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What's "gluten" Look Like To You?

L.A.

By L.A.
in Coping with Celiac Disease

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L.A.
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If you had to visualize "gluten", what would it be to you? To me, I think it would look like those blue gooey dishwasher soap gel packs :blink: Merry (healthy) Christmas! L.A.

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ReneCox Contributor
ReneCox
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haha! i picture it to look something like nasty brown glue...i dont know why

Guhlia Rising Star
Guhlia
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That's a really good question. When I picture gluten I picture one of those cartoonized commercials where they do they close up of cartoon germs... To me, that's what gluten looks like, those cartoon germs with their amoeba like form and sharp razor-like teeth.

RiceGuy Collaborator
RiceGuy
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I think of the protein chain that it is. And how those four amino acids are identified by the immune system as belonging to the adenovirus.

Oh well, so much for a playful description...

Nantzie Collaborator
Nantzie
Posted

Clear goo. Like snot. :ph34r:

That's why it hides in so many things. It just blends in to it's surroundings.

:lol:

Nancy

Nancym Enthusiast
Nancym
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Like the stuff in a box of "Vital Wheat Gluten". It looks like... wheat flour. :P

Kaycee Collaborator
Kaycee
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I have never really visualised it before, but it probably looks like what was once my favourite food, as in a cake or biscuit. Nice but with a deadly kick.

Sweet but with a bite in its tail, as it feels like a hangover the next day.

When I see pictures of wheat tips, it is those images that send chills down my spine, that is the enemy as I picture it, but gluten can materialize with any food substance, in any shape or form that it desires, and the chill down my spine is not so great, as gluten is hiding.

Knowing the enemy is the clue.

James Bond where are you when I need you?

Maybe my image of gluten will now be a kgb agent.

Cathy

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L.A. Contributor
L.A.
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Clear goo. Like snot. :ph34r:

That's why it hides in so many things. It just blends in to it's surroundings.

:lol:

Nancy

LOL then falling on the floor--too funny. :lol:

ArtGirl Enthusiast
ArtGirl
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Rather than "see" gluten, I "feel" it. Whenever I'm in the grocery store and pick up anything, especially after reading the label and finding that it has gluten in it, I feel like my hands are contaminated and can't wait to finish up and wash off all that bad stuff. My hands almost itch. I know it's just psychological, but that's how I "see" gluten. Itchy powder.

ianm Apprentice
ianm
Posted

It looks like expensive shampoo because that is how I glutened myself for the first time in two years.

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