Hidden sources:
(ingredients/additives which may contain gluten)
The source of many of these ingredients must be carefully scrutinized to ascertain whether or not any gluten is present. For example, modified food starch from corn is acceptable, as long as no wheat starch is included. Apple cider vinegar is acceptable, but distilled vinegars may contain gluten. Pure buckwheat or buckwheat flour is acceptable, but many buckwheat flours are contaminated with or have wheat flour added. It is imperitive to check the back of all packets of food due to changes in manufacturing in different product batches.
- Binders
- Blue cheese
- Brown Rice syrup (if barley malt enzyme is used)
- Caramel colouring (made from barley malt enzymes)
- Coatings
- Colourings
- Dextrin's
- Dispersing agents
- Emulsifiers
- Excipients (added to prescription medications to achieve desired consistency)
- Extracts (in grain alcohol)
- Fillers
- Flavourings (in grain alcohol)
- Flours, Breads, Cereals, Crackers, Pasta
- Sauces Condiments made with the above listed grains or their derivatives.
- Grain alcohol (beer, ale, rye, scotch, bourbon, grain vodka)
- Homeopathic remedies
- Hydrolysed protein, hydrolysed plant protein (HPP) hydrolysed vegetable protein (HVP)
- Malt or Malt Flavouring (Barley malt)
- Modified starch, modified food starch (when derived from wheat)
- Mono- and di-glycerides (made using a wheat starch carrier)
- Oils (wheat germ oil & any oil with gluten additives)
- Preservatives
- Soy Sauce (when fermented using wheat)
- Spices (if containing anti-caking agents)
- Starch (made from grains listed above)
- Vegetable gum (when made from oats)
- Vegetable protein
- Vinegars (distilled clear and white or with a mash starter)
- Vitamin E oil