Natural Vitamin E & Soy

[Guest guest]

I just wanted to share something that I have been looking into. One

thing that has become very clear to me (and probably a lot of you as

well) is that soy has a similar effect as gluten and casein. When I

took Henry (nearly 6, ASD, on diet for one year)off soy (still GFCF

as well of course)in mid-July he did much better. I actually would go

so far as to say that he had never been better. When he returned to

school after being soy-free for a little over a month, they gave him

a bag of Ener-G pretzels (which contain soy). Of course, I had no

idea that they still had the pretzels at school, so I didn't mention

that he was now soy free on top of everything else. Henry regressed

significantly, and is still working his way back. So even though he

was technically still GFCF, I would call what he had equivalent to a

diet infringement. Anyway, the point of my post is that I am now

trying to remove all soy. It turns out that Natural Vitamin E, which

is used by many companies as a preservative IS MADE FROM SOY

(Nature's Path Cereal puts it in Peanut Butter Panda Puffs now and

Health Valley puts it in their Crunch Ems). I checked with Kirkmans'

experts who say that Kirkman's vitamin E is synthetic,therefore fine,

but ALL natural vitamin E will contain minute amounts of soy. Those

of you who need to avoid soy will know what that means for you and

the products that contain natural vitamin E. I, for one, am going to

contact those companies and let them know what it means for GFCF kids

who can't have soy either. Henry loves the panda puffs, but when we

run out of the supply of older boxes without vitamin E, I'm sorry to

say they are going to be out. I wonder if the companies would

reconsider the addition of the vitamin E to their GFCF cereals?

Mae Lynn

Henry's mom in NH

[Guest guest]

Mae Lynn,

Thanks so much for bringing this up. eats Corn Crunch Ems by

Health Valley but should not have soy. This cereal has the soy

vitamin E? Ahhhr. I will look into it more. THanks.

dawn