SPECIAL EXCLUSION DIETS: AVOIDING SOYA_
To avoid eating soya, you have to stop eating:
Soya flour
Soya milk
Soya beans
Tofu
Soya oil TVP
Miso
Soya, in its various forms, is found commonly as an ingredient in processed foods (e.g. pies, bakery, prepared dishes). Read labels to see if any of the above products are mentioned. If a product contains vegetable oil of unspecified nature, it can often be soya oil. Avoid this. If it contains vegetable protein, this is invariably soya, and should be avoided.
Lecithin is sometimes derived from soya and sometimes from eggs; products containing this (e.g. ice cream and margarine) are best avoided to be absolutely sure.
Many breads now contain soya flour as well as wheat flour. You will not know this if you buy unlabelled bread from a local baker or wholefood shop. Check with them as to what ingredients they use. Avoid bread if you are not sure whether it contains soya or not.
If you are chemically sensitive, you may react to the water used to make up processed soya milks rather than soya itself .
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