Paleo Soy Free Diet - Paleolithic Diet - Caveman Diet 

               

        Soy Allergy

Soy allergy is a common food allergy in infants and young Soybeans is a legume. The allergy can extend to other foods in the legume family. Legume include navy, kidney, string, black, and pinto beans, chickpeas (garbanzo beans), lentils, carob, licorice, and peanuts. Soybean allergies and peanut allergies are common children.  Soy ingredients is common in processed and manufactured products. Soy is a common ingredient in fast food restaurants, infant formula, cereals and salad dressing having soy. Soy allergy is an auto-immune disease that is triggered by the consumption of soy.

Foods to avoid:
- Baked Goods containing peanuts, peanut oil and soy flour (bread, crackers, cakes, rolls and pastries)
- Natural and processed cereals containing soy ingredients
- Soy pasta
- Soy beans and soybean sprouts
- Peanuts are legume not allowed in Paleo Diet
- Any vegetables or fruits prepared with sauces or breading with soy products
- Any vegetable drink, fruit drink mix, instant coffee, hot cocoa mixes, malt beverages with soy ingredients
- Lunch and deli meat with soy preservatives.
- Margarine and butter substitutes containing soy generally in preservative.
- Any salad dressing, mayonnaise containing soy products
- Heinz® Worcestershire sauce
- Lea & Perrins® sauce

Label Ingredients that contain soy:
- miso
- shoyo sauce
- tempeh
- textured vegetable protein (TVP)
- tofu
Products that may contain soy are flavoring, processed foods and preservatives

Hidden Sources for Soy:
- Hydrolyzed vegetable protein
- Textured vegetable protein
- Lecithin
- Monodiglyceride
- Mono Sodium glutamate (MSG)
- Vegetable oil
- Used in Asian foods and ingredients in many Chinese recipes


Paleo Food Lists
Foods Allowed on Paleo Food Lists:

-Lean Meats
-Poultry
-Fish
-Fresh Fruits
-Fresh Vegetables
- Eggs
-Nuts (non-processed)
-Seeds (non-processed)
-Fresh and dried herbs
-Spices and natural enhancers (garlic, onions, peppers, cloves and etc.)


Paleo Diet Foods Not Allowed: Paleo Food Lists
Foods to avoid:

-All processed food
-Dairy products
-Margarine and butter
-Barley
-Wheat
-Corn
-Millet
-Oats
-Rice
-All processed foods made with rice.
-Wild rice
-Rye
-Wheat
-Amaranth
-Buckwheat
-Quinoa
-All beans
-Peas
-Chickpea
-Lentils
-Miso
-Peanuts
-Soybeans and all soybean products including tofu.
-Sugar
-Potatoes

Paleo Soy Quiz- Test Your Soy Knowledge




Questions:

1. True or False: Soy is found in grains and wheat?

2. True or False: Soy is only found in foods?

3. True or False: Tofu does not contain soy?

4. True or False: The Paleo Diet Recipes contain soy?

5. Peanuts are nuts?

Answers:

1. False: Grains and wheat do not contain soy. Soy is in legumes ( beans, peas, chickpeas and etc.

2. False: Soy is not only in food. There can be soy in processed and manufactured foods and products.

3. False: Tofu contains soy.

4. False: The Paleo Diet Recipes do not contain Soy, Gluten and Dairy.

5. False: Peanuts are legumes and not allowed in Paleo Diet.