Kashi "Go Lean Crunch" and food allergy

Food allergies are not uncommon and may be hidden (undiagnosed). A four day rotational diet can help ensure less inflammatory response (as shown by Dr William Philpott and others) ..... that means when you do eat an offending food, you avoid it for the next few days.

That is why some of the Kashi products seem poorly designed. For example Go Lean Crunch has

• red wheat, rice, barley, triticale, oats, rye, buckwheat, and soy protein. 

Its tempting to think that it must be great stuff, it has a large variety of seemingly good grains. Have some often, you can't go wrong!!

Among these ingredients, wheat and soy are common sources of allergic symptoms. For simplicity lets ignore the soy for now.

About 1% of all adults have gluten allergy and 3% of people with gastrointestinal complaints are found to have gluten allergy. If you are in that allergic population and eat Crunch often, you never get to recover from the subsequent inflammation.

The good news is you don't have to eat that way .... you can rotate among the grains and have different ones on different days .... its not hard to find cereal products that have few or one ingredient.

• The bad news is we should not ignore the soy .... a topic for another time (hormonal inhibition).