Is Broccoli Sprouts Gluten Free? How about Alfalfa?

[Chaber]

Hello everyone, 

I am interested in growing my own Broccoli Sprouts and used to eat them quite often. I never thought of the Cross Contamination possibility, even though I have Celiac Disease. Today I contacted a few companies and they usually state the same thing. It's processed in a facility that contains Gluten or packaged in a facility that contains Gluten. One of the companies stated that it's almost impossible to find a place that sells seeds that don't manufacture Gluten. 

 

Please help! Does anyone have some feedback? I'm super confused and now worried cause I used to eat them all the time.  P.S: I'm Silent Celiac, so I don't have symptoms when ingesting Gluten. 

[RMJ]

I don’t know what a broccoli seed looks like, but alfalfa seeds are much smaller than wheat kernels.  I would think you could wash the seeds thoroughly before sprouting, pick out anything that doesn’t look like an alfalfa seed, and you'd be ok.

[Ennis-TX]

If your growing them from seeds should be fine. Just make sure now wheat kernels are in the packet lol.

But yeah..most name brand veggies, have the shared lines with sauced (gluten) lines and use the same damn packing machines. I found a local provider that has safe lines, and I have pureed some of the broccoli and nima tested it and found it safe....can say the opposite for stuff like birdseye etc.