What Is Hydrolyzed Vegetable Protein?

3-08-2010 @8:23PM Daniel F. said... HVP is created by breaking down proteins in cereal grains into glutamic and other amino acids. It is a "food enhancer" which is used prominently to replace...you guessed it, MSG. Although the health risks of both are dubious at best, it is generally considered a more processed and therefore less healthy substitution for monosodium glutamate, used mostly to throw misguided consumers off of the food additive trail.

3-08-2010 @9:10PM good reader said... Its right in the first paragraph, a salty savory food enhancer used in everyday foods. Pay attention

3-08-2010 @10:21PM George said... From the beginning of the article:

hydrolyzed vegetable protein -- a salty and savory flavor enhancer used in many foods

3-08-2010 @9:28PM M said... It's in the article annmarie....."a salty and savory flavor enhancer used in many foods you may eat every day."

3-09-2010 @12:34AM Holly said... The article clearly states Hydrolyzed vegetable protien as being HVP....

3-09-2010 @12:43AM John said... "chances are you had a bite of hydrolyzed vegetable protein"

3-09-2010 @7:34AM jnue said... What they didn't say is that HVP is actually the way they hide MSG. It is the other name they use for it and get away with it.
and the FDA gives them full permission to do it. thanks FDA for trying to kill us in so many ways!

3-09-2010 @4:37PM Ella said... This is exactly why i try to stay away from processed foods and make my own!..found a great book that helps me do it.. I can't tell you the name, but google "whipped & Beaten Culinary Works" to find it.. but if you consider yourself conservative and don't have a good sense of humor.. i would skip it.

3-11-2010 @4:54PM JB said... Hydrolyzed Vegetable Protein

3-09-2010 @6:42PM vic said... well,msg will kill u if u eat it long enough and this stuff is even worse. its soy that has been ground into a powder or made into liquid that has alot of chemicals in it. it needs to be taken OFF the marlet altogether! along with high fructose corn syrup AND hydrogenated oils! They are ALL giving our kids diabetes,high cholesterol,and high blood pressure. At ages as low as 5 years old!!!!
when will they ever care????????

3-09-2010 @7:16PM Marti said... annmarie:

I agree. I fully expected to read about what HVP is, how it is made, its health effects, etc. I'm just as disappointed as you are.

I'm also a little more than annoyed at those responding to your comment. Well, duh, of course HVP is hydrolyzed vegetable protein. And, yes, the article mentioned something about a flavor enhancer... but that doesn't tell anyone exactly WHAT it is, so you were right to make the comment you did.

3-09-2010 @7:22PM anni said... ELLA: Grow the hell up! Watching a guy in a bra and apron trying to cook is just stupid.

3-09-2010 @10:39PM Georgette P Jones said... You are right if the question was answered than i missed it totally!!1

3-08-2010 @11:27PM ann marie said... What Rose, you dont grow pigs anymore? How bout Guinea Pigs. They are really tasty and you can grow them in the city.

I have a degree in Agriculture and am a food historian and I had to look up HVP (on another site, eating up more valuable time when I could have read the info here in an article that promised to tell me) because although I had heard about and knew the name and even what it stood for, I had no idea WHAT it actually was, contrary to those who answered that the definition is right in the article. A salty and savory flavor enhancer????? They could be talking about soy sauce, which it seems like isnt that far off DEFINITION wise. Would it have taken the writer of this article more than 3 minutes to look up and write WHAT exactly HVP is or any further info on its health risks? This is just another fluffy Slashfood article, not well researched, not well written, misleading headline..... the norm for Slashfood for about the last year. This used to be a great resource but quite frankly these days it sucks.

3-09-2010 @12:53AM Erin said... Well it must be nice to have all the time in the world to make meals from scratch and the money. I don't live where I can grow my own veggies (I live in base housing). Prepared meals allow me to spend more time with my children. And it sounds to me, no offense, that you grew up in a different time where life was little more relaxed and you grew up in the country. Some of us aren't/weren't lucky enough for that.

3-09-2010 @9:43PM Roselyne said... Erin: Your fresh food department in the grocery store has plenty of products that do not take any more time to prepare as that of "prepared" food. At least you know what you are putting in your mouth.