If you have been told to exclude gluten from your diet here are a few basic tips.
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AVOID:
- All foods made from wheat flour like bread, pasta, crackers, biscuits, cakes and pastry
- Wheat based breakfast cereals like Weetabix, puffed wheat, All Bran , muesli
- Wheat, rye, barley or oats used as an ingredient
Less obvious sources of gluten in manufactured foods:
- Wheat flour as an added ingredient, processing aid, binder, filler or carrier for flavourings and spices
- Wheat starches used as a carrier for spices, seasonings, flavourings or as a filler or binder or for dusting during the manufacturing process
- Contamination with wheat, rye, barley or oats during food production or storage
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GLUTEN-FREE (SAFE) ALTERNATIVE FOODS:
- Rice (white, brown, wild, rice flour, ground rice, rice cakes, rice pasta, rice noodles)
- Buckwheat, buckwheat noodles
- Maize (corn), maize starch, maize flour
- Cornflour, corn starch, cornmeal, popping corn, corn pasta
- Polenta
- Potato flour, potato starch
- Soya, soya flour
- Bean flours (chick pea flour, split-pea flour)
- Sago, tapioca, cassava, arrowroot, millet
- Oats in moderate amounts (up to 50g a day, which is one portion) can be consumed by most coeliacs without risk though little research has been done on oats in children with coeliac disease.
Whilst the change in your diet looks to be a great challenge you will find that you can easily adopt to this in a few months and the health benefits will be great.
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