Soy Free Shopping Guide
Soybean is a member of the legume family (beans) consistently of nearly 40% protein and nearly 35% carbohydrate. Soy (oil, powder, flour, pod, etc.) is frequently used in the production of many processed foods including as a dairy substitute, infant formulas, vegetarian/vegan food and some brands of vodka. Soy is also in use in soaps, cosmetics, resins, plastics, inks, crayons, and even bio-diesel fuels. If you have a strong allergy to soy, you will want to avoid soy in these foods as well. Because of how common soy is in use, it is one of the more common food allergies in the United States.
Below is a list of soy-related ingredients you will likely want to avoid to keep soy out of your diet.
The obvious ingredients include:
- Soy flour
- Soy nuts
- Soya
- Soybean
The not-so-obvious ingredients include (more information):
- Beans (all types)
- Bean curd
- Carob
- Doufu
- Edamame (soy beans)
- Guar gum
- Guaran
- Gum acacia
- Gum Arabic
- Gum tragacanth
- Hydrolyzed vegetable protein (not always derived from soy)
- Lecithen
- Miso
- Monosodium glutamate (MSG) (not always derived from soy)
- Natto
- Pinyin jiàngyóu
- Peanuts (view nut avoidance shopping guide)
- Shoyu sauce
- Sodium glutamate (not always derived from soy)
- Soya
- Tamari
- Tempeh
- Textured vegetable protein
- Tofu
- Xanthan gum (not all varieties)
