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FOREWORD TO THE AMERICAN FOOD
It is possible to avoid milk, grains, and other common allergens provided one eats simply and chooses foods in their primary state. However, with current American food and beverage processing techniques developed in increasingly sophisticated ways, it has become virtually impossible to detect the presence of these possible allergens that certain individuals need to avoid. To have a thorough knowledge, one would need to become an expert in the field of food science and technology.
Corn serves as an excellent example. Those who must avoid corn or corn fractions, may encounter it in at least 150 unanticipated ways.
When sugar prices soared in the mid 1970s, many food and beverage processors switched from cane sugar to the use of high-fructose corn syrup and other corn-based sweeteners for their products. Hence, although canned fruits must have "sugar added" on the label of sweetened
products, the consumer has no way of knowing if the added sugar consists wholely or partly of corn sugar in some form. Similarly, canned and frozen peas, beans and carrots may also contain added sugars of unspecified origins.
Although a food product may list "molasses" on the label, what remains unstated is that the sweetener may be made from a spray-dried, free-flowing molasses concentrate that contains corn syrup solids as a flow agent.
A dry powdered lemon juice, used by processors in food manufacture, is mixed with corn syrup. The final processed food, sold at the retail level, merely states "lemon juice" in the ingredient listing. The corn syrup is present as a hidden offender for the person who needs to avoid corn.
A new addition to a line of cake-depanning compounds consists in part of cornstarch, designed for efficient release of many bakery goods.
Dehydrated fruit products, available to the baking industry, contain modified food starch, which can be made from corn or other grains. Dehydrated fruits and vegetable flakes and granules, including beet, carrot, apple, pear, peach, apricot and lemon, are treated with modified food starch, and then used for fruit juices, sauces, gravies, soups, dips, spreads, jellies and jams. Modified food starch may also replace as much as a third of the fruit solids in products such as commercial applesauce; and as much as half of the coconut in confections. Bakers can cut egg costs in half by using a mixture that includes corn syrup in the ingredients.
Peanut butter, a popular American foodstuff, commonly contains added sugar. Frequently, the sugar is corn-based.
Most baking powders contain cornstarch. Some leavening yeasts also contain cornstarch, although corn-free dry yeast is available.
"Sugar cured" bacons and ham contain corn sugar (glucose or dextrose).
Many brands of iodized table salt contain dextrose to help stabilize the iodine compound.
Most acetic acid vinegars used commercially are manufactured from corn.
Corn oil is used commonly in prepared salad dressings, deep fat frying, and in processing potato chips. With many processed foods, it is impossible to know, from label reading, if corn oil is contained in "vegetable oil." Even if one chooses another vegetable oil, specifically labeled, it may be contaminated with corn oil. Edible vegetable oils are transported in bulk, and the tank shipment may vary from one oil to another, on different occasions.
Corn-derived alcohol is commonly used as a component in food flavoring extracts such as vanilla, lemon and almond.
Since the price of coffee has risen, corn-based coffee replacers are used to extend ground coffee. Many instant coffees contain corn sugar (dextrose or glucose).
Domestically processed alcoholic beverages often contain added sugar, which may be
corn-based. An exception is California wine, with an alcohol content up to 13 percent; fortified wines, with an alcoholic content up to 13 percent, as well as domestically produced brandies may, and usually do contain added corn sugar. All whiskey, vodka, gin, ale and beer are corn products. Blended Scotch, prepared in Scotland for American export, is excessively "bourbonized" (corn-containing). Nine out often American breweries are reported to use corn grits or corn flakes as a cereal adjunct to produce beer more economically.
An examination of other grains, as they appear in modern food and beverage processing, demonstrates similar problems as corn and corn fractions. Wheat, for example, appears in unexpected places, as a replacer ingredient. By way of illustration, General Foods' "Mellow Roast," has wheat combined with coffee beans in the ground product; and wheat, molasses and bran in the instant product.
Milk fractions are also difficult to avoid in processed foods and beverages, since they, too, appear in unlikely places. Dairy Research, Inc. has reported extensively about technological advances having generated new methods for processing milk to provide greater opportunities to use dairy-based ingredients in processed foods such as meat products and meat-substitute products; gravies and soups; vegetables and fruit products; beverages; cereals and pasta products; and snack foods.
Lactose, or milk sugar, has many uses by processors of meat, candy, baked goods and baby foods. It is also used as a carrier for food flavors.
Nonfat milk powder is frequently used as a binder in sausages.
Even so-called nondairy products may contain milk fractions, such as sodium caseinate, which is a milk protein. For some illogical reason, the Food and Drug Administration classifies sodium caseinate as a chemical additive, and hence "nondairy" products may actually contain a dairy product.
One milk fraction, lactic acid, which develops in cultured milk products, is extensively used by food processors, yet may not appear on food labels. Among other food items, lactic acid is used with bakery products, beer, beverages, bologna, candies, cervelat, cheese products, confections, cottage cheese, dried egg white, dry sausages, gelatine desserts, frozen desserts, fruit jellies and jams, ices, Lebanon bologna, olives, pickles, pork rolls, puddings, sherbets and toppings. Also, lactylic esters of fatty acids are prepared from lactic acid combined with fatty acids, and used as emulsifiers, plasticizers and surfactants with shortenings and edible fats and oils used with bakery mixes, baked products, cake icings, fillings and toppings; dehydrated fruits and vegetables as well as their juices; frozen desserts; liquid shortenings; pancake mixes; precooked instant rice; pudding mixes; solid-state edible emulsions consisting of fat and water, and used in non-dairy creamers. It is obvious that one needs to avoid all factory-processed
fabricated food in order to avoid hidden milk fractions.
In addition to being aware of the presence of grain and milk fractions in unlikely places in foods and beverages, alertness is important with other consumer goods. For example, it is necessary to know the exact composition of food supplements. Most tablets or pills, and capsules, contain cornstarch as excipients, binders or fillers. Synthetic vitamin C is manufactured from glucose, a corn sugar.
Toiletries and pharmaceutical products may contain corn fractions. Bath and body talcum powders may contain cornstarch, and induce adverse reactions if inhaled. (Similarly, the fumes from corn being cooked, or from clothing being ironed, which has been treated with cornstarch to stiffen the fabric, may induce reactions in individuals sensitive to corn.) Dentifrices, aspirin, suppositories and excipients or diluents in lozenges or ointments may contain corn fractions.
Many consumer items also contain corn. These include adhesives used in gums to make postage stamps, sticker tapes and sealing gums on envelopes. Some paper packaging used with food contains corn. Paper cups, plates and boxes containing moist food, may release corn fractions if the packaging is corn-treated. The inner surface of some food wraps may be coated with cornstarch.
Obviously, it is difficult to avoid exposures to food components that may induce adverse reactions in highly susceptible individuals. To a limited degree, careful label reading will help. But it should be apparent that label reading is only the first step. Many exposures will be
prevented by choosing foods, insofar as possible, in their primary state, with minimal processing. Any processed foods need to be introduced singly, and in a small quantity, to find out if they are well tolerated. If they are, constant label reading is essential, since food and beverage processors frequently reformulate, with "new" and "improved" products". This practice may affect a susceptible individual in an unanticipated "new" but not "improved" fashion.
Since individuals differ markedly in their tolerance or intolerance for individual foods, there are no easy rules that apply to all. Two simple, but sound principles have evolved. First, the simpler the food preparation, the fewer the problems are apt to occur. And second, the greater the variety within the framework of foods that can be tolerated, the less likelihood there will be of increasing sensitivity to particular foods.
Clinical ecologists have demonstrated the wisdom of these two principles. The most common allergens are those dietary items used most frequently and consistently. Since grains and milk are used both frequently and consistently in our culture, it is little wonder that they are such common allergens. By using primary foods, and rotating them within the diet, many individuals have been able to reduce their sensitivities.
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