GLUTEN
Here is a list of foods and products to avoid if you are on a gluten-free
diet.
ALLOWED FOODS
- all cooking oils and fats
- all dried fruit
- all dried peas and beans
- all fresh fruit and vegetables
- all fresh meat and fish
- all herbs
- all pure spices
- agar
- ground almonds
- arrow root
- bicarbonate of soda
- buckwheat flour
- butter
- carob flour
- tinned unsweetened chestnut pureÉ
- cheese
- corn meal (maize)
- cornflour (maize)
- cream of tartar.
- dried banana chips
- eggs
- flaked millet
- flaked rice
- ground and chopped nuts
- lentils
- maize and maize flour
- milk
- millet
- pea flour
- potato
- polenta
- pure rice noodles
- quinnoa grain
- rice
- rice flour
- ground rice
- rice puffed cereal
- sago flour
- sesame seed
- sorghum flour
- sweet chestnut flour
- tapioca flour
- teff flour
- tofu- soya curd
- wild rice
- yogurt ( except with cereal flavor)
- yam flour
- But note; soya products and buckwheat are often indigestible for
people on wheat-free diets
FOODS TO AVOID
- Wheat:
- grain containing high levels of gluten.
- Bulgar:
- soaked and dried wheat.
- Durum:
- a type of wheat.
- Strong flour, bread flour, brown flour, wholemeal flour, granary flour:
- all made from wheat.
- Oats:
- contains some protein similar to wheat gluten but may not cause problems
for all celiacs. Best avoided.
- Barley: contains some protein similar to wheat gluten.
- Rye: contains some protein similar to wheat gluten.
- Triticale: contains some protein similar to wheat gluten.
- Spelt: contains some protein similar to wheat gluten.
- Semolina: made from wheat.
- Couscous: made from wheat.
- Pasta, macaroni, spaghetti: made from wheat.
- Baking powder: may contain wheat flour.
- Stock cubes and gravy cubes: may contain wheat flour.
- Mustard powder: may contain wheat flour.
- Soy sauce: this is normally soya beans fermented with wheat flour.
- Suet in packets: may contain wheat flour to stop the suet sticking together.
- Starch, Vegetable starch: may be wheat starch.
- Beer, stout, lager, wheat germ, vitamin E pills: all made from wheat.
- BEWARE: Some brands of 'rice paper' are made using wheat flour.
- BEWARE: Sauce mixes, curry mixes, ice cream, packet and tinned soups, dried meals,
gravy mixes, all may contain wheat flour, and do not always declare it on
the contents list!
- BEWARE: Some cloudy lemonade and ginger beer now contain wheat flour
- BEWARE: Some sweets are dusted with wheat flour to prevent them sticking
Links to information about gluten-free diets
Gluten-Free
Cookery
Recipes on the web