soy, which is
found in many processed foods. Check the labels of all foods you buy for the presence of
ingredients that you must NOT eat.:
Cereal (unless another source is noted)
Soy protein isolate
Miso
Tamari
Soya
Vegetable broth (unless another
Soybeans
source is indicated)
Soy flour
Vegetable protein
Soy protein
(unless another source is indicated)
Some soy by-products are allowed because the protein (which is the portion that causes
allergies) has been removed in processing. You ARE allowed to eat:
Hydrolyzed soy protein
Lecithin
(also hydrolyzed vegetable protein or
Soy or soy bean oil
hydrolyzed plant protein).
Different brands of the same food may contain different ingredients. Also, food
manufactures sometimes change the ingredients they use, so periodically check the labels,
even of foods you routinely use.
PLANNING YOUR DIET
The following foods usually do not contain soy and may be eaten. These are not the only
foods you are allowed however. If you read labels carefully, you will find many other
soy-free products in each of these categories.
Cereals, grain products
Any cereal or baked goods with no soy products on
baked products on label; rice barley, rye wheat,
oats.
Dairy products
Milk, cheese, butter, yogurt.
C A N Y O N
Eggs, meat,
fish
Any-fresh or frozen- without prepackaged sauces,
breading, or gravy: check label to avoid "soy meat
extenders."
Fruits and vegetables
any without sauce or breading: may be fresh, frozen,
or canned.
Snacks and condiments
Unflavored potato chips, corn chips, popcorn,
gelatin, cookies and crackers, without soy products,
ketchup, mustard, peanut butter, jelly.
COMMON CONTACTS WITH SOY BEAN
Soy beans have been grown in Asia for centuries, especially in China. To the Orientals
they have been their bread, meat and oil. Since 1804, American farmers have grown soy
beans and fed them to livestock or plowed under for fertilizer.
In the past few years chemists have found many uses for this bean and soy beans
are proving to be a treasure and a bonanza.
FOODS CONTAINING SOY BEAN OR MADE FROM SOY BEAN
Bakery goods:
Soy bean flour containing only 1% oil is now used by many bakers in their dough
mixtures for breads, cakes, rolls, and pastries. This keeps them moist and soluble for
several days longer. The roasted nuts are used in place of peanuts on breakfast rolls. Kbiscuits and several crisp crackers have soy bean flour in them.
Sauces:
Oriental Show You Sauce
Sexton's Chop Suey Sauce
Sexton's Sirloin Sauce
Maull's Steak Sauce
Lea and Perrins Sauce
LaChoy Sauce
Heinz Worcestershire sauce
Sexton's Mushroom Sauce
Deiley Steak Sauce
Cereals:
The following cereals contain soy, Sunlets, made by American Dietaids Co., Yonkers,
N.Y., Cellu Soy Flakes, Corn Soya Shreds, made by Kellogg's Cereal Co.
Salad Dressings:
Crosse and BlackwelFs salad dressing
E-P-K French dressing, Price flavoring and Extract co., Chicago
Richelieu Thousand Island Dressing
Barra's Wine Dressing
Trader Vic's Salad Dressing
Miracle Sandwich Spread
Cellu-Soyanaise
Cellu-French Dressing
Kraft's Miracle Dressing
Many of the salad dressings and mayonnaise's contain soy oil, but only show on the label
that they contain vegetable oil. When using a particular brand of either dressing or
mayonnaise, inquiry should be made as to the contents.
Meats:
Pork link sausage and lunch meats may contain soy beans. The allergic individual should
buy only pure meat products.
SOY-FREE DIET
If you are feeling frustrated or helpless because you have a food allergy, you are not
alone. It has been estimated that up to 60% of Americans have shown signs of food
allergy at one time or another. Of those, approximately 10% exhibit symptoms serious
enough to see a doctor. Normally, a food allergy does not just appear overnight, It is a
progressive disease that usually results from foods eaten regularly, if not daily. Because
of this, the offending food is very difficult to diagnose and a method of trial diets must be
used. Once this has been done, you can begin to eliminate the food completely from your
diet and incorporate acceptable substitutes.
Nearly any type of food can cause an allergic reaction is susceptible people. The most
common offenders include cow's milk, eggs, fish, shellfish, nuts, corn, cereal grains,
chocolate, citrus fruits, peanuts, and soy products. It is even possible to be allergic to a
food you have never eaten merely because it is related to an offending food in a related
animal or botanical group.
The following diet excludes all soybeans and soybean products such as vegetable protein,
lecithin, flour and vegetable oil. The presence of soy must be checked very carefully as it
is used freely as a filler and is often not listed as an ingredient on prepared foods. You
must read all labels before buying and check with the manufacturer when in doubt.
Types and amounts of food:
Soups
As desired
Include:
Soups prepared without
soy or soy products
Omit:
Soups containing soy
or soy products
Meat and Meat substitutes:
2-3 servings
Beef, chicken, ham, kidney
lamb, liver, pork, turkey,
veal, fish, sausage and
luncheon meats made
Cold cuts or sausages
containing a soy
additive, hamburger
with soy protein,
without soy filler, eggs,
peanut butter, cheese,
burgers made with
textured veg protein
veggie
cottage cheese
products fried in soy
oil, fish in soy oil
Soybeans, soybean
sprouts, veg prepared
with soy sauce
Vegetables
2 or more servings
Any canned cooked or
frozen or raw
Potato and Potato substitutes:
2 or more servings
White and sweet potatoes
macaroni, noodles, rice
spaghetti
spaghetti made with
soy flour, products
cooked with soy
Breads:
3 or more servings
Breads and rolls prepared
without soybean flour
Soy bread, "cornmeal
bread, breads
containing soy oil
Cereals:
1 or more servings
Cooked or ready to eat
cereals without soy
Cereals containing
soy flour, soy oil veg
protein
Fruits and fruit juices:
2 or more servings
All
None
Fats
3 or more servings
Butter, margarine, cream
bacon, shortening, oils that
do not contain soy
Soybean oil, margarin
or shortening, salad
dressing containing
soybean oil as an
ingredient
Desserts:
moderation
gelatin, custard, cornstarch
puddings, homemade ice
cream, sherbet, cake, cookies
pastries, pies
Commercial ice
cream, most
commercial bakery
products
Milk
Milk, 2% milk, skim milk
evaporated milk, non fat
dry milk
Soy milk, commercial
milkshakes
Beverages:
Water as desired, tea
carbonated beverages
fruit drinks, coffee
Excessive use of
sugared and caffeine
drinks
Miscellaneous:
sauce
Salt, sugar, honey, jelly,
syrup, chocolate, cocoa
catsup, mustard, olives,
pickles, vinegar, pepper
Lecithin, soy
Worcestershire sauce
steak sauce, toasted
soybeans, caramel
herbs, spices
candies, excessive use
of salt or sugar
FOODS ALLOWED AND NOT ALLOWED
ALLOWED
Cereals:
Most hot and cold cereals
NOT ALLOWED
NOT SURE
Nature Valley Granola cereal Beechnut Oatmeal
Nature Valley Granola bars
Beechnut Mixed
cereal
Crunchola Breakfast bars
Carnation Breakfast bars
General Mills Breakfast squares
Post Fortified Oat Flakes
Kellogg's Fruit Loops
Kellogg's Raisin Bran
Beechnut Cornmeal
Gerber mixed cereal
Gerber Rice cereal
Gerber High Protein cereal
Beechnut Rice cereal
Gerber Oatmeal
Baked goods:
Sara Lee Frozen
All Betty Crocker, Jiffy, Duncan
doughnuts, Betty
Hines, Pillsbury cake mixes
Crocker
Fluffy white
Jello instant Cheesecake
Frosting mix, Canned
All Nestle, Quaker Oats, Betty
Crocker and Duncan Hines cookie fruit pie filling, Log
cabin Instant pancake
mix, Johnston's Ready crust,
All Jiffy, Betty Crocker pie crust
mixes, Kellogg's Pop Tarts, Mrs.
Smiths frozen pies, Morton frozen
mini pies, All ready to spread canned
frosting, most frosting mixes, All
dairy case ready to bake pastries,
all frozen cakes and pastries, HoHo
fruit pies and cup cakes, most
commercially baked cookies, Gerber
Arrowroot cookies for toddlers, Gerber
teething biscuits, Aunt Jemima instant
pancakes, Pillsbury instant pancakes,
most frozen doughnuts.
Pizza:
Appian Way mix for cheese Appian Way mix for Regular pizza La Pizzeria frozen
Stouffer's, Tony's frozen
La Crosia Pizza
pizza
Chef Boyardee mix for cheese pizza Robin Hood Pizza
Beverages:
Tea
Coffee (brewed)
Soft drinks
Fruit drinks
Bread:
Pepperidge Farm sandwich
packets
Maus English Muffins
Grain and Grain Products:
Pillsbury flour
Gold Medal flour
Robin Hood flour
Quaker Oats Quick Barley
Minute Rice
Uncle Ben's converted rice
Quaker Oats
Macaroni:
Macaroni, cooked
Green Giant lasagna
Stouffer's Lasagna
See dairy products
Instant coffee
Some hot cocoa
Wyler's instant
bouillon
Most bisqut; bread and muffin
mixes including ready to bake
Most commercial breads, rolls
and English Muffins
Progresso bread crumbs
Kellogg's Croutettes stuffing
Stove Top Stuffing mixes
Arnold Great Stuff
Crackers
Pepperidge Farm Stuffing
Shake n' Bake Coating Mixes
Croutons
Nabisco Cracker Meal
Nabisco Graham Cracker crumbs
Lender's frozen bagel
Fresh Horizon bread
Al Cohen's Rye
Kaufman's Rye
Kellogg's Corn Flake
crumbs
Horowitz-Margareten
Stuffing mix
Betty Crocker SoftaUncle Ben's Fast Cooking Long
silk flour for cakes
grain and wild rice
Rice A Roni Spanish
LaChoy fried rice
rice
Rice A Roni flavored rice
Rice A Roni Herb &
Rice A Roni Beef flavored rice
Rice A Roni fried rice with almond Butter flavored rice
Quaker cornmeal
LaChoy Mien noodles
LaChoy rice noodles
Betty Crocker Noodles Romanoff
Kraft Egg Noodle & Chicken
Hamburger Helper (all)
Tuna Helper
Franco American can Ravioli
Franco American can Spaghetti
Lipton Lite Lunch
Betty Crocker Mug O Lunch
Cup O Noodles
Progresso Macaroni & Beans
Kraft Macaroni &
Cheese
Kraft Egg Noodle &
Cheese
Chef Boyardee can
Macaroni products
Stouffer's Mac &
Beef
Spaghetti to Go
Howard Johnson's
Mac & Cheese
Swanson's Hungry Man Mac & Cheese
Stouffer's Mac & Cheese
Swanson Mac & Cheese