The truth about vinegar
Sticking to the treatment diet means we end up reading a lot of food labels. One ingredient in particular crops up fairly often. Vinegar. It’s in more foods that I ever realized.
Vinegar is one of the foods that should be completely avoided while taking the Tonic. In our effort to provide everything you need to follow the Bio-Medical treatment diet we looked far and wide for a commercial mayonnaise that didn’t contain vinegar. I recently found and talked with a Kosher food manufacturer who said they had a vinegar free mayonnaise. I was thrilled!
I ordered a case. When it arrived, imagine my surprise to see acetic acid as the third ingredient. I was shocked.
I called the manufacturer and said there must have been a mistake and they had sent me the wrong case of mayonnaise. Nope. As far as they were concerned what they had sent me was vinegar free. They said it was the same mayonnaise they send to people who are allergic to vinegar. Now I was really shocked.
Here is some information on acetic acid from the University of Wisconsin-Madison:
http://scifun.chem.wisc.edu/chemweek/AceticAcid/AceticAcid.html. Sufficed to say, vinegar contains acetic acid (4-8%) and acetic acid is referred to as the defining ingredient of vinegar.
Acetic acid is also sometimes called ethanoic acid. So you’ll want to watch for that too. (Don’t you ever wish they’d pick one name and stick with it? It’s like they’re really trying to confuse us!)
It was a real eye opener to talk to a food manufacturer who swore up and down that their product was vinegar free when in fact it wasn’t. I don’t think they were trying to trick me, they just didn’t know. It was a good lesson on reading food labels, being aware of the ingredients and all the different names they go by, and whether or not they’re ‘legal’ on the treatment diet.
Luckily we have a great mayonnaise substitute recipe and our bread mixes don’t call for it at all. Salad dressings are a little tougher, but we have substitute recipes for those too. Over 250 treatment diet compliant recipes are available at www.HoxseyCancerDiet.com.