Gluten traps

[Ellipse]

This morning I'm bloated. What happen .
I check what I've eat yesterday, and I discover that the salted and roasted sunflower seeds I've eat in the evening contain wheat floor !!

Other food which have play me a trick in the past because I was too trusting and I did not read the sticker:

- apple compote
- organic ratatouille

 

[StrangeCaptain]

I am surprised about the sunflower seeds but any pre-made dish with a sauce or saucy texture has to be checked.

 

[stellar]

Have you tried buying them raw and pan toasting them yourself?

The smell is delicious and at least you know what's in them ;)

 

[paralleloscope]

Would like to add "organic quinoa pasta" to the list, in fine print it said 10% quinoa and then mostly durum. Lesson: everything sealed must be checked.

 

[Cosmos]

here my last big gluten trap:

Stone it will be a lot easier for you when you know what that "evil" stuff is about (knowledge).
It is not that simple: "eat this and you are save "

for example: a few weeks back I searched for buckwheat nuddels (suggested to be good) and found them.
that stood on the package of the nuddels : "Japanese Style Buckwheat noodle"
I thought cool I found buckwheat nuddels made from buckwheat !
It was later after I've eaten them when I looked more closly in the ingredients because I was a little bit suprised about the taste.
the ingredients were: 67% Wheat flour, 30% Buckwheat flour I was like :O

you see it is not that easy, you have to know what that evil stuff is in order to see if things that seem to be good for you are really good.
you have to look deeper and read between the lines .

 

[Laura]

Read the ingredient labels on EVERYTHING. It should become second nature to do so. It is absolutely amazing the kinds of things that are contaminated with gluten and/or dairy products or aspartame or MSG or all together!

 

[ScarletBegonias]

Read the ingredient labels on EVERYTHING. It should become second nature to do so. It is absolutely amazing the kinds of things that are contaminated with gluten and/or dairy products or aspartame or MSG or all together!

Yeah, this is so true and even after you read the labels you can still be mislead! For example certain sauces like soy, barbecue, stir-fry and Tabasco sauce contain vinegar and certain vinegars contain gluten. Apple cider vinegar and balsamic vinegar are safe, I believe. Also, if you see casein as an ingredient it means it has a milk protein in it.

 

[Approaching Infinity]

Read the ingredient labels on EVERYTHING. It should become second nature to do so. It is absolutely amazing the kinds of things that are contaminated with gluten and/or dairy products or aspartame or MSG or all together!

Yeah, this is so true and even after you read the labels you can still be mislead! For example certain sauces like soy, barbecue, stir-fry and Tabasco sauce contain vinegar and certain vinegars contain gluten. Apple cider vinegar and balsamic vinegar are safe, I believe. Also, if you see casein as an ingredient it means it has a milk protein in it.

Same with sausages. At one of the stores here they have "pure pork" sausages. But you need to actually ask the meat department for ingredients and yep, bread crumbs is one of 'em.

 

[anart]

Yep, the peanuts on the airplane the other day had wheat in them - roasted peanuts with a wheat coating (and lots of preservatives). Ick.

 

[seek10]

This morning I'm bloated. What happen .
I check what I've eat yesterday, and I discover that the salted and roasted sunflower seeds I've eat in the evening contain wheat floor !!

Other food which have play me a trick in the past because I was too trusting and I did not read the sticker:

- apple compote
- organic ratatouille

Are you saying that wheat is not written on the ingredient list , but found out another source OR it was written in the ingredients list and you missed to read ?.

Recently, I got and ate some roasted and salted sunflower seeds from trader joes and for my surprise, debilitating headaches started. I used to have these headaches decade ago, but they are resurfacing again.

 

[Samuel]

Read the ingredient labels on EVERYTHING. It should become second nature to do so. It is absolutely amazing the kinds of things that are contaminated with gluten and/or dairy products or aspartame or MSG or all together!

How right you are. Soy is another thing they seem to add. Sometimes I've read through almost a whole label of ingredients only to find, "contains soy" or "soy isolate," or some kind of motor oil, like canola. Maddening! There seems to be nothing that is boxed, canned or packaged that just contains the real thing and not a host of poisons mixed in with it.

 

[Ellipse]

Are you saying that wheat is not written on the ingredient list , but found out another source OR it was written in the ingredients list and you missed to read ?.

Recently, I got and ate some roasted and salted sunflower seeds from trader joes and for my surprise, debilitating headaches started. I used to have these headaches decade ago, but they are resurfacing again.

It's written. The trap was to not read the sticker because my lack of imagination why a such basic product can contain wheat. I think they used it to stick the salt on the grains.

 

[RedFox]

A heads up for anyone who eats out occasionally, most fries/chips (the reformed ones) are also coated with/contain wheat.
We had a meal out and I tend to order gammon steak (which always comes with chips). I tasted two and was pretty sure I could taste wheat in there.

 

[Keit]

A heads up for anyone who eats out occasionally, most fries/chips (the reformed ones) are also coated with/contain wheat.
We had a meal out and I tend to order gammon steak (which always comes with chips). I tasted two and was pretty sure I could taste wheat in there.

Had a similar experience. One time during lunch break at work took some fries to go with the meat, and after started eating, saw a breadcrumb from schnitzel on them. They fried potatoes and schnitzels in the same oil. Restaurants probably do the same.

 

[Gimpy]

A heads up for anyone who eats out occasionally, most fries/chips (the reformed ones) are also coated with/contain wheat.
We had a meal out and I tend to order gammon steak (which always comes with chips). I tasted two and was pretty sure I could taste wheat in there.

Had a similar experience. One time during lunch break at work took some fries to go with the meat, and after started eating, saw a breadcrumb from schnitzel on them. They fried potatoes and schnitzels in the same oil. Restaurants probably do the same.

My eating out rule is real simple: grilled meat and veggies. I fell for the recent marketing of sweet potato fries, and came to find out that yes, they are dipped in a coating to make them 'crispy'. Now I make my own oven baked sweet potato fries at home, where I'm certain they are not going to be coated with anything but extra virgin olive oil and sea salt.

If you have any doubt at all about the sourcing or content of a food, don't eat it.

Over my 'vacation' I had to eat what was available, and was nailed by a few of these same things.