Posted on 05/20/2009 12:29:09 PM PDT by Scythian
Virtually all "protein bars" on the market today are made with soy protein. Many infant formula products are also made with soy protein, and thousands of vegetarian products (veggie burgers, veggie cheese, "natural" food bars, etc.) are made with soy protein. That soy protein is almost always described as safe and "natural" by the companies using it. But there's a dirty little secret the soy product industry doesn't want you to know: Much of the "natural" soy protein used in foods today is bathed in a toxic, explosive chemical solvent known as hexane.
To determine the true extent of this hexane contamination, NaturalNews joined forces with the Cornucopia Institute (www.Cornucopia.org) to conduct testing of hexane residues in soy meal and soy grits using FDA-approved and USDA-approved laboratories. The Cornucopia Institute performed the bulk of this effort, and NaturalNews provided funding to help cover laboratory costs.
The results proved to be worrisome: Hexane residues of 21ppm were discovered in soy meal commonly used to produce soy protein for infant formula, protein bars and vegetarian food products.
These laboratory results appear to indicate that consumers who purchase common soy products might be exposing themselves (and their children) to residues of the toxic chemical HEXANE -- a neurotoxic substance produced as a byproduct of gasoline refining.
(Excerpt) Read more at naturalnews.com ...
Also the hydroxycut is not getting as much bad press in warning people as it should.
thanks, bfl
actually some chemiclas can kill in ppm (parts per million) amounts. it is not just the amount, it is what the stuff is.
I dont know the safe limit for hexane, but dont diss the small numbers, as some stuff is very deadly in small amounts.
” -ACGIH Threshold Limit Value (TLV): 50 ppm (TWA), Skin
other isomers of hexane.” The internal organs up take of chemical is at a much lower level than is shown here.
Obama’s fault
If you put a match to your veggie burger and it bursts into flames, then it has too much hexane in it. ;-)
FWIW, and IMHO there is no such thing a human-digestible “all natural” soy protein. Kidney beans, pinto beans, string beans etc, sure — but not SOY beans.
A veggie burger is going to consist of processed foods. It doesn’t take as much adulteration to grind up cow or buffalo or even turkey and mold it into a patty. But veggies are quicker to go to “paste” form than “burger”.
I think cattle have been fed soy beans for a long time. Don’t know about others.
Interesting information, thanks for posting it.
That’s nothing. Bottled water contains a massive amount of dihydrogen monoxide. If just a little bit of that stuff gets into your lungs, you’re dead.
Read up on our foodstuffs of the 1800s. The "good olde days".
Cheese may actually have been soap and milk was watery chalk dust.
The ChiComs have nothing on the old American hucksters.
Don’t tell the government!
Hexane...It’s what’s for dinner.
Hardly, Mike Adams is behind Natural News, in my opinion the guy rocks and were lucky to have someone doing what he is doing.
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That's because at ppm levels, heavy metals CAN be toxic. It takes MUCH higher doses of hexane to have anywhere near a toxic effect:
"The neuropathic toxicity of n-hexane in humans is well known[3] ; cases of polyneuropathy have typically occurred in humans chronically exposed to levels of n-hexane ranging from 400 to 600 ppm, with occasional exposures up to 2,500 ppm."{Wikipedia}
This is just more alarmist eco-propaganda (remember Alar???)
O my goodness.... That’s like 0.0021% !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Nope, I’m wrong. You CAN produce digestible proteins from soy beans.
My bad!
From a link in your article.......I say ugh since I like Horizon milk because it doesn’t go bad as quickly as others....but...........
One company that had an excellent opportunity to meet consumer expectations by supporting the growth of organic acreage in North America was Dean Foods, makers of the industry’s leading soymilk, Silk. Instead, after buying the Silk brand, Dean Foods quit purchasing most of their soybeans from American family farmers and switched their primary sourcing to China. This cost-cutting move helped them build their commanding soy milk market share using soybeans of questionable organic certification from China.
“White Wave (the operating division of Dean Foods that markets Silk and Horizon organic milk) had the opportunity to push organic and sustainable agriculture to incredible heights of production by working with North American farmers and traders to get more land in organic production, but what they did was pit cheap foreign soybeans against the U.S. organic farmer, taking away any attraction for conventional farmers to make the move into sustainable agriculture,” said Merle Kramer, a marketer for the Midwestern Organic Farmers Cooperative.
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