Corn Thins

[Roda]

I just thought I would share this for anyone interested in a change from boring old rice cakes. Some of you may already be familure with them. I discovered Corn Thins at our local Earth Fare. You can find them in the same place as the rice cakes. I have eaten the original and multigrain ones. I like that they are really thin, maybe about 1/4" thick, as opposed to a thick rice cake. The are really crunchy and make a great "sandwich" I like to take two and put ham and cheese with mustard. Yum! I'm sure the possibilities are endless. I have included a link to their site.

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[raisin]

While tasty, three warnings I feel the need to share, I researched after getting sick off these suckers :

Rice, Gluten, Soy CC

Sensitive celiacs : know the company makes one product with barley. (theoretically on different equipment but in the same area.)

Legume or Soy allergy : Some products contain soy, the rest are produced on the same equipment.

Rice allergy : I emailed them, and it turns out they responded :

Thank you for your query. We value your comments and appreciate your feedback.

There is potential for cross contamination between Corn and Rice as we do not Rice grains are not treated and managed as an allergen. The amount of Rice in Corn Thins is however, likely to be very small - perhaps on or 2 grains per Corn Thin, and this would only occur very seldom when we have run Rice products before we run Corn Thins. Any popped rice grains would be visible in the Corn Thin (light creamy white colour compared to light yellow Corn Colour of Corn).

We do hope this information is of use to you.

kind regards

[brazen20au]

the ones available in australia are gluten-free and my dd's breakfast every day

[Roda]

I believe that they are all manufactured in Australia (please correct me if I'm wrong) with some flavors only available in Australia. There are people with other sensitivities and they need to be aware of the other ingredients. Thanks for sharing the additional information. I have a friend with some other food intolerences, so I'll be sure to let them know. I'm not sensitive to very very small cross contamination. I don't have any other food intolerance/sensitities and I have been eating these regulary. If I was going to have a problem I would know by now. I even tolerate quaker rice cakes while alot of others can not. As with other products evaluate and decide if it is something worth trying.

[wildwood]

Roda, thanks for the information and the link. I had inquired about these on another post. I looked for them last night before reading this post and could not find them, but it is because I was looking in the the cracker sections. I checked the link and my supermarket does carry them so I will surely check out the rice cake section next time I am there. Thanks for sharing.

[raisin]

On that note, as super sensitive celiac, I only get sick from Cornthins sometimes - meaning they do a pretty good job of managing gluten CC, and anyone less sensitive should be safe. But, I am not sensitive enough to soy or rice CC to comment on that.

[caek-is-a-lie]

Oh I LOOOOOVE Corn Thins! I eat them all the time. They are a life saver because I can't eat rice (and I've never seen or felt any CC from eating them.) My favorite way to eat them is to put tuna salad with tomatoes & onions on top. I have that for lunch a lot. Is absolutely delicious!!!