Knowing the Rules of the Gluten Free Diet

If you are someone who wants to follow a gluten free diet, either because you were diagnosed with celiac disease or you just want follow it for personal health reasons, then you should know the basic rules of the gluten free diet.

Celebration, FL (prHWY.com) June 20, 2012 - If you are someone who wants to follow a gluten free diet, either because you were diagnosed with celiac disease or you just want follow it for personal health reasons, then you should know the basic rules of the gluten free diet. Of course, the main rule is to avoid gluten at all times and at all costs.

In order to do so, you need to know which foods you should avoid. Which foods do contain gluten? For many who are quite familiar with different food ingredients, this may be easy. But for some who are not, you may need help in identifying them. Here's a short list of foods containing gluten:

1. Avoid foods containing wheat including triticale, kamut, spelt, durum, cake flour, semolina, couscous and matza or foods mentioning the use of wheat starch, hydrolyzed wheat protein and modified wheat starch as its ingredients.

2. Avoid foods containing barley as well as malt, malt syrup, malt flavoring, malt vinegar and malt extract. Watch out beer drinkers.

3. Avoid foods containing rye such as rye bread.

Some samples of products which definitely contain wheat, barley or rye unless labeled as gluten free are pasta, bread, breading, pizza, sweet pastries, crackers, cereals, beer, gravies and sauces, licorice, marinade and stuffing.

There are still a lot more products which may contain gluten such as flavorings, soy sauce and seasoning mixes. It will be very helpful if you are careful with reading labels. It is possible that no gluten ingredients were indeed used in the product but since the products were processed using equipment also handling wheat products, cross contamination may have occurred even in very little amounts. This is usually mentioned in the food label as well.

Now that you know which foods to avoid, you should also know how to substitute them in case you need to use these ingredients in your cooking. This way, you can make gluten free versions of your favorite dishes.

Again, here's a short list of ingredient substitutes you can use for gluten free cooking. You can either make them yourself from scratch or you can purchase them in specialty stores or order them online.

1. Use Gluten Free Flour instead of wheat flour for your baking needs. Some choices include corn flour or cornstarch, rice flour, arrowroot flour, tapioca flour, soy flour and potato flour. There are also baking flour blends or baking mixes readily available in the market. Just experiment using any of these to find out which is best for your recipe.

2. Instead of using flour as binder or thickener, you can use egg, gelatin, xanthan gum, guar gum and some gluten free flour (tapioca starch or cornstarch).

3. If you need some breadcrumbs as breading or coating, then just help yourself in crumbling some Gluten Free Bread or crackers. You can also toast them for the extra crunchy sensation.

4. Many food products naturally made with wheat such as pasta, pastries and pizza have its gluten free counterpart nowadays. Just see them instore or online.


Now you know which foods you should not buy for your gluten free diet, check out the Blue Ocean Gluten Free store to find the substitute food products and ingredients you need to satisfy your Gluten Free Living.

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Address:

Blue Ocean Gluten Free
1142 Celebration Blvd.
Celebration, Florida
FL 34747
U.S.A
Contact: 1-866-357-0353

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