Irritable Bowel Syndrome Message Boards | Re: how many people tolerate soy?

Hi - I've always done just fine with it, on a daily basis and in pretty large quantities. If you've been eating it regularly for a while, you should be producing the enzymes needed to digest the bean sugar in soy, which is what can cause gas/bloating for some folks when they first start eating it. But, you could also have a true food allergy to soy, and eating it regularly would not help one bit, it would just make you worse.

You might try switching to rice, almond, or oat subs for milk instead of the soy for a week or two and see if you notice a difference.

Also - make sure there's not a lot of added fat to the soy products you're using. I'm not sure about the ingredients in the UK, but in the US when soy milk first became popular most brands added oil to make it thicker and more like dairy milk. Only in the past several years have most brands stopped doing this and gone to using soluble fibers for thickeners instead of oil.

- Heather

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