Transglutaminase As An Ingredient?

[curiousgeorge]

What do you guys make of transglutaminase as an ingredient? Its in the context of a fish oil additive.

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[nikki-uk]

Found this:

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[psawyer]

It is NOT gluten, if that is what you are asking.

[curiousgeorge]

It is NOT gluten, if that is what you are asking.

Yes that is what I was wondering. So its ok? I was just really suprized when I saw it even listed. I'm so used to seeing it here in the context of bloodwork that it took me a wee bit by suprise.

[lbd]

My question would be: Is the industrial transglutaminase (see the wiki article mentioned above) used to bind foods in things like rice pasta, cause the body to produce the same antibodies that tissue transglutaminase causes? If so, would this affect tests for ttg? Would the results for ttg be abnormally affected by the very foods that we are eating to replace gluten foods, such as rice pastas and the like? And what is the effect on our bodies if we are making antibodies towards this stuff? This sends a big red flag up with me. I know enough about this to think that this stuff might not be a good thing to have added to our foods. I wish I could find out more about the industrial transglutaminase and just how close it is to tissue transglutaminase.

I bet no one has bothered to look into this. The food industry does all sorts of things to our food (like using mercury in the process of making HFCS) that we don't even dream of, without thinking or caring about the consequences to our systems.

I am beginning to wonder if I should ever eat anything processed by a large industrial food business again.

Laurie

[sonear]

I just noticed that transglutaminase is the main ingredient in some hair product I just bought. I am wondering the same thing as Ibd--will this make me feel worse?