Pasta, pizza, bagels, bread, cake, pie, pancakes, tortillas, cookies, gravy, soy sauce, beer, malt, peanut butter, mustard, jam, mayonnaise, lunch meat, salad dressing, marinades. This is an extremely short list of all the foods that gluten is found in, some are obvious, and some, not so much. When we speak of a gluten intolerance, we most often think of the extreme case called celiac disease, but this extreme is not always the case, we can have a mild gluten intolerance and not realize it.
Gluten is a protein found in wheat products that can cause negative effects that we don’t realize are happening such as inflammation that leads to premature aging and weight gain, and compromised digestion which dims your glow, that’s why you should avoid gluten all together. Unfortunately, gluten is in just about everything and you’ll never know it. Here are some of the names for hidden gluten you can look for in ingredient lists.
The different names of gluten ingredients:
Triticum vulgare (wheat)
Triticale (a cross between wheat and rye)
Hordeum vulgare (barley)
Secale cereale (rye)
Triticum spelta (spelt, a form of wheat)
Ingredients that always contain gluten:
Wheat protein/hydrolyzed wheat protein
Wheat starch/hydrolyzed wheat starch
Wheat flour/bread flour/bleached flour
Bulgur: A form of wheat
Malt: Made from barley
Couscous: Made from wheat
Farina: Made from wheat
Pasta: Made from wheat unless otherwise indicated
Seitan: Made from wheat gluten and commonly used in vegetarian meals
Wheat or barley grass: Will be cross-contaminated
Wheat germ oil or extract: Will be cross-contaminated
Bulgur
Durum (type of wheat)
Farro/faro (also known as spelt or dinkel)
Barley (flakes, flour, pearl)
Modified wheat starch
Rye bread and flour
Seitan (a meat-like food derived from wheat gluten used in many vegetarian dishes)
Semolina
Spelt (type of wheat also known as farro, faro, or dinkel)
Triticale
Wheat bran
Wheat flour
Wheat germ
Wheat starch
Hydrolyzed wheat protein
Kamut (type of wheat)
Ingredients that may contain gluten:
Vegetable protein/hydrolyzed vegetable protein: Can come from wheat, corn or soy
Modified starch/modified food starch: Can come from several sources, including wheat
Natural flavor/natural flavoring: Can come from barley
Artificial flavor/artificial flavoring: Can come from barley
Caramel colors
Modified food starch
Hydrolyzed plant protein (HPP)
Hydrolyzed vegetable protein (HVP)
Seasonings: May contain wheat fillers
Flavorings: May contain wheat fillers
Vegetable starch: May contain wheat fillers
Dextrin and maltodextrin: Both sometimes made from wheat
Breading, bread stuffing
Brewer's yeast
Graham flour
Malt, malt extract, malt syrup, malt flavoring
Malt vinegar
Malted milk
Matzo, matzo meal
Oatmeal, oat bran, oat flour, whole oats (unless they are from pure, uncontaminated oats)
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