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Swedish Bitters


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tabasco32 Apprentice

does anyone know if swedish bitters is gluten free. I believe it gave me stomach cramps at night.


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Lisa Mentor
does anyone know if swedish bitters is gluten free. I believe it gave me stomach cramps at night.

sorry, I don't know what swedish bitters are. do you have the ingredience?

tabasco32 Apprentice

it's moslty just a lot of herbs. It is a herbal medicine.

10 gm. Aloe

5gm. Myrrh

0.2gm. Saffron

10 gm. Senna leaves

10 gm. Camphor

10 gm. Angelica roots

10 gm Zedvoary roots

10 gm. Manna

10 gm. Theriac venezian

5 gm. Carline Thistle roots

10 gm Rhubarb roots

sorry, I don't know what swedish bitters are. do you have the ingredience?
Lisa Mentor

Manna jumps at me....as you may know Manna if often refered to as Bread. I don't know if Manna would be considered an ingredient, though. Maybe a funky way of listing wheat?

Just speculation on my part. :(

  • 3 months later...
Amanda in Indiana Newbie

I don't know if Swedish Bitters contain wheat, but I just emailed the people at Angostura Bitters and they confirmed that it contains no gluten and the alcohol used is from fermented molasses, so that is safe to use.

I'm happy about that, because I was urged to take Angostura Bitters (a teaspoon or so) for upset stomach and other digestive problems, and I liked using it in the past.

Currently, I'm in panic, "everything has wheat until proven innocent" mode of eating, so I check first.

Hope you can use this. Sorry the thread is so out of date.

Amanda in Indiana

tabasco32 Apprentice

thank you for this. never to late for these kinds of post. I might need this some day too.

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