CRYSTAL CANYON

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. 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. K- biscuits and several crisp crackers have soy bean flour in them.

Sauces: Oriental Show You Sauce LaChoy Sauce Sexton's Chop Suey Sauce Heinz Worcestershire sauce Sexton's Sirloin Sauce Sexton's Mushroom Sauce Maull's Steak Sauce Deiley Steak Sauce Lea and Perrins 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: Include: Omit: Soups Soups prepared without Soups containing soy As desired soy or soy products or soy products

Meat and Meat substitutes: Beef, chicken, ham, kidney Cold cuts or sausages 2-3 servings lamb, liver, pork, turkey, containing a soy veal, fish, sausage and additive, hamburger luncheon meats made with soy protein, veggie without soy filler, eggs, burgers made with peanut butter, cheese, textured veg protein cottage cheese products fried in soy oil, fish in soy oil Vegetables Any canned cooked or Soybeans, soybean 2 or more servings frozen or raw sprouts, veg prepared with soy sauce

Potato and Potato substitutes: White and sweet potatoes spaghetti made with 2 or more servings macaroni, noodles, rice soy flour, products spaghetti cooked with soy

Breads: Breads and rolls prepared Soy bread, "cornmeal 3 or more servings without soybean flour bread, breads containing soy oil

Cereals: Cooked or ready to eat Cereals containing 1 or more servings cereals without soy soy flour, soy oil veg protein

Fruits and fruit juices: All None 2 or more servings

Fats Butter, margarine, cream Soybean oil, margarin 3 or more servings bacon, shortening, oils that or shortening, salad do not contain soy dressing containing soybean oil as an ingredient

Desserts: gelatin, custard, cornstarch Commercial ice moderation puddings, homemade ice cream, most cream, sherbet, cake, cookies commercial bakery pastries, pies products

Milk Milk, 2% milk, skim milk Soy milk, commercial evaporated milk, non fat milkshakes dry milk

Beverages: Water as desired, tea Excessive use of carbonated beverages sugared and caffeine fruit drinks, coffee drinks

Miscellaneous: Salt, sugar, honey, jelly, Lecithin, soy sauce syrup, chocolate, cocoa Worcestershire sauce catsup, mustard, olives, steak sauce, toasted pickles, vinegar, pepper soybeans, caramel herbs, spices candies, excessive use of salt or sugar

FOODS ALLOWED AND NOT ALLOWED

ALLOWED NOT ALLOWED NOT SURE Cereals: Most hot and cold cereals Nature Valley Granola cereal Beechnut Oatmeal Nature Valley Granola bars Beechnut Mixed cereal Crunchola Breakfast bars Beechnut Rice cereal Carnation Breakfast bars Gerber Oatmeal 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

Baked goods: All Betty Crocker, Jiffy, Duncan Sara Lee Frozen Hines, Pillsbury cake mixes doughnuts, Betty Jello instant Cheesecake Crocker Fluffy white All Nestle, Quaker Oats, Betty Frosting mix, Canned Crocker and Duncan Hines cookie fruit pie filling, Log mix, Johnston's Ready crust, cabin Instant pancake 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 pizza Stouffer's, Tony's frozen La Crosia Pizza Chef Boyardee mix for cheese pizza Robin Hood Pizza

Beverages: Tea See dairy products Instant coffee Coffee (brewed) Some hot cocoa Soft drinks Wyler's instant Fruit drinks bouillon

Bread: Pepperidge Farm sandwich Most bisqut; bread and muffin Lender's frozen bagel packets mixes including ready to bake Fresh Horizon bread Maus English Muffins Most commercial breads, rolls Al Cohen's Rye and English Muffins Kaufman's Rye Progresso bread crumbs Kellogg's Corn Flake Kellogg's Croutettes stuffing crumbs Stove Top Stuffing mixes Horowitz-Margareten Arnold Great Stuff Stuffing mix Crackers Pepperidge Farm Stuffing Shake n' Bake Coating Mixes Croutons Nabisco Cracker Meal Nabisco Graham Cracker crumbs Grain and Grain Products: Pillsbury flour Uncle Ben's Fast Cooking Long Betty Crocker Softa- Gold Medal flour grain and wild rice silk flour for cakes Robin Hood flour LaChoy fried rice Rice A Roni Spanish Quaker Oats Quick Barley Rice A Roni flavored rice rice Minute Rice Rice A Roni Beef flavored rice Rice A Roni Herb & Uncle Ben's converted rice Rice A Roni fried rice with almond Butter flavored rice Quaker Oats Quaker cornmeal

Macaroni: Macaroni, cooked LaChoy Mien noodles Kraft Macaroni & Green Giant lasagna LaChoy rice noodles Cheese Stouffer's Lasagna Betty Crocker Noodles Romanoff Kraft Egg Noodle & Kraft Egg Noodle & Chicken Cheese Hamburger Helper (all) Chef Boyardee can Tuna Helper Macaroni products Franco American can Ravioli Stouffer's Mac & Franco American can Spaghetti Beef Lipton Lite Lunch Spaghetti to Go Betty Crocker Mug O Lunch Howard Johnson's Cup O Noodles Mac & Cheese Progresso Macaroni & Beans Swanson's Hungry Man Mac & Cheese Stouffer's Mac & Cheese Swanson Mac & Cheese