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Hunts - Distilled Vinegar

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cyberbec Newbie
cyberbec
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I called Hunts today (800-858-6372) to see if the "Hunts Original BBQ Sauce" and "Hunts Perfect Squeeze Ketchup" were gluten free.

Their response was that because their distilled vinegar came from wheat products that it couldn't be considered safe.

Hasn't the issue been decided that if the vinegar is distilled that it's OK?

My children are recently diagnosed, and they have never had any intestinal symptoms, so if they ingested these products, I wouldn't know whether they were harmful or not.

Thanks in advance for your responses.

--Becky

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seeking-wholeness
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Becky,

I don't know that there is any real way to settle the distilled vinegar question once and for all. I believe that it is now generally agreed that distilled vinegar, even made from wheat, poses no THEORETICAL risk to a celiac, but there is a world of difference between theory and practice! If your children experienced intestinal reactions to gluten, you'd have an easy way to test it out for them, but since they don't it's going to have to be a pure judgment call. (This is just my two cents' worth.) Good luck!

Guest Disturbed
Guest Disturbed
Posted

Hello Cyberbec,

If you are looking for a Ketchup you should use Heinz instead of hunts. I have yet to find any Barbecue Sauce.

cyberbec Newbie
cyberbec
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Thank you both for your replies!!!

--Becky

angel-jd1 Community Regular
angel-jd1
Posted

gluten-free BBQ Sauces:

Bone Suckin' Sauce- can be found in specialty stores and also online

Sweet Baby Ray's - I buy mine at wal-mart

Heinz ketchup is gluten-free!!

Enjoy!! -Jessica :D

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tammy Community Regular
tammy
Posted

I use Heinz Ketchup and Hellmann's Mayonnaise. I do not have any problems with either of them. We love them both.

I will be trying Gold's products. A recent e-mail response said that all of their products are gluten-free!

French's website claims to have a gluten-free mustard. So I will let you know about that too. Currently we use a horseradish mustard by Annie's that is gluten-free. What a nice kick in her mustard. It tastes great on Sabrette hot dog's!

Enjoy!!!!!!!!

Guest jhmom
Guest jhmom
Posted

Dukes Mayo is also gluten-free, the info can be found on their website at Open Original Shared Link

I also read that French's mustard was gluten-free, I use it and never had a problem with it :)

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gf4life
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Another gluten-free BBQ sauce is Cattleman's (sold at Costco, Sam's Club and BJ's).

Del Monte Ketchup is supposed to be gluten-free too. But I just use Heinz.

God bless,

Mariann :)

  • 4 weeks later...
Guest Margawitty
Guest Margawitty
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Yes heinz all the way! Andrea (who I am going to get into this message board because its FULL of info, and I'm sure she can help other celiacs more than I can) but anyways, Andrea has ALWAYS had full blown gluten reactions to both hunts ketchup and french's mustard. They claim to be gluten-free based on the idea that distilled vinegar regardless of the sourch is gluten-free. Like someone else mentioned this is correct hypothetically but I can vouch for Andrea that when the vinegar is sourced from wheat she gets very very sick, often as sick as if she had ingested something with a wheat ingredient.

I'm not sure if this helps, I imagine it has a lot to do with the level of sensativity, which is very hard to discern I'm sure since your kids do not have intestine symptoms!

Emmy

  • 10 months later...
dianegf Newbie
dianegf
Posted

Does anyone know of a list of common foods/comidents that are gluten free even though gluten-free is not on the label? This would save a lot of us searching and phone calling time. I would love to have a list that I could bring to the grocery store. Let me know. Thanks.

dianegf Newbie
dianegf
Posted

What I meant was condiments! Ooops.

  • 6 months later...
232271 Newbie
232271
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After January 2006, a new law will help make reading labels for gluten a bit easier. This law requires that all foods must be clearly labeled if they contain any of the top eight food allergens, including wheat, beginning in 2006. Lawmakers are also working to help make reading labels easier for people with celiac disease by requiring companies to identify other ingredients, such as hidden ingredients and barley and rye.

I found this on a celiac website.

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DanB Newbie
DanB
Posted

Very confused now. Daughter just diagnosed, so we're trying to figure out foods. Have many sauces that contain questionable ingredients. Thought I was getting it right, until I saw Sweet Baby Ray's & Cattlemans (mine shows Vinegar, Modified Food Starch, Natural Flavor, Spices, Caramel, Molasses). I realize that much of this is ok if manufactured in the US, but things like 'Spices', MFS, etc still throw me.

Arrgghh!

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