Cadia Rice Pasta, and Teasdale Hominy

[Alaskaguy]

Hello All,

Upon going gluten-free just over a year ago, I discovered a brand of gluten-free brown rice past named Cadia, which I thought was quite good, and had been using it semi-regularly since  But with ongoing flares of dermatitis herpetiformis, I thought I would further investigate some of the foods that I had been repeatedly using. 

After contacting Cadia, I received the following response yesterday:

Thanks for writing in and for being a fan of our Cadia®  products.  You will be pleased to know that our facility is also wheat, rye, barley and oat free.  We hope this has been helpful and that you will continue to enjoy our Cadia® products. 

So, while I personally won't be using any pasta for a while, being on the Fasano Diet as of last week, it looks like Cadia brand gluten-free pasta is quite safe from any potential gluten cross-contamination.

 

Also, I spoke at some length to a representative from Teasdale this week, a company which makes among other foods, canned hominy (which I have used quite regularly).  This representative told me that they DO use shared packaging lines for the hominy with a couple of gluten-containing foods (some kind of sauces --- she didn't say specifically, and I didn't ask).   However, she stressed that that those few gluten-containing foods that they do process only contain a very small amount of gluten/wheat, they are only run three or four times a year (while the hominy is run almost every day), and that they perform an elaborate multi-step cleaning and sanitation cycle after every day's run of product (including a thorough steam-cleaning of every surface contacted by food), but most rigorously after the handful of days in which they do run those gluten-containing products.  So all in all, I'd say that Teasdale hominy sounds fairly safe from a gluten standpoint --- not perfectly so, but probably better than most canned products.

[squirmingitch]

Good info. Thanks for posting. It's always great when people post what they learned from a phone call, or email with a manufacturer.

[Alaskaguy]

8 minutes ago, squirmingitch said:

Good info. Thanks for posting. It's always great when people post what they learned from a phone call, or email with a manufacturer.

I thought it was the least I could do, after all the help and information that others here, such as yourself Squirmingitch, have provided me here.

(By the way, I am on day 7 of the Fasano Diet, and just today I am really noticing a significant lessening in the itching and little DH blisters/bumps, and my skin just feeling "calmer" in general. But I've had good days like this before, here and there within the past five or six months, so I'm not claiming success quite yet.)