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Soy cheese products deceive consumers, violate vegans Mike Adams, the Health Ranger See article keywords and concepts

And it's not just one company doing this -- even Trader Joe's, a natural grocer that offers a wide variety of healthy products, puts casein in their soy cheese products. A company called Galaxy Nutritional Foods, which makes "Veggie Slices," puts casein in their soy cheese as well. The front label of their package even says "Nature's Alternative to Cheese," and it describes the product as "made with the goodness of soy." But my question is that if this is a cheese alternative, what is a milk protein doing in the product?

REPPED: If you visit any natural grocery or health food store these days, you'll notice there are a lot of soy cheese products available. The implied message from the name of these products is that they are made with soy milk, not dairy products, and are therefore either healthier for you or appropriate for people who wish to avoid cow's milk for health reasons. But what they don't tell you is that virtually every soy cheese product on the market is made with a dairy product. That ingredient is casein, a milk protein.

Visit any natural grocer or health food store and look at any veggie cheese or soy cheese product on the shelf. You will find that virtually all of them are manufactured with cow's milk protein. This just goes to show you that just because a food product is positioned as being an alternative to dairy products, or just because it is described as being a soy product, doesn't mean that it is free of animal products. This is especially important for vegans, of course, who are increasingly finding that it's difficult to buy any product that isn't made with animal products in one way or another.

If they can call that natural, and if the food giants can call their deep-fried potato chips natural, and if soy cheese manufacturers can put cow's milk products in their soy products and call them natural, then there's really no meaning to the term. Technically speaking, I could dig up some mercury, lead, arsenic and other toxic substances from the soil, stuff them into a tofu recipe, and sell it as a "100% natural" product. Why? Because it's all derived from the Earth! It's natural, see? That's why the word "natural" is, essentially, a marketing term for suckers.

But what they don't tell you is that virtually every soy cheese product on the market is made with a dairy product. That ingredient is casein, a milk protein. It is, in fact, casein that is associated with most of the health problems and complaints described by people who consume cow's milk and dairy products. Those complaints include chronic sinus congestion, constipation, and even symptoms resembling asthma. That's because casein is a difficult protein for human beings to digest, which is why it is present in smaller quantities in human breast milk.

A company called Galaxy Nutritional Foods, which makes "Veggie Slices," puts casein in their soy cheese as well. The front label of their package even says "Nature's Alternative to Cheese," and it describes the product as "made with the goodness of soy." But my question is that if this is a cheese alternative, what is a milk protein doing in the product? Granted, at least Galaxy Nutritional Foods explains what casein is in their ingredients list. It reads "casein (a dried skim milk protein)".

The Seven Laws of Nutrition Mike Adams See book keywords and concepts

These include soymilk, tofu, and even products like soy cheese. Soy products have all sorts of antioxidants and isoflavones that are known for their anti-cancer attributes. Just don't buy soy cheese made with casein -- a milk protein. Believe it or not, some soy cheese products actually use cow's milk protein as one of their ingredients! Nutrition: putting it all together So, putting all of this together on nutrition, let's review for a moment. First, you have to engage in nutritional supplementation if you're going to get outstanding nutrition.

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Serves 1 Stuffed Potatoes with Kidney Beans and Soy Cheese_ 3 Idaho potatoes, baked, halved, with center taken out and skins set aside 2 tablespoons chopped sweet onion 2 tablespoons chopped fresh parsley 1 cup mashed kidney beans 1/4 teaspoon cayenne pepper 1/2 teaspoon paprika 1/2 teaspoon salt 1/2 teaspoon freshly ground black pepper 1 cup shredded soy cheese (optional) 2 to 3 tablespoons extra virgin olive oil In a large bowl, combine all the ingredients in the order in which they are listed.

Genetic Roulette: The Documented Health Risks of Genetically Engineered Foods Jeffrey M. Smith See book keywords and concepts

Some foods that may contain GM ingredients Infant formula, salad dressing, bread, cereal, hamburgers and hotdogs, margarine, mayonnaise, cereals, crackers, cookies, chocolate, candy, fried food, chips, veggie burgers, meat substitutes, ice cream, frozen yogurt, tofu, tamari, soy sauce, soy cheese, tomato sauce, protein powder, baking powder, alcohol, vanilla, powdered sugar, peanut butter, enriched flour, and pasta. Non-food items include cosmetics, soaps, detergents, shampoo, and bubble bath.

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QUICK SERVING IDEAS • Tempeh Reuben sandwich: Place grilled tempeh on a slice of whole-grain bread, layer with sauerkraut, top with regular or soy cheese or "meltable" soy cheese, then grill for a few minutes until the sandwich is hot and toasty. An easy Russian dressing topping is made by combining ketchup and soy mayonnaise. Baked tempeh is a great replacement for luncheon meats in sandwiches and, cut into cubes, makes a wonderful protein-rich addition to salads. • Tempeh bolognese: Try spaghetti and tempeh sauce. Substitute tempeh for ground beef in your favorite recipe.

The Seven Laws of Nutrition Mike Adams See book keywords and concepts

Just don't buy soy cheese made with casein -- a milk protein. Believe it or not, some soy cheese products actually use cow's milk protein as one of their ingredients! Nutrition: putting it all together So, putting all of this together on nutrition, let's review for a moment. First, you have to engage in nutritional supplementation if you're going to get outstanding nutrition. It simply isn't possible without turning to nutritional supplements. If you're going to take nutritional supplements, you basically have three forms: powders, pills and foods.

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Products being marketed to us such as tofu, soy milk, infant formula, soy ice cream, soy cheese, and soy sausage have not undergone the fermentation process. In their report on the Third International Soy Symposium, regarding the US Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act, held April-May 2000, Sally Fallon and Mary Enig state: All food additives not in common use prior to 1958, including casein protein from milk, must have gras (Generally Recognized As Safe) status____To this day, use of soy protein is codified as gras only for limited industrial use as a cardboard binder.

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SOY CHEESE I've given up trying to find a palatable soy cheese. When I'm in the mood for Parmesan, real Parmesan satisfies. If, however, you're reducing or eliminating dairy foods and if you find some dishes unacceptable without cheese, then soy cheese is an alternative. A second choice is to up the quality of the other ingredients, then the cheese is not missed. Soy cheese is available in types ranging from soy cheddar to soy mozzarella. Experiment with different brands since quality varies dramatically.

The Most Effective Natural Cures on Earth: The Surprising, Unbiased Truth about What Treatments Work and Why Jonny Bowden, Ph.D., C.N.S. See book keywords and concepts

If you walk around Tokyo, you won't find them consuming soy milk, soy yogurt, soy cheese, soy burgers, soy chicken, soy chips, and soy lasagna. Get my drift? Female versus Male Hormones Jeffrey Bland, Ph.D., is known to virtually every health-care practitioner in America who practices integrative medicine. A nutritional biochemist, he's the cofounder of The Institute for Functional Medicine and has been in the forefront of educating doctors, chiropractors, nutritionists, and other healthcare professionals about nutrition, biochemistry, hormones, and health for more than twenty-five years.

Prevent and Reverse Heart Disease Caldwell B. Esselstyn, Jr., M.D. See book keywords and concepts

Avoid soy cheese, which almost always contains oil and casein. 13. Read The China Study, by T. Colin Campbell with Thomas M. Campbell II (BenBella Books). Keeping these rules in mind, the rest of the world of vegetables, legumes, and fruits is yours to enjoy, and it's a very rich world, as you will learn. A few words about salt: we do not use it. And we do not include it in our recipes, since most of my husband's patients have cardiovascular disease and hypertension, and salt may cause further injury.

Prescription for Nutritional Healing, 4th Edition: A Practical A-to-Z Reference to Drug-Free Remedies Using Vitamins, Minerals, Herbs & Food Supplements Phyllis A. Balch, CNC See book keywords and concepts

Use soymilk or Rice Dream in place of milk and soy cheese instead of dairy cheese. Especially avoid consuming lactose-containing foods on an empty stomach. Q Include yogurt in your diet. Yogurt is the one dairy product that can be good for a person with lactose intolerance. The cultures present in yogurt digest the lactose it contains, so it is no longer a problem. They also aid in overall digestion. Be sure to eat only yogurt that contains active live yogurt cultures. Homemade yogurt is best. Q Be sure to eat plenty of foods that are high in calcium.

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However, they are such hybridized foods (so far out of the natural wild state) and they are mostly genetically modified that I do not endorse them or products made primarily from them (soy milk, soy cheese, soy burgers, etc). Research is indicating that more than two servings of soy per week can influence hormone metabolism. Soy is known to be thyroid suppressive. Grains (especially hybridized, weak seeds) do not metabolize cleanly when cooked.

The Encyclopedia of Healing Foods by Michael Murray, N.D. and Joseph Pizzorno, N.D. See book keywords and concepts

Whole-wheat pitas with tomato sauce, soy cheese, and broccoli make a healthy meal or snack for kids of any age. Whole-wheat pasta is a heartier, tastier pasta that can stand up to your favorite tomato sauce. • Whole-wheat pancakes are easily whipped up by mixing 1 Vi cups of whole wheat flour, 1 tablespoon of baking powder, 1 tablespoon of honey, 1 organic egg, 1 cup of cow or soy milk, Vi teaspoon of salt, and 2Vi tablespoons of canola oil. Mix to a lumpy consistency and ladle out on the griddle in Vi-cup amounts. Use real maple syrup with cardamom for an exotic taste.

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Potassium (broths), mashed and baked Potatoes, Soy milk and soy cheese. Take Vitamin B5 Pantothenic acid; Vitamin C; and Vitamin E. Indium. The Mineral Salts: Sodium Chloride, Iron Phosphate and Calcium Fluoride (3-6x) 3 times a day after meals. Oats. Rosemary (tea or baths). Broom, Hawthorn, and Kola nuts. Ginseng, Astragalus, Licorice, Atractylodes, Tang Kuei, Cimifuga, and Jujube. Dandelion, Licorice1, Safflower, and Horseradish. If troubled with indigestion, Peppermint or Spearmint tea. Hyssop, Goldenseal, Vervain, Prickly Ash, Blue Cohosh, Gentian, Wood Betony, Burnet, and Skullcap.

Q&A: How to reduce high blood pressure and restore healthy cholesterol levels with natural health Mike Adams, the Health Ranger See article keywords and concepts

You can eat them baked, put them in pastas or put them on a healthy pizza made with soy cheese and organic crust. Baked garlic cloves are delicious and they're outstanding for your health. They don’t have the bite of raw garlic cloves. Garlic supplements are also good, and the best company out there is Kyolic. Buy their aged garlic supplements. I do, and I recommend them to my family and friends. In fact, garlic has many other health benefits beyond cholesterol: the herb also fights cancer and greatly enhances immune system function.

The 150 Healthiest Foods on Earth: The Surprising, Unbiased Truth About What You Should Eat and Why Jonny Bowden, Ph.D., C.N.S. See book keywords and concepts

Vegetarians take note.) 6.1 do not recommend supplements of soy isoflavones. Period. Since you don't have to look very hard to find "pro-soy" info but you might have to dig a little to get to hear "the other side," I suggest that anyone really interested in the soy controversy start by Googling Dr. Mary Enig and reading her extensive writing on soy, including "The Ploy of Soy" and "Soy Alert: Tragedy and Hype." For a more easy and entertaining—but no less scientifically documented read—get the essential book, The Whole Soy Story: The Dark Side of Americas Health Food, by Kayla Daniel, Ph.D.

Whole Foods Companion: A Guide For Adventurous Cooks, Curious Shoppers, and lovers of natural foods Dianne Onstad See book keywords and concepts

Soy cheese and yogurt soy cheese were designed as substitutes for dairy cheese, but they simply do not taste like, feel like, or melt like real cheese. Moreover, some companies have added casein, a milk protein, so that their product will melt better. Soy yogurt is cultured from rich soy milk, using active bacteria cultures. It is available in many flavors and has the advantages of being lactose- and cholesterol-free.

If It's Not Food, Don't Eat It! The No-nonsense Guide to an Eating-for-Health Lifestyle Kelly Harford, M.C., C.N.C. See book keywords and concepts

With the exception of soy cheese, which I don't recommend at all, try a couple different cheese alternatives and see if they do anything for Foods that may look familiar have in fact been completely reformulated. What we eat has changed more in the last forty years than in the previous forty thousand.. Eric Schlosser Fast Food Nation Today, an alarming 60% of the food on America's supermarket shelves contain soy derivatives (i.e., soy flour, textured vegetable protein, partially hydrogenated soy bean oil, soy protein isolate).

Grocery Warning: How to recognize and avoid the groceries that cause cancer, diabetes, heart disease, high cholesterol, high blood pressure, and other common diseases Mike Adams See book keywords and concepts

Sometimes I top it off with shredded soy cheese, and if you're into real cheese, you can certainly use that as well. It makes for a hunger busting, low-carbohydrate, high fiber meal that fools your body into thinking you just ate at the buffet when, in fact, you've only consumed a couple hundred calories in all. Eat a plate full of shredded lettuce each day, and you will find your weight management to be far easier. As always, focus on organic shredded lettuce if you can find it. If you can't, non-organic shredded lettuce is better than no shredded lettuce.

The Whole Soy Story: The dark side of America's favorite health food Kaayla T. Daniel, PhD, CCN See book keywords and concepts

The highest amount was found in textured soy protein, which contains a whopping 638 mg of oxalate per 85 gram serving, more than 60 times the ADA recommended amount. soy cheese, the soyfood with the lowest oxalate content, was still high at 16 mg per serving. By comparison, spinach—the best known oxalate-contain-ing food of all—has approximately 543 mg per one cup (2 ounces fresh) serving. Peanut butter comes in at 197, retried beans at 193 and lentils at 100 mg of total oxalate per serving.

The New Whole Foods Encyclopedia: A Comprehensive Resource for Healthy Eating Rebecca Wood See book keywords and concepts

If, however, you're reducing or eliminating dairy foods and if you find some dishes unacceptable without cheese, then soy cheese is an alternative. A second choice is to up the quality of the other ingredients, then the cheese is not missed. Soy cheese is available in types ranging from soy cheddar to soy mozzarella. Experiment with different brands since quality varies dramatically. soy cheese contains no cholesterol but does contain oil and may or may not contain casein, a cow's milk derivative.

Prescription for Nutritional Healing, 4th Edition: A Practical A-to-Z Reference to Drug-Free Remedies Using Vitamins, Minerals, Herbs & Food Supplements Phyllis A. Balch, CNC See book keywords and concepts

Available in health food stores, tofu, soy oil, soy flour, soy-based meat substitutes, soy cheese, and many other soy products are healthful ways to complement the meatless diet. Fermented soy products, such as miso, tempeh, fermented tofu, and soymilk, are now widely available and are loaded with isoflavones, which are immediately bioavailable, and they have more genistein and nutrients than regular soy. They also fit in with Asian dietary practices. Fermentation yields more nutrients such as beta-glucan, glutathione, and the B-vitamins than standard products.

The Encyclopedia of Healing Foods by Michael Murray, N.D. and Joseph Pizzorno, N.D. See book keywords and concepts

Soy foods include tofu, tempeh, and miso, and "second-generation" soy foods that simulate traditional meat and dairy products, such as soy milk, soy hot dogs, soy sausage, and soy cheese. Soy isoflavonoids prevent the formation of new blood vessels, thus preventing tumors from obtaining a blood supply necessary for continued growth as well as preventing tumor cells from dividing and growing by inhibiting enzymes involved in cell replication.

For a twist on the traditional Reuben sandwich, place grilled tempeh on a slice of whole-grain bread, layer with sauerkraut, top with cheese or "meltable" soy cheese, and then grill for a few minutes until the sandwich is hot and toasty. Top with Russian dressing and enjoy. SAFETY Cabbage-family vegetables contain goitrogens, compounds that can interfere with thyroid hormone action in certain situations, primarily when iodine levels are low.

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Most other soy cheese alternatives are too high in fat to be recommended. SOY PROTEIN POWDER (SOY PROTEIN ISOLATE) Protein powders are made by removing the fat, fiber, and carbohydrates from soybeans. What remains is mostly protein, with some residual minerals and a trace of fat. The powder is bland, highly digestible, and easy to add to shakes and other recipes. It can be used as an emulsifier, binding fat and water together and lending a creamy texture. Plain or flavored versions are available in health food stores. The powder keeps well without refrigeration.

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