Garnet,
My husband is also allergic to potatos so I've been reading labels
looking for "modified food starch" for years and years.
And yes, I do know about the chain of suppliers complication. I've been
allergic to iodine for over 19 years now. So I know all about unlabelled
ingredients(that are technically supposed to be labelled but aren't),
ingredients that do not have to be listed on labels, ingredients that
mask under the label "natural flavoring" or just "natural", and on and
on. Not to mention the fact that many canners and mfrs of things like
salsa, don't even know whether the salt in their product is iodized or
not iodized. Some use either indiscriminately. I found that seaweed
thickeners are used in popsicles, routinely injected into chicken meat
as part of the "up to x% solution". All this is not to mention that any
mfr, canner, or packager of anything edible can change the ingredients
at any time, with no notice to anyone, and they have 6 months (forever?)
to change the label.
With each passing year, it has gotten more difficult to avoid iodine.
In the form of sea salt or seaweed thickeners it is in virtually every
"health" food product, every meat substitute, it is in meat, in dairy
(iodine in feeds, cows excrete iodine into their milk, iodine cleaners
are used on udders, and milking equipment, and then carrageenan etc is
added to the final product). The rage for kelp and fish fertilizers and
trace mineral soil additives means I can't have any organic produce, and
this must be carrying over to standard farmers and agribusiness growers
as the list of high-iodine veg I can't eat grows yearly.
To crown it all, I was reading cookie labels in the store the other
day, trying to find a "street legal" cookie for my husband, when I read
the label on Mother's brand frosted molasses cookies. Doing good till
the end when I read "fish gelatin"!
And I'm still not avoiding iodine, as in 19 years I've never managed
to get even the beginnings of a goiter.
It is often an excercise in frustration and anger to read alternative
health related lists, even the silverlist. You get kelp, and various
iodine containing products recommended for everything under the sun. No
doubt these are all wonderful health promoting things, but not for me.
It does cause anger, some times a great deal of self-pity to have a
condition which renders nearly everything recommended as health
promoting verboten.
Sorry, I went WAY off topic about this.........some days my allergy
is mentally and emotionally very difficult to live with.
Weirdly and frustratingly, over the past almost 2 years I have been
seriously trying to get rid of intestinal candida (CS is part of this
effort), and a host of related health problems, and was hopeful that
this would reduce my allergic tendendcies. It hasn't yet, in fact,
ironically, I seem to be more sensitive to iodine than ever.......
I have over 35 years study and interest in nutrition, and know all
the crap other people can eat without an allergic reaction isn't
"healthy" some days I get really resentful of having to make everything
from scratch.Some days I would like a break from cooking. Some days I
just want a pizza, you know? I miss all the things I can no longer eat,
including broccoli and asparagus.
paula
Garnet wrote:
No reference. It was some years ago when I was reseraching organic
foods, came across the info on why to use organic vs commercial molasses
and maple syrup.
The manufacturer certainly did not post it.
Did you know that if an ingredient is part of another product that they
use none of the components of that product it has to be on the label?
Just an indicator that they added "xyz" product. Like "modified food
starch", which is often potatoe starch - my daughter is terribly
allergic to potatoes. We don't use anyting with modified food starch,
even though it is often just corn strach, no way to tell it is not
potatoe starch or a mixture.
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