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Gluten-free and Corn-free Chocolate!!!

Ender

By Ender
in Food Intolerance & Leaky Gut

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Ender Apprentice
Ender
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Do any of you corn-sensitive peeps know of any chocolate brands that are gluten free and corn free? Please, I neeeeeeeed chocolate. :P

Not only do I want a safe chocolate bar, but I also would like to get some baking chocolate chips and cocoa so I can bake myself some treats. I have read that Enjoy Life's baking chocolate chips and chocolate bars are definitely gluten-free, but I can't tell for sure if they are corn-free. They seem to be corn-free according to a few corn-free bloggers I've seen, but I don't know how sensitive they are. I've also seen Hershey cocoa as gluten and corn free from the same sites.

Any thoughts about those two (or any alternatives)? I'm dying for something chocolate. :ph34r: 

ETA: Oops, I think I should have put this in a different area of the site! Sorry! :unsure:

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kareng Grand Master
kareng
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Enjoy life.  Look them up!  :D

 

And Hersheys Cocoa is just cocoa

icelandgirl Proficient
icelandgirl
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Totally Enjoy Life!  Their chocolate chips are the best and are soy free as well!  Yum!

cyclinglady Grand Master
cyclinglady
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I use Nestle Toll-House Chocolate Chips.  They do not contain gluten or corn, but they do have soy.   We have no soy issues in our household.  I just follow the Chocolate Chip recipe on the package and sub the flour for a gluten-free blend.  I prefer King Arthur or Pamela's.  

 

Ender Apprentice
Ender
Posted
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:wub: OMG, you ladies are rockstars!!! Thank you so much for the quick responses! I might will go out and buy some safe chocolate after work today! :wub:

icelandgirl Proficient
icelandgirl
Posted

Enjoy whatever you get...chocolate is very important!!:D

bartfull Rising Star
bartfull
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If you're just looking for a chocolate bar, try Scharffenberger. The bars are small and expensive, but if you like dark chocolate that isn't sickly sweet, these are head and shoulders above anything else I've ever tried.

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StephanieL Enthusiast
StephanieL
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While there is no corn in the EL chips there is a possibility of cross contact with corn from some of the other ingredients.  

 

"Our other products do not contain corn as a direct ingredient, but some ingredients (including applesauce, brown rice flakes, brown rice syrup, chia flour, citric acid, cranberries, date paste, expeller-pressed vegetable oil, buckwheat flour, millet flour, freeze-dried raspberries and strawberries, lemon granules, malic acid, natural flavors, palm oil, maltodextrin, quinoa flakes, puffed amaranth, rice bran, rice crisps, roasted hulled pumpkin seeds, rosemary extract, sorghum flour, sunflower seed butter, vanilla, vegetable glycerin and xanthan gum) have corn present in the facility from which we purchase the ingredients."

Ender Apprentice
Ender
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I had a reaction. :unsure:

icelandgirl Proficient
icelandgirl
Posted

I'm so sorry... (((hugs))):(

With only 2 ingredients in the dark chocolate chips I thought for sure it would be ok.  It sounds like the corn thing is really tricky.

Ender Apprentice
Ender
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Me too, but I seem to be reacting to a lot of things lately, so I can't say I'm surprised.:unsure: I'm hoping I just reacted to the evaporated cane juice. At some point, I will try some cocoa or something and add in some other sweetener and see if I react to that. If I do...well, there are definitely worse things, but it's going to make compliance on this whole shebang harder.

Luckily, I seem to be tolerating Lactaid and fruit smoothies okay so far. :)

kareng Grand Master
kareng
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I am thinking its a bit soon to blame the molecule of corn  that might not even be in the chocolate.  I don't know your whole history or if you have Celiac or how long you have been gluten-free, but, it seems more likely its chocolate or a stated ingredient that bothered you.  Or something else you ate or just a messed up gut that can't tolerate the sugar or fat.

Ender Apprentice
Ender
Posted
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Err...I'd actually forgotten about the corn. :huh: I was thinking it was the cane juice OR the chocolate. :wub: That's what I was referring to in the above response to icelandgirl.

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