Monday, April 16,1984/The Battalion/Page 5
Non-dairy substitute helps allergic people enjoy ice cream
I United Press International
J'LANO — Physicians seek-
lan ice cream substitute for
not their children who are al-
erpcto milk products have he
rn i national distribution of a
sen they discovered at a
lldirtg reception in New
1 A.
|)r. I. Richard Toranto, a
Istic surgeon in the Dallas
iifurb of Plano, came across
product almost by accident,
laid in an interview,
e was in New York to al
ia cousin’s wedding. The
lesierol-f'ree, non-dairy des-
B was served at the reception,
looked and lasted like ice
mi.; Toranto said, but he
Bw it couldn't be real ice
^because the main course
Been meat — the meal was
kosher, and Jewish dietary law
forbids serving meat and dairy
products at the same meal.
He found the original man
ufacturer, a kosher caterer in
Brooklyn, making the dessert in
a hatch freezer and selling it
only for catered events, mainly
Jewish.
It appeared ideal for his
youngest son, Jason, who has a
severe milk allergy, Toranto
said.
“He was a continually upset
5-year-old because he couldn’t
have ice cream with other chil
dren,” the doctor said. “He
would cry rather than go to
birthday parties where they
served ice cream.”
Toranto says the product,
which they named Parvelle Da
iry Free, has the flavor of pre
mium ice cream and a compara
ble price but half the calories.
The label describes the ingre
dients, in descending order of
quantity, as a pasteurized blend
of water, sugar, corn syrup sol
ids, plus hydrogenated and par
tially hydrogenated vegetable
oils (coconut and soybean), soy
protein, modified vegetable
gums, modified cellulose gums,
salt, dipotassium phosphate,
polysorbate 60, carageenan,
sorbitan monostearate, vanilla
and artificial, certified food
color.
“I located the gent who made
it and brought about 50 pounds
of it home, packed in dry ice,
for Jason,” Toranto said.
A friend and colleague, spi
nal surgeon Ralph Rashbaum,
was invited to dinner, along
with his family. Rashbaum’s
daughter, Dana, also has lactose
intolerance, meaning milk
products make her sick.
“When we served the new
product, Dana got upset be
cause she thought it was ice
cream,” Toranto said, “but she
was delighted when she found
she could eat it.
“Getting to watch a child eat
something she could never have
before gave us a great feeling.
Ralph and I concluded there
must be a huge number of
other kids like ours. At that
point we decided to make it
commercially available.”
Toranto and Rashbaum con
tracted to distribute the product
nationally through R&R Enter
prises — except in Texas and
Oklahoma. In those states re
tailers and other dairy product
distributors are supplied by
Foremost-McKesson of San
Francisco under contract with
R&R.
Toranto said Ron John, a
Dallas executive with the Salt
Lake City-based Skaggs Alpha
Bela grocery chain, first got it
into stores outside of New York.
“The product is a success be
cause of John’s advice, support
and commitment,” Toranto
said. “He tasted it, thought
there was a market for it and
said he would buy it if we made
it.”
Toranto said the product is
now in stores in Missouri, Kan
sas, Oklahoma, Texas, Loui
siana and Arkansas and soon
will be available in New En
gland, the southeastern states
and California.
The current line includes va
nilla with real beans, chocolate,
strawberry with real berries.
cookies and cream with real
cookie parts, chocolate chip
with chips, and coffee flavor
with real Kona coffee.
Toranto said statistics show 5
percent to 10 percent of the
American population has milk
allergies.
“The New England Journal
of Medicine says 80 percent of
all people have lactose intol
erance to some degree, with 30
percent so severe that they must
avoid all lactose products,” he
said.
“Besides that, one in four
Americans must reduce choles
terol intake. A 1 percent choles
terol reduction means heart at
tack risk is reduced by 2
percent, and ice cream tops the
offender list.”
>ggie blood drive gearing up — again
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By SUZY FISK
Reporter
\ggies can once again give a
Pgf themselves by giving a
it of blood to the Wadley
Kiel Center.
lolly Armor, Waul ley’s head
rse, says the center hopes to
led a normal range of 2,200
,300 pints between April 16
April 19.
\ggies can give blood in the
imorial Student Center Mon-
v through Wednesday from
am. to 7 pan. They can also
e in the lobby of the Com-
ms Monday through Thurs-
/ from 10 a.m. to 7 pan. For
■gies on the northside of cam-
1s, two mobile vans will be op
ting — one in front of the
icker Building and the other
|xl to the Fish Pond Monday
gh Thursday from 10
uo 7 pan.
hen the last pint has been
decl and it’s time to pack
and go home, private planes
will be waiting to take the im
portant cargo back to Dallas,
home of the Wadley Central
Blood Bank. Next, the blood is
fractioned into five compo
nents, the red blood cells, the
white blood cells, cryo, plasma
and platelets. These compo
nents are then distributed to the
53 north central area hospitals
in Texas, says Ellen Brandon, a
registered nurse with Wadley.
After 26 years of service at
Texas A&M, Wadley Blood
Center keeps the procedure of
blood withdrawl going. When a
person gives blood for the first
time he will be “typed” and then
his blood pressure, temperature
and iron level will be checked.
The person is also required to
fill out a questionaire on his
medical history. Six questions
are repeated to check for dicre-
pancies. This is done to make
sure the donor is suitable to give
blood.
One pint is the amount of
blood taken out for any person
over 110 pounds. No one under
1 10 pounds is allowed to give
blood because it can cause faint
ness and nausea.
Dana LeMoine, a junior
chemical engineering major
from Spring, says her sisters
started giving blood every 8
weeks and talked her into also
giving blood. LeMoine then re
alized she had the second rarest
typt
belie
“I believe it’s important to
give a part of myself to those I
can help, especially when I can
help someone else who needs a
rare type like mine.
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