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How Many Of You Eat gluten-free Food...even Though It's Processed In A Plant


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that processes wheat? I'm finding lots of food at Walmart that is gluten-free but has a chance of CC. What is the chances of CC? For example...Great Value Baking Soda, Baking Powder, Seafood Sauce and Black beans...all gluten free but processed in a plant that also processes wheat products. If I eliminate those "possible" products...I am making life SO MUCH harder..but at the same time...don't want to hurt Kara. Which brings me back to my other question..what in the world are the chances of gettig gluttened? HELP!!

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I eat those things. Trader joes has alot of products like that and if i have problems with a product I just don't get it again. I have only had anything happen once and it wasn't a major case of CC.

DingoGirl Enthusiast

I eat them also......TONS of things from Trader Joe's. Try them once, see if I react - if I don't, I consider them safe until proven otherwise......

Juliet Newbie

I do, too. And depending on the manufacturer, I sometimes even use in small amounts things that are on shared equipment. A lot of stuff from Williams Sonoma and Trader Joe's are on shared equipment, but I haven't seen a problem. I heard that Trader Joe's will stop using the equipment on Friday afternoon and through the weekend so that everything settles, then they clean first thing Monday morning and cook the things that are without gluten. Haven't had a problem yet.

JennyC Enthusiast

We eat that kind of food, but we also learn from our experiences. Some manufacturers seem to have a higher CC risk, so after a couple of bad experiences we avoid them, like Frito-Lay.

blueeyedmanda Community Regular

I eat them, and like others if things bother me I don't buy them again. It really comes down to personal preference and it is a choice you need to make on your own. I don't do Frito-Lay either.

DingoGirl Enthusiast
Some manufacturers seem to have a higher CC risk, so after a couple of bad experiences we avoid them, like Frito-Lay.

I think that's true.......I have read of SO many problems w/ Frito-Lay.......but I can't even remember a problem with Trader Joe's, thank God!


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I don't let my little girl eat them.....only b/c we've tried a few times, and she seemed to react. But there's no way for me to know for sure if it was the particular item she was reacting too, or something else. She's 5, but she's still working on her language skills and doesn't usually tell me when she doesn't feel well. She just gets very irritable and has meltdowns.

B/c of this, I finally decided to just make it easier to figure out a possible glutening by cutting out anything "made in a facility....", that way I don't have a gazillion products to weed through if she seems to be reacting to something. Of course though, with the new labeling laws, anything can have less than 20ppm of gluten and still be called gluten free, which really chaps my hide. Rice Dream now says Gluten Free, but my daughter definately reacted to it, Argh!

Anyway, that's why we don't do products from Walmart that are a possible CC risk......but it's different for everyone!

Joni63 Collaborator

I will usually eat products made in the same facility, but try not to eat the products made on the same lines. I just don't trust that the lines get clean enough.

celiacgirls Apprentice

We do not eat anything with that warning on it. We have reacted too many times to risk it.

blueeyedmanda Community Regular

Both Walmart's great value brand and Wegmans store brand are labeled as glutened free and I have not run into any problems from either. It is also nice when it comes to making dollars stretch. Both are the "generic house brand" so are cheapier than say Kraft etc.

Ridgewalker Contributor

I try to limit these things as much as I can. I recently threw out all Frito-Lay products in the house. My son has been glutened by those stupid chips too many times. :angry: We won't risk that company again.

I guess we are doing what Susie and others are doing- we try it out and see. If a reaction occurs, we'll quit using the product.

I think there's a much higher chance of having a reaction to something made on shared equipment, than in a shared facility. But that probably depends on the product, too. (ie, is actual flour flying around?)

Joni63 Collaborator

Just a quick FYI on Walmarts Great Value Brand products. If they are labeled 'gluten free' they are not produced in a facility or on lines with products containing gluten. I called recently about their mixed nuts and they told me they don't consider them gluten free because they are produced in a facility with wheat products, but not on the same lines. I still eat them with no problems.

They have a very strict labeling policy.

blueeyedmanda Community Regular
Just a quick FYI on Walmarts Great Value Brand products. If they are labeled 'gluten free' they are not produced in a facility or on lines with products containing gluten. I called recently about their mixed nuts and they told me they don't consider them gluten free because they are produced in a facility with wheat products, but not on the same lines. I still eat them with no problems.

They have a very strict labeling policy.

This is how Wegmans is, so I trust them.

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