Icing Sugar Inquiries

[Ew...Gluten.]

I was recently looking at the ingredients on a a package of Starbursts, noticing that icing sugar was added.

I remember my mom telling me icing sugar contains gluten, so I used the gluten free one for baking and such. However, I was doing a bit of research, and people were saying that Starbustrs were gluten free.

Does the refining process or only certain brands/types of icing sugar have gluten?

I had already ate some candies, as I thought poorly assumed I'd already read the ingredients. However I can't identify any major symptoms.

Help?

[N.Justine]

I was recently looking at the ingredients on a a package of Starbursts, noticing that icing sugar was added.

I remember my mom telling me icing sugar contains gluten, so I used the gluten free one for baking and such. However, I was doing a bit of research, and people were saying that Starbustrs were gluten free.

Does the refining process or only certain brands/types of icing sugar have gluten?

I had already ate some candies, as I thought poorly assumed I'd already read the ingredients. However I can't identify any major symptoms.

Help?

icing sugar can just be super refined sugar with no additives -- in Canada and the UK confectioners' sugar is called icing sugar

[psawyer]

Icing sugar can contain a small percentage of starch. All manufacturers in Canada (there are only three) use corn starch. I can't speak for US manufacturers, but under FALCPA, in effect now for more than three years, *any* wheat derived ingredients must be explicitly declared as "wheat."

I would not worry about icing sugar.