The Worst Protein in the World

Dr. Berg’s Healthy Keto and Intermittent Fasting Podcast

Dr. Eric Berg

Health & Fitness

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🗓️ 27 April 2024

⏱️ 6 minutes

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Summary

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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0:00.0	Let's talk about the worst protein in the entire world.
0:04.4	One day I was at Whole Foods.
0:06.2	I was really hungry.
0:07.3	You should never shop when you're really hungry.
0:09.4	And I was looking in the Delhi area and they had some small little chicken wings so I I ordered those
0:14.7	they look really good I noticed that they all looked like they were the same shape
0:20.4	though but I didn't think much of it at the time.
0:23.4	And so I'm driving home, I'm eating these chicken wings and I'm like,
0:27.0	wow, these are really good and it's almost too good.
0:29.3	And yes, I did wonder why there was no bones in these chicken.
0:32.8	Maybe I thought they were like boneless chicken wings.
0:36.0	And anyway, I got home and I looked in the mirror.
0:39.4	My eyes were completely bloodshot. I started feeling sick, extremely tired, nauseous. I went to bed. I slept for like three
0:48.2	hours. I woke up feeling drunk. I called Whole Foods and I said, what were in those chicken wings?
0:56.1	Well, those were plant-based chicken wings made with a type of protein called textured vegetable protein, aka textured soy protein.
1:09.2	That is the worst protein a human could eat from my viewpoint. And of course the
1:15.8	vegetable they're using is soy. Now sometimes you use cotton seed as the
1:19.8	vegetable. I didn't know cotton was a vegetable and I don't know of many people eating cotton
1:25.8	but in 1960 they invented this protein okay because they had to figure out what to do with all the waste from the seed oils that they were making.
1:37.0	So they had a great idea. Let's turn this into protein and we'll sell it as food.
1:42.0	And now it's in veggie burgers. It's in fake meek products, fake hot dog products, it's
1:47.9	in cereals, it's in kids lunches, it's in a lot of different things. It is an ultra-process ingredient. The word processed
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