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Gluten free products

Debzz_ said:
Hi all - are these products beneficial to our diet ? Had two slices of gluten free bread and 2 hours later my BG is high - annoying
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Many on here avoid gluten.
I eat carbs, but tend to go for oats, seeded bread, rye bread just as a matter of taste, as I avoid processed white flour in food.
I just bought another bread maker, having wore the old one out.
The problem is a lot of gluten free food is now becoming mass produced, and becoming a mass of fillers.
So it's worth reading the ingredients closely if you do buy it.
 
Why on earth eat gluten free goods?most are either terrible tasting too sweet or too dry to eat bread disintegrates when you try to butter it yuck! i am a coeliac/diabetic by the way and if i did not have to eat the stuff gluten free would never pass my lips.
 
I've seen a few articles lately saying that low gluten diets makes type 2 diabetes more likely. Not much on how much more likely, though.
 
Debzz_ said:
Hi all - are these products beneficial to our diet ? Had two slices of gluten free bread and 2 hours later my BG is high - annoying
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Because these products are made with potato starch, rice, corn, tapioca they are higher in carbs and some of the bread is so tiny in size, so not great, the best bread I have tried is BFree, 9.5 per slice (and a longer slice too) okay toasted, especially with an egg on top, fried, poached or my favourite scrambled egg. I am coeliac.
 
I am also coeliac and gave up eating GF bread after eating the most disgusting sandwich ever, on Boxing Day. I had used one of the two makes of bread I thought tasted OK and was so disappointed to find that it tasted so horrible.

I don't know why anyone would choose to eat GF products when they are so high in carbs and taste so awful!
 
I have been recommended to go gluten-free by an Endo, but just a I have never eaten any products made for diabetics, I don't intend to eat any made specifically gluten free either. That doesn't mean I won't use a GF Soy sauce, for example, but some of the other stuff just doesn't float my boat.

There's so much fabulous food out there to eat, I'd rather stick with that, rather than something pretending to be something else.
 
Supermarkets have large Free-From sections supplying gluten free products (presumably mostly to people who don't need them). If only they could have a similarly stocked low carb section instead of one or two products hidden about the store.
 
Mr_Pot said:
Supermarkets have large Free-From sections supplying gluten free products (presumably mostly to people who don't need them). If only they could have a similarly stocked low carb section instead of one or two products hidden about the store.
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I wouldn't actually presume @Mr_Pot and I would rather say I don't need them, but I do, not many mind, I love the 9 bars, full of tasty seeds, Worcester sauce and the stock cubes, both of which I am using now in my home made soup:)
Many gluten free foods are very high in carbs and often at an exorbitant price too :wideyed:
 
Mr_Pot said:
Supermarkets have large Free-From sections supplying gluten free products (presumably mostly to people who don't need them). If only they could have a similarly stocked low carb section instead of one or two products hidden about the store.
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Presumably there aren't quite as many people who don't need them buying low carb products?
 
Robinredbreast said:
I wouldn't actually presume @Mr_Pot and I would rather say I don't need them, but I do, not many mind, I love the 9 bars, full of tasty seeds, Worcester sauce and the stock cubes, both of which I am using now in my home made soup:)
Many gluten free foods are very high in carbs and often at an exorbitant price too :wideyed:
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I did say "mostly". I don't think they would devote that much shelf space if their only market was to coeliacs or those with a genuine problem with gluten.
 
Mr_Pot said:
I did say "mostly". I don't think they would devote that much shelf space if their only market was to coeliacs or those with a genuine problem with gluten.
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Yes I noted you did say 'mostly,' do you have any figures to back this up ? and 'free from' means anyone with an allergy with the food listed below, including :-
  • Eggs.
  • Cow's milk.
  • Peanuts.
  • Soy.
  • Wheat.
  • Fish.
  • Shrimp and other shellfish.
  • Tree nuts.
There are low carb foods available in supermarkets, vegetables, meat, fish, some fruits ( berries) salad ingredients, cream, cheese and pork scratchings to name a few. I eat most of these :)
 
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Mr_Pot said:
I did say "mostly". I don't think they would devote that much shelf space if their only market was to coeliacs or those with a genuine problem with gluten.
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It seems to a much bigger business now and the price is twice, three times and more the cost of 'everyday foods'
 
Robinredbreast said:
It seems to a much bigger business now and the price is twice, three times and more the cost of 'everyday foods'
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A lot of the expense is due to the product needing dedicated production facilities, and still relatively low volume compared to the normal products.
 
douglas99 said:
A lot of the expense is due to the product needing dedicated production facilities, and still relatively low volume compared to the normal products.
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Yes I know, I shop around and found a tasty polish mustard, with no gluten in it, used the last of it today.
 
Robinredbreast said:
Yes I noted you did say 'mostly,' do you have any figures to back this up ? and 'free from' means anyone with an allergy with the food listed below, including :-
  • Eggs.
  • Cow's milk.
  • Peanuts.
  • Soy.
  • Wheat.
  • Fish.
  • Shrimp and other shellfish.
  • Tree nuts.
There are low carb foods available in supermarkets, vegetables, meat, fish, some fruits ( berries) salad ingredients, cream, cheese and pork scratchings to name a few. I eat all of these :)
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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.
 
dancer said:
I thought English mustard was the only one we couldn't have, and seem to remember reading that it was ok now.
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I will stick with the Polish one, actually, their foods are very good, especially the meats and a good price too.
 
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