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Is It Enough Just To Read The Back Of Packets To Be Sure It Is Gluten Free?

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just wanted to ask this quick question,

Is it enough to just read the back of the ingredient packets, to be sure they are gluten free?

Here in germany they do not state if it is gluten free or not, and celiacs is not known to anyone!

so this only leaves me with a few items bought in a health shop which consist of pasta small loaf of bread 2 types of biscuits, and some gravey?????????????????

great!!!!! not much to go on and the are all so expencive

any idears

Tracey

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There must be a German celiac society, have you tried looking for them? They might keep lists of safe brands etc.

In general I think you'd be mostly ok with just reading the labels, especially in Germany, they're pretty accurate with that kind of thing. Do look out for glucose syrup, dextrose or maltodextrin as those can be wheat-derived and they don't need to put it on the label. If you see one of those you need to contact the manufacturer. If there's a chance of cross contamination in principle it should say on the package something like "may contain traces of..." BUT you can sometimes get accidentally glutened this way. Personally I prefer to check with the manufacturers or one of the Dutch celiac forums here, and I'm sure there some resource like that in Germany as well.

And of course cooking from scratch is the safest way to go, fresh fruit, veggies and meat and so on...

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