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I Have Been Eating Activia Yogurt For Months


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I just found out it contains gluten (natural flavors). I've been eating it nearly every day now for a few months. Obviously I don't react to gluten, but I wonder what it's been doing to my intestine. Here I have been so strict and so careful, now to find this out! Grrr, I'm so mad. Plus I just bought a 24-pack at Costco last week.

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ravenwoodglass Mentor

Return it to Costco or donate it. This would make me pretty angry to. Yoplait makes gluten free yogurt although it does have high fructose corn syrup.

Thanks for posting the warning for others.

silk Contributor

I just discovered yesterday that Weight Watcher's yogurt is also gluten free. It has amazing flavors and it also has fiber in it which is a bonus. Walmart also has gluten free yogurt.

Jaimepsalm63 Rookie

The generic of Activa for Wal-Mart is gluten free. I do react to gluten so if it doesn't say gluten free I can't have it. My husband found it for me to help me get more probiotics in my system. We have 3 flavors here in Colorado Springs, Strawberry, blueberry, and raspberry. I love Great Value and how they label!! :D

digmom1014 Enthusiast

Thank you for clearing that up. I was eating Activia everyday and then had the "rain barrell" effect after eating it for weeks. I guess it was just building-up in my system and finally reached the breaking point.

Gluten labeling is so sneaky-I read it and it looked okay-live and learn!

Lisa Mentor
I just found out it contains gluten (natural flavors). I've been eating it nearly every day now for a few months. Obviously I don't react to gluten, but I wonder what it's been doing to my intestine. Here I have been so strict and so careful, now to find this out! Grrr, I'm so mad. Plus I just bought a 24-pack at Costco last week.

:angry:

If Activia contained wheat, it must be listed on the ingredient listing. So barley, malt or rye would be one of the "hidden" ingredients in the natural flavors. Did the company tell you what form of gluten is in their product?

I have always eaten Yoplait and I'm not familiar with Dannon products. I've always been curious about Activia, though.

lovegrov Collaborator

Here's what Dannon says about gluten and their products:

"Gluten: This protein is found in wheat, oats, rye and barley. DANNON yogurt products are not formulated to contain gluten, but they can't be considered gluten free. The natural system for stabilizing flavor might contain ingredients derived from gluten sources. Since there is a current lack of consensus on individual sensitivity levels to gluten, and there are no accurate tests to detect the presence and amount of gluten, DANNON yogurt cannot be classified as "gluten free."

I suspect what happens is that, like with Stoneyfield Farm yogurt, distilled alcohol is sometimes used to extract or fix natural flavors. Not only is this a minute amount of alcohol, it's distilled. Stoneyfield finally agreed that for all intents and purposes, their yogurt is gluten-free. Given what Dannon said above, I'd think Dannon is also gluten-free.

richard

PS: I also noted that Ativia says it is manufactured in a plant that processes wheat products, but it says nothing at all about containing wheat.


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Lisa Mentor

Thanks richard for that additional information.

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