Helpful food website

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Helpful food websiteI found this website, Barry Farm Foods:http://www.barryfarm.com/our_store.htmand they seem to have lots of products that are helpfulto SCDers, including pure dried vegetables in packages, in case anyone needs to carry some dehydrated stuffwith them on a trip and doesn't have a dehydrator and/orthe time to prepare all that. http://www.barryfarm.com/veggies.htmthey also have this thing called dough enhancer forceliacs which I'm intrigued about, which contains:8 oz. bag Ingredients: Soy lecithin, ginger, ascorbic acidso it looks to be legal. I wonder if it works in nut orcoconut breads. And lots of nut butters for peoplewho have a hard time finding a variety locally:http://www.barryfarm.com/nutbutters.htmAnyway, I just found this, so I haven't yet ascertainedthat the dehydrated veggies and stuff are legal, butit looks like a good bet, as it is made and packaged on theirfarm and is not a big producer. Anyway, it is an intriguing new possible option. Mara

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At 10:24 AM 1/12/2010, you wrote:

and they seem to have lots of

products that are helpful

to SCDers, including pure dried vegetables in packages,

in case anyone needs to carry some dehydrated stuff

with them on a trip and doesn't have a dehydrator and/or

the time to prepare all that.

Mara,

I would exercise EXTREME CAUTION with these foods.

I was hunting for dried, powdered tomatoes that could be used to make

fast tomato sauce. I found a company which professed to have just what I

was looking for. I explained my limitations (no starch, no sugar, no

maltodextrin, no natural or artificial flavors), and was assured, by

e-mail, that their product contained nothing but dried tomatoes.

Something didn't seem right, so I continued to poke around their

web-site. And found what had bothered me: " dried tomato in a food

grade matrix.... " I wrote back, and said, " What is this 'food

grade matrix'? " And back came the answer: " Oh, that's just a

little maltodextrin... that won't hurt anything! " Even though I had

specified in my original e-mail that I could not have maltodextrin, they

were prepared to omit its presence in their product in order to make a

sale. And technically, it wasn't an ingredient. It was a processing

aid.

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Marilyn

New

Orleans, Louisiana, USA

Undiagnosed IBS since 1976, SCD since 2001

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