Some Helpful Web Sites

Posted By: Linda Sutton

Some Helpful Web Sites - 07/24/00 12:09 AM

Below are some web sites on which you can find some helpful information about cooking in general, vegetarianism, and buying hard-to-find foods. Most of these sites are not Adventist and may contain information not in harmony with the health message of the Seventh-day Adventist Church. Should you find something offensive, please notify me by email. Thank you.

These are vegetarian sites with information and recipes.

http://www.vegsource.com/
homepage for Vegesource, with all things dedicated to being a vegetarian

http://www.veg.org/veg/
Vegetarian Pages

http://www.vegweb.com/
Veggies Unite! Your on-line vegetarian resource guide

Sites where you can buy vegetarian and bulk food items on-line

http://www.soyfoods.com/SoyfoodsOnline.html
US Soy Foods Directory
this is a page of links to soy food sites

http://www.lumenfds.com/
Lumen Foods, makers of meat analogs (substitutes) which contain no animal products.

http://www.somethingbetternaturalfoods.com/
Something Better Natural Foods
Something Better supplies the Country Life Vegetarian Restaurants and has a large choice of bulk and hard-to-find foods: grains, dried fruits, nuts, soy milks, some-hard-to-find-items. You can order by mail or on-line.

http://www.lundberg.com/
They grow and sell all kinds of rice and rice products. They also state that they do not use genetically engineered seed. Can't yet order on-line, but you can see a list of their products and print out an order form to mail in.

http://www.organicfruitsandnuts.com/default.asp
Jaffe Brothers Organic and Natural foods. Another source for buy bulk and organic foods.

http://www.ethnicgrocer.com/eg/hm/eg.html
EthnicGrocer.com sell foods and ingredients for various ethnic cuisines. A source for some hard-to-find items.


Adventist nutrition sites

http://www.andrews.edu/NUFS/index.html
Andrews University nutritional resources

http://www.llu.edu/llu/nutrition/vegguide.html
Loma Linda Vegetarian Food Guide


Government, Association, and Educational sites

http://www.fda.gov/
The Federal Food and Drug Administration homepage

http://vm.cfsan.fda.gov/list.html
Center for Food Safety & Applied Nutrition

http://www.eatright.org/
The American Dietetic Association homepage

http://www.vanderbilt.edu/AnS/psychology/health_psychology/nutritio.htm
Nutrition information links page from Vanderbilt University. Contains information from research.

http://oak.cats.ohiou.edu/~kb250191/index.htm
The Nutrition Homepage for Educators.
Geared to teachers in the school system, still has some good information.

http://www.fsis.usda.gov/OA/news/xrecalls.htm
This is the site to check if you want to know the latest meat recalls due to contamination or other problems.

http://www.cspinet.org/
Center for Science in the Public Interest
There is a lot of food research done by this group and you can find the results here.

Finally

http://www.kitchenlink.com
The Kitchen Link
Your Guide to What's Cooking on the Net
recipes, links, guides, nutrition, news, anything and everything to do with food, lots of good, but not vegetarian. This is a good site to find international and ethnic recipes.

http://www.oldwayspt.org/html/p_veg.htm
A great vegetarian food guide pyramid is at the top of the page. Please overlook the blurb to the side about alcohol use, as we believe in total abstainence from alcoholic beverages.

Linda

[This message has been edited by Linda Sutton (edited August 06, 2000).]

Two new sites added today

[This message has been edited by Linda Sutton (edited December 19, 2000).]

Posted By: Linda Sutton

Re: Some Helpful Web Sites - 09/18/00 06:53 AM

http://www.cuisinenet.com/digest/breakfast/cereal.shtml
This site has a short history of how Seventh-day Adventists are linked with the history of the breakfast cereal business.
Posted By: Linda Sutton

Re: Some Helpful Web Sites - 09/25/00 05:07 AM

Here are a couple of Canadian sites readers might find useful.

http://www.hc-sc.gc.ca/hppb/nutrition/pube/foodguid/foodguide.html
Canada's Food Guide (not vegetarian)

http://www.guideap.com/
Canada's physical activity guide

[This message has been edited by Linda Sutton (edited September 24, 2000).]

Posted By: Linda Sutton

Re: Some Helpful Web Sites - 10/10/00 09:14 PM

For more information on Genetic engineering, bio-engineered foods, and related information, you can look at these web sites.

You can read these documents for further information:

Are Bioengineered Foods Safe? at:
http://www.fda.gov/fdac/features/2000/100_bio.html

Methods for Genetically Engineering a Plant at: HTTP://www.fda.gov/fdac/features/2000/biochart.html


http://www.gefoodalert.org/
A site dealing with genetically engineered food crops


http://www.netlink.de/gen/home.html
Campaign to ban genetically foods

http://www.holisticmed.com/ge/
This is principally a links page to other sites and documents about genetically altered food. It appears that some of the documents come from outside North America. Everywhere GM foods have been introduced, there has been protest of some degree.


The following articles are from Lancet, the British medical journal.
http://www.findarticles.com/cf_0/m1104/3_79/62499101/p1/article.jhtml
This article is pro-GM, but contains information about the process.

http://www.findarticles.com/cf_0/m0833/9167_353/54825183/p1/article.jhtml

http://www.ucsusa.org/
Union of Concerned Scientists/Agriculture & Biotechnology
When the page opens, click on "search/map" on the bar across the bottom of the screen. Under "Agriculture" click on "Biotechology" and you will get a list of articles and documents on genetically modified crops.

http://www.centerforfoodsafety.org/lm.html
Besides information about GM/GE foods, it also has information about organic foods.

http://www.bio-integrity.org/
Alliance For Bio-Integrity
information about genetically modified food.


[This message has been edited by Linda Sutton (edited October 10, 2000).]

[This message has been edited by Linda Sutton (edited October 12, 2000).]

[This message has been edited by Linda Sutton (edited December 19, 2000).]

Posted By: Linda Sutton

Re: Some Helpful Web Sites - 12/19/00 10:18 PM

Animal Derived Ingredients

http://www.veggie.org/veggie/animal.ingredients.shtml
This is an alphabetized list of animal ingredients from a Canadian source.

http://pasture.ecn.purdue.edu/~ryhoward/ryan/substanc.htm
List of animal derived ingredients in alphabetical order. Best site. Based in USA.

http://www.islamzine.com/health/list.html
This is a islamic list of animal ingredients. Rather interesting as some descriptions are given.

http://www.vegsoc.org/info/stumbling.html
This list of animal products contains more than food ingredients. It also gives brief descriptions.


Food Additives

http://www.additives.8m.com/english.htm
Food additives guide. Don't know what an ingredient is? Check here. Just looking over this site shows it is well done. Gives good information about food additives, tells what countries a substance is banned in, etc. If you click on recipes, you aren't getting cooking instructions, but a list of additives that are typical in processed foods like breads and soups. This site is well worth checking out. Just one word of caution: there is a pop-up screen with links on it that confused me as it pops up the same size as a second window opening. You can tell it from the window because it has no menu bar across the top.

An example of what I found at this site. I see this ingredient listed in a lot of baked goods, but I didn't know anything about it. Now I know to avoid it. L-Cystein: flour treatment agent derived from animal hair and chicken feather.

http://www.cspinet.org/additives/
The Center for Science in the Public Interest's Food Additives page links to their own articles on addditives. Their Chemical Cuisine page is very good.

Posted By: Linda Sutton

Re: Some Helpful Web Sites - 12/19/00 10:24 PM

Here's a site for the lands down under.
http://203.55.94.175/
ANZFA -- Australia New Zealand Food Authority. Seems to be a lot of information about food for Aussies, including information on GM foods. At least they have some labeling requirements which is more than the US has.
Posted By: Linda Sutton

Re: Some Helpful Web Sites - 01/03/01 03:04 PM

Vegetarian
http://www.eatright.org/adap1197.html
American Dietetic Association position paper on Vegetarianism


Information on food safety
http://www.foodsafety.ufl.edu/index.html
National Food Safety Database web site

http://www.consumer.gov/food.htm
the resource for consumer information from the federal government. The URL opens to the food safety page.

http://www.ces.ncsu.edu/depts/foodsci/agentinfo/
Food safety information from NC State Cooperative Extension Service. Provides links to other sites dealing with food safety.

Posted By: Linda Sutton

Re: Some Helpful Web Sites - 01/24/01 07:05 AM

IF you want to know what brand food items contain genetically engineered products (corn, soy, etc.) you will find a list at this site.

http://www.truefoodnow.org/shoppinglist.html

For more information on GMO crops also check

http://www.truefoodnow.org/

Both these sites are hosted and maintained by the environmentalist group Greenpeace. As with other sites listed here, there may be objectionable things here, but the food list is the only one I have found anywhere (and that is thanks to someone on another forum.)

Posted By: Linda Sutton

Re: Some Helpful Web Sites - 01/25/01 10:48 PM

Recalls

The following websites list foods and/or medical items that have been recalled in the USA.

http://www.fsis.usda.gov/OA/news/xrecalls.htm
This is the site to check if you want to know the latest meat recalls due to contamination or other problems.

http://www.fda.gov/opacom/7alerts.html
Foods and medical items listed here.

http://www.safe-t-net.org/Default.htm
A recall site that offter recalls on all kinds of products. Primarily US products, but lists if the recall applies in other countries.

Canadian Recall Sites

All Candian government sites are available in both English and French. I have listed only the English site addresses.

http://www.cfia-acia.agr.ca/english/corpaffr/foodrecalls/recaltoce.shtml
Canadian government recall site.

http://consumerinformation.ca/cgi-bin/main.cgi?Language=E
Click on "Consumer Products" then click on "Recalls"

[This message has been edited by Linda Sutton (edited January 25, 2001).]

Posted By: Linda Sutton

Re: Some Helpful Web Sites - 12/27/01 04:57 AM

More and more vegetarian websites are appearing online.

In A Vegetarian Kitchen with Nava Atlas.

quote:
Nava Atlas is the author and illustrator of many books on vegetarian cooking. The best known are Vegetariana, Vegetarian Soups for all Seasons, Vegetarian Express and Vegetarian Celebrations. Her articles on healthy cooking with natural foods have appeared in Vegetarian Times, Veggie Life, Great Life, and other magazines and newspapers.

Nava has also written humor and is active as a fine artist. Her work has been shown in galleries and museums around the country. She enjoys exploring, hiking, reading, daydreaming, the ocean and chocolate. Her home is in the Hudson Valley region of New York State, where she lives with her husband and two school-aged sons.


I have two of her cookbooks. This looks like a good site.