Soya Free Diet
You are sensitive to Soya and should therefore avoid the following:
- Bakery Goods:
Occasionally soya bean flour is used as an ingredient of dough mixtures for breads, rolls, cakes and pastries. This keeps them moist and saleable for several days longer.
- Sauces:
Soya Sauce, Lea & Perrins Sauce, Worcestershire Sauce.
- Salad Dressings:
Many salad dressings and mayonnaise contain soya oil, but only state on the label that they contain vegetable oil.
- Meats:
Pork, sausage and luncheon meats may contain soya beans.
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Sweets:
Soya flour is used in hard sweets, nut sweets, and caramel. Lecithin is invariably derived from soya bean and is used in sweets to prevent drying out and to emulsify the fats.
- Soya Milk and cream Substitute
- Ice Cream
- Some Soups
- Fresh soya sprouts: These are often served as a vegetable, especially in Chinese dishes.
- Soya bean products: e.g. textured vegetable protein (T.V.P)
- Oleo margarine and butter substitutes
IN SUMMARY if you remember that soya is often used as soya flour, soya oil, milk substitute, and as a replacement for nuts, it will be possible to anticipate any inadvertent contact with soya beans and their products.
Please note that any diets and dietary advice in the Patient Guidance section of our website are only intended for the patients attending our own clinics in Southampton and London. These diets are based on a recommendation made by one of the Centre doctors after an appropriate consultation. Our advice relating to use of a particular restricted diet is really only appropriate for individual patients who have consulted us and have been individually assessed by one of the doctors from the Centre and advised that they should follow a particular dietary regime. We do not recommend that people use restricted diets without proper medical supervision. We also recommend to our patients that they should not use a restricted diet for more than 6 weeks in the first instance without further consultation with us, as it may result in nutritional deficiencies. Sometimes food exclusion diets may be clinically effective in the long term, but their management will require a balanced nutritional approach.
We hope that visitors to our website who are not our patients will find much to interest them in this website; we aim to present useful, practical, considered and authoritative information on Complementary and Integrated Medicine. We strongly advise that you should not follow a restricted diet without proper medical supervision by a qualified practitioner.
