Gluten Free Labeling « Celiac Disease
Apr 29 2010

Watch Out for Barley Flour

When Frito-Lay put out the press release about their updated gluten-free and non gluten ingredient product list, several previously listed items were missing. The reason is that the items now contain barley flour. Yes, barley flour is now is some snack items. So far, it seems that food companies are listing barley in the ingredients, [...]

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Jan 21 2010

My Gluten Facts – A Guide to Gluten-free Products

I received an email the other day that mentioned a website called My Gluten Facts.  I had never heard of the site, so off I went to investigate it.  I am always on the look out for new tools and products to help make the gluten-free diet easier.  I found My Gluten Facts very easy to [...]

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Dec 31 2009

Some Cheese Companies Moving to Gluten-free Labeling

Even though real, unadulterated cheese is gluten-free (including blue cheese), not many of them were labeled as such until recently. The way you’ll find gluten in cheese is typically when cheese is wrapped in pastry or in imitation shredded cheese that some low end restaurants use. You can also find gluten in dressings that contain cheese, but [...]

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Nov 2 2009

New Rules for Gluten-free Foods in the United Kingdom

This is advice to all visitors to the United Kingdom and throughout Europe who suffer from an intolerance to gluten.   New labeling and composition rules, aimed at helping those people who have an intolerance to gluten, were published in the UK earlier this year (how do these compare to rules in the USA?). Under the new European Union [...]

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Oct 22 2009

Many Progresso Soups are Now Marked Gluten-free!

General Mills owns Progresso and I’m excited to report that after many months of waiting for the gluten-free soups they make to also be MSG free, I finally found three of them at the grocery store this week! As reported here last year, the company announced the news about their broths being gluten-free.  The new label states [...]

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Mar 11 2009

FDA Collecting Feedback on Gluten Free Labeling

Gluten free labeling on products has been a hot topic on this website, as well as pretty much every similar website or blog which is based out of the United States.   We’ve talked about it on a few occasions in the past, including this post.   If you are interested in learning more about how you [...]

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