Re: arrowroot - gluten free?

[Guest guest]

>so, we're new to gluten-free life...is arrowroot a gluten?

>is there anything else that's gluten that is sort of less obvious?

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>-katja

There is LOTS of stuff that isn't obvious, unfortunately.

Some folks are more sensative than others though.

I react to small amounts, the rest of my family doesn't ... so

they don't worry about the minute amounts, which makes life

a lot easier.

Arrowroot is ok, as is tapioca, potato flour, rice flour, sorghum,

and any of the " gluten-free " marked mixes from Bob's Red Mill.

Quinuoa is ok, but spelt is not. Corn starch is ok (and is

good to add to recipes for lightness).

A lot of things are contaminated ... oats being the big

one. Oats are basically ok, but they usually contain a small

percentage of wheat (because they grow together and the

grains are about the same size). Corn is often ground on

the same machines as wheat, so corn meal is iffy. Masa

and Arrowhead mills corn seem to be ok. Bob's Red Mill

corn is NOT ok, they grind it on the wheat stones.

Malt is NOT ok, it almost always is barley malt. " Modified food

starch " may or may not be ok, it is usually from corn but may

be mixed.

The site www.celiac.com probably has a good list though.

-- Heidi

[Guest guest]

At 04:51 PM 2/19/2004, you wrote:

>There is LOTS of stuff that isn't obvious, unfortunately.

>Some folks are more sensative than others though.

>I react to small amounts, the rest of my family doesn't ... so

>they don't worry about the minute amounts, which makes life

>a lot easier.

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wow! awesome, thanks heidi!!!

[Guest guest]

Heidi wrote:

The site www.celiac.com probably has a good list though.

Heidi,

You are a wealth of information. THanks again. I ordered Dangerous Grains

today.

This came at a great time for me

Sheryl

[Guest guest]

me too. after reading that site top to bottom, i hearby declare this

household gluten free!!

i can't believe, going through the symptoms, the crap my parents put me

through trying to get rid of several of them! at least my daughter won't

have to go through that, but i wish i hadn't been eating bread during the

first few months of her life.

At 10:58 PM 2/19/2004, you wrote:

>Heidi wrote:

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>The site www.celiac.com probably has a good list though.

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>Heidi,

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>You are a wealth of information. THanks again. I ordered Dangerous

>Grains today.

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>This came at a great time for me

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>Sheryl

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[Guest guest]

>me too. after reading that site top to bottom, i hearby declare this

>household gluten free!!

>i can't believe, going through the symptoms, the crap my parents put me

>through trying to get rid of several of them! at least my daughter won't

>have to go through that, but i wish i hadn't been eating bread during the

>first few months of her life.

For what it is worth, me too. Both my kids were born with lousy

teeth ... which NOW I figure out I could have avoided easily. However,

since we went GF we have very few temper tantrums or

other such issues.

-- Heidi Jean