Loading ...When you go out shopping for gluten-free products, it’s difficult to find the products you need because it won’t say ‘Contains Gluten’ on the label.* (Although sometimes it will.) Here is a list of things that contain gluten. So if the label has one of these things, don’t eat it!
Wheat
Wheat Starch
Bleached Flour
Unbleached Flour
Bulgar
Soy Sauce
Teriyaki Sauce
Semolina
Spelt
Millet
Kamut
Triticale
CousCous
Malt (like Malt Vinegar, Malt flavoring, etc.)
Dextrin (can come from Tapioca too)
Rye
Oats
Oat Flour
Barley
Barley-Malt
Here is a list of common ingredients that ARE gluten-free.**
Canola Oil
Cornmeal
Corn Gluten
Cornstarch
Dextrose
Food Starch
Maltodextrin (weird, I know, but it’s GF)
Modified Food Starch
Olive Oil
Potato Flour
Potato Starch
Rice Flour (both white and brown)
Rice Bran
Soybean Flour
Tapioca Flour
Tapioca Starch
Vegetable Oils
Xanthun Gum
Whey
*If you’re looking for more foods that are safe or unsafe, www.celiac.com has a great list! I printed that one out, and I keep it on hand when I go to the store.
**FDA regulations now state that companies MUST list wheat on a product if it’s in the ingredients. (Wheat is in the “Top 8″ most common food allergies.) So after you read the ingredients label, it will say, “Contains: wheat” if it contains wheat. If it contains barley, rye or oats, it will not say anything, so we still need to read labels! This reasoning is that there is not a clear and concise term for “gluten” yet. They’re working on that. 