re modified food starch

[Guest guest]

>

> ... Mcs. I expected

> to not have any option to give to my son from Mc's. I was

> very happy to find a brochure that list every ingredient in the

> foods. It was very well organized, clearly stated and easy to

> read. I was very happy because I discover that the yogurt parfait

> (without the granola) and the fruit and walnut salad (without the

> walnuts) were both safe for him to eat. Conveniently, the granola

> and the nuts are both packaged separately.

>

>

So, in the absence of the word " wheat " in the allergen listing, modified

food starch is OK?

Modified food starch is never made from rye, barley, or oats?

I hate it when I find myself trying to eat in an information

vacuum. If I had access to the web I could use the collective wisdom

to determine that the yogurt is safe. But in an information

vacuum, I just see the words " modified food starch " and have no

way of knowing what that means.

How did you decide to trust modified food starch when you were

traveling?

Do you always trust modified food starch if there is no mention

of " wheat " in the allergen listing?

I get the same heebie-jeebie feeling about " vinegar " in a restaurant

ingredient listing. How can I know what KIND of vinegar?

And textured vegetable protein... Is it corn? Soy? Wheat? In an

information vacuum, I have to avoid all TVP to be safe.

Other things fall in this category, too.

Sometimes I wish I could have a chip implanted so I could have the

whole WWW available to me regardless of where I am.

I'd be willing to take more risks if I didn't know that even

gluten I can't locate will make me miserable for days.

If only gluten could have some kind of SUPER NASTY taste or smell

so that we could detect even the tiniest amounts before swallowing

it.... Wouldn't that be cool? If our SillyYak Super-Senses could

detect gluten in that dextrimaltose from five feet away.... Of

course, we would end up housebound because of the pervasiveness

of gluten. We wouldn't be able to tolerate the presence of

friends and loved ones, even though they consumed their gluten

in the car. But we could eat more safely!

Esther

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