Yeast Extract

[Rutz]

Hello, I’m new here and have been recently diagnosed with celiacs. I found this site asking Google about Mauna Loa macadamias. They have the gluten free label, but they are flavored and after eating some and feeling a little off I re-read the label and I forgot about yeast extract. Is there any way of knowing whether the yeast extract was fed gluten or not? Today was the first feel good day in two weeks and I feel like I might of exposed myself again, but it could be a back ache from drivin too so we’ll have to see. New to all this and the struggle is real. I’m ready to just give up everything and move to a carnivore diet. 

[trents]

If the product has a gluten free label that would cover the flavoring component as well. But realize that in order to bear the "gluten free" label a product just needs to test under 20ppm of gluten which is not a strict enough standard for some celiacs. "Certified Gluten Free" requires a stricter standard - under 10ppm of gluten. On the other hand, you could be reacting to some other ingredient in the flavoring that has nothing to do with gluten or even to the nut itself. Tree nuts are common allergen triggers.

[Rutz]

@trents hey I appreciate that reply. I’ve read that some yeast extract get fed barley and I seen on another post here that someone claimed Mauna Loa did not claim any of their products were gluten free, but I didn’t look at the date and it could’ve been an old post. I’ve been good with most all the tree nuts and have been incorporating more in my diet since I received a celiacs diagnosis, but it was a first time in a long time that I’d had any macadamias. I feel like I need to start from the ground up and eat one single thing for a week and then add more one by one so as to have a control. Sort of a way to re learn what I can tolerate and what I can’t otherwise it’s just so hard to know what’s getting at me. 

[trents]

Okay, I must have misunderstood. I thought your said the Mauna Loa macadamia product itself had the gluten free label.