Soy Lecithin….No thanks
Years ago we learned some pretty disturbing info about soy. So I called our chocolate maker and asked him to take the soy lecithin OUT of our chips. “Your crazy Kristen he said, we can’t make that, no one else wants it and you’d have to special order 1000′s of lbs”.
“Joe” I said. “Look, I need this chocolate. I can’t have this in my bar. Here the millions of reasons why…… trust me, make it and people will start asking for it. Oh, and Joe while you are making it go ahead and make that chocolate at least 70%. This 56% won’t do”. “Kristen” Joe said. “If you want 70% you can’t get that in a chip. No one who makes things with chips even cares about %’s. If you want 70% you have to get the big bakers squares and break it apart yourself. Chef’s use 70%, not bar makers” “Joe” I said. “We are going to be huge one day and you are going to want to say you knew me when, plus you are already making a chip without soy for me”
We got our chips:)
So do you want to know why soy lecithin bugged me so much? It’s crap that’s why. I don’t believe in the health benefits of lecithin that I learned about in nutrition school because I never trusted the way it was made. Who made it and who grew it! Soy is a huge subsidized crop, it’s genetically engineered and they use bleach in the processing of it. Yeah, bleach!
Read below, the actual rules from the NOP. National Organic Program. It’s insane we have to have all these rules around food. Companies don’t care enough to ask, and they are even evil enough to spend money on lobbying efforts to keep it in our food so they can make a few more pennies.
You don’t need lecithin to emulsify the chocolate, you just need a bit more cocoa butter. It’s not that big of a deal.
Read just a bit of this and tell me if you would put this in something you made for your family!
And I am sorry to tell you it’s in things we eat and put on your body everyday!
Even organics!!!!!
Start supporting companies that care enough about you to not use this highly processed ingredient.
Kristen – GoodOnYa
National Organic Program
Types of Lecithin Allowed in Organic Processed Products Questions and Answers
On February 14, 2012, the USDA National Organic Program (NOP) published a Final Rule in the Federal Register (77 FR 8089) that impacted two listings for lecithin on the National List (National List) of Allowed and Prohibited Substances. Lecithin is currently used in organic processed products as a natural mixing agent (emulsifier) or lubricant. The National List formerly allowed the following types of non- organic lecithin:
§ 205.605: Nonagricultural (nonorganic) substances allowed as ingredients in or on processed products labeled as “organic” or “made with organic (specified ingredients or food groups(s)).”
(b) Synthetics
Lecithin – bleached
§ 205.606: Nonorganically produced agricultural products allowed as ingredients in or on processed products labeled as “organic.”
(p) Lecithin – unbleached
Effective March 15, 2012, the listing for bleached lecithin at § 205.605(b) above is removed. The following type of lecithin on § 205.606 is allowed (subject to commercial availability):
§ 205.606: Nonorganically produced agricultural products allowed as ingredients in or on processed products labeled as “organic.”
(p) Lecithin—de-oiled
Do these changes mean that only organic lecithin can be used in organic processed products?
The change to the listings for lecithin means that organic forms of lecithin must be used in organic processed products, with one exception. Non-organic de-oiled lecithin may be used only when an organic form of de-oiled lecithin is not commercially available.
Under the changes, what forms of lecithin can be used?
There are two forms of lecithin: de-oiled and fluid. Under the changes, the following requirements apply to each of these forms if they are used in organic processed products:
- De-oiled: Nonorganic or organic de-oiled (also called powdered or granular) forms may be used. However, the non-organic form may only be used if organic de-oiled forms are not commercially available. De-oiled forms may either bleached or unbleached.Fluid: Fluid lecithin must be organic.
- Fluid lecithin may be unbleached or bleached with hydrogen peroxide, a bleaching agent, allowed in processed products under § 205.605(b).
