Trish01

On 8/15/2021 at 2:01 PM, Scott Adams said:

Chocolate can have a laxative and/or IBS effect in some people, so it’s still possible that your reaction is not due to gluten contamination. I’m not sure if it contains any artificial sweeteners, but some of these can also cause similar issues.

Hi Scott. I appreciate your reply, but I don’t typically have problems with chocolate and also those typically aren’t the symptoms I get.   All of this is good info to know though.  

On 8/15/2021 at 7:04 AM, cristiana said:

Hi Trish

I am in the UK and see these are for sale here, also marked gluten free (they look good!)  I have never tried them but I just wanted to say to you that occasionally certain products are recalled  because gluten sneaks in somehow.   It can be worth contacting the manufacturer with the batch number and point out that you are having issues and see what they say. 

I bought some ostensibly soup recently and had classic symptoms after eating it on two separate occasions.   It just had to be the soup, so I dropped a line to the manufacturers.  A few weeks later they got back to me, saying they had checked the facility and could find no trace.  Who knows what happened there?  However, they sent me some vouchers to spend on a few more of their soups in the future, which I thought was very kind of them.   But I gave the vouchers to my sister who isn't a coeliac!

Cristiana

 

 

Thanks Cristiana. I found this link…https://theparentvortex.com/wordpress/brookside-dark-chocolate-acai/ lots of people complaining that the candy was not gluten free, so I’m skeptical.  Those posts were years old though and the company has since changed the label to specify “gluten free”, so I was really hoping someone with coeliac would post that they eat them often with no problem.  My symptoms are also atypical.  I’ll get a little bloating sometime, but most of my symptoms are not GI. I get migraines, raynauds syndrome, fatigue and irritability, so sometimes I’m still unsure what triggered what.  I appreciate your suggestion though and will probably follow it next time I have an issue.  

I am newly gluten free and wondering about Brookside dark chocolates, like the açaí and blueberry flavor.  These are marked gluten free, but I haven’t felt well after eating them.  I have also seen posts online from 2014 that other people had issue with them.  It looks like the labeling was much less clear back then though, so I don’t know if the company changed anything about them.  I am wondering if anyone has had them recently?  Thanks!