Coca Cola, Not Gluten Free?

[Glutenfreefamily]

Someone, please forgive me as I cant remember your user name, mentioned in her letter from minute maid/ coca cola company that said their was a tiny bit of gluten but it was not directly listed as their ingredients.

I did a little searching and found this online.....

Coca-Cola Products

5/07

Thank you for contacting The Minute Maid Company, Ms. Worchell. We appreciate the opportunity to address your concerns. We are able to confirm that

Coca-Cola classic, caffeine free Coca-Cola classic, Coca-Cola Blak, Coca-Cola C2, Coca-Cola with Lime, Coca-Cola Zero, Coca-Cola Black Cherry Vanilla, Barq's root beer, caffeine free

Barq's root beer, diet Barq's root beer, diet Barq's Red Creme Soda, Diet Coke Black Cherry Vanilla, Diet Coke, Diet Coke with Lime, Diet Coke Plus, caffeine free Diet Coke, Diet Coke Sweetened with Splenda, Sprite,

Sprite Zero, vanilla Coke, Diet Vanilla Coke, cherry Coke, Diet Cherry Coke, Cherry Coke zero, Fresca, DASANI, DASANI Lemon, Minute Maid Light Lemonade, Minute Maid Active Orange Juice, Minute Maid Multi-Vitamin

Orange Juice, Nestea Sweetened Lemon Tea, Diet Nestea Lemon, Nestea Peach Green Tea, Diet Nestea Peach Green Tea, Diet Nestea White Tea Berry Honey, Nestea Lemon Sweet (hot fill), Enviga Sparkling Green Tea, Enviga Berry Sparkling Green Tea, Simply Lemonade, Simply Limeade, POWERade Mountain Blast, and our 100% juice products (without added ingredients) are gluten free.

Additionally, we can tell you that all of our other products meet Codex's definition of gluten-free, which is currently less than 200 ppm (parts per million) (0.02%) gluten. Codex is in the process of reviewing this standard and we are monitoring the progress closely. At this time the U.S. Food and Drug Administration does not have a regulatory

definition of gluten-free.

We can assure you that the exact amount of gluten in all these other products is very low - perhaps even zero. Some minor ingredients in these products are manufactured from plants that gluten-sensitive people could react to, so we are unable to state categorically that they are totally gluten-free even though they may have undetectable levels of gluten in them. The Codex guideline provides a very low threshold for gluten content. However, extremely gluten-sensitive individuals should discuss consumption of these products with their health care provider.

We hope this information is helpful. If you have additional questions or comments, please feel free to contact us again.

Chicquilla

Industry and Consumer Affairs

The Minute Maid Company

I have heard that codex using 200 ppm can cause people to react to it. I have drank coke before and had problems that were similar to being glutened but I thought it was just IBS since I do have that along with celiac.

Here's the link- Open Original Shared Link

[gfmolly]

I have had trouble with soda, too. Sounds like staying away from coke products is the thing to do? Does anyone know if there are products that are 100% gluten-free? I'm not a big soda drinker, but enjoy it when at a cookout.

Thanks,

Terri

[Glutenfreefamily]

I have had trouble with soda, too. Sounds like staying away from coke products is the thing to do? Does anyone know if there are products that are 100% gluten-free? I'm not a big soda drinker, but enjoy it when at a cookout.

Thanks,

Terri

Virgil's root beer is gluten free, it is also made from sugar cane instead of hfcs. Its found at health food stores, I buy it at whole foods. It has a very good flavor to it.

[CarlaB]

According to the email posted above, all the listed products are gluten-free, it's the products not listed that may contain trace amounts of gluten.

[jerseyangel]

Every once in a while, when I want a soda, I drink Boylan's Cane Cola. It's gluten-free (says so on the label) and contains no corn syrup.

[Mtndog]

From the way I read the email, everything they listed is gluten-free. It's some of the other products (like their juices that are not 100% per juice).

It's very frustrating- I had a similar experience with Tropicana bottled lemonade when I first went gluten-free. I would NEVER have thought gluten would be in lemonade but it was clearly contaminated!

[CarlaB]

I would NEVER have thought gluten would be in lemonade but it was clearly contaminated!

I once read the margarita mix label at a bar and it had gluten. Who would have thought?