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Rice Dream


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I was very sad when I discovered that Rice Dream wasn't fully gluten-free, not only because I had naively been using it during my elimination diet phase, but also because I vastly preferred the taste of their product over the others that were available. I tried Blue Diamond and a number of other brands of Hemp, Almond and various other nutty or rice milks, all with disappointment. So I wrote them an email many months ago bemoaning this fact. Just today I received a reply:

Dear Ms. Warren,

Thank you for taking the time to contact us. We apologize for the delay in our reply and appreciate your patience. We strive to maintain the highest quality products and we appreciate your patronage.

We appreciate your comments. We are moving in that direction and soon you will see that our Rice Dream is marked gluten free, so please keep checking. That change should be made shortly.

Thank you for your continued support. If we can be of further assistance, please feel free to contact us at 1-800-434-4246, Monday through Friday from 7AM - 5PM Mountain Time.

Sincerely,

Andrea

Consumer Relations Representative

Ref # 1447286

I am excited!


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ArtGirl Enthusiast

That's good news.

Now, if their frozen rice dream is also going to be gluten-free, I'll be a happy camper! :P

lonewolf Collaborator

Most of their frozen stuff already is. My son was just eating Neopolitan flavor as an after-school snack. I'd love it if they made "Cookies and Dream" and the Mint Carob Chip gluten-free - that would be wonderful!

ArtGirl Enthusiast
I'd love it if they made .... the Mint Carob Chip gluten-free - that would be wonderful!

ditto this is my all-time favorite flavor of "ice cream"

FeedIndy Contributor

What concerns me is that the email mentions it will soon be "marked gluten free" and not that it is becoming gluten free. Would the FDA guidelines that are coming out allow the malt content of Rice Dream to be labeled gluten free? I was thinking some of the information I had read about the guidelines was that there would be a certain threshold to mark gluten free.

Juliebove Rising Star
That's good news.

Now, if their frozen rice dream is also going to be gluten-free, I'll be a happy camper! :P

They claim the frozen stuff is gluten free but I don't see how it could be.

Nic Collaborator
They claim the frozen stuff is gluten free but I don't see how it could be.

I have a container of the Rice Dreams vanilla ice cream in my freezer and I don't see any offending ingredients.

Has anyone tried Whole Foods own brand of rice milk. My son loves it. It looks just as thick as regular milk. Since we don't live that close to one we only go about once a month so in between he drinks WestSoy's rice milk. He likes that a lot too.

Nicole


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I have a container of the Rice Dreams vanilla ice cream in my freezer and I don't see any offending ingredients.

Has anyone tried Whole Foods own brand of rice milk. My son loves it. It looks just as thick as regular milk. Since we don't live that close to one we only go about once a month so in between he drinks WestSoy's rice milk. He likes that a lot too.

Nicole

You won't see the offending ingredients on the regular Rice Dream either. But there is a blurb talking about how they use barley to polish the rice, so this makes it not be gluten free.

I would presume the frozen Rice Dream is made from the liquid stuff. But I could be wrong.

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