Dr. Berg’s Healthy Keto and Intermittent Fasting Podcast

The Worst Protein in the World

Apr 27, 2024

05:47

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Discover the dangers of textured vegetable protein consumption, its highly processed nature, and the risks of ingesting GMO-rich soy-based proteins. Learn how consuming pure protein without essential nutrients can stress your body and rob nutrients from your liver.

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Textured vegetable protein, derived from soy, is an ultra-processed ingredient with adverse health effects due to nutrient loss and chemical processing.

Consuming pure proteins without essential fats can strain the body, leading to potential liver stress and nutrient depletion.

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Dangers of Textured Vegetable Protein

Textured vegetable protein, commonly made from soy, is an ultra-processed ingredient with questionable health implications. It is created from waste seed oils and undergoes intensive processing involving the removal of nutrients, fiber, and the use of chemicals like hexane. This product, with a sponge-like structure that can absorb three times its weight in liquid, is primarily GMO. Consuming such isolated proteins could lead to nutrient depletion and liver stress, as they lack the natural vitamins and minerals found in whole proteins.

The Dangers of Textured Vegetable Protein Consumption

2min

Unveiling the Risks of Processed Soy-based Proteins

4min

In this podcast, we’re going to talk about one of the worst protein sources in the world. After having a horrible reaction to some “chicken wings” that I ate, I called to find out what was in them. It turns out they were plant-based chicken wings made with textured vegetable protein.

Textured vegetable protein, or textured soy protein, is the worst protein in the world. Soy or cottonseed is used as the “vegetable” to make this protein.

Textured vegetable protein was invented in 1960 as a way to use the waste produced from seed oils. It has been used in veggie burgers, fake meat products, cereals, and many other food products.

Textured vegetable protein is an ultra-processed ingredient. To make it, oil, nutrients, and fiber are removed from the soybean using heat and chemicals like hexane. There are no long-term safety studies or upper limit on hexane established by the FDA. Chronic hexane toxicity is a condition caused by inhaling hexane, so what happens when you ingest it?

Over 95% of textured vegetable protein is GMO, and when consumed, it robs nutrients from your liver. It’s very similar to soy protein isolates.

Any time you consume pure protein without fat, you are creating stress in your body, especially if the protein doesn't contain key nutrients like fat-soluble vitamins A, E, D, and K.

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