Re: Re:Carob anyone!!!!! please?need a choc. substitute

[Guest guest]

don't mean to be a " Squeeky Wheel " but does ANYONE know what carob is? is it

GFCF does it feed YEAST?...i'm looking for a reinforcer for ABA as a primary

motivator and the tapioca cookies just aren't exciting enough......What do I

do? the Speech Pathologist is really pushing for chocolate but i've read that

cocoa beans are dried with a fungus and fungus feed yeast and my son is full

of yeast.....HELP!!!!! I don't want to give him more yeast!!!! He's doing so

well without it......but i do want the ABA to be successful...any ideas...and

raisins are out too because all dried fruits feed yeast as well......have i

gotten tooo nuerotic about the whole thing? all i know is my son is a

different child than he was 3 months ago b/4 we started dietary

intervention...he only had one word left " Dada " and we were loosing him more

and more...now he has 20-30 words and more everyday......and he's really with

us again....i'm affraid to mess up. help...? thanks

[Guest guest]

has anyone used carob powder for cooking? is it gfcf? i have some i bought at

the HFS.....ANYONE?

[Guest guest]

Carob flour looks like pure cocoa, and carob flour can be used in place of

cocoa in recipes, but it does not taste like chocolate: my children won't eat

it. It is much sweeter than cocoa and has its own distinctive flavour. Carob

is in the legume family, and carob flour is made by roasting and then

grinding the pods.

I'm not 100% sure that it is GF: until reading some of the posts here it had

never occurred to me that cocoa powder was not GF.

You might want to check out the following sites, which have some carob info:

http://www.goodness.co.uk/carob.shtml

http://www.celiac.com/safe_forbidden.html (where carob flour is on the safe

list - ie gluten free)

-Jane

[Guest guest]

Is Hershey's cocoa GF?

Thanks,

April

Re: Re:Carob anyone!!!!! please?need a choc. substitute

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> Carob flour looks like pure cocoa, and carob flour can be used in place of

> cocoa in recipes, but it does not taste like chocolate: my children won't

eat

> it. It is much sweeter than cocoa and has its own distinctive flavour.

Carob

> is in the legume family, and carob flour is made by roasting and then

> grinding the pods.

>

> I'm not 100% sure that it is GF: until reading some of the posts here it

had

> never occurred to me that cocoa powder was not GF.

>

> You might want to check out the following sites, which have some carob

info:

> http://www.goodness.co.uk/carob.shtml

> http://www.celiac.com/safe_forbidden.html (where carob flour is on the

safe

> list - ie gluten free)

>

> -Jane

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