Forbidden Gluten Food List (Unsafe Ingredients)

SOOOOOOOO helpful!

The list is so long. It makes me want to bypass processed foods altogether. I'm sure others share the frustration of thinking 'what CAN I eat anymore?' I already can't eat any dairy, and now I know I can't eat gluten either has left me feeling betrayed...by the government's push for the 4 food groups since I was a kid and by my own body. Celiac sucks. I wish the rest of the world would wake up to this condition and give us all a break with reliable 'contains gluten' kind of labeling on all food products.

I am Gluten and Lactose Intolerant. I just came from Borders Books, where I found a very useful Gluten Free Cookbook, which had a very extensive and useful 'gluten ingredient list'.

I declined to buy the book however, as it really was too expensive. I figured I'd go online and try to find a similar list to the one in the book. Well, I Gogled it, and Wow! I came up with your list. Thank you so much, I'll print out the list now, and use it as my Gluten Free Bible.

Can't Thank you enough.

I am gluten and lactose intolerant and it really is hard to figure out what you can and can not eat. This list is great and free. It is hard enough to afford to eat gluten free without having to buy books for information.

Thank you so much for this list! I was recently diagnosed after years of declining health.

Going Gluten-Free has involved a huge learning curve for me, and more than once I've found myself getting frustrated in the grocery store as I try to figure out what I can/can't eat. I'm printing off this list of yours and laminating it for use when grocery shopping. Thank you!

This is awesome! Thanks for posting this. I am a new to the gluten-free world and am a little overwhelmed with the information. This is a great list to print out and take with me to the stores...easy to compare.

This is a great site. I'm 15 years old and I have celiac! It is so hard to go to friends' houses and explain my disease, and school is hard to, because all school lunches contain gluten. I'm glad to know I'm not the only kid with celiac.

Also, going gluten free helped my acne...

I have been sick all of my life, and have had so many doctors tell me it was all in my head! As if I was so sick I couldn't even think straight! I was diagnosed with a wheat allergy in my 20's, given allergy shots, and kept going into anaphylactic shock. Now at 53, I've finally been diagnosed with celiac disease, but I believe now that I've had this all my life. I learned that this disease is the reason I had 7 miscarriages and why my teeth (which I have taken immaculate care of) turned bright yellow in my twenties. I could eat as much as 4 large men, yet I was skinny as a beanpole - people thought I must have a wonderful metabolism and were so jealous. I was starving all the time, and I could never get enough to eat. I went to doctor, after doctor, after doctor, and had them scratch their heads (literally) in puzzlement over my myriad of symptoms, but not one gave me a celiac test until two weeks ago. They would tell me that my problem must be psychiatric, because they couldn't see how anything was wrong! I didn't have skin rashes, nothing showed outwardly. I was slender (who wouldn't love that?) - so why was I complaining? How is it that these doctors managed to get through medical school? By the time I was diagnosed, I was having to go to the hospital on a weekly basis before one brilliant doctor - who happens to have immigrated to the USA from Brazil - figured out what was wrong with me! Not a single U.S.-trained doctor was a bit of help! So if there are other patients out there like myself, who have to wait to get a Brazilian-trained doctor to diagnose them, then my heart goes out to them! Anyway, this website is now in my 'Favorites' list, and I thank God that there is something out there that is truly helpful. There is a lot of needless suffering out there because of ignorant medical personnel, and because of the food industry as well. My cupboards are bare now because this website has shown me that everything I had stocked up on is loaded with gluten! But THANK YOU, THANK YOU, THANK YOU! You are part of the solution!

It took a foot specialist to figure out I was celiac! Over the past 31 years (and I am only 48) I have been to numerous doctors that told me I had ulcers and IBD, Epstein-Barr (now known as chronic fatigue syndrome), rheumatoid arthritis, lupus, fibromyalgia, etc. About two years ago, my regular physician found I had a low functioning thyroid and started treatment, and a year later I was placed on anti-depressants. After starting a new job, my feet and hands swelled so badly that I couldn't walk or close my fists. My podiatrist immediately placed me on B12 supplements to help my very irritated nerves and then diagnosed me as celiac. Fortunately, he was very familiar with the disease as he has several siblings with it.

I have looked all over the internet for a listing of no-no foods, and this one is the best. I actually started my new diet only yesterday and look forward to feeling a whole lot better. I honestly don't think it will be that difficult to follow, but I also have the advantage if living in a farm community where I have access to the freshest of everything and have done my own canning and preserving for many years anyhow. This just gives me the incentive to do more of it!

And, I can't imagine that this will be at all bad for my diabetic husband either!

For 30 years I have suffered on and off, mostly on, from skipped heartbeats (extra-systoles) - a lot of them, and generally feeling lousy a lot of the time. Dozens of doctor consultations yielded zip over the years. Three months ago, based on a story from another lady who had suffered from gluten sensitivity, my wife suggested I try going gluten free. I did and bingo! The symptoms disappeared. When I started to go gluten free I asked my gastro-intestinal specialist doctor to check me for celiac disease. All the tests came back negative, but I am morally certain they were false negatives. I am feeling 100% better but wondering what to do next. I appreciate this website very much particularly since few doctors (none in my experience to date) seem to know or care about the gluten problem.

Thanks for all the information and the list of things that I should be avoiding! I sometimes get sick and I know I have not eaten gluten!  the included list is so helpful.  I recently ate Teriyaki and the next day I was sick, so now in the future I know to avoid soy! 

Do be cautious about items marked "gluten free". I suggest reading the labels. "Pure oats", not grown near wheat or processed at wheat-processing sites, are commonly included in "gluten-free" foods; yet some celiacs (perhaps as many as a quarter to a third of us) may also react to pure oats. (There is also the issue of cross-contamination during packaging, shipping, storage, etc.) Additionally, some countries have different levels of permissable PPM of gluten that is considered to be "low-risk" or "gluten free" (not technically gluten free, just low incidence). Foods that have used filtering systems to remove (most of) the gluten may fit in this category. Depending on how reactive your system, these foods may still cause you problems.

I've also had well-meaning friends provide me with foods that they swore were "gluten free" - really just marketed as "wheat free" and containing spelt or other gluten-containing substances. I've learned the hard way to ask about all ingredients, and when in doubt, "leave it out".