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Feb 26 2010

Bob’s Red Mill Featured on ABC News

Bob’s Red Mill makes one of the oldest gluten-free mix product lines in the U.S. The company’s gluten-free products were around when not many other products were. The pizza crust from the line is great, possibly due to the bean flour in the mix. I think the line is the most extensive gluten-free product line [...]

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Jan 26 2010

Gluten-free Bread Tests Positive for Gluten

It was bound to happen and will probably happen again and again. Great Specialty Products, a North Carolina home based business that sold so-called gluten-free products directly to consumers, has been shut down or at least they can’t sell products as being gluten-free for now. The story came over the celiac listserv and Zach over at Gluten Free [...]

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Jan 19 2010

Gluten-free Mentions in the Mainstream Media

In the January 2010 issue of In Style magazine (Whitney Houston cover), the article “Eat Your Way to Gorgeous!” gives a shout out to gluten. Tip number nine suggests that people eat quinoa because the “B-complex vitamins in this nutty grain help skin glow and hair feel less dry”. It goes on to explain that [...]

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Dec 3 2009

Caveman Episode about Gluten Reappears!

For those who missed it, during the first (and I think only) season of Cavemen, an ABC television show, the “Rock the Vote” episode was very much about gluten! When it originally aired, someone posted a note on the celiac listserv about it and linked to the episode on the ABC website. You can probably guess [...]

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Dec 2 2009

General Mills Announces Gluten-free Website!

Did you know that General Mills owned the company that makes Larabars? Until today, I certainly did not. All MyBlogSpark members received an e-mail from the company about their ‘hot off the press’ gluten-free website and newsletter, Live Gluten Freely. When I opened the new site I saw Larabar listed as a General Mills company. That might explain [...]

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Oct 29 2009

Wheat Industry Warns Against Going Gluten-free to be Trendy

In online news this week, is an interesting article on the Wheat Foods Council website. The wheat industry apparently wants to make sure everyone knows that the gluten-free diet is not a weight loss plan. In fact, according to the industry, we need wheat – if we can safely consume it. Since humans have only [...]

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