Do you truly follow a gluten-free diet? Or just the obvious grain-containing products? I have been looking at sites about gluten intolerence and there are A LOT of ingredients that contain gluten that are not at all obvious. Here's one list I found:
Alcohol (derived from gluten based products such as wheat, barely, malt, rye, etc.)
Ale
Artificial Color (check with manufacturer, could contain gluten)
Artificial Flavoring (check with manufacturer, could contain gluten)
Baking Powder (check with manufacturer, could contain gluten, Clabber Girl is G.F.)
Barley Grass
Barley
Barley Malt
Beer
Bleached Flour
Blue Cheese (generally made with bread, that is wheat based)
Bran
Bread Flour
Brewer's Yeast
Brown Flour
Bulgar Wheat or Nuts
Buttermilk (some contains modified food starch)
Bouillon Cubes & Prepackaged Broth
Calcium Caseinate (Contains MSG)
Cakes & Cake Mixes
Cake Flour
Candy (always check with manufacturer, often dusted with flour to prevent sticking)
Canola Oil (Canola is G.F. but can have a laxative effect in some individuals)
Caramel Color (some types contains gluten, call manufacturer)
Cereal (most contain gluten, Health Valley makes several G.F. Varieties)
Cereal Binders, Extracts, and Fillers (usually contain gluten, verify with manufacturer)
Cheese (shredded cheese is often dusted with flour to prevent sticking)
Chilton
Chocolate Syrup (read label)
Chorizo (most contain cereal fillers, check label)
Chow Main Noodles
Citric Acid (in the U.S. it is gluten free, but outside U.S. it can be made from wheat or corn)
Cocoa (Check with Manufacturer, Hersheys and Nestles are G.F.)
Cookie Mixes
Couscous
Cracker Meal
Croutons
Dextrins (Check with manufacturer, made from a variety of starches including wheat)
Distilled Vinegar (Check with manufacturer, most apple cider, balsamic, white wine are G.F)
Doughnuts
Durum
Durum Flour
Edible Starch
Einkorn Wheat
Farina Graham
Filler
Fish (some processed fish contains gluten. Ex. Gorton's Grilled Fish & Imitation Crab Meat)
Flavorings (check with manufacturer, could be gluten based)
Flavored Prepackaged Rice (check with manufacturer, Rice A Roni IS NOT G.F.)
Flavored Prepackaged Pasta (rice or corn pasta makes a great subsitute)
Flavored Instant Coffee ( check with manufacturer)
Flavored Instant Tea (check with manufacturer)
Flour Tortillas
Food Coloring - (Check with manufacture, Wiltons and McCormicks are G.F.)
Food Starch (check with manufacturer, generally wheat based)
Frozen Dinners (check with manufacturers, Amy's & Whole Food have some G.F. dinners)
Fu (dried wheat gluten)
Gelatinized Starch (check with manufacturer)
Germ
Glutamate
Gluten Flour
Graham Flour
Granary Flour
Gravy & Gravy Mixes (check with manufacturer)
Groats (barley, wheat)
Ground Spices (check with manufacturer. McCormick's and Frontier make G.F. Spices)
Guar Gum (this is gluten free, but has a laxative effect on some individuals)
Gum Base
Hamburger Patties (when purchasing or eating out make sure it contains no fillers)
Hard Wheat
Hydrolyzed Oat Starch (gluten free, but could have cross contamination)
Hydrolyzed Plant Protein (HPP)
Hydrolyzed Vegetable Protein (HVP)
High Protein Flour
Ice Cream (some contains gluten, check with manufacturer)
Ice Cream Cones
Inulin
Kamut (Pasta wheat)
Ketchup (contains vinegar, check with manufacturer)
Laxatives (check with manufacturer, read label. Metamucil is G.F.)
Liquor (many are made from glutinous grains, check with manufacturer)
Malt (check with manufacturer, generally wheat based)
Malt Extract
Malt Syrup
Malt Flavoring
Malt Vinegar
Mayonnaise (contains vinegar, check with manufacturer)
Marshmallows (check with manufacturer)
Marshmallow Creme (check with manufacturer)
Millet (gluten free but beware of cross contamination)
Miso
Matzo Semolina
Matzo Meal
Modified Food Starch (check with manufacturer)
Modified Starch (check with manufacturer)
Mono and Diglycerides
MSG (Made outside USA)
Muffins & Bread Mixes
Mustard Powder (check with manufacturer, Coleman's is not gluten free)
Natural Flavoring (check with manufacturer)
Non Stick Cooking Sprays. (some contain flour or grain alcohol. Pam & Wesson are G.F.)
Oats (oats are gluten free, beware of cross contamination)
Oat Bran (oats are gluten free, beware of cross contamination)
Oatmeal (oats are gluten free, beware of cross contamination)
Oatrim (oats are gluten free, beware of cross contamination)
Pancakes
Pasta
Pearl Barley
Pies (this includes the filling that is often thickened with flour)
Popovers
Pop Tarts
Powdered Sugar (contact manufacturer)
Pretzels
Potato Chips (the seasoning usually contains wheat. Contact manufacturer)
Prepackaged Mixes & Spice (example taco mix. McCormick taco mix is G.F)
Pudding (check with manufacturer. Kozy Shack is gluten free & very good)
Restaurant Grills & Fryers ( be very careful of cross contamination)
Rice Malt (Usually contains barley or Koji, contact manufacturer)
Rice Syrup (contact manufacturer, some contains barley, Lundberg Farms is G.F.)
Rice Paper (contact manufacturer)
Rye
Sausage (most contain fillers, check with manufacturer)
Seitan
Semolina
Semolina Triticum
Shoyu (soy sauce, check with manufacturer)
Small Spelt
Soba Noodles
Soft Wheat
Sodium Caseinate (Contains MSG, check with manufacturer)
Soy Sauce (most contains wheat, try San-J wheat free Tamari)
Spirits (check with manufacturer)
Spelt
Sprouted Wheat or Barley
Starch (in the U.S starch is generally made from corn, contact manufacturer is unsure)
Steak Sauce (check with manufacturer)
Stock Cubes (check with manufacture, generally contain wheat)
Strong Flour
Suet
Taco Mixes (check with manufacturer)
Tabbouleh
Teriyaki Sauce
Textured Vegetable Protein - TVP
Triticale
Udon ( wheat noodles)
Vanilla & other Extracts (contact manufacturer, could contain alcohol made from gluten)
Vegetable Starch (check with manufacturer usually contains gluten)
Vegetable Gum (check with manufacturer)
Vinegar (check with manufacturer)
Vitamins (check with manufacturer)
Wheat
Wheat Bran
Wheat Gum
Wheat Berries
Wheat Nuts
Wheat, Abyssinian Hard triticum durum
Wheat, Bulgur
Wheat Durum Triticum
Wheat Triticum mononoccum
Wheat Starch
Wheat Germ
Wheat Grass
Whole-Meal Flour
Whole Wheat Flour
Whiskey
Waffles
Wieners (check with manufacturer, usually contains fillers)
Zwieback Cookies
margarine is terrible for you anyway. Butter you shouldn't eat if you have acne. No they don't have gluten unless through contamination. Some chips do. Depends on the chip. I would guess a lot of chips do. Chips are terrible for you anyway.
margarine is terrible for you anyway. Butter you shouldn't eat if you have acne. No they don't have gluten unless through contamination. Some chips do. Depends on the chip. I would guess a lot of chips do. Chips are terrible for you anyway.
in a very small quantity they arn't 'Terrible' for you, today was the first time i had chips in months..
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Prometheus is really cool, so is sweetjade, they all know theyre stuff and have given me ever growing confidence with acne.
Whilst we're on this subject, prometheus. Are foods fried in olive oil "better" for you than those fried in vegetable oil, butter or lard, or are they just as bad? I know olive oil is a good oil because it's mainly mono-unsaturated but does heating it severly denature it?
Yes heating olive oil does seriously denature it. Same thing with the refining process. I wouldn't purchase any olive oil or any oil for that matter that has been refined, if I planned on consuming it. It is better to eat food fried in lard than vegetable oil.
Plant oils are very delicate and unstable. When heated they become toxic and harmful to our bodies. Research it if you like.
When it comes down to it, if health is what we want, water is the only thing appropriate for cooking. Steaming, poaching, boiling, or pressure cooking.
We should severely limit our consumption of polyunsaturated fats. Olive oil, being monounsaturated, I think primarily atleast, is the only one I would eat, but not heated.
Last edited by prometheus; 01-13-2004 at 10:42 AM.
Erica,
LOL, Wow! Now to answer your question I avoid the obvious sources of gluten 100% (ALL bread products from gluten grains) and it's derivatives at least 98%. That usually means, unless it is specified what FORM of Vegetable Protein or Food Starch, I will consume it.
However, I generally always avoid Malt, unless it's specified as coming from a Gluten-Free Source. I also avoid sauces, gravies etc if I'm aware that they contain Gluten flour (thick = flour, thin/clear = may have no flour). When I want chinese, etc I use 100% Soy Sauce, but of course there may be sauce soy (w/ wheat) already on this food so I limit consumption to every few months. The same goes for eating some flavored chips, processed meats, rice mixes, & seasoning blends because for some reason....the world can't live without a bit of gluten/wheat in seemingly ALL of our foods. I don't drink, but somewhere I have a list around for that as well.
I'm not allergic to wheat or gluten, nor am I a Celiac so it's not a HUGE conern to eliminate that .0001% of gluten, but if you are (or you are still breaking out) then it is extremely important that you do so. Besides, most of that stuff is bad for us anyway and if you aren't eating processed foods due to gluten avoidance, you won't run into the majority of those ingredients. So unless you are trully allergic, it really is much easier than it looks =)
How are things going for you anyway? Found plenty of foods to replace the above? If not, do another search and you'll find lists of safe manufacturers and brands.
Take care and thanks for list =)
Last edited by SweetJade1; 01-20-2004 at 04:22 PM.
hi sweetjade1,
thought you'd disappeared. it's nice to see you back you offer great advice and input without ever sounding...umm... condescending.
I haven't written for awhile because I'm still playing around with diet etc. I don't want to say too much more until I've drawn some more definitive conclusions, but I will definately let you and the others here know as soon as I figure out what exactly works for me.
you offer great advice and input without ever sounding...umm... condescending.
