Gluten free products

[douglas99]

My only evidence is anecdotal. I know several people who buy gluten free because they think it is better for them, not because they have a medical need. There is a lot of money being spent on marketing "free from" products and supermarkets are not known for doing things out of the goodness of their hearts. I wasn't actually objecting to the "free from" section just envious there wasn't some shelves with the various low carb substitute products grouped together. Obviously there are the naturally low carb products like vegetables, meat, fish, some fruits ( berries) salad ingredients, cream, cheese and pork scratchings that you mention. I may be wrong but I think these are also gluten free. I admit I didn't realise that "free from" catered for all these other "allergies". I have just looked a items that might interest me like bread and found that it was high carb, and 3 times the price and walked away disappointed.

Pork scratchings rarely are, many contain some form of flour, or are manufactured in a factory processing peanuts and/or flour.

 

[douglas99]

I thought English mustard was the only one we couldn't have, and seem to remember reading that it was ok now.

I would think there are all ok.
Colmans english mustard has 13g of carbs per 100g, however I doubt many people would eat a jar of mustard in one sitting.
Having said that, I prefer wholegrain mustard.

 

[Kristin251]

Some vinegars are cross reactive to gluten or contain gluten.

 

[douglas99]

Some vinegars are cross reactive to gluten or contain gluten.

I didn't know that.
Having said that, I've just checked the Colmans ite, and it does indeed contain wheat flour.

 

[Robinredbreast]

I didn't know that.
Having said that, I've just checked the Colmans ite, and it does indeed contain wheat flour.[/QUOTE]

Many food items contain wheat flour, I still have to check and recheck foods.

 

[Brunneria]

Considering the high number of false negatives produced by the coeliac testing, there are a heck of a lot of people out there who have been told they are not coeliac, but actually are (34% of the children in the study linked below)
https://www.glutenfreesociety.org/lab-testing-for-celiac-patients-inaccurate/

And then there are the Non Coeliac Gluten Intolerants...

What a pity that some people seem to think these sufferers should endure discomfort and illness rather than indulge their 'faddy' eating.

 

[Kristin251]

After reading this thread I just bought some polish horseradish mustard and it says gluten free
However some people still react to vinegar. I react to lots of cross reactive non gluten foods. Here's the list.
Chocolate
Coffee
sesame
Dairy
Corn
Soy
Yeast
Eggs
Aramath buckwheat hemp millet oats potato rice sorghum tapioca toffee

I don't react to all but many and I don't eat grains of any kind ever. Both my daughter and I have been tested many times and always negative but we are both very gluten intolerant. She buckles over in severe pain at a crumb. I generally just get some kind of nervous system reaction or gain inflammatory weight and achy.

Actually looking at the list I do drink coffee and eat some chocolate but I know they aren't great for me. Especially coffee. Eggs are ok if I don't eat them everyday but the rest are no go's. Guess I'm pretty sensitive haha

Nasty stuff!!