Sunday, September 6, 2009

What IS Gluten Free

So what is gluten-free?

Grains, flours, starches and thickeners that are safe include:
Corn, grits, polenta and cornmeal
Buckwheat, buckwheat cereal, kasha and buckwheat flour
Rice: white, brown, risotto, basmati, jasmine, sticky rice, rice cereal
Rice flour: white rice, sweet (glutinous) rice and brown rice flour
Quinoa, quinoa cereal flakes, and quinoa flour
Millet and millet flour
Sorghum flour
Amaranth and amaranth flour
Certified gluten-free oats and oatmeal
Coconut flour
Nut meals and flours- almond, chestnut, pecan, cashew
Chick pea, garbanzo, soy (soya) and bean flour
Tapioca and tapioca starch (manioc)
Potato flour and starch
Sweet potato and yam flour
Arrowroot starch
Cornstarch

Pre-made ingredients that are safe for celiac or gluten allergies include:
100% corn tortillas and taco shells, pre-made polenta rolls
Plain 100% brown rice tortilla wraps
Unflavored mochi
100% corn pasta
Quinoa and corn pasta
Soy pasta (if it says gluten-free)
Brown and white rice pasta, rice noodles, rice glass noodles
100% buckwheat soba noodles
Rice paper, rice and tapioca rice paper wraps
100% nut butters: almond, peanut, cashew, pecan
100% seed butters: sesame tahini, sunflower and hemp seed butter

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