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What's The Deal With Wm Great Value Products?

hhdavid

By hhdavid
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hhdavid Apprentice
hhdavid
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Anyone else have problems with WalMart's Great Value products? The ketchup says gluten-free, but I'm wondering about cross-contamination. I ate some last night, and some Miracle Whip. I'm having a lot of nausea today, and making quite a few visits to the bathroom. :angry: I also seem to have problems when I use their vegetable oil, clearly labeled gluten-free.

I've been very careful. I've only been eating fresh or canned vegetables, fresh fruit, and fresh meat. I don't eat out. It's not the cookware, etc. It's all new stuff. :(

Also wondering when will the fatigue get better? I've been gluten-free since Feb. 15th, and while I'm seeing much improvement in the depression and arthritis pain, the fatigue is not much better. :(

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Roda Rising Star
Roda
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I personally have not had any trouble with the gluten free great value products that I know of. Then again I can eat quaker rice cakes and have no problems, while others who are extremely sensitive to cross contamination can not. I have been glutened twice that I am certain of and it took alot of what I was eating to have symptoms. I get bad heartburn. It is really a curse, because I may be getting glutened and not be aware. I try to be pretty carefull though.

Salax Contributor
Salax
Posted

I don't have any trouble with it either. Perhaps, could there be something in the mayo. Like crumbs from bread with gluten? Donno just thinking. ;)

Good luck.

hhdavid Apprentice
hhdavid
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No possibility of crumbs. I live by myself and bake my own gluten-free bread, so there's no bread containing wheat in the house. And eggs don't bother me, so I don't think it's the Miracle Whip. I dunno either, maybe I'm just having a bad digestive day? :(

Cool avatar, Salax!

Thanks for your replies.

GlutenGalAZ Enthusiast
GlutenGalAZ
Posted

The products that I have tried I haven't had any problems with. They are good with labeling Gluten Free on their boxes. I have noticed that if an item is naturally gluten free BUT processed in a facility that also does wheat stuff they will not label it Gluten Free.

Do you have any other sensitivties to food?

Did you maybe react to something you ate before the Great Value stuff?? Some people they react quickly to stuff and some people it can be a couple of hours or a day....

Hope you figure stuff out and feel better.

GOOD LUCK

Takala Enthusiast
Takala
Posted

I've had enough reactions to Miracle Whip in the past, that I no longer eat it. I adore the stuff, so I know that is what was doing it, before anyone goes postal on my anecdotal evidence and wants a double blind study coordinated by scientists in 5 NATO allied nations.

Now if I want something that tastes like it, I take regular mayonnaise which is marked gluten free on the label, and add sweetener and a bit more cider vinegar to it. Hopefully there will always be classic gluten-free mayonnaise available, or I'll start making it.

I'm pretty sure it's the modified food starch product that's in it that is the problem. I actually did an elimination diet routine trying to figure out which foods were making me sick, and when I got to the mayonnaise vs. the white salad dressing comparison, the light went on in my brain that this was indeed a grain product reaction, as classic mayo is just eggs and oil. Once I had it pinned down, I thought I'd never get used to eating tomatoes with the "other" stuff on it. Where I come from, the stuff is like butter or gravy.

I have never had the ketchup product, so I have no comment on it.

ravenwoodglass Mentor
ravenwoodglass
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Great Value may use distilled gluten grain vinegar in their products, I don't know for sure this is just a guess. Distilled gluten grain derived vinegars are considered gluten free by processing but some of us react. If that is the case and you are one of the ones who don't tolerate distilled gluten that could be the cause for your reactions.

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Anyone else have problems with WalMart's Great Value products? The ketchup says gluten-free, but I'm wondering about cross-contamination. I ate some last night, and some Miracle Whip. I'm having a lot of nausea today, and making quite a few visits to the bathroom. :angry: I also seem to have problems when I use their vegetable oil, clearly labeled gluten-free.

I've been very careful. I've only been eating fresh or canned vegetables, fresh fruit, and fresh meat. I don't eat out. It's not the cookware, etc. It's all new stuff. :(

Also wondering when will the fatigue get better? I've been gluten-free since Feb. 15th, and while I'm seeing much improvement in the depression and arthritis pain, the fatigue is not much better. :(

I agree with ravenwoodglass...distilled vinegar. A lot of Great Value products say gluten free but if it has any distilled vinegar, it doesn't pass my lips...makes me sick.

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