Strange soy intolerance - can you help?

[Guest guest]

Apologies if you've read this elsewhere - I'm cross-posting to a

number of relevant Vegan forums.

 

I've been a vegan for 7 years now. I discovered early on that I had

some sort of intolerance to soy " dairy " products, but not to other

forms of soy. The intolerance takes the form of a tingling of the

tongue and back of the throat ranging from barely noticeable to

almost causing me to choke.

 

Foods that cause this reaction, in descending order of severity are:

 

Soy milk

Soy cream

Soy custard

Soy ice-cream

 

Soy milk is sufficiently bad that the amount needed for whitening a

cup of tea can cause a very bad reaction. Soy ice-cream (Swedish

Glace, Tofutti) at the other end of the scale sometimes causes no

reaction at all and at worst gives me a slight tickle in the back of

the throat.

 

Conversely, it appears I can eat the following until it comes out of

my ears with no reaction at all:

 

Tofu

Tempeh

Soy sauce (all types)

Miso

Black bean sauce

Soy flour

TVP

Wide variety of soy " cheeses " (e.g. Scheese, Cheezly, Tofutti " cream

cheese " )

Products including soy and soy derivatives (e.g. Cheatin' chicken,

veggie sausages etc.)

 

Finally, I haven't tested this thoroughly, but anecdotal evidence

seems to suggest that thoroughly cooking the soy dairy products

removes whatever it is that causes the problem (so I can do lasagne

using soy cream without problems, for instance).

 

Up to now, this hasn't caused me a major headache as I've just used

rice milk instead of soy, however I'm currently trying to rebalance

my diet to decrease carbohydrates and increase protein. Being able

to drink soy milk instead of rice milk would help with this.

 

So has anyone else had this problem or have any idea of what's

causing it? If so, do you have any advice for (UK) brands of soy

milk that might be OK?

 

Cheers,

 

 

Matthew

[Guest guest]

Have you checked to see if the soy products you are having difficulty with

contain Carrageenan? Some people report sensitivity to this ingredient.

 

 

 

Matthew Faupel <matthew

 

Tuesday, May 8, 2007 3:13:32 AM

Strange soy intolerance - can you help?

 

Apologies if you've read this elsewhere - I'm cross-posting to a

number of relevant Vegan forums.

 

I've been a vegan for 7 years now. I discovered early on that I had

some sort of intolerance to soy " dairy " products, but not to other

forms of soy. The intolerance takes the form of a tingling of the

tongue and back of the throat ranging from barely noticeable to

almost causing me to choke.

 

Foods that cause this reaction, in descending order of severity are:

 

Soy milk

Soy cream

Soy custard

Soy ice-cream

 

Soy milk is sufficiently bad that the amount needed for whitening a

cup of tea can cause a very bad reaction. Soy ice-cream (Swedish

Glace, Tofutti) at the other end of the scale sometimes causes no

reaction at all and at worst gives me a slight tickle in the back of

the throat.

 

Conversely, it appears I can eat the following until it comes out of

my ears with no reaction at all:

 

Tofu

Tempeh

Soy sauce (all types)

Miso

Black bean sauce

Soy flour

TVP

Wide variety of soy " cheeses " (e.g. Scheese, Cheezly, Tofutti " cream

cheese " )

Products including soy and soy derivatives (e.g. Cheatin' chicken,

veggie sausages etc.)

 

Finally, I haven't tested this thoroughly, but anecdotal evidence

seems to suggest that thoroughly cooking the soy dairy products

removes whatever it is that causes the problem (so I can do lasagne

using soy cream without problems, for instance).

 

Up to now, this hasn't caused me a major headache as I've just used

rice milk instead of soy, however I'm currently trying to rebalance

my diet to decrease carbohydrates and increase protein. Being able

to drink soy milk instead of rice milk would help with this.

 

So has anyone else had this problem or have any idea of what's

causing it? If so, do you have any advice for (UK) brands of soy

milk that might be OK?

 

Cheers,

 

Matthew

 

 

 

 

 

 

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