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Glutened By Green And Blacks 70% Dark Chocolate?

loraleena

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loraleena Contributor
loraleena
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Has anyone ever had an issues with Green and Blacks dark chocolate? I know the ingredients are gluten free, but it does say it was made in a facility that also produces wheat. Anyway, I have been eating it once a week or two for the last few months. No problems at all. Then, I had it two weeks ago. 2 hours later I felt nauseous. By morning I felt better, then ate and got nauseous again. It started to go away and I felt fine. Then, I ate some more(not even suspecting the chocolate at this point.). I ended up throwing up a few hours later. I then continued to be nauseous for a couple days. At this point, I thought I had got a touch of a stomach bug. This past weekend however, (not even suspecting the chocolate) I indulged again. While I was eating it my stomach felt weird. About a half hour later I had diareahha and 3 hours later I vomited. I was again nauseous for a couple days. I am hoping it was contaminated. I just can't be allergic to chocolate. It is my favorite indulgent treat that I eat. Also, looking back I bought Green and Black's vanilla ice cream once and vomited after that as well. It has the same label. Anyone ???

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When things are processed on the same equipment as wheat, each batch will have differing levels of gluten. For instance, say they processed a wheat product and the very next product was chocolate. This chocolate would have a lot more gluten in it than if 5 batches of chocolate are run and you get a bar from the 6th batch. IMO

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When I was in Australia, the Green & Blacks chocolate (exact same brand and product) had wheat clearly listed as an ingredient. I would assume the ingredients are different in the US since technically US products now must also clearly list wheat, but who knows.....

loraleena Contributor
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Green and blacks in the U.S. has a website that says which bars are gluten free. This one is, but may be contaminated. It does not say processed on same equipment, but rather in same facility.

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