Barbara, You are absolutely right.  Lecithin can come from eggs (yolks) and
it also is in high concentrations in oatmeal, wheat germ and peanuts.  It's
in various meats, too.  Egg yolks used to be the common source of lecithin
and I believe the egg based lecithin is often used in mayonaise.  I believe
soy lecithin has become far more prevalent in our food supply than egg
lecithin.

It is soy lecithin that is used in most formulas.  Most soy in the USA is
genetically modified unless it is labeled organic.  Soy oil is the base for
vitamin E (in infant formula probably gmo'd)  Corn is another product that is
often gmo'd and corn by-products are often in infant formula.  Eighty percent
of the vitamin C in the USA is gmo'd. Vitamin C is in infant formula.
Ascorbic acid (vitamin C) is produced from the glucose extracted from corn
syrup through bio-fermentation.  Cow's milk is gmo'd.  We can go on and
on....and now we have the DHA (gmo'd??probably)....nothing can beat infant
formula for experimentation.  Formula fed infants get to be the "canaries in
the mine shaft."  The only trouble is that most of us are looking at the mine
shaft rather than at the canaries.
Valerie W. McClain, IBCLC

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