Soy Sauce

[shereebailey83]

do you know if someone with hfi can have soy sauce... im sure we are allowed but its something i have stayed clear of my whole life but am suffering with alot of health problems so i need to expand my dietary nutrition

[ukbill]

Most Soy Sauces are made with added Sugar (in the UK anyway)

Kirkoman Soy sauce is good stuff made with fermented Soy beans, salt and water.

I have no problems with it.. its the only Soy product that I can eat.

I have also bought large bottles of Soy Sauce from Chinese supermarkets which are made without added sugar. these don't taste as good as Kirkoman but are really good to add flavour to meat and fish dishes.

A bit like sherry there is drinking sherry and cooking sherry.. (or so I'm told).

Keep smiling

[shereebailey83]

Thanks, i can get this in australia so i'll give it a go in some home made fried rice or something cheers... you are

[shereebailey83]

you are so full of information ukbill, thankyou

[shereebailey83]

what about mustard UKBILL and others, how do you go with this?

[ukbill]

I used to think English mustard was safe, however I find if I cook with it in "wet" foods (like a stew) the food is made so sweet tasting I cannot eat it.

I am not sure if it really is very sweet and the high levels of volatile oils which are the mustard taste (mustard oil) are hiding the sweetness or something in cooking changes and it suddenly becomes far more sweet as a result of cooking.

It is really not a good thing to eat if you have a dodgy tum, of that I am very sure about!.

If you have a bad cold and cannot taste anything and have a stuffed nose.. a good thick layer of freshly made English Mustard (Colman's of course) on ham or cheese in a sandwich will have steam coming out of your ears and nose, I guarantee you WILL taste it!

Thinking as I type I do like English mustard cooked in one way.. Cheese on toast.

Mix Colman's English Mustard with malt vinegar and mix sparingly (just enough to wet the cheese) with grated cheese.. spread on bread and toast until it starts going black on top.. which it will shortly after melting!

Great stuff! its not for anyone with a delicate pallet however.. very much soul food type of stuff

Warning to our American cousins.. English Mustard is nothing like American mustard.. the difference is like drinking a can of soda or washing your mouth out with neat gas.. (petrol) I joke not!

In The UK it has for centuries been used in a Poultice ( a brew of herbs put on an infected part of the body and held in place with bandages)

It was very successful in killing germs and "drawing" puss from a wound or infection, and as such was (before antibiotics) very much used as a kill or cure medicine.

The Indian Spice Turmeric is even better as an anti bacterial and is excellent at helping cure cuts that get infected. Like Mustard it is strong Yellow in colour but the Turmeric will stain the skin for several days after use.

If you uses fresh Turmeric root in cooking a genuine Indian Curry both your fingers and chopping board will be yellow for some time!

Enjoy

[charlie]

I found this soya sauce in my cupboard, I think I got it from Waitrose, or it may have been Tesco. Its called Clearspring Organic Soya Sauce.
Ingredients are: water, whole soya beans, whole wheat, sea salt, grain alcohol.

[tummyache]

I use Bragg Liquid Aminos [www.bragg.com] in place of soy sauce. It tastes just like soy sauce, and also helps with digestion. Ingredients: vegetable protein from soybeans + purified water. It has no added sugars or wheat - many brands of soy sauce include wheat. I don't know if it's the wheat gluten or the fructans [one of the starches in wheat which are a long fructose chain with a glucose on the end], but wheat really bothers me. I do not have the genetic makeup for Celiac so am thinking, in my case, it must be the fructans.