In this week’s podcast, we discuss all the problems with soy baby formula.

People think creating baby formula should be scientific or at least a known commodity but it’s not. Baby formula is a money making venture. Companies cut cost everywhere they can to make as much profit as possible. They don’t use high quality ingredients like butter fat or lactose because they cost too much, so they use cheap vegetable oils and high fructose corn syrup instead.

The first myth about soy formula we want to tackle is the idea that soy and soy formula have been used in asian cultures for thousands of years. This isn’t true, not even close. 

Soy formula was first made in the west by an American. 

Soy was originally used a cover crop or green manure due to it’s ability to fix nitrogen, not as a food source.

100 years ago Americans were growing it for the oil to use in paint and glue, not as food.

The first documented use of soy in bay formula was 1909.

The first usage of soy based infant formula in the east didn’t occur until 1928 by Ernest Tso. It took this long to start using soy as a food produce because it takes a lot of processing to make soy edible. They simply didn’t have the machinery needed to make soy based foods before the early 1900’s. 

To make soy milk, soy beans are soaked in water and then exposed to high pressure and heat in order to damage/remove some of the anti-nutrients.  However, during that process the fat turns rancid and most of the nutrients and proteins are destroyed.  Synthetic vitamins and sweeteners are then added to it to make it palatable.

To learn more about the problems with soy and soy baby formula, listen to this week’s podcast. 

Link To Book Mentioned on Podcast

The Whole Soy Story: The Dark Side of America’s Favorite Health Food