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Can You Wash A Salad?

DeerGirl

By DeerGirl
in Coping with Celiac Disease

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DeerGirl Apprentice
DeerGirl
Posted

Ok, prepare yourselves for this unusual question:

you get a salad. No dressing. Just lettuce, cherry tomatoes, onions... and croutons.

If the croutons are removed, and the remaining salad is washed vigorously in water, do you think gluten still remains?

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Sailing Girl
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I'm a super-sensitive, and it's *certain* that enough would remain to get me to react. Gluten is a sticky molecule and I think it would be impossible to remove it all from lettuce, which is very porous and absorbs water.

I wouldn't eat it if you paid me :lol: !

ang1e0251 Contributor
ang1e0251
Posted

Each person's level of sensitivity is different so you have to decide that for yourself. In the beginning, I used the visual of gluten as poison ivy to help me to repell urges to cheat. Now if poison ivy was sitting in your salad, would you wash it then eat it? There's your answer.

home-based-mom Contributor
home-based-mom
Posted

If it were dog poop would you wash it off and just eat it?

Did you get it all?

Are you sure?

:ph34r:

YoloGx Rookie
YoloGx
Posted

Wouldn't and hasn't worked for me unfortunately. It was hard for me to believe but oh so true. I got sick after just having had a piece of bread on my plate which I had removed before eating...so I didn't even touch it.

Bea

Salax Contributor
Salax
Posted

I agree with everyone here, even if it

mushroom Proficient
mushroom
Posted
She also gave me this all natural peanut butter and the stuff has wheat germ in it! I told her to stop trying to kill me. B)

:lol: :lol: :lol:

Don't you just love the people who figure that if it is "all natural" or "organic" it couldn't possibly hurt us. :o

They just don't seem to understand that one man's meat is another man's poison.

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DeerGirl Apprentice
DeerGirl
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Thank you for everyone's responses. I liked the poison ivy idea, except well, I'm not allergic to poison ivy, so it isn't scary to me. :-o

I had never considered the salad washing plan prior to last week. And yes, foolishly I did it. Did I have a reaction? Hard to tell but days later I had a reaction to *something* but that may be entirely unrelated.

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