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http://www.cnn.com/2010/HEALTH/03/04/flavor.enhancer.recall/index.html?hpt=Sbin
HVP, TVP, and other soy additives shouldn't be in soups, sauces, chilis, hot dogs, gravy, salad dressings, peanut butter, mayonnaise, or seasonings to begin with.
I know, here I am being a traditionalist, but if the bulk of the real food recipes don't call for soy in the dish, then soy shouldn't be added to it.
With a soy allergy in the family, there are a great many processed foods we can't buy. We've been on the real food bandwagon for more tha 25 years because of this. We haven't been able to buy processed foods like cereals, mayonnaise, peanut butter, salad dressings, soups, sauces, chilis, bread, and more because food manufacturers have jumped so determinedly on the soy additive train that there is almost no processed food without it. They slyly change the name of it and claim that this method of processing has removed the allergens in it so they don't have to list it as an allergen in the ingredient list - wrong! It's even more ubiquitous than HFCS, another ingredient to avoid. HFCS is added to foods that shouldn't be sweetened to begin with. I don't really have a problem with HFCS by itself, it's that it is hidden in foods and makes it difficult for people to know, let alone control, their diets.
Real food, people. Unenhanced, plain food without additives or enhancements or enrichments is the only way to eat. It's hard, because food manufacturers have made it hard, but it is both possible and oddly enough, the cost eventually works out to actually be less. Why? Because real food satisfies you faster, you eat less, you get fuller, get the fuel your body needs, and you don't crave the addditives - the salt, the sugars, the soy enhancers that addict you to eating more and more of the food in larger and larger portions.
And now, we know from example after example, that those additives and enrichments carry sickness with them.
To be healthy, we need to eat real food, food with ingredients that aren't chemically rendered.