Wednesday, December 19, 2012

MSG and Soy "Free" Freeze - Dried Foods - NOT!

This is starting to get to me.  So many companies are claiming their foods contain "No MSG", yet when I look, there is frequently MSG ingredients listed.  It's really ticking me off.
I know most of them don't realize it, but MSG isn't only called Monosodium Glutamate.   A good list is here:

Hidden Sources of MSG

In fact, there is a good possibility that companies selling "No MSG" or "MSG Free" ingredients may be breaking the law when other ingredients with MSG alternate names are listed.

More Reading About That (A listing of .pdf files that I'm still going through)

I mentioned I was looking for Non-GMO, MSG-Free freeze-dried foods.  I was pointed to several websites claiming their food was safe to eat.  I went to one website and looked at their Beef Bullion.  I read the ingredients and immediately spotted the word "hydrolyzed".  BIG MSG warning flag.  I put all free glutamate ingredients, that I react to, in bold italics.


"INGREDIENTS: Beef base (salt, hydrolyzed soy protein [including partially hydrogenated soybean oil], sugar, torula yeast, corn starch, caramel colormaltodextrin, onion powder, yeast extract and natural flavor, citric acid, silicon dioxide), salt, yeast extract, sugar, caramel color, dehydrated onion, garlic powder.

Contains allergen: Soy.

Processed in a plant that handles wheat, egg, dairy, soybean, peanut, cashew, walnut, and almond products.

Contains no MSG. "


Yeah... right.




This is the problem I have finding foods my family can store and eat without one us of landing in the hospital.  In fact, out of every website I went to, not one of them had MSG-free meals. One was so close!  In a true emergency, I might get away with eating a small amount to stay alive if I had to, but doing it on a daily basis would be bad.  I want to have a few meals on hand in case of a long term outage.  Even some of the freeze-dried fruits and veggies had additives.  

I looked at their butter butter:

"INGREDIENTS: Butter (cream, water, salt), nonfat milk, tocopherols, ascorbyl palmitate.

Contains allergens: Milk.

Processed in a plant that handles wheat, egg, dairy, soybean, peanut, cashew, walnut, and almond products"



The allergens list fails to mention "soy".  

You don't see it?   Look again.

"Tocopherols" are usually made from soy and cause a reaction in my daughter.  

This is what really annoys me about food labeling.  I'm also highly annoyed that Prop 37, in CA, failed.  It would require labeling of all GMO products.  I cannot eat GMO corn and really don't want to anyhow. 

The search goes on for even one or two meals we can eat if we have to hurry.

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