After you have been diagnosed with Coeliac condition you may wonder how you can eat gluten free and how much of a change to your normal habits this will be.
Gluten is a sticky protein that is found in a number of common grains such as wheat, oats, rye and barley and as such seems all pervasive appearing directly in many meals or indirectly by way of the sauce. Gluten appears in many food items and some places it occurs may surprise you.
Imagine trying to eat gluten free when you are not aware that if he coating on oven chips contains gluten! Beer is made from barley and hence is full of the substance and gluten free chicken or pork succumbs to the gluten invasion when coated in bread crumbs.
Notwithstanding the hidden nature of gluten it is possible to eat gluten free with just a small amount of care. The first thing you will need to do is to get into the habit of reading food labels. Many foods these days are labeled as “gluten-free” and this is a good start although you should note that the international standard for gluten-free products does not guarantee 100% abstinence of gluten. The standard is defined in the Codex Alimentarius and this defines a measure of less than and 200 ppm of gluten in the food product to be reviewed. Fortunately this is low enough to avoid creating problems for Celiacs unless they are hyper sensitive to gluten in which case they need to make special arrangements for their foodstuffs.
If we focus on what you can eat as gluten-free there are many alternative cereals and grains including rice, tapioca, sago, millet, maize, quinoa, buckwheat and sorghum. In addition the staples of the typical meal are gluten-free, that is to say milk, cheese, meat and common fruit and vegetables.
If you want to eat gluten-free cakes or bread then they will need to be made from a gluten-free flour such as corn, potato, rice, tapioca, maize, gram, sorghum, soya, chickpea and chestnut.
For a drink all fruit derivatives herbal and infusions will be gluten-free as is plain old tea and coffee with milk and sugar.
The list of foods to eat gluten-free is extensive and we could go on for many column inches although that will be subject to a separate article. From reading the list above you will come to realise that eating gluten-free is not such a variation from the normal and, with the exception of the substitution of some alternative grains and flours, these foodstuffs are those eaten by most people on the planet.
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