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Are Good & Gather Products Safe?

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dovahgolzseyol Rookie
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Does anyone know if Target's brand Good & Gather is celiac safe? Particularly the sugar and brown sugar by them?

I'm an extremely sensitive (even to cross contact) celiac. I'm only 8 months into diagnosis, but I am still randomly getting so sick for weeks at a time. 

I'm constantly checking labels and researching every little thing. But I can't seem to find much info on this brand. 

I've caught on before to avoid a lot of things Target brand due to unexpected wheat warnings (like on random condiments.)

But it just occurred to me - on my 2nd week of being ridiculously sick and in the dark about what is was this time - that I recently started baking cupcakes again. Obviously I use gluten free flour and whatnot, but I've been using Good & Gather's organic cane sugar and brown sugar. 

Could this be what's making me sick?? No warnings on the bags, but again, I'm very sensitive to cross contact and I think it's likely that even the legal "less than such and such ppm" is still harmful for me personally.

 

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It looks like they offer many different products under their "Good & Gather" brand, so you would need to look at each one individually to determine if it's safe.

As far as their sugar goes, it would surprise me a lot if Good & Gather granulated or brown sugar had any gluten in it, but, of course, it's not impossible. I assume there is nothing on the ingredients of those items that would indicated any allergens, is that correct? By law they would need to disclose wheat as an allergen if it were packaged or made in a facility that also used wheat.

Is it possible you got contamination from something else?

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12 hours ago, Scott Adams said:

It looks like they offer many different products under their "Good & Gather" brand, so you would need to look at each one individually to determine if it's safe.

As far as their sugar goes, it would surprise me a lot if Good & Gather granulated or brown sugar had any gluten in it, but, of course, it's not impossible. I assume there is nothing on the ingredients of those items that would indicated any allergens, is that correct? By law they would need to disclose wheat as an allergen if it were packaged or made in a facility that also used wheat.

Is it possible you got contamination from something else?

Well, that's the problem. It could be from something else, but I'm driving myself crazy trying to narrow it down! The sugars don't have a wheat warning, but I get confused about the labeling some. Along with "hidden" forms of gluten, isn't it possible products can be exposed to other forms of gluten aside from wheat and cause cross contact reaction? Like I said, it seems like I am extremely sensitive to even seemingly tiny amounts

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Target doesn't make its own sugar, they just have it co-packaged in their packages. I suspect it's made by one of the big sugar companies, but it could be hard to find out which one.

Barley, possibly in the form of malt sugar may be a possible cross-contact, but it would be surprising to me if a cane sugar factory also processed malt sugar.

Perhaps just switch brands to C&H or some other major brand that is considered safe?

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On 5/25/2022 at 1:19 PM, Scott Adams said:

Target doesn't make its own sugar, they just have it co-packaged in their packages. I suspect it's made by one of the big sugar companies, but it could be hard to find out which one.

Barley, possibly in the form of malt sugar may be a possible cross-contact, but it would be surprising to me if a cane sugar factory also processed malt sugar.

Perhaps just switch brands to C&H or some other major brand that is considered safe?

That makes sense. I've switched to Florida Crystals and Domino for now, just to be sure. Thank you!!

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Are you using the same mixer that you used for your gluten containing baking? That could be your culprit.

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