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Promise Vegtable Oil, Indiv Packets


grantschoep

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Hey all,

I'm slowly recovering in the hospital after some heart surgery, doing much better now with that. Feeling better each day. The nutritionist here set me up with a good list of what their kitchen serves that can be made for me gluten free, the kitchen staff is supposed to also be good about this.( I was completly shocked when I found out there was a chicken broth packet mix that was gluten free(by Hormel, Herbox, there are a number of flavors)

Anyways, today I just thought about something. one of the few things I CAN order for my meals here in the hospital and eat is baked potatoes.

I was always grabbing these packets of "Promise 50% Veg. Oil Spread" for the potatoe, basically I really dislike butter so I avoid it. But I just got to thinking, is this thing gluten free?

The only questionable ingredient on here is its artificial flavor.

Anyone know if this is gluten-free? Or a 1-800 number to call for this, the little indiv packs are so small they don't have much info on them.


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I found Promise on one of my lists as gluten-free.

grantschoep Contributor

Yeah, ,I found it on a few lists too, however I didn't see the %50 percent spread listed, the one place I looked at had the other percentages.

Well, its not making me feel sick, so I'll stick with it. I must have it on my baged potatoes, still not lots of things I get to pick from the list of foods here at the hospital.

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